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    Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia : Legitimising Governance (2023)
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    ISBN: 9789811953347
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (268 p.)
    Series Statement: Asia in Transition
    Keywords: Political science & theory ; Media studies ; Society & social sciences ; Politics & government ; Malaysia Politics and government 21st century ; Malaysia Social conditions 21st century ; Malaysia Economic conditions 21st century
    Abstract: This open access book examines Malaysian politics using a linguistic perspective. It explores how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia. Grounded in discourse studies, this edited volume presents research on the discourses produced by and on Barisan Nasional, Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional from 2008 to 2020, studying how political actors (de)legitimise their governance through discursive means. The thirteen original chapters select spoken, print and digital texts in English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil, and deploy varied theoretical and methodological approaches. Their linguistic analysis unearths the language features and strategies that facilitate (de)legitimation. It shows how political actors shape the discursive representation and evaluation of multiple concerns in Malaysia. Consequently, Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance improves our understanding of contemporary Malaysian political discourse. It is of interest to graduates and researchers in the field of discourse studies, seeking to understand the discursive contours of politics in this developing Asian country. ; This open access book examines Malaysian politics using a linguistic perspective. It explores how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia. Grounded in discourse studies, this edited volume presents research on the discourses produced by and on Barisan Nasional, Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional from 2008 to 2020, studying how political actors (de)legitimise their governance through discursive means. The thirteen original chapters select spoken, print and digital texts in English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil, and deploy varied theoretical and methodological approaches. Their linguistic analysis unearths the language features and strategies that facilitate (de)legitimation. It shows how political actors shape the discursive representation and evaluation of multiple concerns in Malaysia. Consequently, Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance improves our understanding of contemporary Malaysian political discourse. It is of interest to graduates and researchers in the field of discourse studies, seeking to understand the discursive contours of politics in this developing Asian country
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    Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity : Breaking Down the 5Ps-People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnerships (2023)
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    ISBN: 9789811948596
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (187 p.)
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Series
    Keywords: Development studies ; Political science & theory ; Asian history ; Central government policies
    Abstract: This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships or "the 5Ps". Each of these lectures is classified into one of the keywords for SDGs and based on the history of social thought, human development, law, education, sociology, and peace studies. Further, each lecture delineates the essence of each discipline when it is practically applied to development studies. This book, Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity, along with its sister volume related to the planet and prosperity, Society, will be useful in studying development. Interdisciplinary research is necessary to achieve the SDGs advocated by the United Nations. Hence, it is essential to learn the basics of individual disciplines, as they each offer ample knowledge fostering problem solving through the accumulation of existing research. This and its sister volume are the first comprehensive textbooks summarizing the essence of each necessary discipline to approach development studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. In developing countries, this book will provide access to development research for readers aiming to further develop their own nations. Moreover, in developed countries, the book will provide access to problem-solving research for readers seeking holistic solutions to complex social problems
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    Modern Japan’s Place in World History : From Meiji to Reiwa (2023)
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    ISBN: 9789811995934 , 9789811995927
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (211 p.)
    Keywords: Asian history ; General & world history ; International relations ; Political science & theory
    Abstract: This Open Access book includes chapters on the key turning points in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration to Japan-China diplomatic normalization in the 1970s and beyond. The topics covered include the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the First and Second World Wars, the Manchurian Crisis, the US Occupation, postwar Japan-China relations, and postwar decolonization. Readers will learn how new research by Japanese historians has led to the revision of conventional views on the turbulent history of Japan, once the enemy of the United States in the war in the Asia-Pacific and now the US’s closest ally in the region. Historical research on the modern history of Japan has been constantly updated. From the Meiji Restoration to the present day, Japan has experienced the effects of modernization and globalization. Recent historical inquiries in Japan tend to focus on the merging of modern history with global history. During the past 150 years, Japan has never been separated from events in international affairs. Scholars and general readers will appreciate the new factual details and philosophical perspectives that this volume provides drawing on the work of fourteen authors who are recognized leaders in their fields. Yuichi Hosoya is Professor of International Politics at Keio University. Masayuki Yamauchi is Specially Appointed Professor at the Musashino University Institute for Global Affairs and Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo
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    Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting : Global Zero Tolerance Policy and Diverse Responses from African and Asian Local Communities (2023)
    Singapore : Springer Nature
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    ISBN: 9789811967238
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 p.)
    Keywords: Human rights ; Political science & theory ; Development studies ; Gender studies, gender groups ; Central government policies ; Politics & government
    Abstract: This open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the national, regional, and grass-roots levels in African and Asian countries where FGM/C has been practiced. It provides readers with up-to-date information about the effects of the campaign to eradicate FGM/C and the present situation of those countries, to which preceding books on FGM/C have scarcely referred. Adopting “zero tolerance” as a policy of eradication, WHO and other UN agencies have opposed any type of FGM/C, and many African countries have criminalized the practice. Although the campaign is based on the human rights discourse which is shared globally, the controversies concerning eradication of FGM/C on the national level and the responses of communities on the local level in those countries are diverse and complicated. Various actors such as NGOs, government officials, religious leaders, medical workers, and local inhabitants are embroiled and negotiate with each other concerning its eradication. With this book, readers are provided with an in-depth analysis of the complicated controversies and responses of local communities, referring to their particular historical and social backgrounds. The book provides two chapters on FGM/C in Asian countries, where not many studies have done yet. It also presents readers with a study of the arguments and responses to FGM/C of African immigrants by Australian health-care professionals as well as a study of male circumcision eradication campaigns, which have been carried on in tandem with FGM/C eradication campaigns but still not have been successful. With its many elaborate case studies, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the FGM/C studies as well as studies on the applicability of global justice to local communities
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    Political Reform Reconsidered : The Trajectory of a Transformed Japanese State (2023)
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    ISBN: 9789811994333
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 p.)
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Political leaders & leadership ; Political science & theory ; Elections & referenda ; Political structure & processes ; Asian history
    Abstract: This Open Access book provides a comprehensive analysis of political reforms in Japan since the 1990s, emphasizing the role of ideas in shaping their goals and outcomes. For more than fifteen years following the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble, politicians, business people and academics tackled a range of institutional reforms. The sweeping changes they enacted—covering almost all facets of the public sphere, including elections, public administration, courts and the central bank—fundamentally altered Japanese political processes and policies. Taken together, they arguably represent the final touches of Japan’s political modernization, which had been unfolding since the mid-19th century. Throughout the reform process, advocates were inspired by a combination of liberal and modernist ideas. This book examines those guiding concepts and illustrates the often messy process of applying them to real-world institutions. While most reforms began from common goals, they ultimately produced different—and frequently unexpected—institutional outcomes, which continue to shape Japanese politics. By focusing on the relationship between the ideas and processes that shaped Japan’s reforms, this book presents a broad vision of institutional change in comparative politics
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    Trajectories of Memory : Excavating the Past in Indonesia (2023)
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    ISBN: 9789819919956 , 9789819919949
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (316 p.)
    Keywords: Historiography ; Politics & government ; Cultural studies ; Political science & theory
    Abstract: This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular expression, as they are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces. The second part deals with memories of war and peace, examining transnational conflict and collaboration, the role of political elites and state projects dealing with the aftermath of military aggression, while also focusing on the impact and responses of civilians. The third part focuses on how state and civil societies frame historical figures, in ways that transcend the dichotomy of heroes and victims. The fourth part of the book looks at the way Indonesian museums and museology serve as sites where new kinds of memory work occur, in a post-1998 era. The book is designed with the aim of clearing a space for a plurality of memory works. Discussions in this volume extend from Loloda island in Eastern Indonesia, to Sabang island at the north westernmost end of the archipelago, and to the cosmopolitan centers. Temporally, it covers the colonial, the post-independence and contemporary eras. By juxtaposing diverse works, the book offers a new vista of multiple trajectories of memory being traced out in and about Indonesia. This is an open access book
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    Chapter (De)globalizzazione e (dis)informazione. Le sfide all'analisi della politica estera nella politica contemporanea (2022)
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    ISBN: 9788855185950
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (11 p.)
    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: The chapter aims to provide an overview of the main challenges of foreign policy analysis in contemporary politics. After introducing the ways in which foreign policy analysis is addressed in the internationalist political literature, with a focus on policy formulation and decision-making understood as public policy, the authors focus on some of the main challenges that foreign policy scholars are called upon to face. In particular, the themes of (de)globalization and (dis)information are deepened, pointing out the reinforcement of the state and the risks connected to an increasing cognitive confusion
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    Chapter The Appeasement Puzzle and Competition Neglect (2022)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (18 p.)
    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
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    Abstract: Recent studies indicate that British appeasement towards Hitler followed a buying-time logic, i.e., it tried to postpone confrontation until Great Britain improved its military position through rearmament. However, this chapter shows that Germany actually extended its military edge over the appeasement years. Drawing on the literature on judgment and decision-making, the chapter theorizes that competition neglect - the tendency to focus myopically on one's own capabilities and pay insufficient attention to those of the competition - may explain the puzzling gap between British policymakers' plans and actual trends in the balance of power. The competition neglect thesis and an alternative explanation, positing the occurrence of miscalculation, are tested with a case study of British foreign policy towards Germany in 1937-38
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    Eirene e Atena : Studi di politica internazionale in onore di Umberto Gori (2022)
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    ISBN: 9788855185950 , 9788855185943 , 9788855185967
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
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    Abstract: Umberto Gori is an eminent representative of the first wave of international studies in Italy. Throughout the past decades he has constantly been engaged in a number of research projects - ranging from international organization to the theory of international relations, from strategic studies to forecasting - and has taught not only at the University of Florence but also at many other Italian and foreign institutions. The present collection of essays is meant to celebrate his outstanding career. The contributors are students of his who, in turn, have followed his path in teaching and research, and who acknowledge an intellectual debt to him. The volume is arranged according to three general themes that are consistent with Gori's interests: the competitive and cooperative dimensions of the international system; foreign policy and regional governance; the contemporary international order
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    Chapter Resilient or Obsolete? Reflections on the Liberal World Order and its Crisis (2022)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (14 p.)
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    Abstract: From its beginnings, in the aftermath of the first post-war period, the liberal order has significantly changed the texture, actors and tones of international politics, aiming to create institutions and rules that harnessed the forces that for centuries led political communities to wage war. Never fully realized, the liberal order has produced the most significant network of connections between societies, going so far as to make war unlikely in the areas where it has established itself most profoundly. An ambitious model which, refusing to separate the peaceful space of liberal democracy from the international one of Westphalian states, it promised widespread well-being, security and prospects for progress for individuals and groups. Today, however, many of its promises have been broken, illiberal actors have taken on ever-increasing economic and political weight, and the liberal world has become fragmented and weakened. Moreover, the crisis of liberal democracy within states and the phenomena of "autocratization", as well as the difficulty of liberal societies in giving effective responses to the challenges posed by a rapidly evolving technological world, represent challenges that make the liberal order's resilience uncertain. This chapter aims to analyze the main features of the crisis of the liberal order to evaluate its possible evolution
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    Chapter L'equilibrio di potenza nella storiografia fiorentina (2022)
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    Abstract: Although Francesco Guicciardini is usually credited with the idea of balance of power, other Florentine historians prior to him had had similar insights. The essay presents the evolution of the notion of balance of power in Florentine historiography from the 14th-century chronicles of Giovanni and Matteo Villani to Guicciardini himself. Florentine historians put forward two basic meanings of balance of power, first as aggregation of forces against the most powerful state, second as an arrangement of the international system as a whole. The former is based on the elementary idea that those who fear the strongest state create alliances with those who share similar concerns, and it amounts to an ad hoc security tool; the latter entails the awareness of the existence of a system of states, which gradually came up from the beginning of the 15th century onwards
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    Chapter Nabladot Analysis of Hybrid Theories in International Relations (2022)
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    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
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    Abstract: Scientific research in International Relations has produced a growing corpus of empirically grounded formal theoretical models of phenomena ranging from deterrence to systemic polarity, from conditions of peace to the onset of war. Many of these important theories contain a mix of continuous and discrete dimensions, causal variables, and parameters. Analysis and understanding of this fundamental and intriguing class of theories containing functions with a mix of continuous and discrete variables has puzzled generations of social scientists and applied mathematicians. This challenging and longstanding puzzle now has a solution. Here we demonstrate how the recently created calculus with nabladot operators is beginning to uncover previously unknown properties of hybrid international phenomena. Results include new concepts and precise principles on causal relationships, previously unknown political features, and fundamental properties of probabilistic causality, demonstrated through nabladot analysis of international events, crisis dynamics, and warfare
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    Chapter Competizione e complessità nel sistema internazionale tra equilibri e caos (2022)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 p.)
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    Abstract: The study of complexity in world politics began painstakingly in the 1980s on the initiative of authors such as James Rosenau, and looks at different types of complexity such as non-linear interactions, the interaction between actors at different levels (turbulence), the emergence of structures. The chapter intends to analyze the contribution the study of competition processes can provide by means of the theory of dynamical systems. For this purpose, nonlinear equations derived from Richardson's and equations formulated in the framework of population theories concerning crime or terrorism are considered. Finally, the need to move on to the theory of self-organization and emergent structures is indicated
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    Chapter Il coordinamento internazionale in risposta alla pandemia Covid-19 (2022)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (11 p.)
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    Abstract: Collaboration is an intense cooperation aimed at realizing common objectives; coordination wants to avoid adverse interests. There is anarchy when governments make unilateral decisions. In conflicts actors have incompatible scopes. The World Health Organization implemented some standards to help governments to manage the sanitary emergence. The communication network of health technicians has informally pushed governments to apply those standards. Eastern Asian states were faster in their reactions than Western countries. Coordination worked with the diffusion of informal norms and not of codified and binding regimes of international law. Sweden did not fully apply those standards, but without deep objections and with ad hoc exceptions. Taiwan's standards were even more efficient than WHO
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    Chapter Order is what states make of it. Interregnum, world-scale problems, and multilateralism (2022)
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    Abstract: The present chapter assumes that using multilateralism to address world-scale problems has an impact on the future of world politics and may be the game-changer of the world political order. In the first section, attention is drawn to the establishment of the present world order, the multilateral institutions and policies that have been the cornerstone of such order, and the current order transition process. Based on the research knowledge about the ongoing world climate policymaking process, the second section explains the persistent role of multilateral policymaking as the way of responding to the problems that are widespread over the entire planet and are inherent to the structure of the world polity of the sovereign states
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    Chapter Nemesi tecnologica, pace distopica: l'espropriazione della pace (2022)
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    Abstract: Umberto Gori has often focused on the subject of peace, seen as the primary objective of Political Science, analysing the challenges that peacebuilding processes have to face in an international context undergoing profound change, and with aspects that could be described as dystopic. We will explore these dynamics by drawing inspiration from the way in which Ivan Illich dealt with the theme of the forced medicalisation of society, a theme that presents many points of contact with the intention of imposing a distorted version of the concept of peace, where a model of peaceful coexistence is proposed, which does not arise from the development of stable harmonious relations between mutually free and independent subjects, but from an absence of conflict produced by dehumanising forms of social conditioning
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    Chapter La guerra pensata: narrazioni, teoria, prassi (2022)
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    Abstract: The study of war and strategy has been at the core of the theory of international relations since the birth of the academic discipline. Strategy is a key factor in any conflict, first of all in violent conflicts. Military strategy is the bridge between politics and war. Strategic studies have mainly focused on military doctrines and the means to wage war for too long a time. Limited attention was paid to the cultural dimension of violent confrontations. Then, in the second half of the XX century the Western attention to the technological dimension of war became almost obsessive. However, if war is the continuation of politics by other means we must be aware that the human factor is of utmost importance among those "means". The willingness of soldiers to sacrifice their life on the battlefield is the precondition to wage war. At the same time, it is also the basis of any political obligation. Hence, death is the continuation of politics by other means. Various "narratives" of war have been created in history in order to justify the individual commitment to fight and eventually die in war to attain political aims. Starting in the classical age the Western world has been developing two related narratives of war: the republican model and the decisive battle one. According to the first one the good citizen was a good soldier too, and vice-versa, while the second required the concentration of violence in space and time to break the enemy's will to fight in the shortest possible time. The two concepts gave both moral and military sense to the violent, insensate, and chaotic environment of the battle. After the end of the cold war in most Western countries such a way of thinking on the relationship between war and politics has been undermined by several factors, first of all the unwillingness to sacrifice one's life in war. The readiness to die in order to attain a political aim has almost vanished. On the contrary, the concept of the "decisive battle" has survived thanks to technological evolution. As a consequence, on the one hand, old figures of warriors reappeared on the battlefield: soldiers of fortune, God's fighters, pirates, and criminals. On the other, the unwillingness to die coupled to the strategic archetype of the decisive battle is bringing more and more machines and AI into war, making it both post-heroic and post-human
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    Chapter Umberto Gori: un profilo biobibliografico (2022)
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    Abstract: Academic biographical profile and scientific publications of Umberto Gori
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    Chapter Il Mediterraneo, tra unità, frammentazione e oblio (2022)
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    Abstract: In academic and/or cultural debate, the word «Mediterranean» elicits mixed reactions and is revealing of normative considerations and the role of politics. This chapter explores two different perspectives that emerge from the extensive literature on this subject, and suggests a third, inspired by the contemporary trend of the debate (or rather, its absence). First, the chapter examines conceptions of the Mediterranean as a unitary entity or political actor in and of itself. The Mediterranean as a «cradle of civilization», originally described by Braudel, has been taken up more recently by Horden and Purcell, who emphasized the central role of connectivity between local communities, and by the Italian school of geo-philosophy headed by Bassano, for whom the Mediterranean is a specific value system to be respected. A second perspective emphasizes instead the Mediterranean as an area of conflict, characterized by deep fault lines. Huntington's position, captured by the expression «clash of civilizations», has been taken up and reworked by the post-colonial perspective, which sees the Mediterranean as an area characterized by permanent tensions. The chapter suggests a third option, however, noting that the word «Mediterranean» is disappearing from political vocabularies
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    Chapter Introduzione. Umberto Gori e le Relazioni Internazionali in Italia (2022)
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    Abstract: Umberto Gori has held the first chair of International Relations in Italy and has been the first scholar to address a series of central topics in the analysis of foreign policy and international politics. Those who browse, even if only rapidly, his rich bibliography cannot but be struck by the great variety of the topics examined: from the first works of a predominantly legal nature, we move on to studies centered on methodological and epistemological issues, relations between states, analysis of foreign policy in general and Italian foreign policy in particular, Peace Research, strategic affairs, intelligence, and finally the impact of the information and digital revolution on international politics and contemporary strategy. What holds together so many different issues is, firstly, a constant attention to methodology and, secondly, a clear preference for a predominantly operational approach, in the belief that knowledge must always be functional to decision and action. These basic attitudes are reflected not only in his strongly characterized research agenda, but also in the twofold nature of his teaching commitment: on the one hand, Gori taught outside the university classrooms, at military and governmental institutions, for decades; on the other hand, he introduced issues traditionally reserved to diplomacy and security institutions into the Italian academic context. Such a propensity to build bridges between different worlds - academic, military, technological, diplomatic, financial - and a research vocation that has never failed make Umberto Gori a figure indissolubly linked to the birth and development of International Relations in Italy
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    Per filo e per segno : L'arte della lana a Firenze nel Cinquecento (2020)
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    ISBN: 9788864539836 , 9788855186834 , 9788864539829
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    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: The wool manufacture, along with the International trade and finance, was one of Florence's leading sectors in the Late Middle Ages. The sixteenth century has been only touched by the historical-economical studies, perhaps because it was traditionally considered a period of decadence. More recent research has instead highlighted the need to rethink these conclusions, demonstrating how the textile sector represents a good point of observation for deepening the critical points and evaluating the prospects of the economy of the city of the Lily in the 16th century. Alongside the analysis of a case study and the critical re-elaborations of what literature offers on more general topics, the book presents a long-term view of the process of the rise and decline of the Arte della Lana in Florence, reinterpreting it in the light of new archival investigations
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    Nazioni come individui : Il carattere nazionale fra passato e presente (2020)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788855181600 , 9788855181594 , 9788855181617 , 9788855181624
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (158 p.)
    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Cultural studies ; Political science & theory
    Abstract: The theory of national characters sees an individual in every nation. Each individual has a body, a face, a character. The same goes for nations: every nation has a body (the land), a face (the fisionomy), a character. Kind or bad, active or passive, idle or diligent, feminine or masculine, every nation expresses a principle. A single principle, different from that of every other nation. What makes a nation possess a certain character? Authors are divided on this matter: according some it is the climate (both for the influence it exerts and for the reaction it provokes), according someone else it is history, and we find among the possible causes language, race, territory, religion, institutions, customs or a set of all (or part of) these elements. The volume examines this theme in Hippocrates, Aristotle, Bodin, Dubos, Kant, Leopardi, Cuoco, Michelet
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    La costituente libertaria di Camillo Berneri : Un disegno politico tra federalismo e anarchismo (2019)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864539911 , 9788864539904 , 9788892730137
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 p.)
    Series Statement: Premio Tesi di Dottorato
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Political science & theory ; Political structure & processes
    Abstract: This work aims at identifying the historical, cultural, political and strategic reasons that in 1935 led the anarchist Camillo Berneri to write the Constitution of the Italian Federation of Socialist Municipalities (based on the Italian acronym, FICS), an original constitution project with no predecessors within the anarchist movement which, unsurprisingly, remained unpublished for a long time. The research aims at explaining its existence within the Berneri's intellectual path, interpreting it as the result of a long elaboration of his ideas and operational proposals on libertarian federalism. This maturation is characterized by the presence of different influences, with those shared with Gaetano Salvemini's concrete and problematic approach being the decisive ones
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    Mutamenti delle democrazie europee contemporanee : I casi della Francia e dell'Italia (2019)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864538839 , 9788864538822 , 9788864538846 , 9788892730557
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (54 p.)
    Series Statement: Lectio Magistralis
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: This volume, on the basis of France and Italy's cases, analyses the changes in party systems and, more generally, in our democracies. The author underlines how it is possible to glimpse the personalization and mediatisation of politics in the appearance of personal and personalised parties; he also studies the rise of populists imposing their themes, language and way of doing politics. The populist style spreads within society and the public space so intensively that the people fighting the populists at the lowest level, in the end, resume their opponents' style. As Ilvo Diamanti wrote: there is now a people-ocracyor a dynamic which is currently destabilising our democracies
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    Beyond Nuclear Ambiguity : The Iranian Nuclear Crisis and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (2019)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864538655 , 9788864538648 , 9788864538662 , 9788892730595
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
    Series Statement: Premio Cesare Alfieri «Cum Laude»
    Keywords: History: earliest times to present day ; Political science & theory
    Abstract: The objective of the thesis was to illustrate the trajectory of Iranian nuclear crisis from the origins of the nuclear program to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly referred as the nuclear deal. The guiding thread was the concept of "nuclear ambiguity", which was addressed in the following terms: the civilian-military application of the atom constituted the primary source and was further exacerbated by several loopholes in the non-proliferation regime; Teheran exploited both sources and developed a large program with possible military dimensions. The JCPOA attempted to break this trend by limiting Iran's program only to peaceful goals and by creating an unprecedented inspection mechanism. In other words, it attempted to go beyond the previous history of ambiguity
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    Partecipazione creativa dei lavoratori nella 'fabbrica intelligente' : Atti del Seminario di Roma, 13 ottobre 2017 (2018)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864537160 , 9788864537146 , 9788864537184 , 9788892731073
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (118 p.)
    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
    Keywords: Social & political philosophy ; Sociology ; Occupational & industrial psychology ; Political science & theory ; Economics ; Employment & labour law
    Abstract: How will work be configured in the future? What new entities and values will emerge following the transformations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? How decisive will worker participation be for the success of organizations? This book offers concrete experiences of 'creative' participation of workers and managers in companies committed to developing an intelligent organization. The first part of the book offers the contribution of workers, employees or managers who may also have negotiating roles in union bargaining, but who are above all committed to making everything work, offering opportunities that are able to regenerate processes and enhance workers. The second part contains reflections and proposals on how participation experiences can urge the academic world, trade unions, politics and the legislative system to deepen and take into account the new needs of work, in order to build a virtuous circle that supports companies and workers, management and participation in the complex challenges posed by innovation and the competitive world of production
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    Le identità nazionali nell'Unione Europea (2018)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864537092 , 9788864537085 , 9788864537108 , 9788892731301
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (44 p.)
    Series Statement: Lectio Magistralis
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Social & political philosophy ; Political science & theory ; Political structure & processes ; Laws of Specific jurisdictions ; Constitutional & administrative law
    Abstract: This Reading aims at recreating the evolution of the seventy-year-long history of integration, of the complex and changing balance between the reasons behind the safeguarding of national identities and interests and those behind the "research" and "creation of common interests"
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    Il '68 dei professori: l'Associazione nazionale docenti universitari, Giorgio Spini e la riforma dell'Università : Atti del Convegno L'archivio dell'ANDU (1968-1971) tenuto a Firenze il 23 settembre 2016 (2018)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864537337 , 9788864537320 , 9788892730960
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (130 p.)
    Series Statement: Proceedings e report
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Social & political philosophy ; Cultural studies ; Political science & theory ; Political structure & processes
    Abstract: The archive of the Italian National Association of University Teachers sheds light on the little-known contribution a vanguard of university teachers gave to the reform process of Italian Universities, which started in 1968 after the failure of the Italian bill n. 2314. ANDU immediately identified itself in Giorgio Spini's leadership: he was Professor of history at the Faculty of Education of the University of Florence, and he brought together union leadership and constant political and cultural work, which could show the problem with universities was a long-term matter. The student movement has been one of ANDU's main dialogue partners from the beginning, and the association has always supported their initiatives, condemning the police repression and the closing of the academic authorities. In this context, the right to education becomes the primary goal of the university reform, not only for overcoming its classist nature, but also for significantly contributing to question the relations among classes and the balance of power in the Italian society
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    Dal Terzo al Primo Mondo : Singapore: un esperimento di successo (2018)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864537023 , 9788864537016 , 9788864537030 , 9788892731295
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (230 p.)
    Series Statement: Premio Cesare Alfieri «Cum Laude»
    Keywords: Political science & theory ; Political economy
    Abstract: This volume offers an analysis of one of the most interesting contemporary political regimes, the Singapore 'case'. This extremely small island is devoid of natural resources and surrounded by two infinitely larger countries with feelings of hostility towards it. It represents an economic and political experiment which has given birth to a substantially authoritarian, hybrid and yet 'happy' regime, and which has started a rapid development process on whose results its legitimacy is based. Today, Singapore emerges in the world economy as the successful global city to which country leaders around the world look with admiration. However, its extraordinary economic successes have been explicitly accompanied by rather invasive and illiberal policies, thus posing a serious challenge to liberal and democratic Western political systems which, at present, are struggling to provide actual solutions for the same fields of intervention
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    La costruzione dello Stato moderno (2018)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788855180023 , 9788855180009 , 9788855180030 , 9788892732001
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (124 p.)
    Series Statement: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Cultural studies ; Political science & theory
    Abstract: The second "Notebook of the Modern History Laboratory" takes up and develops some of the interventions presented in the Seminar on Themes and Problems of Modern History, which has been held for more than fifteen years at the SAGAS Department of the University of Florence. The contributions collected here discuss the construction of the modern state from different points of view, through the slow and complex evolution of central sovereignty over autonomy, the role of the courts, the development of diplomacy and its ceremonial and the history of the idea of freedom. Special attention is paid to the cases of the Electorate of Saxony and of the monarchy of France in the 16th century, the Consigli (recommendations) by Scipione Ammirato, the theme of democracy in the Encyclopédie and that of national plurality for the protection of minorities in the Habsburg Empire
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    Economics of Institutions and Law (2017)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864535807 , 9788864535791 , 9788892731424
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (90 p.)
    Series Statement: Manuali - Scienze Sociali
    Keywords: Political science & theory ; Finance
    Abstract: This book provides a set of lectures for an intermediate course in Public economics devoted to four topics, in many elements related each other. The first one is the Economics of institutions and political economy, as a general framework to analyze the public intervention in modern economies. The second one is the Economics of Law, which is at the basis of the working of the exchange economy. The third one is the Economics of public services enterprises ownership and the fourth one is the Economics of the organization of public administration in providing public services, with particular reference to the National health care systems and to the local public municipalities. As the standard textbooks in the field usually do not treat within unitary and comprehensive terms these issues, the book would provide an attempt in this direction
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    Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche : Un'analisi della complessità del fenomeno bellico spaziale (2016)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864534169 , 9788864534152 , 9788864534176 , 9788892732360
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
    Series Statement: Premio Cesare Alfieri «Cum Laude»
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche ("Automata, virtual reality and ants") proposes an analysis of the complexity of the war phenomenon through three different approaches: in the microphysics of the individual action, in simulated reality and in a metaphor with the biological environment. The investigation into the nature of the interactions between man and machine presents the attempt to dominate the Clausewitzian uncertainty of the battle through an automated, post-human system. This seems to be resolved in the Omega Point, which the theologian de Chardin had identified as a point of escape from entropy and from the disorder of reality. There is neither a scientific solution, nor a theological fate. Intelligence is shared through the semantics of the satellite, of the drone and through the information passing from machine to machine. While the warriors will act as a swarm, by sharing a huge amount of data, each one of them on the exocrine glands of the machine, St. Basil was right when he warned that whoever claims to speak on the nature of things (and therefore on war) should first of be able to speak of the nature of the ant
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    La teocrazia : Crisi e trasformazione di un modello politico nell'Europa del XVIII secolo (2016)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788864533476 , 9788864533469 , 9788892732537
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 p.)
    Series Statement: Premio Tesi di Dottorato
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Social & political philosophy ; Cultural studies ; Political science & theory ; Political economy
    Abstract: This study analyses the crisis and transformations of theocracy as a political model in Europe in the first half of the 18th century. The work focuses on the transition from a positive and normative seventeenth-century consideration of theocracy, associated with the Jewish people, to its description in the 18th century as a universal, negative and primitive model. To this end, three authors are examined in their role of emblematic figures of this change, namely: Jacques Basnage, John Toland and Giambattista Vico. The study then highlights a radicalisation phase in mid-eighteenth-century France in the works by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, and ends with the description of Boulanger's theocracy in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie
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    Tra regole ed eccezioni : La messa in opera delle politiche pubbliche in Italia (2016)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866559962 , 9788855189620 , 9788866559955 , 9788866559979
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (88 p.)
    Series Statement: Lectio Magistralis
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: In Italy, public policies have difficult processing, and even more difficult implementation. It is normal for a number of unexpected side effects to occur as a result of a public policy. Likewise, it is normal that a public policy determines an impact which is appreciated ex post, but cannot be identified with the original, designed one. So much so that many policies resemble a bet, rather than a project. In other words, they are always exposed to a universe of factors and circumstances which may destroy or change their theoretical assumptions, independently from any effective and measurable government capacity. This is the sign of a democratic regime's structural fragility and of the government capacity expressed by it: its difficulty in feeding its policies with sufficient legitimizing doses and tools in order for the policies to achieve the desired effectiveness. It is a classic theme for political science; in this volume, it is revisited in the light of the different types of empirically conceivable legitimization and of the contemporary state's ability to produce social regulation
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    In Quest of the Craft : Economic Modeling for the 21st Century (2015)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866558200 , 9788866558194 , 9788892733299
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (422 p.)
    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: INFORUM is a research project started more than forty five years ago by Clopper Almon. The focus is on the development of dynamic, interindustry, macroeconometric models to forecast the economy in the long run. Over the last 30 years, the Inforum approach to model building has been shared by economists in many different countries. Researchers have focused much of their efforts to developing a linked system of international interindustry models with a consistent methodology. A world-wide network of research associates use similar methods and a common software obtaining comparable results to produce studies of common interest to the group. Inforum partners have shared their research in an annual conference since 1993. The XXII Inforum World Conference was held in Alexandria, Virginia in September 2014 and this book contains a selection of papers presented during the sessions. All these contributions share an empirical and pragmatic orientation that is very useful for policymakers, business, and applied economists. Some papers are devoted to specific topics (productivity, energy, international trade, demographic changes) and some others are oriented to model building and simulations
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    L'età berlusconiana : Il centro-destra dai poli alla Casa della Libertà 1994-2001 (2015)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866559337 , 9788866559320 , 9788892733152
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (316 p.)
    Series Statement: Premio Tesi di Dottorato
    Keywords: History: earliest times to present day ; Political science & theory
    Abstract: This work reconstructs the main national events in the time span between Silvio Berlusconi's arrival on the political scene in 1994 and the start of his second government in 2001. The aim of the volume is to answer some of the main questions which have characterized the public debate in Italy over the past twenty years. Did the transition from the First to the Second Republic really take place? What role did the leader of the party "Forza Italia" play in this process? Does the new political system represent an anomaly compared to Italy's recent history? Answering these questions will make a clear reading of current political affairs easier
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    Cooperative Enterprises in Australia and Italy : Comparative analysis and theoretical insights (2015)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866558682 , 9788866558675 , 9788892733381
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    Series Statement: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: This book arises from a three-year comparative research program concerning co-operative enterprises in Australia and Italy. The book explores the historical development, legal framework and the peak organisations of co-operatives in the two countries. Specific comparative chapters focus on consumer, credit, and worker-producer co-operatives. The book deepens the analysis of co-operatives by containing chapters that examine specific theoretical and empirical issues such as the theory of co-operative firms as collective entrepreneurial action. Monographic chapters include more in depth analysis of specific typologies of co-operatives, such as social and community oriented co-operatives, some of which were created to contrast organized crime in Southern Italy. The book concludes with an assessment of the implications of the project for public policy
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    Rappresentare e governare : Da grande regola a tallone d'Achille del governo parlamentare (2015)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866557647 , 9788855189491 , 9788866557630 , 9788866557654
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (78 p.)
    Series Statement: Lectio Magistralis
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Social & political philosophy ; Cultural studies ; Political science & theory ; Political structure & processes ; Human geography
    Abstract: Political institutions must guarantee both representation and government. The peculiarity of parliamentarism lies in the fact that these two functions pass through the election of the Chamber of Parliament, to which the government is bound by a vote of confidence. This essay analyses the growing difficulties of parliamentary regimes in securing the aforementioned functions
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    Uno più uno può fare tre, se il partito lo vuole! : La Repubblica Democratica Tedesca tra Mosca e Bonn, 1971-1985 (2014)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866557104 , 9788866557098 , 9788892734029
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (380 p.)
    Series Statement: Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Social & political philosophy ; Cultural studies ; Sociology ; Political science & theory ; Political structure & processes ; Human geography
    Abstract: This work analyzes the evolution of the German Democratic Republic during 1971-1985, with particular attention to the economic sphere, relations with the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany, and the impact that changes in the international economic system have they had on these plans. The basic question concerns the actual degree of subordination of the GDR to the USSR: absolute for traditional historiography, which denies the possibility of an East German foreign policy, relative to the light of archival documents, which show a framework of bilateral relations constantly affected by tensions. In addition to analyzing the relationships in an unequal alliance between center and periphery, the study of the decision-making mechanisms internal to the GDR and the effectiveness of a system in which politics dictated the priority in terms of economic choices are at the center of this volume
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    Sindaci e professionismo politico : Uno studio di caso sui primi cittadini toscani (2014)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866557081 , 9788866557074 , 9788892734036
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)
    Series Statement: Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Political science & theory ; Political structure & processes
    Abstract: The fil rouge of the work concerns the transformations of political professionalism, investigated through a particular category of politicians: the mayors of three municipalities in the provincial capitals of Tuscany, elected between 1994 and 2009. The reconstruction of the debate on the phenomenon, the legislative requirements and the regional political geography are the theoretical pillars on which the dual purpose of the research is based: first, to analyse the profile of the mayors in a diachronic perspective, and second, to interpret the different levels of political professionalism. The first perspective allows to illustrate the generational differences between the mayors after the introduction of the law 83/931. The second perspective focuses on the characteristics of the actors - defined on the basis of four dimensions of a continuum - and on the professionalisation of politics
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    Gender and the European Union (2014)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866556381 , 9788866556336 , 9788892734463
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (78 p.)
    Series Statement: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: Gender discrimination continues to be a reality in several parts of the world, also in Europe. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of both European Union's (EU) gender policies and gender balance in EU institutions. It does so by looking at gender equality policies and the EU legal system concerning gender equality, women's representation within diff erent institutions (and more particularly in the European External Action Service), gender rights as a type of human rights and the EU's role in the external promotion of womens' rights in third countries. The analysis shows that women's representation in the EU institutions has increased in the last decades and that the EU has strengthened its att ention to gender rights in its external relations as well, however the results of both att empts are far from being fully satisfactory
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    La storia di un politico controvoglia : Frammenti (2014)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866555506 , 9788855189545 , 9788866555490 , 9788866555520
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (110 p.)
    Keywords: History: specific events & topics ; Sociology ; Political science & theory ; Political structure & processes ; Political economy
    Abstract: The Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" once called him "the most private politician in Tuscany," and perhaps never was there such a fitting definition. In the era of "political posturing", when the appearance was worth more than the essence, the understatement characterising Guido Sacconi's not-so-short activity is even more surprising. A serious person, yet not an aloof one. This becomes easily understandable when reading this ironic reconstruction of politics 'as seen from the inside', made up of people in the flesh, with many strengths and flaws, who are mercilessly and tastefully described in these pages. In these same pages, Sacconi also has some bones to pick, which he must have collected during his career. Therefore, in a psychoanalytic key, Guido shows the Puer inside of him to those who have always seen him as a senex
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    Macroeconomic modelling for policy analysis (2013)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866553960 , 9788866553953 , 9788892735002
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
    Keywords: Political science & theory ; Econometrics ; Applied mathematics
    Abstract: Over the last 30 years, the Inforum approach to macro modelling has been shared by economists worldwide. Researchers have focussed much of their efforts to developing a linked system of international interindustry models with a consistent methodology. A world-wide network of research associates use the same methods and software obtaining comparable results. The XXth Inforum World Conference was held in Florence in September 2012 and this book contains a selection of papers presented during that Conference. All these contributions are aimed at policymakers, stakeholders, and applied economists. Some papers are devoted to specific topics (total factor productivity, energy issues, external linkages, demographic changes) and some others are oriented to macro model building and simulations
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    Economic multisectoral modelling between past and future : A tribute to Maurizio Grassini and a selection of his writings (2013)
    Florence : Firenze University Press
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    ISBN: 9788866554097 , 9788866554080 , 9788892735026
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (268 p.)
    Series Statement: Studi e saggi
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: This book is a tribute to the work of Maurizio Grassini, econometrician and model builder. The selection of his works in the first part of the volume is mainly devoted to research issues of multisectoral modelling. In fact, M. Grassini has dedicated a large part of his professional life to building and developing the INTIMO model for the Italian economy within the INFORUM research project. The book does not aim to be a celebration of the past but takes a look at the future of the multisectoral modelling which M. Grassini has contributed so much to. In the second part of the book, colleagues and friends who have encountered M. Grassini in the professional sphere on matters of quantitative economic analysis or still working with him on interindustry models have given their contribution to look at the future prospects of a research field firmly based on the experience of what has been done so far
    Note: English
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