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Il potere del popolo e la rappresentanza in Rawls e nel repubblicanesimo civico
No full textThis article addresses Rawls's complex account of political representation in his political liberalism. This account has been criticized by proponents of deliberative democracy for not reflecting adequately the dialogical and intersubjective processes of democratic will-formation that are essential to achieve the ends of a theory of justice in a pluralist society. The Author argues that this criticism is misguided because it misses Rawls's adoption of a republican, rather than a liberal conception of political representation. Additionally, the common assumption that Rawls's political liberalism suffers from a democratic deficit fails to give proper consideration to his account of the power of the people and its function in a well-ordered society. The Author ends that such an account of popular power in Rawls also draws primarily from the tradition of modern republi¬can thought, in particular from Kant's republicanism
Sull’amicizia politica
No full textSince 1990 many studies have focused, from different perspectives, on political meanings and functions of friendship. This essay analyses the origin and the evolutions of the debate concerning political friendship, going through history of philosophy, history of ideas, and history of political thought. It aims to cast a light on different forms of political friendship. For the most part, they arise from the Aristotelian theory of friendship. Derrida's work is crucial, but the author does not consider only Politiques de l'amitié. For the Aristotelian thesis on political friendship have been recovered in many contexts. For example, it seems that liberals cope with Aristotle's conception of political friendship more than communitarians: the Aristotelian notion of civic friendship is revised by liberal thinkers
Correnti e frazionismo nei partiti politici italiani (1946-2010) : un’analisi quantitativa delle mozioni congressuali
No full textLiterature on party factions has investigated the elements that affect factionalism, and particularly the elements that affect the number of factions. Scholars raised a set of hypotheses that have never been systematically tested. Building on those hypotheses the present work analyzes the determinants of the number of factions within Italian parties from 1946 to 2010. Thanks to a new dataset that allows the estimation of policy positions of factions through a quantitative text analysis of motions presented during party congresses, this paper investigates the effects of intra-party polarization as well as the impact of internal rules and the characteristics of party system. The results show that proportional intra-party rules, availability of resources and internal polarization increase the degree of factionalism. Moreover open-list electoral systems contribute to increase the number of factions but only among parliamentary parties
B. Baldi, ll cardinale tedesco: Enea Silvio Piccolomini fra impero, papato, Europa (1442-1455), Milano, Unicopli, 2012
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Political Friendship in Medicean Florence : Palmieri's Vita civile and Platina's De optimo cive
No full textIn this article, I examine friendship as a subject of political theory rather than as a social practice relevant to political life. As suggested by Francesco d'Altobianco Alberti in the poem recited at the first certame coronario, two ideas of political friendship existed side by side in Medicean Florence. They appeared in full in Palmieri's Vita civile and in Platina's De optimo cive. As I will show, the Ciceronian language of friendship is used in these works to resolve two key problems of Renaissance political thought: the need for political unity and the just way of appointing the governing elite. Palmieri placed friendship in the political sphere of concord: he was a republican imperialist who believed that civic friendship protected the political unity of the city, without which Florence would not have been able to expand. Platina, on the other hand, situated friendship in the political sphere of counsel: his concern was to support the selection of the most virtuous and knowledgeable citizens, worthy of access to public office. While Palmieri looked back to the city's medieval past, Platina cast light on the politics of friendship that allowed the Medici to stay in power
Ai margini della scena politica. Hobbes e la questione dell’amicizia
No full textHobbes’s remarks on the question of friendship have given rise to a few discordant interpretations. This essay will show that Hobbes places friendship on the margins of the political scene by making three relevant theoretical moves. According to Hobbes’s first move, friendship is possible only in the State as it is no longer understood in an Aristotelian way as the foundation of the political community. Hobbes’s second move makes clear that friendship is not a constitutive element of the State because it is no longer conceived as the model of the social bonds among citizens. Hobbes’s final move highlights that friendship can constitute a dangerous and not eradicable source of corruption for the State. As the conclusions will make clear, to better understand Hobbes’s complex conception of friendship it is therefore not enough to dwell on his analysis of human nature, but it is also necessary to cope with his conception of the State
Amico/nemico/adulatore: uno sguardo diverso al Principe di Machiavelli
No full textNon c'è dubbio che il Principe di Machiavelli sia un'opera che appartiene alla multiforme ed eterogenea corrente del realismo politico. Il realismo politico del Principe emergerà sub specie amicizia, attraverso il confronto con il De principe di Platina ed altri specula principum del XV secolo, da cui Machiavelli prese consapevolmente e volontariamente le distanze, anziché attraverso il più comune confronto con le teorie della ragion di Stato
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