Europe and America Latest News on Radical Politics This book is based on a collection of essays authored by a group of international scholars who participated to the third edition of the seminar series “Populism and Far-Right”, organized in 2024 by Polidemos, the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Political Change of the Università…
All in the family Political Dynasties and the Failed Fantasies of Electoral Democracy in the Philippines The ascendancy of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos in the 2022 presidential elections has come back in vogue the perennial issue of political dynasties in the Philippines. They are not only an historical phenomenon that traces back to the Spanish colonial…
The Use of Culture in Modern Conflicts and Political Competitions An Insight from Ukraine and the Western Balkans The investigation conducted in this volume by Silvia Cittadini, Majlinda Bregasi, Thomas Christiansen, Claudia Annovi, and Sabina de Silva is part of the larger project The Clash of Narratives: The Representation of the Future in Popular Culture…
Il futuro della democrazia italiana Politica e società al tempo del governo Meloni L’obiettivo principale di questo dodicesimo volume della sedie Polidemos è quello di riflettere sui mutamenti intervenuti nella democrazia italiana sia per effetto delle nuove dinamiche internazionali (la fine dell’emergenza pandemica, lo scoppio della guerra in Ucraina, la ridefinizione delle linee strategiche del…
Illiberal Trends Democracies under Pressure A new specter is roaming the world: illiberalism. The past decade has seen a proliferation of studies on the rise of illiberal tendencies in Europe and around the world. Old disputes have been reopened about the compatibility of democracy and liberalism, the correctness of the term “illiberal democracy”, and the…
Latin America at a Glance Recent Political and Electoral Trends Latin America at a Glance: Recent Political and Electoral Trends presents an incisive collection of academic essays derived from a series of international seminars held at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan between November 2022 and April 2023. Edited by Samuele Mazzolini,…
On Tradition, Common Sense and Conspiracies Strategies and Insights of the Contemporary Far-Right This collective book consists of contributions by renowned international scholars of the far right who participated to the second edition of the seminar series “Populism and Far Right”, organized in 2023 by Polidemos, the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Political…
Constitutional Democracy and the Challenges of Anti-Liberalism Lessons from Experience One of the most important lessons from experience we learned in the past decades is the acceleration of changes in international politics, internal regimes as well as in academic research. Climate changes, Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have completely overturned previous narratives of…
Utopian visions, dystopic realities Multidisciplinary reflections on contemporary challenges The crisis of globalisation, the rise of autocratic competitors to the liberal-democratic model, the return of symmetric warfare on European soil, the problem of energy resources and global disparities in accessing them, the consequences of the Anthropocene on the lives of millions of people around the…
PNRR e Città Metropolitane La sfida dei Piani Urbani Integrati È passato quasi un decennio dall’entrata in vigore della Legge 56/2014 “Delrio”, che dopo molti tentativi andati a vuoto istituiva le Città Metropolitane: enti intermedi, di secondo livello, che ereditavano i confini e le strutture delle vecchie province, ma che avrebbero dovuto svolgere nuovi ruoli….
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