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Individual religiosity and interpersonal trust in a Catholic country. The case of Italy
Full text linkThe aim of the paper is to analyze the relation between religion and trust. The literature on this topic found very mixed evidence. Some of it uncovers a positive relation between religion and trust and ascribes it to religious teachings and/or to the repeated interactions fostered by attendance of worship places; other works find a negative relation and explain it with reference to the concept of bonding social capital. Indeed, no conclusive evidence could be found. So far, the analysis of the
relationship between religion and trust has been carried out mostly with reference to the United States. In the paper we focus instead on the case of Italy and on the peculiarities of Italian Catholicism. Our analysis is based on a very rich dataset produced by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, which allows in-depth examination of the topic. In particular, the indicators of trust allow to distinguish between thin and thick trust. On the whole, our analysis appears to convey a
picture of religion’s (and Church’s) role in Italian society very different from the standard account: religious involvement does not create a closed space, which destroys social solidarity and participation, but, quite on the contrary, it fosters them by creating favorable conditions for their development. Even more remarkable is the fact the, contrary to some theories, the influence of religious involvement is strong in the case of generalized trust, while it is almost irrelevant and scarcely significant in the case of particularistic trust, usually associated with familism
Individual Religiosity and Interpersonal Trust in a Catholic Country : The Case of Italy
No full textThe aim of the paper is to analyse the relation between religiosity (as measured by church attendance) and trust. Research about this topic found very mixed evidence. Some of it uncovers a positive relation between religion and trust, ascribing it to religious teachings and/or to the repeated interactions fostered by the attendance of worship places. Other, based on a negative relation, ex¬plains it with reference to «bonding social capital». So far, the analysis on this topic has been carried out with reference to the United States while we focus on Italy and the peculiarities of Italian Catholicism. Our analysis is based on AVQ, a complex dataset produced by ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) that allowed us to draw a distinction between two types of interpersonal trust (thin and thick) and to test the differential effect of individual religiosity. As a result, we can reject the hypothesis of a negative impact of church attendance on trust: although weak, the relation between church attendance and trust appears to be positive. What emerges from the analysis are the peculiarities of the two extreme categories («super-attending» people, with regard to thin trust, and «never-attending» people, with regard to thick trust) rather than a fully positive relationship. Religion is no longer a divisive and therefore discriminating choice, as it had been in the past, but the peculiarities of these two groups deserve further studies
Casting light on the black hole of the amendatory process in Italy
No full textThe amendatory process is a hidden aspect of Italian law-making. All scholars and observers are perfectly aware of the importance of the complex, sometimes apparently chaotic, dynamics of the process of amending bills. However, despite this awareness, the amendatory process as such has rarely been the subject of empirical investigation: hence the present paper’s intention to try and fill this void, using a consistent, representative data-set to construct a substantial, quantitative description of the amendatory games played out in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies during the period from 1997 to 2006, and to compare the two legislatures covering that period. This is the first systematic attempt to shine a little light on the ‘black hole’ of the Italian legislative process
La lunga e tormentata storia delle riforme istituzionali in Italia: perché anche Renzi ha fallito
No full textIl capitolo ripercorre la lunga e tormentata storia delle riforme istituzionali in Italia, a partire dai primi tentativi di riforme organiche della fine degli anni settanta. Si analizzano ion particolare incentivi e vincoli che hanno reso particolarmente complessa la transizione verso un nuovo sistema politico . Enfasi particolare viene data al contesto in cui matura la riforma costituzionale promossa dal governo Renzi e le cause che ne hanno decretato il fallimento
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
Attivisti e quadri intermedi di Alleanza Nazionale : profilo socio-demografico e modelli di carriera
Full text linkL'articolo ricostruisce il profilo socio-demografico e i percorsi di carriera di attivisti e quadri intermedi di Alleanza nazionale attraverso una survey dei partecipanti al congresso nazionale del partito del 1995 e ai partecipanti alla conferenza programmatica del 1998
"Tutto il rosso non son ciliegie". Il voto amministrativo nelle regioni rosse tra persistenze e mutamenti
No full textL'articolo discute i risultati delle elezioni comunali del 25 maggio 2014 nelle regioni cosiddette rosse (Toscana, Emilia Romagna, Umbria e Marche), soffermandosi sulle differenze rispetto alle tornate amministrative precedenti e all'esito delle concomitanti consultazioni per l'elezione del Parlamento europeo
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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