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Theatre of Information
No full textCatalogue essay for Sam Smith and Andrea Zucchini, Here the Sun Does not Enter, Assembly Point Gallery, London
14 September - 22 October, 201
Horses and hippos : Why Italian government bills change in the legislative arena, 1987-2006
No full textScholars interested in legislative processes pay relatively little attention to the
changes made to bills in parliamentary democracies.On the one hand, comparative research
has often described parliamentary institutions as ineffectual vis-à-vis cabinets throughout
the lawmaking process; on the other hand, for a long time the rational choice literature has
focused more on the formal rules regulating amendatory activity than on amendatory
activity itself. Hence, very few studies have tried to explain how much government bills are
altered in parliament and why. This article investigates the changes made to governmental
legislation in Italy. Taking the modifications occurring during the legislative process as the
dependent variable, a number of explanatory hypotheses derived from both existing scholarship
and original arguments are discussed and tested.This also allows the identification of
some usually unobserved aspects of the decision-making process within the cabinet. The
findings can also be relevant for comparative research since Italy has been characterised
during the period under scrutiny (1987–2006) by two distinct electoral systems, two
extremely different party systems (pivotal and alternational), governments with various
ideological orientations and range, and both partisan and technical ministers.parliament
and why.
In this paper, we investigate the changes made to governmental legislation in Italy. Taking the
modifications occurring during the legislative process as the dependent variable, we discuss
and test a number of explanatory hypotheses derived from both existing scholarship and
original arguments. By doing so, we also try to indirectly find out some aspects of the often
unobservable decision-making process within the cabinet.
Our findings are also relevant for comparative research. During the period that we have
investigated (1987–2006), Italy has been characterized by two distinct electoral systems, two
extremely different party systems, governments with various ideological orientation and
range, both partisan and technical ministers
Clostridium difficile Enterocolitis and Reactive Arthritis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
No full textReactive arthritis is a rare complication of Clostridium difficile enterocolitis, especially in children. We review the 6 pediatric cases published in the English and non-English literature and discuss their clinical presentation, outcome, treatment, and pathophysiology. We also report the seventh case of Clostridium difficile reactive arthritis in a 6-year-old boy who was treated with amoxicillin-clavulanate for 10 days because of an upper respiratory infection. After the antibiotic course, the child developed at the same time diarrhea with positive stool culture for Clostridium difficile and an asymmetric polyarthritis. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and metronidazole completely resolved the pain, joint swelling, and diarrhea. After twelve months of follow-up there has been no recurrence. This report confirms the self-limiting course of Clostridium difficile reactive arthritis. Clostridium difficile testing in children with gastrointestinal symptoms and acute onset of joint pain should be always considered
Andrea Bacová
No full textAndrea Bacová focuses on research and teaching in the field of residential architecture. Her work includes systematic research on residential buildings and their urban context. She actively participates in promoting Slovak architecture and is the author of several publications and exhibitions
Useless approvals : Italian bicameralism and its decisional capacity
No full textIn bicameral parliaments, upper chambers amend the bills that have been passed by lower chambers, and sometimes bills that are passed in one chamber never become law and just ‘die’ in the other. Why does one chamber fail or refuse to anticipate what the other will do? What can lead the political actors in one chamber to ‘waste’ their time and resources on a bill that will be never approved as law? How can we explain the variations in the number of such ‘useless’ approvals? This article helps answer these questions by focusing on ‘useless approvals’ in the Italian parliament (1979–2018). Italy offers an ideal setting to analyse this phenomenon, with two houses holding the same powers but characterised by varying degrees of political incongruence over time. We found that differences in preference between the two chambers positively affect the chances of useless approvals, above all for private members’ bills
Viewer-, Author-, and Ownership in the Work of Andrea Zittel
No full textAndrea Zittel invites others to collapse the distinctions between artist, viewer, and collaborator by interacting with her usable works. This thesis explores the process of interacting with Zittel\u27s works, and how it affects viewer-, author- and ownership
Which Treatment Modalities Are Being Used by Italian Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes?
No full textDying, surviving death, and reincarnating: differences in government replacements and their explanation
No full textNot all governments survive until the next scheduled election. Some are replaced during their term in office by executives with a different party composition and/or portfolio distribution. Others are able to be ‘reborn’ as the successor government, undergoing only minimal changes. Such variation has to date received scant attention in studies on government durability. By classifying non-electoral replacements according to the degree of ministerial turnover, this article shows that new cabinets are often similar to their predecessors. It hypothesises that the likelihood of this pattern occurring is greater: when members of the current cabinet face bargaining problems in forming a very different cabinet, as in the case of surplus (unnecessary) parties in oversized coalitions; when the policy distance between the parliamentary median party and the current opposition widens; and when the executive’s economic performance discourages opposition parties from forming new coalitions with some incumbent parties. The risk of experiencing different types of replacement is estimated using data on Western European cabinets (1946–2021). Consistent with the hypotheses, the results indicate that governments are able to return to power almost untouched after their termination if they are oversized, if the opposition is far from the legislative median voter, and if inflation grows during a government’s tenure
Changing Politics: Government, Parliament and Parties in Italy at the Dawn of the 18th Legislature. Introduction to the Special Issue
No full textThe public’s distrust of the Italian parliament has spread like a pandemic over the past few years. According to the Eurobarometer data, in the last fifteen years the portion of the Italian population declaring a measure of trust in the country’s highest representative institution has never exceeded one third. Apparently, the Italian political system has proven unable to tackle citizens’ distrust, as the gap between those who tend not to trust the Italian parliament and those who tend to trust it still amounts to more than 20 percentage points, also after the start of Legislature XVIII in March 2018. This is perhaps surprising, as the Italian elections held in 2018 brought about a number of novelties in the party system and in the institutional framework. At the same time, however, some political dynamics in the Italian parliament did not change after the 2018 elections, and this has probably helped to preserve the image of the Italian parliament as a ‘delegitimised’ institution. It is especially on these patterns of continuity and discontinuity with the past that could be observed at the start of Legislature XVIII that the present Special Issue focuses
Transport Amphoras from Gravisca to the Eastern Aegean during the Greek Archaic Period (7TH-6TH C. Bc): A Multidisciplinary Approach for Characterization, Manufacturing, Provenance and Trade
No full textThis paper described a baseline for a multidisciplinary approach to the mineralogical and chemical characterization of eighteen fragments of archaic transport amphoras (7 th-6 th centuries BC) found at Gravisca archaeological site (Lazio, Italy) attributed to an Eastern Aegean provenance (six from Samos, three from Miletus, three from Chios and three from Klazomenai). The samples have been typed on the evidence concerning archaic manufactory techniques by using X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) associated with quantitative phase analysis (QPA), optical (OM) and electron microscopy (SEM). Following Inductive Coupled Plasma Spectros-copy (ICP), compositional data analysis has been for the first time applied to selected geochemical proxies combining rare earth elements and selected heavy metals concentration in Hierarchical Agglomerative Cluster (HAC). This innovative approach allows to distinguish different sources of the raw materials used from different geological and geographical areas. Multivariate statistical treatments via Principal Component Analyses (PCA) open the possibility to group the sherds into clusters, comparing the results with the HAC application allowing to validate the methodology. Two distinct centres associated with Samos manufactory appear to be operating during 7 th-6 th centuries BC, which could be related to different production periods or even different production areas. The new data concur with a more straightforward historical reconstruction of archaic Poleis manufactory and commercial activity toward Etruria and the Mediterranean and with a new methodological approach to archaeometry
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