Italian politics and an example of quick but insightful political economy analysis
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Schools, technology, and the COVID-19 response in Italy: a weak system but a resilient response
At the end of March, Italian novelist Francesca Melandri wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian. She started her article with: “I am writing to you from Italy, which means I am writing from your future. We are now where you will be in a few days.”
Has Italy turned right?
The first results of today’s parliamentary election are being broadcasted by media and newspapers’ TV channels. As of today the Movimento 5 Stelle is the first party in Italy . It is followed by the centre-right coalition with Lega Nord and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia. The centre left party which was leading the government has
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Venice through the Doing Development Differently lens
I went to Venezia with my family while travelling in Italy in July. I had not be there for about 20 years. My wife, who is not Italian, had been there a couple of times. My daughters really wanted to go there and see it with their own eyes for the first time. On the
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Article 18: political language, media and the shrinking space for evidence in Italy
Italians like to talk about politics. Political talk shows have been popular but they seem to have reached a saturation point. Too many of them. In the morning. Later afternoon. Evening. Some shows are better than others but they also start to all look alike. The same politicians and journalists as guests. Not always
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Politics 1 – Evidence 0. The Italian political crisis in spite of all the (mainly negative) evidence
Here is what the evidence says about Italy. The Annual Report 2013 published by the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Italian National Institute of Statistics) presents the evidence from 2012: Italy has the highest level in Europe of young people who are neither in education nor employment: 23.9 percent. The number of people living in families
The political battles in Rome and the role of knowledge and evidence in decision-making processes at sub-national level
Interesting times in Italian politics. President Napolitano has assigned the task of forming a new government to Pier Luigi Bersani, the leader of the Democratic Party Italy\’s leading center-left party which in this month (i.e.March) election secured a majority in the Chamber of Deputies but not in the Senate. A new government requires the vote
Evidence can wait. Can’t it?
I woke up this morning thinking about the political situation in Italy. Yesterday, President Napolitano, began meetings with the various parties represented in the parliament to understand if and to whom give the task of trying to establish a government which will also need to be voted by the majority of parliamentarians in the two
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