Italy Report 1992

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

The event and the expectation

by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes

CHAPTER 1 – ORDER/DISORDER

1. The criminal emergency: all the crime figures
2. Crime and Punishment”:                 Italians and crime
3. Hunting fraud: thirty years of NAS anti-fraud activities
4. Environmental crime: the activities of the NOE
5. The “Big Bang”: the 5 April elections
6. Under indictment: the family in the 1990s
7. Violence against women: the activities of the Telefono Rosa (Pink Helpline)
8. The poisoned chalice: the scourge of alcoholism between market consumption and pathology
9. The culture of the “high”: drugs from consumption to prevention
10. The “operators of the mind”: the market of the psyche

     CHAPTER 2 – RIGHTS/DUTIES

11. Citizenship denied: the elderly and the institutions
12. The silver pastures: power in the third age
13. The gender handicap: discrimination against women in the workplace
14. Denied protection: women and work
15. Female power: women who “count” in Italy
16. The map of power: who rules in Italy
17. The world of youth: apparent rights and those which are denied
18. The “green” law: ecology and the new rights of the citizen
19. Blurred rights: information and disinformation in Milan’s public administration
20. In the eye of the storm: public administration in Milan

     CHAPTER 3 – MEMORY/UTOPIA

21. Who was De Gasperi? The collective memory of young people
22. Young people and institutions: civic education in Italian schools
23. The rock archipelago: young people’s musical enjoyment
24. The textbook in Italian schools
25. The absent institution: museums, art galleries and libraries in Italy
26. The book in Italy: publishing market and cultural consumption
27. The thousand lights of the stage: prose, ballet, music
28. The knowledge factory: the university system in Italy
29. The values of Italians
30. Catholic Italy: the ecclesial community between commitment and proposal

     CHAPTER 4 – INFORMATION/DISINFORMATION

31. The mass media map: mass communications in Italy
32. The hundred users: the attitude of Italians towards mass communications
33. Electronic information: journalistic broadcasts on radio and television
34. The Gutenberg galaxy: daily and periodical information
35. The great swindle: television fiction, trash-TV and gossip press
36. The masters of communication: ownership structures in mass communication
37. The dream factory: advertising communication in Italy
38. Mass pornography: sexual misinformation and the communication market
39. The football tribe: football and communication
40. Mass-media and crime: the Italians’ attitude towards the “anti-crime” mass-media message

     CHAPTER 5 – PRODUCTION/PROFLIGACY

41. The internationalisation of the Italian economy
42. The masters of the world: the G7 countries
43. Is the lira worth a lira? The inflationary dynamics of the Italian economy
44. The great spectre: unemployment
45. Italian economic policy
46. Old people’s money: the Italian pension system
47. Opulent Italy: income and consumption between crisis and Wealth
48. The “count” of Italians: demography and development in Italy
49. Is home a right or a luxury?
50. How much does a vote cost the Treasury?

     CHAPTER 6 – LOCALISM/CENTRALISM

51. Inequalities in Europe
52. Every man for himself: localism and fragmentation in the 5th April vote
53. The Glass Palace: the activities of members of parliament in the tenth legislature
54. The crime map: criminal activities in the Southern regions
55. The crisis of the “balente”: crime and citizenship in Sardinia
56. In the shadow of the Mole: the quality of life in Turin
57. On the banks of the Arno: the quality of life in Florence
58. The Bolognese way: quality of life in Bologna
59. A look at the South: quality of life in Salerno
60. ” Development self-programming” in the South: the case of Agrigento