Italy Report 2000

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS The Italy of Zeno by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes   CHAPTER I – POLITICS The Italy of politics – the impossible reform

1. Political Italy in the twentieth century
2. The crisis of the parties
3. The bicameral commission: history of an organic attempt at reform
4. The social-political graph of parliamentarians
5. Electoral abstentionism or the lost vote
6. The citizenship feeling and participation in the political life of the Country
7. Trade Unions and the crisis of representativeness in the world of work
8. The costs of the Public Administration
9. Reform of the Public Administration and new technologies
10. How I defend the citizen

  CHAPTER II – THE ECONOMY The Italian economy: between delays and prospects

11. From the periphery to the centre? Italian economic development in the 20th century
12. The malaise in the North
13. The well-being of the South
14. Workplace (in)safety
15. Job advertisements, seekers find… perhaps
16. Acrobats: women between work, care work and self-care
17. The egg of Columbus or the “motorways” of the sea
18. Italy and infrastructures: a delay to overcome
19. Motor insurance tariffs: liberalisation effect
20. The Public Administration goes to therapy: the case of Inpdap

  CHAPTER III – SOCIETY The Italy of the complex society

21. Italy in the year 2000: a changing society
22. Cultural assets, a misunderstood resource
23. Disasters in Italy, “let’s make peace with the earth”.
24. Communicating the environment
25. Family houses: add a place… at home
26. The dimensions of associationism in Italy
27. People with… different abilities
28. At the bottom of the glass
29. The body of evidence.: sexual violence
30. Primum non nocere: non-conventional medicine

  CHAPTER IV – KNOWLEDGE The Italy of knowledge and know-how

31. The Italy of knowledge in the twentieth century
32. Orientation in secondary schools
33. School: autonomy of a revolution
34. Training and knowledge: notes on the Italian system
35. The archives of memory
36. How Italians spend their free time
37. The new forums: art in the avant-garde at the end of the millennium
38. Give us today, our anxiety
39. Technological innovation, competitiveness and the production system
40. ICT: Information and Communications Technology

  CHAPTER V – CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS The Italy of custom and change

41. The customs of Italians: Mediterranean life in modernity
42. Panorama and l’Espresso: Italy on the cover
43. Fashion is in fashion…
44. Everyone in the countryside!
45. Zooitaly, the four-legged doctor
46. The hunting world “hunting” for development
47. At eighteen you said yes…
48. Destroyers, vandalism in Italy
49. Graffiti, the voice of young metropolitans
50. It’s not sport if there’s no spot

  CHAPTER VI – JUSTICE Italy between law and justice

51. A century of justice
52. Towards a fair trial
53. Crimes and punishments
54. “To watch and punish”: a prison system in transformation
55. Labour justice starts again from conciliation
56. Far West Italy: sheriff wanted….
57. And they call it “micro-crime”….
58. The lesser evil: juvenile deviance in Italy
59. Family wanted
60. Stolen games