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Mingione, Enzo. "Italy: the resurgence of regionalism." International Affairs 69, no. 2 (April 1993): 305–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2621596.
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Baldi, Brunetta. "Il federalismo competitivo: l'Italia in prospettiva comparata." TEORIA POLITICA, no. 2 (October 2009): 95–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tp2009-002005.
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- The article analyses the most recent reforms of Italian regionalism using the theory of competitive federalism as opposed to cooperative federalism. Although new competitive dynamics are developing with main reference to asymmetrical regionalism and fiscal federalism, the article shows the coexistence of competitive and cooperative institutional arrangements. Taking a comparative perspective the case of Italy portrays similarities to those of Germany and Spain: German cooperative federalism is more and more challenged by the developing of competitive dynamics between the Western and Eastern Länder as well as Spanish competitive regionalism is opening up to intergovernmental cooperation to assure policy coordination. As a whole the article provides an analytical framework to guide future empirical research.
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Medina, Iván, and Joaquim M. Molins. "Regionalism and Employer Groups in Spain, Italy, and the UK." Territory, Politics, Governance 2, no. 3 (September 2, 2014): 270–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2014.954602.
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Meldolesi, Luca. "Una nota per la riforma dello Stato: quarta libertŕ e federalismo democratico." RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI SCIENZA DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE, no. 1 (July 2009): 7–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sa2009-001002.
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- As a comment (on "The Forth Freedom", 2007) and anticipation (of "Democratic Federalism", 2009), this article, drawing from those monographies by the Author, carves its hypothesis out of a comparison between the European and the "New World" administrative traditions. Italy was largely imbued by the franco-prussian étatisme of the 18th and 19th centuries; and even developed a peculiar variety of it, based on "assistenzialismo" and the "theft and police" game. Since the end of the 19th century, however, and, more recently, since the second world war, Italy experienced a strong and rising tendency toward "autonomism" and regionalism, which eventually brought to a constitutional reform in 2001. According to it, Local Institutions and the central State should be considered on the same footing: a central proposition that may open the way to the development of "democratic federalism". The article addresses numerous policy issues (on cultural, pedagogic, administrative, outcome, working, benchmarking etc grounds) that rapidly may induce that desirable transformation.Key words: Public Innovation; Freedom; Federalism; Administrative Tradition; Western Autonomy; Local Government. Parole chiave: Innovazione pubblica; Libertŕ; Federalismo; Tradizione amministrativa occidentale; Autonomia; Regionalismo
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Orłowski, Wojciech. "Polish Regionalism — Present Challenges and Threats." Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i Prognozy 11, no. 2 (August 26, 2013): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.56583/br.1124.
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After the accession of Poland to the European Union our country started to be defined as a decentralized state with a regional structure. The aim of this paper is to compare Polish legal solutions to the Italian and Spanish solutions regarded as classic models of regionalism. The effect of the analysis is the conclusion that the biggest obstacle for the development of regionalism in Poland is the lack of proper legal regulations including constitutional regulations. It is responsible for the fact that Polish voivodships do not have guarantees of territorial integrity. Theoretically there is even a possibility to replace them with other units of territorial division. Other restrictions for regional development are: insufficient level of financing and the lack of formed social ties in newly formed voivodships. Due to these factors voivodships do not play their own political role. The situation could be changed as a result of an enlargement of regional competences and granting voivodships limited autonomy similarly to the situation in Italy and Spain.
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Bosa, Iris, Adriana Castelli, Michele Castelli, Oriani Ciani, Amelia Compagni, Matteo M. Galizzi, Matteo Garofano, et al. "Corona-regionalism? Differences in regional responses to COVID-19 in Italy." Health Policy 125, no. 9 (September 2021): 1179–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.07.012.
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El Zeini, Ingy. "The Cities' Identities between Critical Regionalism and Globalization." Academic Research Community publication 1, no. 1 (September 18, 2017): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/archive.v1i1.125.
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“The task of critical regionalism is to rethink architecture through the concept of region.” (Tzonis & Lefaivre, 2003) The term critical regionalism, in its sense, raises several arguments in the architectural field. Critical regionalism could debate the essence of the utopian idea of international design, that every building can be placed anywhere and function with high compatibility. Critical regionalism questions the approaches used in international design; it opens up the idea that each region could have a specific characteristic that could serve function, form, and efficiency. This could also mean that each region will be distinct in the means of materials and treatments. “Critical regionalism self- consciously seeks to deconstruct universal modernism in terms of values and images which are locally cultivated, while at the same time adulterating these autochthonous elements with paradigms drawn from alien sources.” (Frarmpton, 1983) Critical Regionalism does not intend to revisit history or dwell in the past, but to find a middle ground between two extremes. The universal design that the modernists strive to achieve by spearing Louis Sullivan’s saying “Form follows function” wherever the building might exist, and the post modernists who celebrated ornamentation for its own sake. Globalization is definitely a benefit for designers as it expands the visual cultures; yet designers need to use this design exposure in a way that could benefit the environment and maximize the built environment's efficiency.This paper questions the possibility to use critical regionalism in promoting a region’s identity but at the same time adheres to the international developments. The aim is to explore the idea of critical regionalism applications, and whether it could relate to both international design and regional identity. Its being applied to four different interior design Master’s degree student projects in Florence, Italy. The students were given a specific building in the center of Florence to redesign but there were several fixed factors. First, the building should be a hotel that relates to the identity of the city of Florence, second, the design should be minimal, third the use of literal images or direct analogies were not allowed. The data is analyzed through a comparative study between the four projects in terms of concept, analogy, color scheme, materials and level of ornamentation.The paper represents results of this focus group of interior design students who are from different demographics with only fixed education levels’ postgraduates in either interior design or architecture, and project description.
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Giovannini, Arianna, and Davide Vampa. "Towards a new era of regionalism in Italy? A comparative perspective on autonomy referendums." Territory, Politics, Governance 8, no. 4 (March 11, 2019): 579–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2019.1582902.
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Plyasov, V. S. "The experience of regional transformation in the EU: the precedents of Italy and Spain." Науково-теоретичний альманах "Грані" 21, no. 9 (October 11, 2018): 31–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/1718112.
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This article analyzes the political transformation polysyllabic societies in the era of modernism in the Second example of institutional reforms in Italy and Spain. The territorial structure of Italy in its present form was constituted in 1970 (special status regions, including Sardinia, Sicily, South Tyrol, were identified earlier). Each region has a population of regional assembly, which in turn elects the executive (government) headed by the president of the region. Regionalization of the Italian political and social life in general took place. This that the «region» replaced «province» of the political hierarchy of the country. The process of reaching a consensus at the regional level was much softer and adjusted, aimed at a compromise. Concern «radical social renewal» changed worry about administrative efficiency and professional level – a change institutional priorities. In general, population and community leaders satisfied with the availability and much greater openness regional administrations versus national. Regional governments have become laboratories of policy innovation, largely determined the «new way of doing politics». Also analyzes the Spanish experience of institutional reforms. New model of territorial organization of Spain called State autonomy. The article notes that the Spanish Constitution does not specify either the number or the name of the autonomous communities, but merely indicates ways to individual provinces or their associations can create such communities (this right was implemented by all provinces and is now in Spain composed of 17 autonomous communities). In Spain, always in one way or another existing political and cultural regionalism, there is always special historical area. The history of the country is in this respect the history of vibrations, movements between centralism and regionalism.
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Broers, Michael. "The Myth and Reality of Italian Regionalism: A Historical Geography of Napoleonic Italy, 1801-1814." American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (June 2003): 688–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/529593.
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Mazzoleni, Oscar, and Carlo Ruzza. "Combining regionalism and nationalism: the Lega in Italy and the Lega dei Ticinesi in Switzerland." Comparative European Politics 16, no. 6 (October 26, 2018): 976–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-018-0139-9.
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Rossi, Ugo. "New Regionalism contested: some remarks in light of the case of the Mezzogiorno of Italy." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28, no. 2 (June 2004): 466–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0309-1317.2004.00529.x.
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Boggero, Giovanni. "The Establishment of Metropolitan Cities in Italy: An Advance or a Setback for Italian Regionalism?" Perspectives on Federalism 8, no. 3 (December 1, 2016): E—1—E—22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pof-2016-0014.
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Abstract This paper aims to provide a brief assessment of the legal framework of the newly established metropolitan cities in the Italian domestic legal order. After an historical overview of previous attempts to set up metropolitan cities in Italy (1), it summarizes the main statutory provisions of the Delrio Law (No. 56/2014) through which metropolitan cities finally came into operation (2) and it provides an analysis of its implementation, thereby attempting to make clear whether increased institutional pluralism and differentiation in the local government system will strengthen or weaken Italian regionalism (3). The conclusion will argue that, while the enactment of local government reforms combined with the entering into force of a significant constitutional amendment will increasingly diminish the role of the Regions, metropolitan cities, due to their ambivalent nature, still lack any propulsive thrust and face the risk of being marginalized until a consistent legal framework for their proper funding is laid down (4).
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Gaman-Golutvina, O., and M. Dudaeva. "Center-Regional Relations in Italy." International Trends / Mezhdunarodnye protsessy 20, no. 1 (2022): 6–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17994/it.2022.20.1.68.6.
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The article examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the development of center-regional relations on the example of the Italian Republic. The pandemic has become a serious test of the effectiveness and strength of interaction between central governments and regions, and analysis of the socio-political results of almost two years of the difficult test makes it possible to clarify the understanding of the nature of modern Italian regionalism, and allows us to present a forecast for its further development. The study of this research is inscribed in a broad analytical and historical context. The conceptualization of analytical tools has been clarified, including the concepts of decentralization, regionalization, federalization, devolution, separatism, irredentism, autonomism. Political decentralization in Italy is considered in a historical retrospective by analyzing the goals, drivers and main milestones of the emergence and development of autonomist and separatist projects, including taking into account the study of the "North-South" issue. Various alternatives for the further evolution of center-periphery relations are considered, taking into account the negative impact of the pandemic. The conclusion is argued that the central government as a whole has demonstrated the ability to mobilize and pursue a flexible policy that meets social demand in key parameters, as a result of which society has rallied around the anti-crisis agenda and increased support for the central government. At this stage, it is considered that a relative public agreement has been reached taking into account the increase of current problems in case of active support of separatist political actors. Provided that the national government develops a further effective policy that keeps in mind the needs of the regions, it will help maintain the stability of the center-regional relations for the future.
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Zimmermann, Karsten, and Panagiotis Getimis. "Rescaling of Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning in Europe: an Introduction to the Special Issue." Raumforschung und Raumordnung 75, no. 3 (June 30, 2017): 203–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13147-017-0482-3.
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Abstract The article gives an introduction to the special issue about recent developments in metropolitan governance in Europe. The special issue seeks to contribute to a comparison of metropolitan governance with a particular emphasis on national policy initiatives. The presentation of recent developments in the six countries Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Spain and England follows a common framework. This framework is built on theories of rescaling and governance. All six countries have experienced dynamic changes in the scale and scope of metropolitan regionalism with different results. The contributions to the special issue show national policy initiatives as well as local case studies of metropolitan governance in terms of their history, structure and recent performance. The chapters show path-dependent developments in Germany, France and Spain as well as path-breaking changes in Poland, Italy and England. All in all, besides the fact that metropolitan regions are still high on the political agenda, a high degree of variation with regard to national policies remains.
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King, R. L. "Regional Government: The Italian Experience." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 5, no. 3 (September 1987): 327–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c050327.
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This paper is a review of Italy's stuttering progress towards regional autonomy. At the unification of Italy in 1860, a centralised administrative structure was adopted, as prescribed by the Piedmontese Constitution of 1848. Centralisation of political power reached its apogee during the Fascist period. Regionalist sentiment resurfaced strongly after the last war and gained formal expression in the 1948 Republican Constitution, which provided for the creation of five ‘special’ and fourteen (later fifteen) ‘ordinary’ regions. The special regions—regions of special linguistic or political sensitivity (Valle d'Aosta, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sicily and Sardinia)—were established between 1948 and 1963, but delays orchestrated by the Christian Democrat-dominated central government, reluctant to relinquish its power, postponed the establishment of the ordinary regions until the 1970s, when pressure from the Socialist Party prevailed. The legislative powers of the regions are of three forms: Exclusive (available only to the special regions), complementary, and integrative, the order representing progressively diminishing elements of decisionmaking autonomy. Several regions in central Italy have elected Communist regional governments. However, hopes that the regional governments would be instrumental in ending corrupt and inept government and eradicating regional disequilibria, have mostly been misplaced, although some progress has been made, especially in the northern regions, in the fields of administrative reform, social service organisation, and regional economic planning. The principal reason for lack of progress is the continuing central government control over regional government funds. In many regions considerable amounts of unspent funds have accumulated owing to a combination of political stalemate at the regional level and central government veto. Special attention is given in this paper to the relationship between regional autonomy and (1) local government, and (2) regional planning. To conclude, the present state of play represents an uneasy compromise between the two contradictory historical forces of centralism and regionalism, present since unification. Although there has been a significant departure from the rigid centralisation of the past, the retention of most of the important powers by the central government frustrates the ambitions of the regions to really organise their own affairs.
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Voutat, Bernard. "Territorial Identity in Europe: the Political Processes of the Construction of Identities in Corsica, the Basque Country, Italy, Macedonia and the Swiss Jura." Contemporary European History 9, no. 2 (July 2000): 285–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777300002071.
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Jean-Louis Briquet, La tradition en mouvement. Clientélisme et politique en Corse (Paris: Belin, 1997), 303 pp. ISBN 2–701–12079–9.Barbara Loyer, Géopolitique du Pays basque. Nations et nationalismes en Espagne (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997), 416 pp. ISBN 2–738–45089–X.Carl Levy, ed., Italian Regionalism. History, Identity and Politics (Oxford/Washington, DC: Berg, 1996), 197 pp. ISBN 1–859–73156–2.Peter Mackridge and Eleni Yannakis, eds., Ourselves and Others. The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural Identity since 1912 (Oxford/New York: Berg, 1997), 259 pp. ISBN 1–859–73138–4.Claude Hauser, Aux origines intellectuelles de la Question jurassienne. Culture et politique entre la France et la Suisse romande (1910–1950) (Courrendelin: Editions communication jurassienne et européenne (CJE), 1997), 528 pp. ISBN 2–940–11204–5.Any examination of political movements that claim a basis in territorial and cultural identity tends to come up against a major obstacle, the problem of tracing the reasons for their emergence. There are two competing approaches: the ’culturalist‘, which considers cultural differences among communities as being themselves the chief cause of conflict; and the ’instrumentalist‘, which holds that those differences are exploited and manipulated by individuals or groups seeking to acquire or maintain a position of power.
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Stivachtis, Yannis A. "A Mediterranean Region? Regional Security Complex Theory Revisited." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 21, no. 3 (September 20, 2021): 416–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2021-21-3-416-428.
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This article argues that the shift from the bipolar structure of the Cold War international system to a more polycentric power structure at the system level has increased the significance of regional relations and has consequently enhanced the importance of the study of regionalism. It makes a case for a Mediterranean region and examines various efforts aimed at defining what constitutes a region. In so doing, it investigates whether the Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) can be utilized to define a Mediterranean region and argues that the patters of amity and enmity among Mediterranean states are necessary but not sufficient to identify such a region. It suggests that economic, energy, environmental, and other factors, such as migration and refugee flows should be taken into consideration in order to define the Mediterranean region. It also claims that the Mediterranean security complex includes three sub-complexes. The first is an eastern Mediterranean sub-complex that revolves mainly - albeit not exclusively - around three conflicts: the Greek-Turkish conflict, the Syrian conflict, and the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict. The second is a central Mediterranean sub-complex that includes Italy, Libya, Albania and Malta and which revolves mainly around migration with Italy playing a dominant role due to its historical ties to both Libya and Albania. The third is a western Mediterranean security sub-complex that includes France, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain and Portugal. This sub-complex it centered around France, the migration question and its associated threats, such as terrorism, radicalism, and human trafficking. In conclusion, it is concluded that the Mediterranean security complex is very dynamic as there are states (i.e. Turkey) that seem eager and capable of challenging the status quo thereby contributing to the process of the complexs internal transformation.
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Rossetti Di Valdalbero, Domenico. "La crise du système politique italien par des observateurs socio-politiques nationaux." Res Publica 38, no. 1 (March 31, 1996): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/rp.v38i1.18649.
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In the last five years, the Italian political system registered its most important crisis. All parties, existing since the second world war, disappeared or were greatly transformed. The main purpose of this article is to analyse the deepest causes of the first Italian republic's collapse, following some specific interpretations of ltalian political observers.L. Ricolfi bases his theory on the emergence of "Lega" and the return of laïque culture in Italy. The old christian democratic and communist parties will suffer the most from these changes.A. Sofri emphasizes the identity of northern regionalism between the "Lega" and the "Pool of Milan" ('Clean hands operation"). A real opposition emerges between the judges of Milan and the politicians of Rome.S. Romano and M.L. Salvadori prefer the historical approach: for them, the events of1990-1994 are very similar to what happened in 1922-1926and in 1943-1945. The absence of a pacific alternative and the "ideological war" among political forces produce the effect that every change in Italian politics implies an end of regime.L. Ornaghi and V.B. Parsi deal with the "values" of citizens which, very often, do not correspond to the values of old politicians. For them, a democracy for the political parties -as structured in the last 45 years- must give priority to a democracy for the citizens.
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Giordano, Benito. "'Institutional thickness', political sub-culture and the resurgence of (the 'new') regionalism in Italy - a case study of the Northern League in the province of Varese." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 26, no. 1 (March 2001): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00004.
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Pavlovic, Marko. "The Kingdom of Yugoslavia first European regional state." Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, no. 141 (2012): 503–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zmsdn1241503p.
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It is generally accepted that the first European regional state was Italy (since 1948), and the second was Spain (since 1978). This article, however, proves that the first European regional state was the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1921 - 1939). The Kingdom of Yugoslavia as a regional state was formed in imitation of the Union of South Africa (since 1909). The main proponents of the concept of Yugoslav regionalism were Bogumil Vosnjak, a Slovene, and Josip Smodlaka, a Croat from Dalmatia, both of them considered moderate nationalists. Regional jurisdiction in the Vidovdan Constitution was modeled according to Smodlaka?s and Vosnjak?s ideas. Law on the name and the administrative division of the Kingdom from 1929 established administrative areas (banovinas), whose jurisdiction mostly coincided with regional jurisdiction. Banovinas were also carried to the Constitution of 1931, provided that, with respect to self governing bodies, they were somewhat shaped by the ideas of Stojan Protic, ?a moderate Serb?. The territories of banovinas were shaped according to Smodlaka?s draft, so they were much larger and economically stronger than previous (oblasti). When we compare the standard regional jurisdiction (designed according to the Spanish Constitution of 1978) with the jurisdiction of Yugoslav counties or banovinas, we can conclude that they are almost identical. So, considering the time priority, the Yugoslav Kingdom was the first regional state. However, it was an inadequate form of a state due to the presence of strong nationalisms, primarily Croatian.
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VAMPA, DAVIDE. "From National to Sub-National? Exploring the Territorial Dimension of Social Assistance in Italy." Journal of Social Policy 46, no. 2 (September 26, 2016): 269–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279416000659.
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AbstractIn countries that have experienced decentralisation processes, the role that central and sub-national authorities play in the governance of some social policies may vary considerably across regions. In Italy, for instance, whereas some regions (and municipalities) have been very active in financing social assistance programmes, others still overwhelmingly rely on resources directly allocated by the central government. This indicates that, in a ‘regionalised’ system, the development of a sub-national social dimension is not a territorially homogeneous phenomenon. Interestingly, cross-regional variation is mainly explained by differences in the strength of regionalist parties. The share of total social assistance spending allocated by sub-national authorities has increased significantly in those areas of the country where regionalist parties are stronger and does not seem to depend on ideological shifts on the left-right spectrum. Surprisingly, the positive effect of regional economic development on sub-national spending is not as strong as expected. On the other hand, female employment and population ageing seem to explain part of territorial divergence, the former having a positive effect and the latter a negative one on the dependent variable.
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Paparo, Aldo. "Regionali 2015." Quaderni dell'Osservatorio elettorale. QOE - IJES 74, no. 2 (December 30, 2015): 129–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/qoe-9260.
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Silveira, Ederson Luís, and Renato De Oliveira Dering. "Entre o Regional e o Universal: (Outros) Tecidos da Literatura Gaúcha." Revista de Ensino, Educação e Ciências Humanas 17, no. 4 (February 17, 2017): 335. http://dx.doi.org/10.17921/2447-8733.2016v17n4p335-340.
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O regionalismo gaúcho esteve historicamente permeado de singularidades, tendo a construção do tipo característico “centauro dos pampas” predominante em muitos escritos do gênero. Mesmo que a literatura gaúcha goze de multiplicidade de textos, que retomem características específicas dos lugares em que foram construídas, há textos que rumam para a universalidade com poucas referências ao regional. A presente pesquisa bibliográfica de cunho qualitativo visa empreender reflexões acerca da literatura gaúcha, que se desprende do regionalismo característico para aventurar-se pelos terrenos da universalidade. Se para Ítalo Calvino, o clássico é aquele que não terminou de dizer o que tinha para dizer, Anne-Marie Thiesse intitulou o “check-list identitário” uma série de especificidades capazes de garantir a singularidade de determinado grupo social. Neste contexto, ter-se-á a análise da obra Pequenas epifanias, de Caio Fernando Abreu. Os resultados apontam que obras como esta se constituem a exceção à regra sem perder reconhecimento, com seu lugar entre os pares da literatura regional, mesmo que fuja da “pureza inicial” caracterizadora da literatura gaúcha. Palavras-chave: Literatura Regional. Crônica. Crítica Literária. Universal. AbstractThe Rio Grande do Sul regionalism was historically permeated by singularities, with the construction of the characteristic type “centaur of Pampas” prevalent in a lot of writings. Even though the Rio Grande do Sul literature enjoys a multitude of texts that comprise specific features aboutthe places wherethey were built, there are texts that head for the universality with few references to the regional. This bibliographical research of qualitative nature aims at undertaking reflections about the Gaucho literature which breaks loose from characteristic regionalism to venture out towards the universality land. To Italo Calvino, the classic is the one that has not finished saying what he or she had to say, AnneMarie Thiesse entitled the “check-list identity” a series of special features capable of ensuring the uniqueness of a particular social group. In this context, there is the analysis of the book Pequenas epifanias, by Caio Fernando Abreu. The results show that books like this are an exception to the rule without losing recognition, with its place among the pairs of regional literature, even though it deviates from the “original purity” characterizing the Gaúcha literature. Keywords: Regional Literature. Chronic. Literary Criticism.Universal.
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Tronconi, Filippo. "Ethno-regionalist Parties in Regional Government: Multilevel Coalitional Strategies in Italy and Spain." Government and Opposition 50, no. 4 (October 8, 2014): 578–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gov.2014.30.
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In the last few decades, ethno-regionalist parties have become leading players in many regional political systems across Europe. This increased representation has opened up new strategic opportunities for these parties, and in particular it has offered them the chance to participate in regional government. Based on a newly compiled data set of 282 governmental formations in Italian and Spanish regions during the period 1945–2011, this study develops and tests several hypotheses regarding the governmental participation of ethno-regionalist parties at regional level. These have been partly drawn from similar studies of ‘outsider’ party families, such as the Green parties or the radical right. A specific focus is then placed on multilevel dynamics, based on the idea that there is a relationship between party strategies at regional and state levels, and in particular on the perception that parties are willing to adopt compatible alliance strategies at the two levels (vertical congruence), at least under certain conditions. Both types of hypothesis (single-level and multilevel) are shown to be plausible when empirically tested on the cases of Italy and Spain. Special attention is given to the conditions under which vertical congruence is used by ethno-regionalist parties as an effective way of minimizing the risks associated with inclusion in governmental coalitions at regional level.
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Maggini, Nicola, and Matteo Cataldi. "Le elezioni politiche e le elezioni regionali del 2018." Quaderni dell'Osservatorio elettorale. QOE - IJES 79, no. 1 (June 30, 2018): 127–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/qoe-9062.
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Lesage, Alain, David Groden, Elliot M. Goldner, Daniel Gelinas, and Leslie M. Arnold. "Regionalised Tertiary Psychiatric Residential Facilities." Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale 17, no. 1 (March 2008): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1121189x00002670.
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SummaryAims– Psychiatric hospitals remain the main venue for long-term mental health care and, despite widespread closures and downsizing, no country that built asylums in the last century has done away with them entirely – with the recent exception of Italy. Differentiated community-based residential alternatives have been developed over the past decades, with staffing levels that range from full-time professional, to daytime only, to part-time/on-call.Methods– This paper reviews the characteristics of community-based psychiatric residential care facilities as an alternative to long-term care in psychiatric hospitals. It describes five factors decision makers should consider: 1. number of residential places needed; 2. staffing levels; 3. physical setting; 4. programming; and 5. governance and financing.Results– In Italy, facilities with full-time professional staff have been developed since the mid-1990s to accommodate the last cohorts of patients discharged from psychiatric hospitals. In the United Kingdom, experiments withhostel wardssince the 1980s have shown that home-like, small-scale facilities with intensive treatment and rehabilitation programming can be effective for the most difficult-to-place patients. More recently in Australia,Community Care Units(CCUs) have been applying this concept. In the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC),Tertiary Psychiatric Residential Facilities (TPRFs)have been developed as part of an effort to regionalise health and social services and downsize and ultimately close its only psychiatric hospital.Conclusions– This type of service must be further developed in addition to the need for forensic, acute-care and intermediate-level beds, as well as for community-based care such as assertive community treatment and intensive case management. All these types of services, together with long-term community-based residential care, constitute the elements of a balanced mental health care system. As part of a region's balanced mental health care plan, these Tertiary Psychiatric Care Facilities have the potential to act as hubs of expertise not only for treatment, rehabilitation, community integration and ser-vice co-ordination for the severely mentally ill, but also for research and training.Declaration of Interest: None.
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Maggi, Andrea. "Ricettari regionali e lessico gastronomico napoletano d’età borbonica." Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 138, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 1137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2022-0058.
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Abstract The paper aims to present some preliminary outcomes as part of the National Research Project Atlante della lingua e dei testi della cultura gastronomica italiana dall’età medievale all’Unità (AtLiTeG). The project’s main purpose is to reconstruct the history and geography of Italian culinary texts and their language from the medieval period to the Unification of Italy. The Unit of Naples «Federico II» created a corpus of interregional cookbooks printed between the 18th and the 19th centuries, namely before the turning point represented by Pellegrino Artusi’s Scienza in cucina (1891). After illustrating our digital database, together with other kinds of collected sources, we will deal with some historical-linguistic and lexical issues related to the Cuoco galante (1773) by Vincenzo Corrado, a very important gastronome and chef of Bourbon Naples.
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Bruzzo, Aurelio. "Regional Economic Planning." SCIENZE REGIONALI, no. 3 (October 2009): 171–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/scre2009-003009.
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- (Paper first received, March 2009; in final form, September 2009) Abstract The paper covers the scientific debate among Italian regionalists since the mid-1970s on Regional Economic Planning, understood as socio-economic planning carried out by regional administrations and expressed in the drafting of regional development programmes. The somewhat critical survey locates contributions by Italian scholars within a broader debate simultaneously ongoing at international level, the purpose being to advance the discipline both theoretically-methodologically and in its concrete implementation. The conclusion reached is that Italian regionalists have made a major contribution to the international scientific debate especially when they have induced (at high government level and in a decidedly wider territorial context) a limited number of regions to adopt the strategic planning model hitherto applied to urban and metropolitan areas in both Italy and abroad.Keywords: planning policy and models; regional socio-economic development policyJEL Classification: O21; R58
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Acerenza, Gerardo. "Vision(s) de la littérature québécoise en Italie. Révisions nécessaires?" Romanica Silesiana 18, no. 2 (December 28, 2020): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rs.2020.18.02.
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Literary texts written in French-speaking areas out of France very often represent real challenges for translators, because they have to deal with a diatopically marked language and with a large number of realia which require the implementation of specific strategies for translate in the target language. In this article, we will try to understand the strategies used by Italian translators when translating the linguistic specificities of Quebec literary works in Italian. The practice of translation can orient the vision (or reception) of a Quebec literature in Italy which appears at first sight to be hermetic because of its linguistic regionalisms. Do Italian translations of Quebec literature require revisions?
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Palmisano, Alessio, Andrew Bevan, Alexander Kabelindde, Neil Roberts, and Stephen Shennan. "Long-Term Demographic Trends in Prehistoric Italy: Climate Impacts and Regionalised Socio-Ecological Trajectories." Journal of World Prehistory 34, no. 3 (September 2021): 381–432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10963-021-09159-3.
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AbstractThe Italian peninsula offers an excellent case study within which to investigate long-term regional demographic trends and their response to climate fluctuations, especially given its diverse landscapes, latitudinal range and varied elevations. In the past two decades, summed probability distributions of calibrated radiocarbon dates have become an important method for inferring population dynamics in prehistory. Recent advances in this approach also allow for statistical assessment of spatio-temporal patterning in demographic trends. In this paper we reconstruct population change for the whole Italian peninsula from the Late Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age (10,000–2800 cal yr BP). How did population patterns vary across time and space? Were fluctuations in human population related to climate change? In order to answer these questions, we have collated a large list of published radiocarbon dates (n = 4010) and use this list firstly to infer the demographic trends for the Italian peninsula as a whole, before addressing each of five sub-regions in turn (northern, central, and southern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia). We also compare population fluctuations with local paleoclimate proxies (cave, lake, marine records). At a pan-regional scale, the results show a general rapid and substantial increase in population in the Early Neolithic with the introduction of farming at around 8000 cal yr BP and further dramatic increases during the Bronze and Iron Age (~ 3800–2800 cal yr BP). However, different regional demographic trajectories exist across different regions of Italy, suggesting a variety of localised human responses to climate shifts. Population and climate appear to have been more closely correlated during the early–mid Holocene (Mesolithic–Neolithic), while later in the Holocene (Bronze–Iron Ages) they decouple. Overall, across the Holocene the population dynamics varied by region and depended on the long-term socio-ecological dynamics prevailing in a given area. Finally, we include a brief response to the paper ‘Radiocarbon dated trends and central Mediterranean prehistory’ by Parkinson et al. (J Word Prehist 34(3), 2021)—synchronously published by Journal of World Prehistory but wholly independently developed—indicating how our conclusions accord with or differ from one another.
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Albertazzi, Daniele. "Addressing ‘the People’: A Comparative Study of the Lega Nord's and Lega dei Ticinesi's Political Rhetoric and Styles of Propaganda." Modern Italy 12, no. 3 (November 2007): 327–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532940701633791.
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In recent years two populist regionalist parties have emerged in the alpine region, the Lega dei Ticinesi (LDT) in Switzerland and the Lega Nord (LN) in Italy. However, while typical populist themes such as the constant attacks against professional politicians and appeals to the ‘people’ resonate in the rhetoric of both movements, what differentiates them is the style of their propaganda, as the LDT's paper, Il Mattino della Domenica, constantly strives to shock its readers in ways that are alien to the Italian leghisti. Following a discussion of the strength, organisation and rhetoric of the two parties, this articles addresses the reasons why they have adopted different strategies of communication by considering the parties’ constituencies, the nature of their media and the personalities of their leaders.
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Lumicisi, A., V. Tedeschi, M. Vitullo, S. Federici, and E. Pompei. "The role of central, regional and local administrations in the application of the Kyoto protocol in the forestry sector in Italy." Forest@ - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale 4, no. 3 (September 20, 2007): 246–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3832/efor0466-004.
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Bruzzo, Aurelio. "La programmazione regionale in Italia: una rassegna della letteratura economica." ARGOMENTI, no. 27 (December 2009): 31–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/arg2009-027002.
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- The paper contains (exposes) a brief overview on the scientific debate among Italian scholars since the 1960s on Regional Economic Planning, understood as socio-economic planning carried out by regional administrations. Aim of this work is to verify the Italian contribution to the wider international debate, developed in the same period and directed to advance the discipline both theoretically-methodologically and in its concrete implementation. The main conclusion reached is that Italian regionalists have induced during 1990s some Regions to adopt, at a higher government level and in a decidedly wider territorial context, the strategic planning model hitherto applied to urban and metropolitan areas in both Italy and abroad.
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Dudaeva, Marina V. "Historical and Political Analysis of the Decentralization Process in Italy." Russian Journal of Legal Studies (Moscow) 8, no. 1 (May 27, 2021): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/rjls64467.
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The author of the article examines the peculiarities of the Italian political space through a retrospective analysis of that countrys longstanding decentralization process. As a starting point, the author takes the end of the Risorgimento era, during which the national liberation movement of the Italian people united against foreign domination of their fragmented nation. A periodization of the decentralization process is given, indicating its main milestones: 1) the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy (1815 to 1871); 2) the Fascist regime (1922 to 1943); 3) adoption of the Italian Constitution and the Statutes of the Special Regions (1947); 4) regional reform (1970) and; 5) constitutional reform (2001). The key criteria for assessing the degree of decentralization in Italy are considered, including whether the regions have the right to adopt their own laws, initiate legislation at the central level, and participate in international activities. The author concludes that the Italian political elite has succeeded in decentralizing the republic and building a new regional policy based on the principles of subsidiarity. The reforms of the political and legal institutional design were mainly related to the delineation of the spheres of competence between the state and the regions, the consolidation of autonomous status for all regions, the abolition of the government commissioner, and the challenge of regional legislation exclusively by the Constitutional Court, creating the basis for the quasi-federal features of the Italian political and legal system. Thus, it is natural to say that Italy belongs to a special transit form of state structure of the regionalist type, located at the juncture between unitarianism and federalism.
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Patterson, John R. "Crisis: What Crisis? Rural Change and Urban Development in Imperial Appennine Italy." Papers of the British School at Rome 55 (November 1987): 115–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246200008977.
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CRISI: QUALE CRISI? CAMBIAMENTO RURALE E SVILUPPO URBANO NELL'ITALIA APPENNINICA DEL PERIODO IMPERIALEL'articolo esamina le testimonianze usate tradizionalmente a sostegno dell'idea di una ‘crisi del I secolo d.C.’ nell'agricoltura italiana — l'editto di Domiziano sulla vite, le lettere di Plinio, e gli alimenta italiani — e le mette in relazione ai risultati forniti da recenti ricognizioni archeologiche di superficie per proporre un nuovo modello del cambiamento economico negli Appennini centrali in questo periodo. L'autore sostiene che una crisi agricola che si ripercuote su tutta l'ltalia è inconcepibile a causa delle diversità geografiche, climatiche e culturali tra le varie regioni della penisola; così ogni analisi della economia italiana deve avere intenti regionali. Il caso degli Appennini centrali viene preso come soggetto specifico di studio: l'esame di tre fattori interconnessi—l'agglomerazione dei possedimenti rurali, lo sviluppo urbano e una crescente ricchezza dell'elite—suggerisce che l'introduzione degli alimenta fu una risposta dell'imperatore Traiano a un percettibile impoverimento della classe rurale durante il I secolo d.C.
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Golden, Miriam A. "International Economic Sources of Regime Change." Comparative Political Studies 37, no. 10 (December 2004): 1238–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414004269821.
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Italy’s 1992 elections marked the end of political dominance by Christian Democracy (DC). The conventional account of the collapse of the DC’s vote to less than 30% focuses on the breakup of the Soviet Union, which is said to have freed Catholic voters to switch to new regionalist protest parties. The author documents that this argument is empirically inadequate. Evidence shows that electoral districts more exposed to international trade were where the DC lost larger vote shares and where the Northern League received more support. These findings corroborate that social groups linked to small firms in the north and center whose products were exported throughout Europe underwent electoral realignment in response to the economic opportunities offered by the 1991 Maastricht Treaty. The author argues that DC was not credible in providing national macroeconomic policies that would have allowed Italy to partake fully of the opportunities offered by European economic integration.
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Barbarito, Fulvio, Francesco Pinciroli, Antonio Barone, Fabrizio Pizzo, Riccardo Ranza, John Mason, Luca Mazzola, Stefano Bonacina, and Sara Marceglia. "Implementing the lifelong personal health record in a regionalised health information system: The case of Lombardy, Italy." Computers in Biology and Medicine 59 (April 2015): 164–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2013.10.021.
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Ammaturo, Francesca Romana. "‘The more South you go, the more frankly you can speak’: Metronormativity, critical regionality and the LGBT movement in Salento, South-Eastern Italy." Current Sociology 67, no. 1 (November 7, 2018): 79–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392118807529.
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In recent times, the region of Salento in South-Eastern Italy has become one of the most popular gay-friendly tourist spots in the country and several LGBT organisations have operated in this territory over the last few years. This article seeks to map the creation, development and challenges of the LGBT movement in this Italian sub-region by looking at forms of negotiation between ‘local’ and ‘queer’ identities and beyond narratives of ‘metronormativity’ of LGBT identities and from the perspective of ‘critical regionality’ and ‘meridian thought’. Through semi-structured interviews conducted with five local LGBT activists in 2016 and ethnographic observations carried out at Pride events in 2016 and 2017, the article looks at conflicting social processes whereby local activism is rooted in situated allegiances and interactions with the territory and its population, whilst being permeated by the globalising dynamics of LGBT identity politics.
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Gabrielli, Laura, Paloma Taltavull de La Paz, and Armando Ortuño Padilla. "Long-term regional house prices cycles. A city-based index for Italy." Journal of European Real Estate Research 10, no. 3 (November 6, 2017): 303–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jerer-05-2017-0019.
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Purpose This paper aims to present the dynamics of housing prices in Italian cities based on unpublished data with regional details from the late 1960s, half-yearly base, for all main Italian cities measuring the average prices for three city dimensions: city centre, sub-centres and outskirts or suburbs. It estimates the Italian long-term house price index, city based in real terms, and shows a combination of methods to deal with large time-series data. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds long-term cycles based on the city (real) data by estimating the common components of cointegrated time series and extracting the unobservable signals to build real house price index for sub-regions in Italy. Three different econometric methodologies are used: Johansen cointegration test and VAR models to identify the long-term pattern of prices at the estimated aggregate level; principal components to obtain the common (permanent and transitory) components; and signal extraction in ARIMA time series–model-based approach method to extract the unobserved time signals. Findings Results show three long-term cycle-trends during the period and identify several one-direction causal non-permanent relationships among house prices from different Italian areas. There is no evidence of convergence among regional’s house prices suggesting that the Italian housing prices converge inside the local market with only short diffusion effects at larger regional level. Research limitations/implications Data are measured as the average price in squared meters, and the resulting index is not quality controlled. Practical implications The long-term trends on housing prices serve to implement further research and know deeply the evolution of Italian housing prices. Originality/value This paper contains new and unknown information about the evolution of housing prices in Italian regions and cities.
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Helderman, Jan-Kees, Gwyn Bevan, and George France. "The rise of the regulatory state in health care: a comparative analysis of the Netherlands, England and Italy." Health Economics, Policy and Law 7, no. 1 (January 5, 2012): 103–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744133111000326.
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AbstractIn a relatively short time, regulation has become a significant and distinct feature of how modern states wish to govern and steer their economy and society. Whereas the former ‘dirigiste’ state used to be closely related to public ownership (e.g. hospitals), planning (volume and capacity planning) and centralised administration (e.g. fixed prices and budgets), the new regulatory state relies mainly on the instrument of regulation to achieve its objectives. In this paper, we wish to relate the rise of the ‘regulatory state’ to the path-dependent trajectories and institutional legacies of discrete European health-care systems. For this purpose, we compared the Dutch corporatist social health insurance system, the strongly centralised National Health Service (NHS) of England and federal regionalised NHS system of Italy. Comparing these three different health-care systems suggests that it is indeed possible to identify a general trend towards the rise of the regulatory state in health care in the last two decades. However, although the three countries examined in this paper face similar problems of multilevel governance of networks of third-party payers and providers, each system also gives rise to its own distinct regulatory challenges.
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Lillo, Adele, Ettore Antoncecchi, and Valeria Antoncecchi. "CArdiovascular Risk Awareness of ItaliaN WOMEN The A.R.C.A. (Associazioni Regionali Cardiologi Ambulatoriali) CARIN WOMEN survey." Cardiologia Ambulatoriale 29, no. 1 (May 30, 2021): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17473/1971-6818-2021-1-9.
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Sex and gender differences change biology and pathophysiology. Up to now there has been no attention to this problem and the results of scientific research conducted mainly in men were inappropriately shifted to the female sex. The female “umbrella-hormone” bias has come to minimize the impact of risk factors and cardiovascular disease which instead are the leading cause of death in women in developed countries. To take stock of female awareness in Italy and identify methods and topics of intervention, ARCA (Associazioni Regionali Cardiology Ambulatoriali), with the collaboration of GISeG (Gruppo Italiano Salute e Genere), conducted a survey enrolling 2,856 women, mainly interviewed in cardiological outpatient clinics. The mean age of the enrolled patients was 53.8 ± 13.4 years, school attendance was generally low for a European country (with 53% of senior high school diploma or degree). Forty percent of respondents were single. Awareness of traditional risk factors was high, slightly less for diabetes mellitus (81%). The presence of cardiovascular events was strongly correlated with age and the number of conventional risk factors. Lifestyle change seemed to be difficult for a large percentage of women, mainly the eating habits (45%). Ninety one percent declared to need more information about the CVR and over 80% would like the family doctor to provide it. In conclusion, women’s awareness of their cardiovascular risk is still not optimal and the interviewees believe that they need to be primarily informed by their family doctor.
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Barker, Graeme. "Hunting and farming in prehistoric Italy: changing perspectives on landscape and society." Papers of the British School at Rome 67 (November 1999): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246200004517.
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CACCIA E ALLEVAMENTO NELL'ITALIA PREISTORICA: CAMBIAMENTI DI PROSPETTIVA SUL TERRITORIO E SULLA SOCIETÀQuest'articolo riassume come due decadi di ricerca sull'Italia preistorica abbiano cambiato la nostra comprensione della natura degli antichi sistemi di caccia e di allevamento, della transizione dall'uno all'altro sistema, dei territori che queste attività hanno aiutato a creare e delle società di cui esse facevano parte. Per quanto riguarda la preistoria più antica, è ora più chiaro che per un lungo periodo l'umanità dell'epoca si fosse basata su un sistema di ‘scavenging’, vale a dire di nutrimento basato sull'utilizzo di carogne di animali morti. La variabilità dei sistemi di caccia che funsero da complemento allo ‘scavenging’, e che infine lo sostituirono, si è andata anch'essa man mano chiarendo. L'evidenza di un protaersi del processo di transizione nell'Olocene dalla caccia, pesca e raccolta all'agricoltura si è andata accumulando in maniera ancora più evidente, sebbene i motivi di questa transizione ci rimangono oscuri. Le società agricole del tardo neolitico furono sempre più caratterizzate da competizione sociale, in particolare tra gli uomini, mentre il commercio a lunga distanza e gli elementi rituali fmirono con lo svolgere un ruolo sempre più importante nei meccanismi di riproduzione sociale. L'età del rame vide un incremento nella specializzazione agricola e nella produzione artigianale mentre famiglie rivali erano in competizione per il controllo delle risorse. La prima parte dell'età del bronzo rappresenta un periodo di espansione degli insediamenti e di intensificazione della sussistenza, ma probabilmente anche di frammentazione sociale. Nel tardo bronzo e nell'età del ferro alcune regioni divennero centri significativi di poteri locali, nonchè il fulcro di reti di scambi locali e regionali di prodotti agrieoli e artigianali che sostenevano la struttura di queste società attraverso il mantenimento di debiti ed altri vincoli.
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Grazi, Laura. "Origini e sfide della politica regionale comunitaria: dagli studi preliminari all'Atto unico europeo (1957-1986)." MEMORIA E RICERCA, no. 30 (July 2009): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/mer2009-030005.
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- The article describes the different stages which marked the elaboration of the EEC regional policy starting from the preliminary studies in the Sixties to the formal inclusion of this domain in the Single European Act (1986). The creation of the European Regional Development Fund (1975) and its reforms are crucial events in the definition of the EEC regional policy which highlight the slow and difficult passage from a system redistributing money among Member States to the launch of new form of supranational territorial solidarity. The ERDF, that was initially linked to the need to rearrange the financial benefits of membership/accession to the EEC for some members States (in particular, Italy and Great Britain), was later rearranged in order to allow more autonomous policy choices at the Community level (Community programmes). The Integrated Mediterranean Programmes, adopted in the Eighties, are the symbol of this new approach because they linked EEC regional measures to common problems arising from economic integration and increased the coordinating functions of the Commission.Parole chiave: Politica regionale della CEE, Commissione europea, Economie regionali, FESR, Programmi comunitari, PIM EEC Regional Policy; European Commission, Regional Economies, European Regional Development Fund, Community Programmes, Integrated Mediterranean Programmes
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Schmidtke, Oliver. "‘We the People’: Demarcating the Demos in Populist Mobilization—The Case of the Italian Lega." Social Sciences 10, no. 10 (September 23, 2021): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100351.
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This article is a theoretically guided and empirically based analysis of how populist movements invoke the notion of the ‘people’ as a cornerstone of their political mobilization. While the confrontation between the virtuous ‘people’ and the unresponsive elites speaks to how populism challenges established political actors and institutions, the actual meaning of who the ‘people’ are and what they represent is shifting and often driven by strategic considerations. Analytically the article investigates the distinct ways in which nationalism and populism conceptualize and politically mobilize the notion of the ‘people’. Empirically it focuses on the Italian League and engages in a discourse analysis of its political campaigns over the past 30 years. Based on this textual analysis of political campaigns, the article sheds light on how the reference to the ‘people’ has been employed as this political actor has transformed from a regionalist party advocating for autonomy in Northern Italy to one taking up the role of a populist-nationalist party at the national level. This case study allows the author to make a generalizable hypothesis about the nature of identity politics promoted by populist actors and the way in which the invocation of the ‘people’ and their alleged enemies is a pivotal political narrative that opens and restricts opportunities for political mobilization. This interpretative approach also allows for a more concise conceptual understanding of the affinity that right-wing populists demonstrate toward nativist ideologies.
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Sardi, I., M. Censullo, M. Rousseau, M. Guidi, F. Giordano, C. Fonte, S. Farina, F. Carra, and L. Genitori. "P08.03 Separation and divorce after the diagnosis of child’s brain tumor." Neuro-Oncology 21, Supplement_3 (August 2019): iii37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noz126.129.
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Abstract BACKGROUND The diagnosis of a child’s brain tumor is a terrible situation for every member of the family. Numerous are the case of separations and divorces in Italy after a diagnosis of a child’s cancer. In particular, it happens with parents of children affected with brain tumor, being the most frequent solid tumor and the first cause of a tumor child’s death. The crisis related to the discovery of a tumor consists of four phases: shock, reaction, processing and re-orientation. It can happen that the diagnosis, experienced as a traumatic experience, can unite the family members as well as separate them. If there is already a process of family disintegration, a trauma can be a cause for breakup. The aim of our study was to investigate the possible correlation between brain tumor diagnosis in children and parental separations/divorces. MATERIAL AND METHODS We considered 427 patients afferent from 2012 to 2018 to the Neuro-Oncology Unit of the Meyer Children’s Hospital. Brain tumors are the 55–60% of all the tumors of our hospital, with an extra-regionality greater than 65%. The data analysis was conducted through information obtained directly from the families during follow-up visits or by telephone interviews. RESULTS Consistent with literature data in our series, the most frequent brain tumors were low-grade gliomas medulloblastomas, high-grade gliomas, ependymomas, midline diffuse gliomas, craniopharyngiomas, germ cell tumors and other rare pediatric tumors. The population was divided in 16 females and 18 males from different Italian regions: 65% from Central Italy, 23% from the South and Islands, 12% from the North. Data analysis showed 34 cases of separation and/or divorce, equal to 7% of our whole population, during treatment and more frequently at the end of treatment or after death. The median age of the 34 patients at the diagnosis of brain tumor was 9.5 years (range 1–19 years), with a higher percentage of cases of separations (41%) for parents of patients aged 10 years-14 years; 7 were the cases of separation and/or divorce when the diagnosis of brain tumor was made around 12–48 months after the child birth. CONCLUSION The diagnosis of a child’s brain tumor can generate stress in the family leading to different reactions, such as conflicts between parents or a real family crisis. The results of our study suggest a possible correlation between the diagnosis of a child’s brain tumor and the cases of separation and/or divorce. High risk medulloblastomas and high-grade gliomas that are likely to have a shorter path due to the unfavorable prognosis of the disease, appear to be the pathologies more often related to situations of family disputes. However, further investigations are necessary to verify the trend emerged from our study respect to the normal population.
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WRIGHT, A. D. "Per una storia dei santuari cristiani d'Italia. Approcci regionali. By Giorgio Cracco. (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Quaderni, 58.) Pp. 504. Bologna: il Mulino, 2002. €28.50 (paper). 88 15 08789 3." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55, no. 1 (January 2004): 118–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046903227196.
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Correia, João Carlos, Pedro Jerónimo, and Anabela Gradim. "Fake news: emotion, belief and reason in selective sharing in contexts of proximity." Brazilian Journalism Research 15, no. 3 (December 30, 2019): 590–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.25200/bjr.v15n3.2019.1219.
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This text addresses the phenomenon of so-called fake news in the new media ecosystem, namely in contexts of increasing influence of populist discourse and action, such as Brazil, the UK, the USA, Italy, among others. It does so by way of some characteristics already implicit in the limited effects theory: a) fake news involves, in a specific way, the participation of its receivers in disseminating and sharing it; b) producers/consumers (prosumers) are involved in contexts of proximity that facilitate selective exposure, perception, and memorization; c) these phenomena are joined by another (selective sharing): the stakeholders share ideas they agree with more intensely. Information bubbles reinforce existing beliefs and predispositions; d) the phenomenon is increased in contexts of proximity, be it geographical proximity provided by regional media or thematic and ideological proximity shared in online groups. Despite this, there is a difference between contexts of proximity in traditional communities and mechanisms of propaganda that have a significant level of organization and ideological polarization.Este texto aborda o fenômeno das chamadas fake news no novo ecossistema midiático, nomeadamente em contextos de aumento da influência do discurso e das ações populistas, como Brasil, Reino Unido, EUA, Itália entre outros, através de algumas características, já implícitas na teoria dos efeitos limitados: a) as fake news implicam, de um modo especial, a participação dos seus receptores na sua divulgação e dispersão; b) os produtores/consumidores (prosumers) estão envolvidos em contextos de proximidade que facilitam a exposição, percepção, memorização seletivas; c) a estes fenômenos acrescenta-se outro (partilha seletiva): os stakeholders compartilham com mais intensidade as ideias com que estão de acordo. As bolhas de informação reforçam crenças e predisposições já existentes; d) o fenômeno agrava-se em contextos de proximidade, seja esta a proximidade geográfica e temática proporcionada nos media regionais, seja a proximidade temática e ideológica partilhadas nos grupos online. Apesar disso, há uma diferença liminar entre os contextos de proximidade em comunidades tradicionais e os mecanismos de propaganda com forte índice de organização e mobilização ideológica.Este texto aborda el fenómeno de las llamadas fake news en el nuevo ecosistema mediático, a saber, en contextos de creciente influencia del discurso y la acción populistas como Brasil, EE.UU., U.K., Italia, entre otros, mediante algunas características implícitas en la teoria de los efectos limitados: a) las fake news implican, de modo especial, la participación de sus receptores en su divulgación y dispersión; b) los productores / consumidores (prosumers) participan en contextos de proximidad que facilitan la exposición, la percepción y la memorización selectiva; c) a estos fenómenos se añade otro (compartición selectiva): los stakeholders, quienes comparten con más intensidad las ideas con que están de acuerdo. Las burbujas de información refuerzan creencias y predisposiciones ya existentes; d) el fenómeno se agrava en contextos de proximidad, es decir, la proximidad geográfica y temática proporcionada en los medios regionales, sea la proximidad temática y ideológica compartida en los grupos online. Apesar de ello, hay una diferencia entre los contextos de proximidad en comunidades tradicionales y los mecanismos de propaganda con fuerte índice de organización y movilización ideológica.
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"The Myth and Reality of Italian Regionalism: A Historical Geography of Napoleonic Italy, 1801–1814." American Historical Review, June 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.3.688.
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Menegus, Giacomo. "The Italian regionalism in the context of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan." Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas, July 14, 2022, 38–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24965/gapp.11049.
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This article aims to analyse the impact of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) on Italian regionalism. After summarising the characteristic features of the Italian multi-level government model, the text analyses three significant issues of the NRRP: drafting, governance, and implementation. For each of these issues, an attempt will be made to define the role played by the regions and local authorities and their relationship with the central government, to identify elements of continuity and disruption concerning the trends present in the system of territorial autonomies prior to the adoption of the Plan. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the NRRP has given the system a shift towards centralism. If the reforms and investments envisaged in the Plan are successful, however, this could herald the opening of a new season for territorial autonomies in Italy.