123 research outputs found
The JCMS Annual Lecture: National Welfare States and European Integration: In Search of a 'Virtuous Nesting'
No full textIn recent years the EU has been witnessing a growing tension between the logic of 'closure', which underpins national welfare systems, and the logic of 'opening', which guides the integration process, especially in the economic sphere. Are there ways of mitigating such tension, in order to avoid negative consequences in terms of performance and legitimacy? The article outlines a strategy of institutional reconciliation between the two logics, based on a more explicit and effective 'nesting' of the nation-based welfare state within the overall spatial architecture of the Union. While recognizing the important role played by free movement and competition rules, this nesting strategy entails the strengthening of an EU 'social space', capable of safeguarding the closure preconditions for multi-level social sharing arrangements. Copyright (c) 2009 The Author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Author meets critics : boundaries of Welfare : European integration and the new spatial politics of social protection
No full textThe European Welfare State : Golden Achievements, Silver Prospects
No full textFor the welfare state the last 30 years have witnessed a turbulent transition from the 'Golden Age' of expansion to a 'Silver Age' of permanent austerity. This shift has been the result of external pressures and of internal transformations of domestic economies and social structures. Permanent austerity has entailed incisive institutional adaptations and has been accompanied by a 'new politics', centred on a plurality of 'blame avoidance' strategies on the side of parties and governments. The article summarises and discusses the main factual developments since the mid-1970s but it also surveys the main strands of academic debates on both the expansion and the crisis phases. The author argues that comparative welfare state research has been one of the liveliest fields of political economy - a field marked by important analytical and theoretical advances and by the accumulation of relevant and systematic empirical knowledge about a key institution of the European political landscape
Teoria empirica della politica e diritti sociali
No full textThe article starts with a general discussion of how political science treats the question of «rights». In line with classical democratic theory (from max Weber and Schumpeter to Sartori and Dahl), the author argues that rights must be seen as «guaranteed powers». Special attention is paid to the approach of the Pavia School (Leoni, Albertini and in particular Mario Stoppino), which emphasizes the key role of rights in stabilizing and generalizing compliance within bounded fields of interaction. The main part of the article is devoted to a discussion of social entitlements qua a sub-type of rights. The guaranteed provision of transfers and services is crucial for equalizing opportunities and stabilizing life chances. In contemporary democracies, however, entitlements have become a key currency of electoral exchanges, often originating perverse effects in terms of fiscal sustainability and distributive fairness
La composizione di “Camma” nel carteggio tra Adelaide Ristori, Giuseppe Montanelli e Lauretta Cipriani Parra
No full textAmong Adelaide Ristori’s great successes, Camma, premiered in Paris on April 23rd, 1857, was written for her by Giuseppe Montanelli. From the perspective of a dramaturgical investigation into how a Grande Attrice chose and construct her repertoire, the correspondence between Montanelli and Ristori is an important case study: the author sends the various acts of the tragedy, as they were completed, to the actress, who gradually comments on their value and offers suggestions for their better stage success, well aware of the strategies to best enhance her own abilities and the expectations of the audience. Ristori’s answers, always lucid, focused and decisive, allow us to recognize to what extent a Grande Attrice would intervene on a text, tailor-made for her, considering her strengths and abilities. Thus, this essay is about the compositional strategies of the textual score and is based on an in-depth reading of the correspondence, investigated especially with regard to the actress’s interventions, whose actual realisation and success are then compared with the final script and the review of the tragedy’s outcome with audiences and critics
A PLANAR SUPPORT HAVING AN ULTRAFLAT SURFACE AND A DEVICE FOR DETECTING ANTIGENS COMPRISING SAID PLANAR SUPPORT
No full textA nanoarray or microarray of antibodies comprising a planar surface having an ultraflat surface is described, which is characterized in that it comprises a planar substrate functionalized with a first monolayer of linking molecules, preferably APTES molecules, and a second monolayer of small peptides of the general formula (I) capable of binding the Fc region of antibodies. The nanoarray or microarray of the invention comprises a plurality of capture antibodies immobilized on the planar support, preferably in the form of a matrix of spots, and is suitable to be used for detecting antigens in a biological sample by AFM imaging. Z-HN-R1-R2-R3-R4-R5-R6-NH-X-CO-G-C
A planar support having an ultraflat surface and a device for detecting antigens comprising said planar support
No full textA Distributed Event-Orchestrated Digital Twin Architecture for Optimizing Energy-Intensive Industries
No full textThis paper presents a novel distributed architecture designed to spawn digital twin solutions to improve energy efficiency in energy-intensive industrial scenarios. By executing user-defined workflows, our platform enables the implementation of real-time monitoring, forecasting, and simulation microservices to enhance decision-making strategies for optimizing industrial processes. Leveraging a stateless centralized orchestration mechanism built around an Apache Kafka-based backbone, the platform ensures scalability, fault tolerance, and efficient handling of heterogeneous data. Key features include intuitive workflow configuration, asynchronous communication for streamlined workflow execution, and API-driven scheduling for dynamic, event-based task management. This platform will be deployed and validated in several energy-intensive industrial scenarios, supporting the management of energy systems of different plants, to prove its effectiveness across a wide range of energy management challenges
ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS OF BREAKTHROUGH PAIN IN PATIENTS RECEVEING SPINAL ANALGESICS FOR CANCER PAIN.
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