88 research outputs found
Incorrect factual beliefs and political polarization
No full textThis analysis explores the correlation between incorrect factual beliefs about politics and political participation and polarization. Drawing on data from the German social survey (ALLBUS), we perform a cross-sectional analysis at individual level for the 2008, when fake news was not widespread yet. Results show that having incorrect knowledge of the state of the world positively correlates with low political participation and with the intention to vote for right-wing parties. We argue that individuals are not mislead by fake news because they lack of correct factual knowledge, but the consumption of fake news may be rather conditional upon political polarization
Three essays on the economic perspectives of false information
No full textThis thesis covers the debate about the political outcomes of false information online. The dissertation is composed of three articles. The first article sets the theoretical basis for the empirical analysis and proposes a cross-disciplinary classification of studies in the field. I identify five main groups of studies: the first group collects studies examining the spreading patterns of false information online; the second investigates the cognitive mechanisms underlying individuals’ information processing, which may lead to biased beliefs; the third covers analyses testing the efficacy of debunking in adjusting incorrect beliefs; the fourth encompasses studies aiming to identify successful automatic detection algorithms for false information; the last includes studies exploring the political outcomes of false information. The second article investigates how false information relates to the performances of the main parties across Italian provinces in the context of the 2018 political elections. I draw on geotagged Twitter data to build a measure of exposure to misleading contents and then match this information with other province-level data. Results suggest that false information played a role in the Italian political debate. I find that the index is positively and significantly associated with the performance of the Five Star Movement and negatively associated with the performance of the Democratic Party when the analysis is restricted to political disinformation or a subsample of pro-disinformation tweets. The third article investigates the impact of false information online on the 2019 European election in Italy. The first part of the paper carries out a cross-sectional analysis exploring how the exposure to false information on Twitter relates to the electoral outcomes. Results show a positive relationship with the performances of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party. In the second part of the paper, a First Difference analysis is performed exploiting data collected in the occasion of the 2018 political election, which confirms the association found for the Five Star Movement but not for the Democratic Party. I conclude arguing that these results are suggestive of the presence of online polarization and consistent with this literature
Digitalizzazione – uno studio dei fattori propulsivi del diritto amministrativo danese
No full textL’A. affronta la problematica della digitalizzazione della pubblica amministrazione danese, esponendo i principi alla base dello sviluppo del diritto amministrativo danese: buona amministrazione, responsabilità e accountability; quindi, esamina le tendenze del diritto digitale dell’Unione Europea e le forme di protezione dei dati, della sicurezza informatica, dell’informazione e dell’A.I.The Author addresses the issue of the digitalisation of Danish public administration, exposing the principles underlying the development of Danish administrative law: good administration, responsibility and accountability. The author also examines trends in European Union digital law and types of data protection, cybersecurity, information, and artificial intelligence (A.I.)
Correction to: Inflammatory bowel disease position statement of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR): Crohn's disease (Techniques in Coloproctology, (2020), 24, 5, (421-448), 10.1007/s10151-020-02183-z)
No full textThe affiliation of the author Silvio Danese has been incorrectly published in the original publication
Correction to: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) position statement of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR): general principles of IBD management (Techniques in Coloproctology, (2020), 24, 5, (397-419), 10.1007/s10151-020-02175-z)
No full textThe affiliation of the author Silvio Danese has been incorrectly published in the original publication. The complete correct affiliation should read as follows. IBD Center, Department of Gastroenterology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS, via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano, Milan, Italy Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, via Rita Levi Montalcini 4, Pieve Emanuele, 20090 Milan, Italy
Correction to: The Future of Biosimilars : Maximizing Benefits Across Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (vol 80, pg 99, 2020)
No full textThe affiliation of the corresponding author Silvio Danese, which currently reads.</p
Vita, unità e ricerca dell'Illuminismo: Grundtvig e la costituzione danese
No full textFew persons are as intimately and often connected to Danish democratic and national development than the Lutheran minister, poet, debater, historian and politician Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872). He is typically celebrated for his radical ideas of freedom and thereby also connected to Danish constitutional development. In this article, the author analyses Grundtvig’s historical presentations and political publications and speeches in order to make a coherent picture of Grundtvig as a constitutional thinker focusing on his principal and historically founded views on constitution and the role of king, parliament and freedom in this regard. The author concludes that Grundtvig saw a legislative assembly as a threat to national unity and popular freedoms rather than a bulwark of it. Grundtvig’s own proposal for a parliament oddly enough divided the assembly in two in order to demonstrate that there was no conflict of interest within the people. His view on freedom distinguished between fundamental liberties and liberties, which had enlightenment at its goal – principally the freedom of the press. The latter could be limited to a certain group, since not all utterings were beneficial for enlightenment. The former, to which Grundtvig included freedom of religion and freedom of trade, should not be limited. Grundtvig’s claim to be part of Danish democratization has to some degree been based on his approach that already granted suffrage could not afterwards be pruned. This, however, was to Grundtvig a matter of national stability, and hin- drance of insurrection, not principal support of a broad suffrage.Poche persone sono così intimamente legate allo sviluppo democratico e nazionale danese quanto il ministro, poeta, polemista, storico e politico luterano Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872). Di solito è celebrato per le sue idee radicali di libertà e quindi anche collegato allo sviluppo costituzionale danese. In questo articolo, l’autore esamina le analisi storiche, le pubblicazioni e i discorsi politici di Grundtvig al fine di offrirne un quadro coerente come pensatore costituzionale concentrandosi sulle sue principali, e storicamente fondate, opinioni sulla costituzione e sul ruolo del re, parlamento e libertà.
L’autore conclude che Grundtvig vedeva l’assemblea legislativa come una minaccia all’unità nazionale e alle libertà del popolo piuttosto che un loro baluardo. La proposta di Grundtvig di un parlamento, stranamente, divideva l’assemblea in due per dimostrare che non esisteva alcun conflitto di interessi all’interno del popolo. La sua visione della libertà distingueva tra libertà fonda- mentali e libertà che avevano come obiettivo l’Illuminismo – principalmente la libertà di stampa. Quest’ultima poteva essere limitata a un gruppo determinato, poiché non tutte le espressioni erano benefiche per il fine dell’Illuminismo La prima, nella quale Grundtvig includeva la libertà di religione e la libertà di commercio, non avrebbe dovuto essere limitata. La pretesa di Grundtvig di far parte della democratizzazione danese si è basata in una certa misura sul suo approccio secondo cui il suffragio già concesso non poteva essere successivamente eliminato. Ciò, tuttavia, per Grundtvig era una questione di stabilità nazionale e di ostacolo all’insurrezione, non il principale sostegno per un più ampio suffragio
Bellezza, ardimento e coraggio. La figura del giovane eroe nella “Teseide” e nel “Peregrinaggio di Rinaldo” di Danese Cataneo
No full textThis paper aims to investigate the figure of the young hero in the epic poems Teseide and Peregrinaggio di Rinaldo. Their author, the sculptor and poet Danese Cataneo (1508-1572), is known for L’Amor di Marfisa (1562), a poem that influenced Tasso’s poetry, as has been highlighted in many studies. The poems are transmitted in lacunose condition in manuscript Chig. I.VI.238 of the Vatican Library. They do, however, offer an interesting stimulus for reflection about the phenomenon of young epic heroes, since they present original stylistic and narrative solutions in the construction of their heroes’ childhood. In this article, the theme of the young hero in these poems is examined by addressing the birth of Theseus and his epiphanic childhood; the analogy between the education of the young hero and the education of the perfect prince and the ideal courtier; the “Bildungsroman” of the young Ruggiero (Rinaldo’s nephew), and finally the important moral purposes of the works.Il contributo intende analizzare la figura del giovane eroe nella Teseide e nel Peregrinaggio di Rinaldo di Danese Cataneo (1508-1572), autore del più noto Amor di Marfisa (1562), poema spesso studiato in rapporto all’epica tassiana. I poemi, tràditi dal manoscritto Chig. I.VI.238 (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), nonostante lo stato frammentario in cui ci sono giunti, offrono interessanti spunti di riflessione sul tema della poiesis del giovane eroe. Lo scopo del presente contributo è quello di analizzare la declinazione del tema molto frequentato del giovane eroe in testi poco noti del panorama letterario italiano del secondo Cinquecento che si distinguono dagli esiti medi della produzione coeva per le innovative e originalissime soluzioni metriche, stilistiche e narrative
Correction to: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) position statement of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR): general principles of IBD management
No full text: The affiliation of the author Silvio Danese has been incorrectly published in the original publication. The complete correct affiliation should read as follows
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