Research

The first consumer protection association, the National Consumers’ Union, was set up in Italy in 1955. All developed countries allocate resources to such bodies. However, in Italy, there is [...]

    Many consumer products that have been successful on the market for a long time, but also many new products that are rapidly gaining broad consensus among consumers, are […]

Towards the end of the eighties, the theme of the so-called ‘third and fourth age’ came to everyone’s attention with growing awareness. The social and cultural context was new [...]

The events of 1992, although characterised by the enhancement of European economic unity, have shown that basing the growth of a new supranational entity on the economy by focusing on […]

The survey starts from the assumption that the elderly person is still a social subject who claims to take an active part in social life, with the only difference being […]

The political and institutional shifts that shook Italy between 1991 and 1992 appeared as peripheral tremors in an earthquake whose epicentre was the Kremlin. In one way or another, the […]

This report intends to explore a youth phenomenon, that of the bonehead, which has been summarily known only through mass media information to date. The bonehead movement combines traditional [...]

An analysis of the reflection of Italian affairs as they emerge from the articles and comments of the most representative foreign newspapers. This work represents a further effort to understand [...]

In a segment like that of political publishing, the survey aims not only to detect the extent and rate of growth of a deficit – that is largely taken for […]

The results presented in this research are the outcome of the collaboration between the Institute and the Telefono Rosa Voluntary Association. There are at least 12,000 families in Italy in […]