Pubblicato per la celebre collana Institutional Analysis della University of Michigan Press, questo testo è il secondo di tre volumi antologici che raccolgono alcuni dei contributi più rilevanti del Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Animato da Elinor Ostrom - vincitrice del prestigioso 'Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy' - presso l'Università dell'Indiana (USA), il Workshop è al centro di una rete internazionale di scienziati politici, sociologi, economisti ed antropologi che usano l'analisi istituzionale per studiare i beni pubblici ed i problemi della governance (.).
Pubblicato per la celebre collana Institutional Analysis della University of Michigan Press, questo testo è il secondo di tre volumi antologici che raccolgono alcuni dei contributi più rilevanti del Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Animato da Elinor Ostrom - vincitrice del prestigioso 'Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy' - presso l'Università dell'Indiana (USA), il Workshop è al centro di una rete internazionale di scienziati politici, sociologi, economisti ed antropologi che usano l'analisi istituzionale per studiare i beni pubblici ed i problemi della governance (.).
The wave of protests that, starting from the end of 2010, hit some countries in the Middle- East North-Africa region, leading to the fall of long-standing autocratic regimes and referred to as the Arab Spring, has renewed the interests of researchers on youth bulges. The youth bulge theory links the demographic transition to political instability, by asserting that countries characterized by a particularly young population tend to be more vulnerable to political violence. The aim of the thesis is to test empirically this hypothesis on a sample of 160 countries in the post-World War II period. For this purpose, we adopt an econometric strategy alternative to the one prevailing in the literature on the determinants of civil conflicts: we employ a simple linear regression model which accounts for country and time fixed effects.
This article seeks to reflect on the methodological problem that dealing with political concepts with a particular historical and geographical frame entails. After stating how conceptual history, German in its origins, has given rise to different lines of thought throughout the Western World, especially in Europe, we explore how this conceptual approach can be used to address political concepts in Latin America from a philosophical-political perspective. ; Questo articolo si propone di discutere il problema metodologico dell'approccio ai concetti politici all'interno di un particolare contesto storico e geografico. A partire dal fatto che la storia concettuale, originariamente tedesca, ha dato origine a specifici percorsi in tutto il mondo occidentale, e soprattutto nel resto d'Europa, ci chiediamo come questo approccio concettuale possa essere utilizzato quando si affrontano i concetti politici in America Latina da una prospettiva filosofico-politica.
The practice of estrangement retains an essential political function. It is possible to link this narrative formula to the investigative paths typical of Thing Theory: in this way the perspective guaranteed by the matter can shed light upon the ideological coordinates of capitalist logic, through an interpretation of the commodity in a dissident key according to the suggestion offered by Francesco Orlando in his Freudian theory. This article therefore aims to document the relationship between Šklovskij's intuition, Thing Theory and Orlando's proposal through a close reading of Solid Object, a short story by Virginia Woolf. ; La pratica dello straniamento conserva un'imprescindibile funzione politica. È possibile legare tale formula narrativa ai percorsi indagativi propri della Thing Theory: in tal modo la prospettiva garantita dalla materia può far luce sulle coordinate ideologiche proprie della logica capitalistica, attraverso una rilettura della merce in chiave dissidente secondo il suggerimento offerto da Francesco Orlando in merito alla sua teoria freudiana. Questo contributo mira perciò a documentare il connubio tra l'intuizione di Šklovskij, la Thing Theory e la proposta di Orlando attraverso una lettura ravvicinata di "Solid Object", racconto di Virginia Woolf.
This study examines Thatcherism as an attempt to change the values and the political culture of United Kingdom using economy as a tool. From the perspective of political theory this specific case arouse great interest and the different compounds that made this transformation possible, in particular the "battle of ideas" and the role of political leadership, should be examined with great care. Thatcherism offers a new perspectives to interpret conservatism and liberalism, and to reshape those political theories in order to cope with a series of new problems. In this analysis there are some observations about the relationship between political theory and ideology and between market and democratic theory. Finally Thatcherism is analysed using the concept of biopolitics elaborated by Foucault.
Madrid, per Juan Sánchez, 1643. ; Citation confidence: An exemplar has been referenced in a major analytical bibliography, or inspected book in hand, by a member of the Iberian Books project team or a collaborating institution. ; Citation/reference: IB: 25193
In Des sociétés animales: étude de psychologie comparée (1877) Alfred Espinas conceives an overall equivalence between the social and the biological organism. The aim of this essay is to complicate this reading, showing how the entire work is crossed by epistemological movements that weaken such an association. Particularly, by focusing on the political shifts of his organic sociology, a fundamental though forgotten moment in the history of the concept of society will be reconstructed.
From the point of view of political philosophy, the relationship between literacy and democracy appears quite problematic, if the issue of linguistic diversity is set aside. The debate between equalitarian liberals and multiculturalists emerging with the rise of multiculturalism as a theoretical paradigm has highlighted that the historical affirmation of the Western nation-state has been built upon the negation of internal linguistic diversity, favoring some languages over others, a trend which has not lost its strength with the advent of democracy. However, one of the main results of such debate, largely indebted to the Rawlsian conception of justice, has been seemingly the idea that the extended promotion of plurilingualism (that is, a kind of promotion which does not aim to support second or third language acquisition only for the benefit of the so called 'minority' or 'disadvantaged' groups and languages) could not be a viable alternative for contemporary democratic theory to ameliorate its performance. Drawing upon the field of language policy, this article envisages showing that such a result is tied to a certain number of theoretical assumptions concerning language, which are controversial both in political philosophy and in linguistic theory. In the final section, the article tries to provide some suggestions to develop a reflection more open towards the extended promotion of plurilingualism and to acknowledge the human ability to learn more than one linguistic code.
Slides della presentazione del libro di Mariarita Sgarlata "L'eradicazione degli artropodi. La politica dei beni culturali in Sicilia", Edipuglia (collana "Le Vie Maestre", 4), Bari 2016.
This book on Metafore dello spazio, which follows the first dealing with La politica e gli spazi politici, is part of a series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political theory, entitled Figure dello spazio, politica e società, and aimed at exploring the major political and social issues of the modern and contemporary age from the aspect of spaces and their production.
This notebook is the fourth in the series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political theory, entitled Figure dello spazio, politica e società, and aimed at exploring the major political and social issues of the modern and contemporary age from the aspect of spaces and their production. The contributions presented in this book address issues connected with the role and impact of technology.
In Spinoza's political theory, Judaism and Christianity play a very important role. In particular, in the discourses we find affective dynamics expressing the real effects of imaginative perception. In this essay I try to consider the political figures of Judaism and the difference inaugurated by the Christian message. The latter, in fact, allows to think a universal political theory, putting some important question to Spinoza's political theory, facing – by a more general point of view – the problem of the universal human nature. I will follow the way in which the teaching of Jesus Christ disrupts the discourse concerning the divine election of the Jewish people; this turning point will displace the political enquiry to the field of human nature, and will lead us to question Spinoza's theory on this point.
ITALIANO: Puntando l'attenzione sul particolare contesto storico-politico del Regno di Napoli in età aragonese (1442-1503), il volume esplora la varietà dei linguaggi connessi con la prassi politica (linguaggi giuridici, letterari, artistici, politici), analizzati nelle loro specificità, ma anche nelle reciproche osmotiche relazioni. Punto di riflessione conclusivo dopo un convegno organizzato a Napoli, integra prospettive e competenze interdisciplinari, mettendo alla prova e affinando l'idea di un graduale sviluppo di un organismo complesso che – attraverso la letteratura, l'oratoria, la trattatistica politica, le rappresentazioni artistiche e le pratiche amministrative – va nella direzione della creazione di un "sistema statuale", che pure opera ancora sotto la guida della sovranità. / ENGLISH: The book focuses on the particular historical-political context of the Kingdom of Naples in the Aragonese period (1442-1503), and explores the variety of languages related to political practice: juridical, literary, artistic, political languages are analyzed in their specificities, but also in their reciprocal osmotic relations. This volume offers a conclusive reflection after a conference organized in Naples, and integrates interdisciplinary perspectives. It tests and refines the hypothesis concerning the gradual development of a complex organism that – through literature, oratory, political treatises, artistic representations and administrative practices – goes in the direction of a "state system", which still operates under the guidance of sovereignty.
Victim of its own success, the concept of «digital democracy» risks to turn into an obstacle, and not a tool in order to grasp reality. We need to look into another field to better understand what issues today's technologies raise in relation to political freedom, understood as self-determination: the field of Internet governance. There is an interesting debate on how we should handle this new world we have in common that is constituted by the infosphere, starting with the current debates surrounding the reform proposals for the ICANN. The stakes are high (balkanization, loss of neutrality, etc.) but mainstream democratic theory is largely unprepared for the challenge. The paper shows why the debate on the control of critical Internet resources is misleading: the «seats of power» are now elsewhere. In order to move within the private ordering that currently characterizes Internet governance in a way that is respectful of fundamental rights we need to rethink the relationships between social powers.
