Hybrid ItalyA Democracy amid Global Disorder A CURA DI DAMIANO PALANO “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Tancredi’s celebrated maxim in The Leopard has long served as the master key to Italian politics: a country where every rupture seems to dissolve into continuity, every revolution into restoration….
Democrazie nella tempestaVecchie fratture e nuove turbolenze in un mondo in disordine A CURA DI DAMIANO PALANO Democrazie nella tempesta offre una panoramica critica sullo stato delle democrazie contemporanee in un’epoca segnata da turbolenze politiche, economiche, tecnologiche, accelerate dalla “rivoluzione” di Donald Trump. L’obiettivo del volume è indagare come i sistemi democratici – vecchi e…
Studiare la storia del pensiero politicoAtti del convegno Aispp 2024 A CURA DI LUCA GINO CASTELLIN – CHIARA CONTINISIO Cosa significa studiare la storia del pensiero politico oggi? I saggi raccolti in questo volume offrono una risposta ampia e articolata, restituendo il panorama delle ricerche in corso nella comunità degli storici e delle storiche del…
SPORT AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE CHANGING WORLD ORDER The approach of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics offers a timely occasion to reconsider the intricate relationship between sport and political power. Far from being mere sporting spectacles, the Olympic Games belong to a broader category of global mega-events characterized by extensive media visibility, substantial fi…
Understanding Chinese Politics In the 21st Century Democracy, Society and Strategic Ambitions More than a decade after Xi Jinping’s rise to power, China remains central yet often misunderstood in global debates. Too frequently reduced to polarized narratives or Western conceptual frameworks, its complexity escapes simplified explanations. This volume brings together young scholars from different disciplines…
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…
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