Italy Report 2018
Six dichotomies to understand the changing Italy:
RESPONSIBILITY/IRRESPONSIBILITY – CULTURE/CULTURES – FEAR/COURAGE – TRUST/CONFIDENCE – GROWTH/DEVELOPMENT – FUTURE/BECOMING
The 2018 Italy Report, now in its 30th edition, has become a valuable resource for academics, institutions, the information system, and international observers.
Each year, the Report is built around six dichotomies, which are illustrated by six essays and 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 supplemented by sample surveys, which in this year’s edition investigated some of the themes traditionally proposed by the Eurispes: citizens’ trust in institutions, citizens’ evaluation of government work, the economic condition of families, savings, poverty, consumption, pet ownership and care, health, e-commerce, the family and the parent-child relationship, the role of grandparents, food and nutrition.
This year’s Report, in its thirty-first edition, revolves around the concept of RESPONSIBILITY as a “key word,” considering it essential for attempting to describe current political, cultural, economic, and social trends, both present and absent.
Index
INDEX
General considerations by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes
In search of lost responsibility
Thirty years with the Italians
This year’s keyword
Separated at home
A fragile system
A confused country
The flight from responsibility
A national sport
Between barkers and arrogance
An indispensable project
In the middle of the ford
A question of common sense
A country of emigrants
Reconnecting “country” and “system”
Chapter 1 Responsibility/Irresponsibility
Essay | The individual-community tug-of-war
1 | (Survey) Institutions: a slow and laborious recovery of trust
2 | Italian economic policy as a motion of inertia, or state inertia
3 | Marital instability in Italy: an analysis of divorces from the nineties to today
4 | Representative and participatory democracy and the reform of the third sector in Italy
5 | Protecting work: all the numbers of the armed forces
6 | Financial police: guarding the country’s economy
7 | The tax justice reform
8 | (Survey) Past and future: grandparents and children in Italian families
9 | The digital universe: fake news and post-truths
10 | Metropolitan Islam
Chapter 2 Culture/Cultures
Essay | ‘Cultures’ at the time of globalisation
11 | Common goods: the city and the recovery of urban spaces
12 | Italy, room with a view
13 | Reading in Italy. so many books, so few readers
14 | (Survey) The knowledge necessary for a “virtuous school”: citizens’ opinion
15 | (Survey) Food alternatives: vegetarians and vegans
16 | (Survey) Italians and their pets
17 | Hinduism in Italy
18 | Food supplements? in excellent health. sales boom in Italy
19 | Italians do not renounce beauty and wellness: cosmetics and wellness defy the crisis
20 | 50 shades of organic
Chapter 3 Fear/Courage
Essay | Fears, courage
21 | (Survey) Information and risk perception
22 | De-radicalisation techniques in Europe and Italy
23 | (Survey) The economic condition of households: cautious optimism?
24 | Sharing economy: towards a philosophy of sharing
25 | From hospital to social residence (from OPG to REMS)
26 | Regional railways and safety standards
27 | Bullying and cyberbullying, the multifaceted face of youth discomfort
28 | Early school leaving: picture of an open and possible challenge
29 | (Survey) Stalking violence
30 | The 2017 migration in the mainstream media’s reflections
Chapter 4 Trust / Distrust
Essay | Between trust and mistrust, only the utmost trust last.
31 | Wellness finally. the new BES indicators in the budget cycle in Italy
32 | (Survey) Citizens and media: always on
33 | Treatment abroad and cross-border health assistance
34 | The doctor-patient relationship in the digital age
35 | The national health system and the changing Italian society
36 | How to clean Italy
37 | Dia: a multiple force structure against organised crime
38 | Efficiency of the financial administration
39 | Italian banks, European geofinance and regulatory short-circuit risks
40 | Digital Italy
Chapter 5 Growth / Development
Essay | Growth and development: a necessary divorce
41 | Between mafia and terrorism: the role of DNA
42 | (Survey) Italian families’ expenditure: more growth, fewer instalments?
43 | Italy and workforce. the commitments of the new European pillar of social rights
44 | Italy and the challenge of the BRICS states in the Mediterranean area
45 | A tool for projecting Italy abroad
46 | For a gender sustainable development: Italy and the equal opportunities
of leadership in the fifth goal of the 2030 agenda
47 | Bitter waters. New technologies at the service of the sea
48 | Tourism: underground economy blocks development
49 | The phenomenon of food delivery
50 | The emerging phenomenon of esports
Chapter 6 To Come / To Become
Essay | A change of an era
51 | (Survey) Italians and climate change: opinions and behaviours in comparison
52 | Climate change and migrations
53 | An economy on wheels: the new life of the bike
54 | Smart cities in Italy between successes and delays
55 | The behaviour of Italians become “sustainable.”
56 | The passion of Italians for video between tv and web
57 | Italian houses become technological: the smart home market grows
58 | Online advertising: internet advertising is growing
59 | The social tv phenomenon in Italy
60 | The food choices of Italians between health, wellness and advice from web influencers
ESSAYS BY:
ALBERTO BALDAZZI • VINCENZO MACRÌ • CLOTILDE MARINACCI • ALBERTO MATTIACCI • ANTONIO NICITA • MARCO RICCERI