How can one become and stay an activist in the current context of a "crisis of politics" and a downward trend in party militancy ? Contrary to what the hyper-rationalist analysis of individual behaviours often suggests, involvement depends on social agents assimilating the specific political culture which characterizes each partisan organization. From a qualitative research carried out among the young activists of three Italian right-wing and far right-wing parties (Alleanza Nazionale, Lega Nord and Forza Italia), we intend to identify the conditions that make possible the appropriation of political cultures and their transformation / alteration over time, paying particular attention to the changes which follow from the conquest and the exe...