The Use of Culture in Modern Conflicts and Political Competitions An Insight from Ukraine and the Western Balkans The investigation conducted in this volume by Silvia Cittadini, Majlinda Bregasi, Thomas Christiansen, Claudia Annovi, and Sabina de Silva is part of the larger project The Clash of Narratives: The Representation of the Future in Popular Culture…
Il futuro della democrazia italiana Politica e società al tempo del governo Meloni L’obiettivo principale di questo dodicesimo volume della sedie Polidemos è quello di riflettere sui mutamenti intervenuti nella democrazia italiana sia per effetto delle nuove dinamiche internazionali (la fine dell’emergenza pandemica, lo scoppio della guerra in Ucraina, la ridefinizione delle linee strategiche del…
PNRR e Città Metropolitane La sfida dei Piani Urbani Integrati È passato quasi un decennio dall’entrata in vigore della Legge 56/2014 “Delrio”, che dopo molti tentativi andati a vuoto istituiva le Città Metropolitane: enti intermedi, di secondo livello, che ereditavano i confini e le strutture delle vecchie province, ma che avrebbero dovuto svolgere nuovi ruoli….
Il futuro capovolto Per una mappa degli immaginari distopici del XXI secolo Da quando sul finire dell’Ottocento iniziarono a definire il canone di un nuovo genere, i racconti distopici assunsero un ruolo critico nei confronti delle promesse del progresso e dei grandi progetti di trasformazione sociale. Il fascino che le distopie esercitano sul mondo del…
Populism and Far-Right Trends in Europe This book contains important contributions alongside original research that took place during vibrant debates that was held between February-May 2022 at the international research seminars hosted by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. The primary goal of the book and its authors is to offer a lens through which…
Democracy and Disintermediation A Dangerous Relationship What is disintermediation? In wider terms, it indicates the absence of a median entity between two subjects. As is known, it was a term born in the economic-financial sector, which then spread to different areas of social life. This variety of uses has made it ambiguous, an ambiguity that…
Towards a Bubble Democracy? Notes for a Theoretical Framework In the last few years, different hypotheses have been formulated to explain the success of populism, focused on socio-economic factors and on the ‘cultural’ components of the crisis of western liberalism. However, the discussion often turned to the unpredictable evolutions of “digital swarms”, to their indifference…
State of Emergency Italian democracy in times of pandemic It is probably still too early to take stock of the Covid-19 pandemic and establishwhether the solutions adopted by Italy have been more efficient than those adoptedelsewhere. Furthermore, it is still too early to formulate hypotheses on the ability ofdemocracies to respond to the pandemic, or…
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