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

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