Norberto Bobbio: libertà dell’arte, censura ed erotismo by Rinaldo Vignati

“… The philosopher Norberto Bobbio was an important exponent of Italian liberalism and exerted considerable influence on Italian political thought of the second half of the twentieth century. …”
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Croce e i fiorentini durante la Prima guerra mondiale. Un fronte franco-tedesco nella filosofia italiana by Caterina Zanfi

“…The typical themes of French anti-German propaganda reverberate on the Italian political and philosophical debate, adapting to the peculiarity of its cultural context.…”
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Il quarto governo Fanfani e la crisi di Cuba del 1962. Una chiave di volta per l’apertura a sinistra by Matteo Anastasi

“…The aim of the work is to demonstrate from one side the strong effort made by Rome to promote a pacific solution of the dispute, from the other side the deep influence that the Cuban events and, in general, the increase of the Soviet-American tensions had on the Italian political dynamics.…”
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Stolen time, suspended time. Reason of State and utopia in Italian XVIth-XVIIth century culture by Paolo C. Pissavino

“…The present study aims to analyze the relations between the doctrine of Reason of State and Utopianism in the Italian political culture during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. …”
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Ideas and ideologies in Argentina in the 1920s: anti-fascism before anti-fascism by Ricardo O. Pasolini

“…The hypothesis is proposed that in a global context of circula-tion of ideas, the fascist political model is analyzed with curiosity, its anti-worker and authoritarian component is challenged, but it is recognized as a specific expression of Italian political life, of impossible development in Argentina. …”
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The commons as a materialist approach to the problem of common good: An answer to Ermanno Vitale by Luis Lloredo Alix

“…This article seeks to reply to the critical insights proposed by Ermanno Vitale against the theories of the commons, especially against the so-called benecomunismo, which has flourished during the last years in the Italian political debate. Particularly, it intends to respond to a lecture given by Ermanno Vitale in December 2020 (whose text can be found in this same issue of the journal), in which he rejected the commons-theories, in favor of the classical notion of common good. …”
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Poteri accentrati e poteri divisi nell’esperienza costituzionale italiana by Giorgio Rebuffa

“…The dominance of a non-majoritarian political culture, that has been the main characteristic of italian political parties, exerted a great influence over this result. …”
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The opening of the Italian legation in Belgrade in 1879 and relations between Serbs and Italians in the 19th century by D’Alessandri Antonio

“…This new beginning of the Serbian-Italian political relations is seen in the framework of the reorientation of the Italian foreign policy after the fall of the French Second Empire and the rise of the Imperial Germany. …”
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Thèses de Lyon by Antonio Gramsci

“…The future secretary of the Italian Communist Party analyses the structural causes of the Italian political crisis, of which Fascism was the climax, and deduces the party’s mission and internal organization. …”
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I politici e l’immigrazione su Facebook: come si (de)legittima il discorso migratorio durante l’emergenza sanitaria by Dario Lucchesi, Vincenzo Romania

“…In this article we analyse how the immigration issue is narrated during the Covid-19 outbreak by several Italian political actors. We select Facebook as the main digital arena of political communication in the Italian public sphere. …”
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Guardare lontano. Modelli, esplorazioni e collaborazioni internazionali del movimento di Unità Popolare (1953-1957) by Roberto Colozza è ricercatore post-doc presso il Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po di Parigi nell’ambito di una borsa Marie Curie dell’UE (7° PQ).

“…It aimed to enhance the Italian political central area – so called “terza forza” – in order to contrast the bipolarization between cold war’s major fronts: the pro-US and the pro-USSR. …”
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Looking at Berlin, Ending up on Capitol Hill - The Italian Constitutional Reform Plans in Comparative Perspective by Andrea De Petris

“…While it claims to ensure the continuity of governments – a known weak point of the Italian political system - it undermines the very foundation of parliamentary representation: the party system. …”
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Securitization of Migration by Ondřej Kaleta

“… This article presents a qualitative and empirically oriented analysis of the Italian political discourse which took place in response to the immigration wave that appeared after the outbreak of the Arab Spring in the first half of 2011. …”
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Politeness norms: A pilot study on the accomplishment of apologies by learners of Italian by Talia Walker

“…It was found that although tendencies of both Italian politeness and Australian English politeness were demonstrated by participants, the latter was more prominent, thus suggesting L1 influence on L2 realisation and some difficulty in the negotiation of the intercultural space.…”
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L’incerta metamorfosi del sistema politico italiano by Vincenzo Bova

“…This article deals with the transformations of the Italian political system from immediately after the Second World War till today. …”
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Democrazia di insoddisfatti? by Chiara Facello

“…The most obvious effect is increasing attitudes of criticism, disappointment and disaffection with democracy, that have characterized and still persist in the Italian political culture. After discussing the concept of dissatisfaction the article will be focused a relevant case in point, the Italian parliamentary democracy, by employing a comparative analysis of attitudes towards democracy, in particular trust in political institutions and satisfaction with the functioning of democracy. …”
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Education and Employment: Two Ongoing Challenges by Roberto Cipriani

“…From one descends the other. Italian political events have witnessed the contribution of ministers who, coming from the university world, have tried to give an accentuated impulse to reforms in the field of training. …”
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Italy and its international relations: Getting real on relative positions by Costalli, S, Ruggeri, A

Former military sites and post-Covid-19 city in Italy. May their reuse mitigate the pandemic impacts? by Federico Camerin

“…Although the difficulties to evaluate still ongoing redevelopment projects, I found two main results. First, the Italian political and economic context is what most influenced the redevelopment process and not so much the intrinsic characteristics of former military sites.  …”
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Between Bio-Ethics, Bio-Law and Bio-Politics: A Case Study on The Italian Experience of The DuPre Commission by Ines Testoni

“… The aim of this qualitative study was to consider the question of whether the Italian political management of the pandemic respected the European bio-ethical and bio-juridical approaches in light of the principles of autonomy, dignity, integrity and vulnerability. …”
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