Vita e Pensiero

La pandemia costituisce un’esperienza che i giovani non potranno dimenticare

Prima dei fatti è il titolo della rubrica di Sergio Zavoli apparsa quotidianamente sulla prima pagina di «Avvenire»

La contestazione, fino al rifiuto, dell’autorità quale freno alla libera espressione del sé è una delle eredità del secondo

La cittadinanza è un istituto fondamentale dei sistemi democratici, ma ha da sempre un duplice volto: include chi la possie

The essay argues the constitutional centrality of local democracy, both in the light of the Italian Constitution, and of the practices of democratic participation at the municipal level. These practices have already stimulated the adoption of institutional tools suitable for promoting and enhancing citizens’ participation...

The essay examines the relations between the transformations of the party system and the events of territorial autonomy, on the basis of a perspective of analysis that regards political parties and territorial autonomies as the two engines of the democratization of the legal system set up by the Italian constituent assembly. In the recent experience, this approach reveals the close relationship between the following two phenomena: on the side of autonomies, the redefinition of their form of government in the direction of a monocratic concentration of power, initially enacted at the municipal level and later extended at the regional level too...

Primo fascicolo del 2021