Power and Democracy
type: channel
description: Power and Democracy – Rivista internazionale di Politica, Filosofia e Diritto è una pubblicazione scientifica on-line, a carattere semestrale, peer-reviewed e open access. La Rivista è inclusa nell'elenco ANVUR delle Riviste scientifiche dell'Area 12 - Scienze giuridiche e dell'Area 14 - Scienze politiche e sociali.
publisher: Tocqueville-Acton Centro Studi e Ricerche
language: it
publication name: Power and Democracy
items: DOPO LA “FINE DELLA STORIA”. IL TEMA DELL’IDENTITÀ IN FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
items: IDENTITÀ E ITERAZIONI DEMOCRATICHE IN SEYLA BENHABIB.VERSO UN ALTRO COSMOPOLITISMO?
items: CULTURA DI DAVOS E DENAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLE ÉLITE IN SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
items: L’IDENTITÀ CASTRISTA A CUBA COME TELEOLOGIA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE
items: SUL TEMA DELLE IDENTITÀ COLLETTIVE NELLA TEORIA POLITICA TRA VECCHIO E NUOVO SECOLO
items: POLITICA E AMMINISTRAZIONE IN UNA PROSPETTIVA DI EFFETTIVITÀ
items: ALLA RADICE DEL LIBERALISMO: DEVIAZIONI STORICHE E DIFFERENZE TRAIL SEME LIBERALE EUROPEO E IL LIBERALISMO AMERICANO
items: LA CRISI DELLA DEMOCRAZIA LIBERALE: TECNO-SOVRANISMO E TECNO-POPULISMO IN PROSPETTIVA STORICA IN FRANCIA E IN ITALIA (1992-2022)
items: GUERRA E PACE NELLA TEORIA POLITICA CONTEMPORANEA
items: LA VIA ISTITUZIONALE ALLA PACE:DON LUIGI STURZO TEORICODELLE RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI
items: SEMPLIFICAZIONI PROCEDURALI E NUOVI CENTRALISMI IN MATERIA PAESAGGISTICA E AMBIENTALE
items: HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY: FROM NATION BRANDING TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION
items: RAYMOND BOUDON: PER UNA RISCOPERTA DEL SOGGETTO NELLA DIMENSIONE DEL POLITICO E DEL SOCIALE
items: INDIVIDUALISMO VERSUS COLLETTIVISMO
items: PARRESIASTI O ESPERTI?
items: Un metodo tutt’altro che semplice. Democrazia e mediazione nella riflessione di Alcide De Gasperi
items: Dalla neutralità alla circolarità tra diritto dell’economia e Costituzione
items: Ordung: la Scuola di Friburgo e l’etica economica di Wilhelm Röpke
items: «Il principio liberale ha fallito»?
items: Integrazione europea, federalismo e buon governo liberale nel pensiero di Einaudi
items: Federalismo ed economia sociale di mercato: l’esperienza tedesca
items: Dottrina sociale della Chiesa, economia sociale di mercato e federalismo
items: LA SENTENZA DOBBS E IL DIRITTO DI ABORTO. L’INTERPRETAZIONE COSTITUZIONALE COME QUESTIONE DI DIVISIONE DI POTERI
items: GOVERNO SENZA CAPI O DEMOCRAZIA DEL LEADER?
items: OLTRE IL ‘MOMENTO’: RIFLESSIONI SU DEMOCRAZIA, POPULISMO E SCIENZA MODERNA
items: VESTFALIA: L’EQUILIBRIO DI POTENZA TRA SOVRANITÀ E DIPLOMAZIA.
items: LOST BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC AND POSITIVE PEACE: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY
items: LE “REGOLARITÀ” DEL CICLO POLITICO
items: Il bene comune nella concezione liberale
items: La crisi dello stato tra economia, tecnologia e soggetti economici “sovrani”

DOPO LA “FINE DELLA STORIA”. IL TEMA DELL’IDENTITÀ IN FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
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description: The central themes of Francis Fukuyama’s latest books are the challanges that the liberal-democratic model he celebrated in The End of History and the Last Man (1992) has to face. The question of identity politics appears to be one of the most urgent issues and is one of the themes to which Fukuyama devotes the most attention, particularly in the works Identity (2018) and Liberalism and Its Discontents (2022). This focus shows a shift in a more realistic sense compared to the celebratory style used in The End of History. This realist note and the attention to the challenges posed to liberal democracies brings him closer, in terms of sensitivity, to his intellectual adversary and mentor Samuel P. Huntington. The Fukuyama of recent years therefore shows that he is coming to terms with his own work of the early years and with the legacy of his adversary-mentor Samuel Huntington.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Francis Fukuyama
  topic: keywords
subject: End of History
  topic: keywords
subject: After the End of History
  topic: keywords
subject: Identity Politics
  topic: keywords
subject: Samuel P. Huntington
  topic: keywords
creator: Luisa Borghesi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 63
ending page: 75

IDENTITÀ E ITERAZIONI DEMOCRATICHE IN SEYLA BENHABIB.VERSO UN ALTRO COSMOPOLITISMO?
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description: Since the end of the Twentieth century, the socio-cultural boundaries of political communities have been challenged, state sovereignty has been frayed and an intensification of antagonisms related to religious, ethnic and cultural issues has emerged. Within this framework, this paper intends to investigate whether the “democratic iterations” envisioned by Seyla Benhabib (2004) allow the “abstract” normativism of Rawls and Habermas to be overcome, without renouncing the foundations of their discourse ethics. Therefore, the contribution’s aim is to analyse how Benhabib’s proposal of a deliberative democracy opens to cultural integration and gender emancipation lets new processes of multicultural identity’s construction to begin, in view of a new model of cosmopolitan citizenship.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Seyla Benhabib
  topic: keywords
subject: democratic iterations
  topic: keywords
subject: deliberative democracy
  topic: keywords
subject: multiculturalism
  topic: keywords
subject: cosmopolitan citizenship
  topic: keywords
creator: Maria Teresa Pacilè
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 49
ending page: 62

CULTURA DI DAVOS E DENAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLE ÉLITE IN SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
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description: As part of the ongoing debate on the rise and decline of the West, this essay analyzes the origin and development of Samuel P. Huntington’s critique of the idea of “universal civilization”, from The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) to Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity (2004). The paper will focus on the concepts of “Davos Culture” and “Davos Man”, framing by Huntington, as well as the terms “cosmopolitan elites” versus “nationalist publics,” used by the author to describe the coming “global class warfare” of the 21st century.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Samuel P. Huntington
  topic: keywords
subject: Universal Civilization
  topic: keywords
subject: National Identity
  topic: keywords
subject: Clash of Civilizations
  topic: keywords
subject: Immigration
  topic: keywords
creator: Andrea Cannizzo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 31
ending page: 48

L’IDENTITÀ CASTRISTA A CUBA COME TELEOLOGIA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE
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description: In Cuba the study of national identity, from a political-social point of view, has a long history that accompanied the process of formation of the national state, in some cases very similar to the experiences of the rest of the new continent, especially the Hispanic, in other cases profoundly different due to the geographical proximity and the strong political interest of the United States. The long process of Cuban independence, started with the War of 1898 and continued through the controversial relationship with the United States, finds its singularity in the Castroist revolution and its political and cultural link.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Cuba
  topic: keywords
subject: Castrism
  topic: keywords
subject: Independence
  topic: keywords
subject: Revolución
  topic: keywords
subject: Identity
  topic: keywords
creator: Italia Maria Cannataro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 21
ending page: 30

SUL TEMA DELLE IDENTITÀ COLLETTIVE NELLA TEORIA POLITICA TRA VECCHIO E NUOVO SECOLO
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description: This paper focuses on the debate on multiculturalism and collective identities and rights at the turn of the century. The author attempts to assess the role and significance of the legacy of that debate on the methodology of political theory today. He shares Bikhu Parekh’s idea that Western political theorists should be careful in distinguishing self-proclaimed universalism from disguised ethnocentrism.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Multiculturalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Democracy
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural identities
  topic: keywords
subject: Universalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethnocentrism
  topic: keywords
creator: Franco M. Di Sciullo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-10-31
publication date: 2024-10-31
starting page: 7
ending page: 20

POLITICA E AMMINISTRAZIONE IN UNA PROSPETTIVA DI EFFETTIVITÀ
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description: The article is focused on the relationship between politics and public administration from an Italian perspective. The A. summarily analyses the institutional pattern and related institutional practices, starting from the enduring primacy of politics over administration, to the normative establishment in 1993 of a (formal) principle to distinguish politics and administration. Moreover, the article tries to look ahead at the necessary (substantive) equilibrium between politics and administration, which should be sought in order to remodel the public decision-making chain by making it oriented to administrative effectiveness.
subject: Teoria, Argomentazione e Prassi
  topic: section
subject: Politics & administration
  topic: keywords
subject: Effective administration
  topic: keywords
subject: Better regulation
  topic: keywords
subject: Administrative organization
  topic: keywords
creator: Maria De Benedetto
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-03-31
publication date: 2024-03-31
starting page: 73
ending page: 90

ALLA RADICE DEL LIBERALISMO: DEVIAZIONI STORICHE E DIFFERENZE TRAIL SEME LIBERALE EUROPEO E IL LIBERALISMO AMERICANO
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description: The paper analyzes, through the political approach, the historical and cultural perspectives of liberalism. What are the reasons that have led to such a clear distinction of the term liberalism in the European and contemporary world? We will see the seed of European liberalism and its “constructivist approach”, in which the fi rst defi nitions of liberalism are derived from the Nation-State of the modern era. Otherwise, in the American world, the refl ection has been less institutional and more visceral, linked to an “evolutionary” vision of society. During the 18th century, the fi rst major difference was established between the European Nation-States and the newborn USA: the liberalism of the former saw a top-down vision while the Americans a bottom-up vision.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Liberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Constructivist Approach
  topic: keywords
subject: Evolutionary Approach
  topic: keywords
subject: Nation-States
  topic: keywords
subject: USA
  topic: keywords
creator: Matteo Flauto
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-03-31
publication date: 2024-03-31
starting page: 53
ending page: 70

LA CRISI DELLA DEMOCRAZIA LIBERALE: TECNO-SOVRANISMO E TECNO-POPULISMO IN PROSPETTIVA STORICA IN FRANCIA E IN ITALIA (1992-2022)
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description: The concept of populism has played a central role in contemporary debate for several decades. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the transformation of liberal democracies - in historical perspective - in the experience of France and Italy, in light of the intertwining and hybridization of the concepts of populism, sovereignism, and technocracy.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Techno-sovereignism;
  topic: keywords
subject: Techno-populism
  topic: keywords
subject: “fracture sociale”
  topic: keywords
subject: Maastricht Treaty
  topic: keywords
subject: “Second Republic”
  topic: keywords
creator: Gian Marco Sperelli
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-03-31
publication date: 2024-03-31
starting page: 31
ending page: 51

GUERRA E PACE NELLA TEORIA POLITICA CONTEMPORANEA
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description: The international principles developed over time are disregarded, but confirmed by the evidence of facts; the war, which became “a pieces", must now be managed across the board, with the involvement of those not directly involved, they have so far kept aloof; considering that globalization no longer allows the use of politics power. The essential task to which the West should therefore once again dedicating oneself is to narrating, explaining to public opinions the components and perspectives of the current international situation are disoriented. Proceeding from the sterile stability of the bipolarism it has ensured continental peace for over half a century, towards some form of international, multilateral, behavioral constitutionalism, essentially liberal.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: #war
  topic: keywords
subject: #peace
  topic: keywords
subject: #geopolitics
  topic: keywords
creator: Guido Lenzi
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-03-31
publication date: 2024-03-31
starting page: 25
ending page: 29

LA VIA ISTITUZIONALE ALLA PACE:DON LUIGI STURZO TEORICODELLE RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI
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description: The article aims to show the relevance and vitality of don Luigi Sturzo’s work as a theorist of international relations. In particular, the paper focuses on what could be described as the three institutional analyses of the question of war and peace discussed by Sturzo in his book The International Community and the Right of War (1929). Not only is it of great interest to examine the analysis contained in this text but, in the growing tensions between the United States, Russia, and China, some of the problems addressed by Sturzo are being raised again today and made even more dramatic by the war in Ukraine and in the Gaza Strip.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: International Law;
  topic: keywords
subject: War;
  topic: keywords
subject: Institutions;
  topic: keywords
subject: Peace;
  topic: keywords
subject: Sturzo
  topic: keywords
creator: Lorenzo Zambernardi
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-03-31
publication date: 2024-03-31
starting page: 9
ending page: 23

SEMPLIFICAZIONI PROCEDURALI E NUOVI CENTRALISMI IN MATERIA PAESAGGISTICA E AMBIENTALE
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description: The analysis of the decision of the Council of State, Studies Office about landscape and building industry matters, leads to some refl ections on the legal framework on landscaping authorisation required under article 146 of Legislative Decree n. 42/2004. In particular, after a short excursus on landscape and its governance from organizational point of view, the article deals with the issue of the superintendent’s advice in this procedure, and what happens in case of his inertia. Legal and juridical interpretations on the matter are listed by the Council of State, and it represents the occasion to meditate upon the application of the simplifying remedy offered by the article 17 of the Administrative Procedure Act (Law n. 241/1990). The circumstance leads to a further critical analysis about the various changes introduced by the Recovery and Resilience Plan, with regards to the establishment of a super-Superintendent for the protection and valorisation policies of the landscape.
subject: Teoria, Argomentazione e Prassi
  topic: section
subject: Landscape
  topic: keywords
subject: Landscaping authorisation
  topic: keywords
subject: Superintendent
  topic: keywords
subject: Organizational Reforms
  topic: keywords
subject: RRP
  topic: keywords
creator: Giuseppina Papini
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-10-31
publication date: 2023-10-31
starting page: 93
ending page: 124

HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY: FROM NATION BRANDING TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION
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description: The paper aims at providing a comprehensive view on the history and evolution of the practice of Public Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy over the last century. Through the analysis of case studies and existing literature, the paper traces the path from the born on Public Diplomacy, its evolution on Cultural Diplomacy and it use in Nation Branding activities. The paper has a special focus on the new concept of Cultural Diplomacy in Post-Confl ict Reconciliation programs, delinando the main characteristics, crucial and problematic aspects and possible future developments.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Public Diplomacy
  topic: keywords
subject: Cultural Diplomacy
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Culture
  topic: keywords
subject: Myanmar
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethiopia
  topic: keywords
creator: Sabina de Silva
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-10-31
publication date: 2023-10-31
starting page: 57
ending page: 92

RAYMOND BOUDON: PER UNA RISCOPERTA DEL SOGGETTO NELLA DIMENSIONE DEL POLITICO E DEL SOCIALE
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description: This short contribution aims to concentrate on the main guidelines which inspire the essays of Raymond Boudon recently published in Italian by Salvatore Abbruzzese. We will focus on the “Theory of ordinary rationality” and Boudon’s critical confrontation with sociological theories derived from “naturalism” and “structuralism”, especially with regard to the political implications.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Raymond Boudon
  topic: keywords
subject: Ordinary Rationality
  topic: keywords
subject: Individualism
  topic: keywords
subject: Naturalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Structuralism
  topic: keywords
creator: Ishvarananda Cucco
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-10-31
publication date: 2023-10-31
starting page: 41
ending page: 55

INDIVIDUALISMO VERSUS COLLETTIVISMO
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description: This paper aims at showing that methodological Individualism and methodological Collectivism are alternative approaches for the explanation of social phenomena but there are different reasons (ontological, gnoseological, methodological and ethical-political) in favor of the individualistic method. The problem is not the use of collective concepts, but the ontological and epistemological status attributed to them: for individualists they are sets attributable to individual interactions, they constitute the habitat of intersubjective action and are explained as uninteded consequences of human actions; thereby recognizing man’s freedom and responsability.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Individualism
  topic: keywords
subject: Collectivism
  topic: keywords
subject: Gnoseological
  topic: keywords
subject: Fallibilism
  topic: keywords
subject: Spontaneous Order
  topic: keywords
subject: Open Society
  topic: keywords
creator: Simona Fallocco
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-10-31
publication date: 2023-10-31
starting page: 27
ending page: 40

PARRESIASTI O ESPERTI?
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description: In this article, I put forward some initial thoughts with a view to a deeper and wider work. They aim at showing how the problem of ‘telling the truth’ (parrêsia) remains open, especially if considered in connection with the ‘intellectual’, who may be understood both as the ‘parrhesiast’ and the ‘expert’. After showing the problematic aspects inherent to the notion of parrêsia, especially in its relationship with democracy, I will discuss the two above-mentioned figures of the intellectual, in the light of positions expressed by Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Paul Feyerabend. More generally, my point is to let some problematic, and controversial, aspects emerge concerning the contemporary relationships between democracy, power and ‘telling the truth’.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
  topic: section
subject: Parrhesia and Democracy
  topic: keywords
subject: Intellectuals and Power
  topic: keywords
subject: Michel Foucault
  topic: keywords
subject: Edward Said
  topic: keywords
subject: Paul Feyerabend
  topic: keywords
creator: Flavia Monceri
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2023-10-31
publication date: 2023-10-31
starting page: 7
ending page: 25

Un metodo tutt’altro che semplice. Democrazia e mediazione nella riflessione di Alcide De Gasperi
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description: The aim of this paper is to explain the main points of the idea of (representative) democracy formulated by Alcide De Gasperi, few decades ago. At the heart of his reflection, there are the keys to understanding the constitutive elements of Italian parliamentary democracy, especially regarding the link between mediation and disintermediation. Through the focus on this relationship, this article shows that – with an unchanged institutional system – it is possible to have leaderships that favor political mediation and others that prefer disintermediation.
subject: Sezione Monografica
  topic: section
subject: Alcide De Gasperi
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Leadership
  topic: keywords
subject: Disintermediation
  topic: keywords
subject: Liberal Democracy
  topic: keywords
subject: Political Representation
  topic: keywords
creator: Antonio Campati
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-31
publication date: 2022-12-31
starting page: 180
ending page: 195

Dalla neutralità alla circolarità tra diritto dell’economia e Costituzione
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description: This work is part of the debate on the delicate relationship between the market economy and democracy, centered on the attempt to identify which of these can be considered an independent variable with respect to the other in the current socio-economic context and in the light of the challenges posed by digitization. The work focuses in particular on the circularity between economic law and the constitution, where the protection of competition, understood in normative and not merely utilitarian terms, would be aimed at preserving their function of ordering criteria of the exchange processes that take place in the private sphere, also conforming to their rules those that take place in the public sphere in order to determine a balance between the political order, the economic order and the social order. The thesis on which the article revolves is based on the idea according to which a regulatory approach to the protection of competition, based on the recognition of the circularity between economic law and the constitution, represents an essential condition so that, in the current socio-economic context, liberal democracy and digital capitalism can coexist while preserving a free society.
subject: Sezione Monografica
  topic: section
subject: Economic Law
  topic: keywords
subject: Constitutionalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Competition Law
  topic: keywords
subject: Digital Economy
  topic: keywords
subject: Ordoliberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Public Choice
  topic: keywords
subject: Democracy
  topic: keywords
subject: Free Market
  topic: keywords
subject: Open Society
  topic: keywords
creator: Fabio Giuseppe Angelini
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-31
publication date: 2022-12-31
starting page: 138
ending page: 179

Ordung: la Scuola di Friburgo e l’etica economica di Wilhelm Röpke
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description: In this essay, we will focus on ordoliberal thought and the contribution of Wilhelm Röpke, with reference to the positions he expressed in the Italian press and the relationship between economics, ethics and the Magisterium of the Church. In this framework, among the different sensitivities of the Ordo liberals, Röpke’s emphasis on the freedom and dignity of every man seems to place his work within the tradition of Catholic social thought, anticipating, in some ways, his later developments on the themes of the market, competition and solidarity, in relation to the Social Market Economy.
subject: Sezione Monografica
  topic: section
subject: Röpke;
  topic: keywords
subject: Liberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Ordoliberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Market Economy
  topic: keywords
subject: Liberal Catholicism
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Doctrine of the Church
  topic: keywords
subject: Freiburg School
  topic: keywords
creator: Mauro Bontempi
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-31
publication date: 2022-12-31
starting page: 118
ending page: 137

«Il principio liberale ha fallito»?
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description: The cultural-historical roots of the social market economy are not to be found in the tradition of Catholic social thought or the Social Doctrine of the Church, which until the 1960s opposed (neo-)liberalism, criticizing its individualism and the principle of competition. Rather, they are located in the culture and philosophy of German Protestantism and cannot be understood without this religious reference. In a cultural milieu hostile to liberalism, a sui generis liberal economic-social model developed, around which academic resistance during the Third Reich could be organized. Today it can be considered an economic model consistent with the principles of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
subject: Sezione Monografica
  topic: section
subject: Freiburg Circles
  topic: keywords
subject: Economics and Religion
  topic: keywords
subject: German neoliberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Market Economy
  topic: keywords
subject: Protestantism and Ordoliberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Doctrine of the Church
  topic: keywords
creator: Markus Krienke
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-31
publication date: 2022-12-31
starting page: 86
ending page: 118

Integrazione europea, federalismo e buon governo liberale nel pensiero di Einaudi
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description: In this article I reconstruct Luigi Einaudi’s thinking on the need for European integration through a federation, advancing three theses. Einaudi’s dream of the ‘United States of Europe’: 1) cannot be understood except in the light of his liberal thought: his reflection on the foundations of a good politeia, understood as a liberal ‘good society’ and liberal ‘good government’; 2) is traversed by two polarities – economic/institutional, local/global – which he conceives as lines of tension: both generative and potentially destructive of the social order; 3) shows, through the search for a “mediating formula” between these lines of tension, the eternal ‘human’ problem of every integration process and every community: how to recognize ourselves as united in diversity.
subject: Sezione Monografica
  topic: section
subject: European Integration
  topic: keywords
subject: Federalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Good government;
  topic: keywords
subject: Liberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Global
  topic: keywords
subject: Local
  topic: keywords
creator: Paolo Silvestri
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-31
publication date: 2022-12-31
starting page: 57
ending page: 85

Federalismo ed economia sociale di mercato: l’esperienza tedesca
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description: The article discusses the crisis of the European socio-economic model, suggesting the need to build a new federal institutional structure, in which at the same time certain competences are assigned to the European level and respect for the autonomy and specificities of the national and local level is guaranteed. Starting from the German experience of the 20th century, in which the two levels of government – federal and Laender – experimented with different forms of cooperation and autonomy, the article explores the perspective of multilevel constitutionalism for the construction of a completely new multilevel structure in the history of Western democracies coherent with the new multipolar order that is establishing internationally.
subject: Sezione Monografica
  topic: section
subject: European Integration
  topic: keywords
subject: Economic Constitution
  topic: keywords
subject: Social Market Economy
  topic: keywords
subject: Multilevel Constitutionalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Germany
  topic: keywords
creator: Silvia Bruzzi
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-31
publication date: 2022-12-31
starting page: 32
ending page: 56

Dottrina sociale della Chiesa, economia sociale di mercato e federalismo
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description: The article proposes a historical analysis of the affirmation of federalism and the Social market economy in Europe to understand how they can advance the process of European integration in a manner consistent with the multipolar world order that is currently being defined. After having valued the German, French and Italian experience, as well as the role of the Social doctrine of the Church, the article explores the contribution of two prominent post-war authors (Röpke and Einaudi) to the formation of a new humanism on which to build a supportive socio-economic order based on values.
subject: Sezione Monografica
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subject: Social Market Economy
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subject: Röpke;
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subject: Einaudi;
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subject: Federalism
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subject: European Integration
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creator: Dario Velo
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-31
publication date: 2022-12-31
starting page: 6
ending page: 31

LA SENTENZA DOBBS E IL DIRITTO DI ABORTO. L’INTERPRETAZIONE COSTITUZIONALE COME QUESTIONE DI DIVISIONE DI POTERI
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description: This paper aims to suggest an alternative reading of the Dobbs US Supreme Court’s judgment, shifting attention rather than on the philosophical-moral problem of abortion to that of the relationship between democracy and the constitution. The aim of the work is therefore to highlight how the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States – re-proposing through the originalist theses the question of the limits of constitutional adjudication in relation to a particularly divisive issue such as the interruption of pregnancy – offers a valuable opportunity to question the balance between jurisdiction and politics regarding the ways in which our constitutional democracies are called to resolve conflicts between divergent values and moral visions.
subject: Teoria, Argomentazione e Prassi
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subject: Dobbs
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subject: Right to Abortion
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subject: Constitutionalism
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subject: Constitutional Democracy
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subject: Jurisdiction
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subject: Constitutional Adjudication
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subject: Democratic Process
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creator: Fabio G. Angelini
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-02
publication date: 2022-12-02
starting page: 128
ending page: 141

GOVERNO SENZA CAPI O DEMOCRAZIA DEL LEADER?
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description: Since antiquity, the problem of political leaders in democracies has been a difficult issue to tackle. This paper attempts to investigate the close relationship between leadership and democracy, starting from two classical authors such as Plato and Aristotle, and finally suggesting a critical reading of the present. The first part analyses the two philosophers’ political reflections on the figure of leaders and the possible distorting effects that the appearance of these subjects would have in terms of political change. The last part of the paper, on the other hand, reflects on the present, questioning what the classical authors can still tell us about our democracies and the problem of the chief.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
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subject: democracy
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subject: leader
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subject: Plato
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subject: Aristotle
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subject: demagogy
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creator: Michele Sferlinga
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-02
publication date: 2022-12-02
starting page: 97
ending page: 127

OLTRE IL ‘MOMENTO’: RIFLESSIONI SU DEMOCRAZIA, POPULISMO E SCIENZA MODERNA
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description: Populism is surely one of the most investigated political phenomena, also based on the idea that in Western Europe we are currently living in a ‘populist moment’. In this epistemologically oriented article, I consider populism as a case study to show the fallacy of the traditional (modern Western) scientific method, which is still deployed also by political theory and philosophy to approach and investigate allegedly ‘new’ phenomena like populism. In order to argue for my main points, as I introduce them in the first section, I devote the second section to a critical, if brief, discussion of Chantal Mouffe’s For a Left Populism (2018), to then move on to some more general conclusions.
subject: Saggi e Contributi
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subject: democracy
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subject: populism
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subject: modern Western science
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subject: Chantal Mouffe
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creator: Flavia Monceri
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-02
publication date: 2022-12-02
starting page: 80
ending page: 96

VESTFALIA: L’EQUILIBRIO DI POTENZA TRA SOVRANITÀ E DIPLOMAZIA.
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description: The article proposes a reconstruction of the concepts of sovereignty, diplomacy and balance of power in Europe, adopting the genealogical analysis of Michel Foucault. Adopting Foucault’s theoretical perspective, the goal of this article is to identify analysis methodologies compatible with the study of historical and political dynamics of the international relations, in a changing context in which the configuration of the order international appears to be conditioned by the oscillation between rising sovereignty and declining sovereignty, between power politics and diplomacy. In the global scenario – which is becoming more and more characterized according to the division of the greats Spaces, already theorized by Carl Schmitt – the liberal order faces the challenge of re-discussing the logic of government that according to Foucault has given shape to the modern system of international relations.
subject: Sezione Monografica
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subject: sovereignty
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subject: Michel Foucault
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subject: security device,
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subject: diplomacy
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subject: balance of power
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creator: Filippo Corigliano
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-02
publication date: 2022-12-02
starting page: 63
ending page: 79

LOST BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC AND POSITIVE PEACE: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY
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description: Over the last 20 years, the European Union (EU) has promoted democracy and the rule of law in its neighbourhood, failing to achieve significant results. While the causes of this failure have been openly debated in the literature, the EU has recently changed its foreign policy focus from democracy promotion to resilience, a paradigm shift that is even more apparent both in the European Global Strategy (2016) and in the Strategic Compass (2022). Using a preliminary document analysis, we show that the European Neighbourhood Policy can be better understood through the concept of positive peace, arguing that the literature in this field may shed new light not only on the ENP itself, but also on the reasons for its failure. More specifically, we argue that – far from being interested only in the democratization of its neighbours – the ENP aimed at spreading the European zone of peace (i.e., human development and security community); not only this strategy was too ambitious, but it incurred also in some trade-offs that the EU could hardly manage. In doing so, we propose a distinction between policy instruments aimed at fostering positive peace, and desirable outcomes that those instruments should achieve.
subject: Sezione Monografica
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subject: European Union
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subject: Democracy Promotion
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subject: European Neighbourhood Policy
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subject: Positive Peace
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creator: Enrico Fassi
creator: Emanuele Castelli
creator: Antonio Zotti
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-02
publication date: 2022-12-02
starting page: 35
ending page: 62

LE “REGOLARITÀ” DEL CICLO POLITICO
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description: This article considers the main elements of Gianfranco Miglio’s reflection on war, on political violence and on the link between violence and the (domestic and international) political order. In particular, the article shows how Miglio has always been theoretically attracted by the problems of violence and the exercise of power, so much so as to adopt, more or less explicitly, a Thucydidean vision of politics. Furthermore, the text clarifies that Miglio’s perspective is aimed at developing a general theory of the political cycle, within which the international dimension is conceived as dependent on the internal dynamics of political syntheses and, more generally, as a consequence of technological change and the oscillation between the prevalence of the specifically political relationship (the so-called “political obligation”) and the prevalence of the “private” relationship (the “obligation-contract”, or “contract-exchange”).
subject: Sezione Monografica
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subject: Gianfranco Miglio
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subject: War
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subject: Peace
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subject: International relations
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subject: International system
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creator: Damiano Palano
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-12-02
publication date: 2022-12-02
starting page: 5
ending page: 34

Il bene comune nella concezione liberale
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description: The author wonders whether, when faced with the “wounds” of society – injustice, exploitation, violence, cruelty and wars – there is only one face to put in the dock: the liberal conception of society. Or whether the “wounds” of an unjust, cruel and corrupt society spring from a systematic trampling of liberal principles, from a tenacious refusal of the liberal conception of the State. In this regard, the author considers some schools of thought that are profoundly linked: ordoliberalism and the social market economy, through the works of Wilhelm Röpke, Luigi Einaudi and Walter Eucken, and the Austrian school of economics, reporting on the thought of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich August von Hayek.
subject: Sezione Monografica
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subject: Liberalism;
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subject: Ordoliberalism;
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subject: Röpke;
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subject: Einaudi;
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subject: Eucken.
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creator: Dario Antiseri
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-03-31
publication date: 2022-03-31
starting page: 29
ending page: 35

La crisi dello stato tra economia, tecnologia e soggetti economici “sovrani”
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description: In the current economic context, every day - to most people, unpredictably - market operators move huge capital by directing their investments in favor of some regional and national economies - investing in markets or public debt securities - often, to the detriment of other countries, in some cases, marking the destiny of governments or even the stability, not only economic but social, of entire nations. Moreover, in recent years, the dominant force of technology has been added to this financial domination, a limit to national sovereignty. In this scenario, the essay wants to highlight the increasingly emerging role of the so-called private sovereign subjects, to whom only the processes of supranational integration can represent an attempt to react to the protection of state sovereignty, democratically legitimized.
subject: Teoria, Argomentazione e Prassi
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subject: Digital sovereignty;
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subject: Technology;
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subject: Government of the economy;
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subject: Digital regulation.
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creator: Edoardo C. Raffiotta
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Power and Democracy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2022-03-31
publication date: 2022-03-31
starting page: 75
ending page: 102