Italy Report 1996

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

Towards full democracy

by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes

CHAPTER 1 – CONSENSUS/CONFLICT

1. Election results: from “centripetal pluralism” to “eccentric two-party system”
2. I do not understand, so I abstain: Italians facing elections
3. The two-party system: which majority for Italy?
4. The curved “House”: Ultras, in search of a lost community
5. Lobbies: defence of rights or modern patronage?
6. Those of the White One
7. The “virtual” terrorism: the armed phalanx
8. The environmental conflict: hunting through the press
9. The future of the fourth power
10. Crime in short trousers: minors between discomfort and illegality

CHAPTER 2 – REAL/VIRTUAL

11. With the “degree” of education: school, students and society
12. The face of the TV of the future: pay, cable, etc.
13. The online world, telecommunications and society
14. The virtual economy: stock market trends
15. Give us our daily gadget today
16. The discreet charm of the profession: journalists, identity and role
17. Journalists: ethics or information?
18. Mass media experience: our Sister Television
19. Mass media fruition: pages of lead
20. Young people’s cultural fruition: old comrade book

CHAPTER 3 – JUSTICE/INJUSTICE

21. Behind bars: the prison system in Italy
22. Under the toga: the magistracy in the Italian transition
23. Small daily crimes: small-scale crime and the territory
24. Messages from Southern Italy: young people between values and the camorra
25. The army of security: police forces and territory
26. Lawyer: new hero or cynical bungler?
27. A people at risk: Italians and the justice machine
28. Mafia export: mafia internationalism
29. The mafia between repentants and confiscation of property
30. The mafia: a criminal subject in transformation. The birth of “Cosa nuova”

CHAPTER 4 – TRADITION/INNOVATION

31. Poor relations: craftsmanship in Italy
32. Grow and multiply: the evolution of the distribution sector in Italy
33. Privatisation? Yes, please!
34. Privatisation? But how?
35. Ex GESCAL Funds: a fund within everyone’s reach
36. New technologies: newspapers and journalists towards the year 2000
37. Diana’s market: hunting between anthropology and business
38. “Safety” at work: over a thousand deaths every year
39. An example of organisational innovation. Teleworking: challenges and opportunities
40. Savings and consumption of the elderly

CHAPTER 5 – IMMIGRATION/EMIGRATION

41. Assessment of the presence of non-EU citizens
42. We are here too: Italians abroad and the right to vote
43. When work is black. Regular work and irregular work of non-EU citizens
44. Little, future Italians? Foreign minors in Italy
45. The ship sailed… Italians, a people of emigrants
46. With that foreigner’s face… The families of foreigners in Italy
47. Comparing immigration structures
48. Voices from Italy: Rai and its television programmes for abroad
49. Extra-community immigrants: marginality also in deviance
50. Sardinia, almost a continent

CHAPTER 6 – RATIONAL/IRRATIONAL

51. Illusion on the line…
52. Cultural heritage as a resource
53. Libraries, “public granaries against the winter of the soul”.
54. The factory of hope: youth football in Italy
55. For few but not for all: work and wealth in Italy
56. The last message, suicide through the press
57. Parenthood
58. Stories from our home: the “stepfamilies” arrive
59. Comparing generations
60. “Mater semper certa est”? Motherhood and assisted reproduction techniques