Carlo Ruzza

Europe and Civil Society provides an in-depth examination of how public interest groups and social movements seek to influence the European policy-making process. The book is based on a comparison of the role of networks of activists and their allies--broadly defined as Movement Advocacy Coalitions--in influencing decision-making at the European Union level in three specific areas of policy-making: environmentalism, anti-racism and ethno-nationalist regionalism. It draws on systematic documentary analysis and an extensive series of interviews with activists and institutional actors to examine the role of public interest organizations in these three areas. This focus reflects topical societal concerns and facilitates new insights into the study of European policy-making, political sociology, and social movement research.

Movement Coalitions and European Governance

Europe and Civil Society

Massimo Brutti

Emanuele Stolfi

Flaminia Saccà

Fedele Cuculo

Milena Gammaitoni

Giuseppe Di Gaspare

Cuculo Fedele

Lorenzo Grifone Baglioni

Arianna Montanari

Michele Negri

Gloria Pirzio Ammassari

Fabrizio Ramacci

Ettore Recchi

Francesco Riccobono

Culture politiche in mutamento ANDREA BIXIO Introduzione CARLO RUZZA Il rapporto tra stato e società in Europa e la sua evoluzione negli anni della crisi globale GLORIA PIRZIO AMMASSARI Istituzioni europee e società civile ETTORE RECCHI, LORENZO GRIFONE BAGLIONI Migrazioni e disuguaglianze: l’integrazione degli stranieri nelle società europee ARIANNA MONTANARI Mutamento e Socialità. Le nuove forme di comunitarismo FLAMINIA SACCÀ Democrazia in Rete MICHELE NEGRI Il mutamento dei ruoli sociali e dei fenomeni organizzativi: i concetti di diffusione e professione Discussioni Giuristi e ideologie MASSIMO BRUTTI Introduzione FRANCESCO RICCOBONO Due visioni del diritto civile. Note a margine di un recente libro di Massimo Brutti EMANUELE STOLFI Giuristi, ideologie e codici. Scialoja e Betti nell’interpretazione di Massimo Brutti GIUSEPPE DI GASPARE Disputa sul metodo nel diritto romano e dominio ideologico nella scienza giuridica: Massimo Brutti, Vittorio Scialoja, Emilio Betti, due visioni del diritto civile Colpevolezza e imputabilità FABRIZIO RAMACCI Convergenze tra presente e passato sul rapporto tra colpevolezza e imputabilità Note FEDELE CUCULO Il diritto naturale e l’esilio di Dio Recensioni RAIMONDO STRASSOLDO Da David a Saatchi Trattato di sociologia dell’arte contemporanea (Milena Gammaitoni)

Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali

Sociologia

Partick Baert

Sokratis M. Koniordos

Giovanna Procacci

This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through thirteen pieces of most recent in-depth sociological research that delve on: challenges to citizenship, civil society and citizenship in early and late modernity, the reflexive imperative in transformations of civil society, social conflict challenges to social science approaches, methodology and explanatory power, gender, minorities-immigrants-refugees and the extension of citizenship, violence in modernity, the place of civil society for sociology, and postcolonialism, trauma, and civil society.

Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

Stefano Fella

Following his third election victory in 2008, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the most controversial head of government in the EU. This is a cogent examination of the Berlusconi phenomenon, exploring the success and development of the new populist right-wing coalition in Italy since the collapse of the post-war party system in the early 1990s. Carlo Ruzza and Stefano Fella provide a comprehensive discussion of the three main parties of the Italian right: Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, the xenophobic and regionalist populist Northern League and the post-fascist National Alliance. The book assesses the implications of this controversial right for the Italian democratic system and examines how the social and political peculiarities of Italy have allowed such political formations to emerge and enjoy repeated electoral success. Framed in a comparative perspective, the authors: explore the nature of the Italian right in the context of right-wing parties and populist phenomena elsewhere in other advanced democracies, drawing comparisons and providing broader explanations. locate the parties of the Italian right within the existing theoretical conceptions of right-wing and populist parties, utilising a multi-method approach, including a content analysis of party programmes. highlight the importance of political and discursive opportunities in explaining the success of the Italian right, and the agency role of a political leadership that has skilfully shaped and communicated an ideological package to exploit these opportunities. Providing an excellent insight into a key European nation, this work provides a thoughtful and stimulating contribution to the research on the Italian right, and its implications for democratic politics.

Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism'

Re-inventing the Italian Right

Successive EU treaties may have instituted a common framework for fighting racial discrimination and intolerance across Europe, but it is a framework that masks the significant differences that arise as a result of national context: for example, pre-existing national anti-racist policies and legislation; the degree of success, character and development of anti-racist movements as well as the political, socio-economic and cultural context in which these policies and movements arise. The aim of this book is to provide an understanding of these different national contexts by exploring the nature of anti-racist movements in six different EU member states and their relationship to political institutions and policy-making, while also reflecting on the impact of the new European sphere of decision-making. Drawing on extensive primary research involving interviews with movement and policy actors at the national and EU level, the book sheds light on the nature of racism and responses to it across Europe, analysing the impact of Europeanisation of policy-making on the sector, and exploring north-south and east-west differences and patterns of convergence.

Between Europeanisation and National Trajectories

Anti-Racist Movements in the EU

Carlo Ruzza

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