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The Populist Radical Right in the European Parliament: Between elective affinities and disreputable companies
Full text linkGraziano, Paolo, Neopopulismi : perché sono destinati a durare, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 [recensione]
No full textPenelope’s Web : Institutional resistance against gender equality and LGBTI rights in Italy, 1995-2021
Full text linkCompared to other historical periods, the last three decades have been characterized by a
considerable legislative effort for gender and sexual equality. At the same time, gender
equality remains a deeply contested political goal and progress has been patchy and
confronted with resistance. These dynamics are the object of this thesis, which looks at the
ways gender and sexuality legislations end up being toothless or fail to materialize altogether.
The thesis asks how policies for gender+ equality are resisted in the institutional sphere; and
which factors contribute to the failure of gender+ equality policies. I propose a
conceptualization of loud and quiet forms of resistance to gender+ equality policies, bringing
together interdisciplinary approaches from policy studies, feminist institutionalism and social
movement studies. Empirically, I focus on the paradigmatic case of Italy, a country
characterized by a slow process of liberalization compared to other post-industrial
democracies, influenced by an entrenched conservative legacy and a renewed backlash
against gender equality. Under these structural conditions, inclusionary policy efforts have
often been ill-fated, and different forms of resistance are likely to occur.
The empirical analysis consists of three in-depth case studies of policy failure, concerning
gender representation and LGBTI hate crimes policy, both of which are understood as
attempts at expanding gender and sexual equality in the domain of citizenship. An analysis of
the implementation of non-quota gender representation policies shows that one form of
resistance consists in turning gender equality policies into purely symbolic interventions. This
analysis also reveals parties as important actors resisting changes to their gendered internal
structures; and bureaucratic actors as responsible for policy inertia. A second case study,
digging deeper into the dynamics of the policy formulation phase, highlights the importance
of historical legacies and constellations of oppositional and supportive actors in determining
these poor policy output. These findings are then complemented with another case study of
policy adoption phase, this one focalising on discursive resistance to LGBTI hate crimes policy.
Here, the analysis situates resistance in the strategic interactions between supporters and
opponents, and the frames by which they articulate their positions.
Taken together, these perspectives reveal the multidimensionality of resistance, showing how
both loud and quiet forms of opposition at different stages of the policy process led to the failure of gender and sexual equality policies. The thesis also highlights commonalities in the
set of actors resisting gender+ equality across different policy areas. In this way, the
dissertation seeks to contribute to debates on varieties of opposition to gender equality
policies and the gendering of institutions, as well the literature on the institutional impact of
anti-gender movements. At the methodological level, the thesis draws on a mixed methods
design, including documentary analysis, frame analyses of parliamentary debates, semistructured
interviews and dictionary-based quantitative text analysis
[Recensione a] Absorbing the Blow: Populist Parties and their Impact on Parties and Party Systems, a cura di S. Wolinetz and A. Zaslove, New York, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018
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Promoting Gender Equality through Party Funding: Symbolic Policies at Work in Italy
Full text linkGiven the growing importance of state subsidies as a source of party income, several countries have introduced policies that link the provision of party funding to the promotion of gender equality in political representation. Variations in the assignment of public funding - that is, financial incentives and cuts - are increasingly employed to promote equal gender participation in intraparty politics and in public office. However, we know little about why and how these equality promotion policies have been adopted in different countries, how they work in practice, and, most importantly, what effects they have on women's representation. To contribute to this debate, after embedding gender-targeted public funding regulations in the broader set of political representation policies and presenting a comparative overview of existing rules in the European Union, the article concentrates on the Italian case. We examine the evolution of Italian regulation of gender electoral financing and the extent to which the Italian parties have complied with the rules over time. The results show that this set of policy instruments, when poorly designed, is nothing more than symbolic policy. The lack of appropriate mechanisms for sanctions and rewards, which can induce parties to change their behavior, has hampered the effectiveness of these policy measures
"Prendi i soldi e...". Un'analisi sull'efficacia degli incentivi economici per la promozione della rappresentanza di genere
No full textUn'analisi sull'efficacia degli incentivi economici per la promozione della rappresentanza di gener
Il codice Angelica 123. Musica e politica tra i secoli XI e XII
No full textFatto il punto sulla situazione degli studi sul graduale bolognese oggi a Roma, Biblioteca Angelica, ms. 123 (prima metà del sec. XI), la cui particolarissima grafia musicale adiastematica è tuttora oggetto di discussione, il saggio prende in considerazione la copia che di questo graduale venne redatta tra i secoli XI e XII (l'attuale ms. O.I.13 dell'Archivio capitolare di Modena), comprovando come essa rifletta sul piano liturgico il nuovo clima politico e culturale creatosi nella città emiliana a seguito della sconfitta del partito imperiale nel corso della Lotta per le investiture. Viene inoltre messo in rilievo il fatto che l'adozione nella copia di una nuova scrittura musicale su rigo è il riflesso di istanze e comportamenti indotti dalla Riforma gregoriana
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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