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Pensieri sulla democrazia: Res Publica (Parigi 1945-1947) e il dibattito politico-istituzionale all'indomani della seconda Guerra mondiale
2014
The international journal Res Publica, founded in Bruxelles in 1931 - under the impulse of Luigi Sturzo - by Francesco Luigi Ferrari, formidable opponent of fascist regime, in 1933 suspended its publications after its young founder's premature death. According to Ferrari and Sturzo, Res publica represented the instrument to spread democratic culture and to allow Italian people, as soon as they got rid of Fascist dictatorship, to renovate institutions. In October 1945, Res publica resumed publications with renewed goals. The end of war, of Nazism, of fascism, encouraged editors to reclaim European Union, federalism, spirit of brotherhood and international peace. The essay aims to analize the…
Democrazia e consultazione on line. Nuova edizione rivista e aggiornata
2023
Il volume è stato immaginato per gli studenti dei corsi di laurea in comunicazione, per gli studiosi e gli operatori della comunicazione pubblica. Integra infatti riflessioni su comunicazione e decisioni pubbliche, democrazia e media digitali, ripercorrendo il dibattito sulla consultazione elettronica attraverso discipline e settori differenti. Il testo, a partire da una riflessione teorica sulla democrazia deliberativa, esamina in modo critico la risposta tecnologica al declino della partecipazione politica a livello internazionale. Presenta le tecniche di consultazione pubblica on line, gli standard minimi, possibili strumenti di pianificazione (metodologica e comunicativa), in una prospe…
Resistere alle mafie nella crisi della democrazia
2012
In a globalized world, the encounter between organized crime and 'official' economic system generates convergences of interests that arise on the boundary between legality and illegality. Globalization produces mobility and competition. To adapt to a constantly changing scene and avoid social control institutions, the new criminal systems have adopted a flexible network structure, whose methods and procedures make the boundary between what is lawful and what is not less visible, and hamper the control of legality. The degradation of democracy, that is linked to the spread of corrupt practices, lowers the "moral cost" for those people who are in the so-called gray areas, and lowers the thres…
Prefazione
2015
Vengono presentati contenuti e le ricerche sulle “Mobilità umane” discusse e spprofonditr durante la 8° edizione della Summer school in “Migranti, Diritti Umani e Democrazia”, scuola estiva di studi avanzati promossa Università degli studi di Palermo, che si è svolta a Favignana (TP) nel 2014.
Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
2015
Microinnovations in Human-Technology Interaction
2011
It has been claimed that the Web 2.0, the open source movement, and the emerging mode of peer production have inaugurated a new era of debate about openness, participation, and cooperation as bedrocks for rebuilding the civilizations of the modern world. By way of introducing the concept of wikipolitics, this paper examines whether, and if so how, politics and democracies can benefit from this emerging participatory spirit and modern ICTs, and to document possible dangers of such a shift in the democratic process
The role of social networking services in eParticipation
2009
Published version of a chapter published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5694, 46-55. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03781-8_5 A serious problem in eParticipation projects is citizen engagement – citizens do not necessarily become more willing to participate simply because net-services are provided for them. Most forms of eParticipation in democratic contexts are, however, dependent on citizen engagement, interaction and social networking because democratic systems favour the interests of larger groups of citizens – the more voices behind a political proposition, the greater its chances of success. In this context of challenges the study of s…
Opinion Dynamics and Collective Decisions
2021
We expect that democracy enables us to utilize collective intelligence such that our collective decisions build and enhance social welfare, and such that we accept their distributive and normative consequences. Collective decisions are produced by voting procedures which aggregate individual preferences and judgments. Before and after, individual preferences and judgments change as their underlying attitudes, values, and opinions change through discussion and deliberation. In large groups, these dynamics naturally go beyond the scope of the individual and consequently might show unexpected self-driven macroscopic systems dynamics following socio-physical laws. On the other hand, aggregated …
Asediar la fortaleza sin ánimo de conquista: La incidencia política de la sociedad civil en Habermas
2012
El objeto de este trabajo es analizar el concepto de la sociedadcivil presentado por Jürgen Habermas y su lugar en el contexto de los debatessobre la teoría democrática. Se introducirá el concepto de democracia deliberativa,haciendo hincapié en su relación con la noción de comunicación y opinión pública. De acuerdo a esta perspectiva la capacidad de la sociedad civil para influir en elcampo público-político puede tender un puente entre las concepciones de la democracia de raíz liberal y las de raíz republicana. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of civil societypresented by Jürgen Habermas and his place in the context of discussions ondemocratic theory. It will introduce th…
Toward a Sociology of EU Politics
2018
In this chapter, the author discusses some of the intellectual tools that sociology can mobilize in the analysis of European Union (EU) politics, and then follows with a closer investigation of some sociological research. To illustrate EU politics, this chapter concentrates on the European Parliament, the most democratic European institution. The author contrasts the sociological approach and its advantages with more traditional research in political science and international relations. European integration has provided new objects of analysis for sociologists. Some focus on the EU as a new polity. Others have developed a more specific approach that has been labeled structural constructivis…