Italy Report 2017
Six dichotomies to understand the changing Italy:
PAST/FUTURE – SECURITY/INSECURITY – JUSTICE/INJUSTICE – CITIZENSHIP/SUBJECTION – IMMIGRATION/EMIGRATION – SUBJECTIVITY/COLLECTIVITY
The 2017 Italy Report, now in its 29th edition, has grown in popularity among academics, institutions, the information system, and international observers.
Each year, the Report is built around six dichotomies, which are illustrated by six essays and accompanied by sixty phenomenological files. Thus, it addresses issues that the Institute considers representative, but not exhaustive, of Italy’s political, economic, and social current affairs through a dual reading of reality.
The Report is enriched by sample surveys, which in this year’s edition have investigated some of the topics traditionally proposed by the Eurispes: citizens’ trust in institutions, taxation, citizens’ relationships with public and private institutions, the economic condition of families, poverty, consumption, pet ownership and care, health, citizens’ perceptions of security, and justice.
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Index
INDEX
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
The courage to change one’s mind
Italy and its metaphors
The charge of Don Quixote
A flexible Europe
From the second to the first republic
The Rousseau platform
The middle classes and democracy
More state and less market
The authority to be regained
CHAPTER 1 PAST/FUTURE
Essay | the possible future
1 | Survey. Europe: how to stay together
2 | Big data and the world of proteins
3 | Someone, something “after us”
4 | Street art as a force for urban regeneration
5 | Street food. Gastronomy between the piazzas of Italy and the digital agora
6 | Italian consumers and promotions: between discounts and loyalty programmes
7 | Clothing and accessories drive the Italian e-commerce market
8 | The sharing effect broadens the horizon: the sharing economy in tourism
9 | Internet users with shopping carts: the growth of e-commerce boosting consumption in Italy
10 | Fatal attraction. The contribution of the international attractiveness of ports to Italy’s geo-economic role in the Mediterranean
CHAPTER 2 SECURITY/INSECURITY
Essay | The fear of fear
11 | Survey. Citizens’ perception of security. More discomfort, more insecurity.
12 | The Italian strategic network. Fifteen years of high-tech weapon transfers and acquisitions carried out by Italy.
13 | The time of terror
14 | Justice and the Internet: towards a collective intelligence
15 | Guarding the country’s interests
16 | Intelligence awareness in the information society
17 | All the numbers of the Carabinieri corp
18 | Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
19 | An overview of energy efficiency in 2016
20 | Cyber security in Italy: greater awareness on the part of businesses but limited budgets
CHAPTER 3 JUSTICE/INJUSTICE
Essay | the enemies of democracy
21 | Survey Justice: a complex issue
22 | The honorary judges
23 | Family mediation
24 | So do others: check and balance in the American political system, a reflection on the role of the supreme court
25 | Anac: vigilance and transparency for a new culture of legality
26 | Job insecurity in Italy
27 | Survey. The thin poverty line
28 | Survey. The economic condition of families
29 | Poverty and waste: two sides of the same coin
30 | Return to Italy. Justice reforms and relaunching the attraction of ide in the European geo-economic panorama
CHAPTER 4 CITIZENSHIP/SUBJECTION
Essay | citizenship’s paths
Survey- 31 | Institutions: a distant coldness
Survey- 33 | The trend in the tax burden in Italy
Survey- 34 | If I were the mayor of Rome …
35 | citizens, services and value creation. public administration relooking
36 | the reform of the public administration and the Italian political system
37 | simplification for businesses
38 | the right to university education
39 | Homeownership: an Italian myth still alive?
40 | The TV is dead. Long live TV
CHAPTER 5 | IMMIGRATION / EMIGRATION
Essay | A country without memory
41 | Global migratory flows and the welcome of immigrants in Italy: from structural emergency to Sprar shelter
42 | Immigrants’ input to the Italian GDP
43 | foreign mafias and the exploitation of immigrants
44 | The gastronomic melting pot. Trends, integration, protectionism
Survey- 45 | Immigration and integration in the diocese of Civita Castellana. A case study
46 | Italian brain drain: Italians with high education on the move
47 | the migration of ideas: soft power and the role of all-news tv channels
48 | 2016 immigration data and the reflections on the mainstream media
49 | Cinema and migrations
50 | Criminality: the presence of Italian and foreign inmates in comparison
CHAPTER 6 SUBJECTIVITY / COLLECTIVITY
Essay | which subjectivity? Which collectivity?
Survey- 51 | Italy is “enough”
52 | The structural funds of the European Union and the implementation of operational programs
53 | The third sector in Italy and its reform law, la 106/2016
Survey- 54 | The health thermometer
Survey- 55 | Italians’ consumption: between reduction of non-essential goods and focus on food
56 | Weddings in Italy: who marries whom?
57 | The millennials: a generation to discover
58 | The big data to support the customer profiling for the customization of the purchase experience
59 | Beer, what a passion: diffusion and consumption
60 | Survey. The food habits of Italians and their love for animals