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New and Old (Global) Cleavages, Crises and Wars
No full textThe effects of global crises on the electoral behaviour of Italian voters in 2022 are the topic addressed in this chapter. In a completely changed political context compared to the general election of 2018, the widespread economic, cultural and political malaise deriving from global dynamics still influenced people’s choices and shaped political compe-tition. Feelings of anxiety and concern strongly affected an undecided and bewildered electorate in the run-up to the election—an election that rewarded the only opposition party to the incumbent government led by Mario Draghi. Insecurity arising from the cultural face of globalisa-tion was once again a crucial driver of support for the right-wing parties. Supporters of Meloni’s FdI and its allies shared a rejection of immigration and broad support for closed-borders policies. Among their opponents, the M5s was once again a catalyst for expressions of economic and demo-cratic malaise. In contrast, the PD and Az-IV became the ‘ideal’ political outlets for the winners of globalisation. In 2022, Italians were further divided over the controversial decisions arising from the war against the pandemic and the war on the Eastern borders of Europe. Their effects, however, seem to have partly aligned with pre-existing divisions
Outside the Ballot Box: Who Is the Italian Abstainer?
No full textThe abstention rate was one of the most striking results of the 2022 Italian general election, when the proportion of non-voters reached a peak (36%) in ‘first-order’ elections and underwent its largest increase. This chapter provides an initial assessment of the individual-level motivations behind this behaviour, focusing on three possible sets of determinants: interest in politics and political information; social centrality and social insecurity; and political integration. The analyses, based on LaPolis Electoral Observatory surveys, confirm that abstention is a multi-faceted phenomenon with multiple causes, ones that overlap and mutually reinforce each other. Those who did not vote because they ‘could not’ remain a substantial proportion of abstainers in 2022. However, for most of those who did not vote, it was not a case of being prevented from doing so: abstention was an explicit choice. A deficit of representation has acquired prominence in explanations of voluntary abstentions in Italy. The findings underline the importance of examining the interplay between social malaise and overtly political malaise. Their different manifestations are traced back to the recent evolution of the national political system, the role of grand coalition governments, and the partial drying up of the populist political supply since 2018
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
La geopolitica dei cittadini
No full textL’Atlante sociale delle Marche 2016 conferma la tradizionale pluralità e il policentrismo della regione, sotto il profilo sociale, economico e politico, già messa in luce dalle indagini recedenti di questo Osservatorio (Ceccarini e Turato, 2004; Turato, 2004) ma anche da molti altri lavori sull’economia delle Marche. Ciononostante, rispetto al passato, oggi sembra emergere l’esigenza di guardare oltre i consueti confini regionali in modo differente: internazionalizzare la regione, connetterla all’Europa e al mondo seguendo una nuova strada, che privilegi collaborazioni locali
The formation of metal oxalates in the painted layers of a medieval polychrome on stone, as revealed by micro-Raman spectroscopy.
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