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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