The new cycle of the School of Political Science for the 2024/2025 academic year, it will analyze and host the excellent witnesses of the "Republics", giving them the floor to tell the story from the protagonists' side.
These are leading figures from institutions at the highest levels of parliamentary representation and national government, invited taking into account the need to maintain a balance between the political cultures of origin.
The scansion of political cycles in the last decades has seen a first half that we could define as the "Great crisis”, starring Giuliano Amato (Head of Government from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001), followed by Lamberto Dini (1995/1996), Romano Prodi (1996/1998 and 2006/2008), Massimo D'Alema (1998/2000), and finally Mario Monti (2011/2013), who represented a break with the political governments produced by the season of strong polarization between right-wing and left-wing alliances. The President of the Senate Renato Schifani (2008 to 2013) belongs to the same season.
A second part of the cycle could be defined as that of the “Infinite Transition”, with the presence of Presidents Enrico Letta (2013/2014), Matteo Renzi (2014/2016), Paolo Gentiloni (2016/2018), Giuseppe Conte (2018/2021) and Mario Draghi (2021/2022), characterised by the advent of political movements that had digital communication as their strong point.
At the same time, on the highest seat of the Chambers we have had, among others, Elisabetta Casellati (President of the Senate from 2018 to 2022) and Roberto Fico (President of the Chamber).
The third part of the cycle is marked by the drastic reduction in the number of parliamentarians after the entry into force of the constitutional law, with the presidency of Giorgia Meloni.
Events
2024/2025 academic year
Contact information, enrolment, and fees
Lessons will be held every Thursday in mixed mode in person and online on the platform Everywhere from 14:00 pm to 16:00 pm, unless otherwise scheduled, starting from 11 December 2024.
The School is open to all UNINT students. The number of credits to be awarded to each student is determined by the respective degree course to which they belong.
How to register:
Send an email from your University mailbox to the address scuolapolitica@unint.eu, writing in the subject “registration to the School of Political Sciences” and indicating in the body of the email your name and surname, the degree course you are enrolled in and your student number.
Participants will be issued a certificate of attendance under the following conditions:
- participation in at least 80% of lessons;
- final interview on a topic chosen by the student and agreed with the scientific committee.
The school will be open to an external public, subject to agreements reached with the scientific committee.
The difficult art of government.
Institutions and leaders in the transition of the Republics.
Without wanting to use bombastic and somewhat démodé adjectives, such as those referring to “fatal” passages in the life of peoples, we must recognize that the last decades, starting from the 90s, have profoundly modified the anthropological and then political and institutional panorama of our country.
The media, with a fortunate synthesis that was influenced by the Gaullist scansion of the constitutional institutions beyond the Alps, christened the ordinal numbering of the Republics, which ended up imposing itself, as often happens, also in other lexicons and even in the academic field.
So we would have known at least three Republics: the First, the one that has within it the Eldorado of the origins (dating back to the Constituent Assembly) with the parties that were protagonists of the public life of the country, and then the shame of Tangentopoli, ends in 1994, with the decline of the party form, the advent of the majority system and, with it, of Silvio Berlusconi in government and the affirmation of the "personal party".
The Second, which was born in 1994 and ideally ended in 2013, with the advent of the “populist” movements and the end of the polarization between two parties, right/left, that the majority should have promoted.
Today we would be in a new phase, a Third Republic that, following the fast movements of digital time, seems to have already swallowed even the ephemeral era of populist activism, sterilizing its most folkloric aspects but not the posture that goes directly from the leader to the people in a dialogue (promoted by social media, because the media of the past, such as the printed press and television, are now considered obsolete) that skips all mediation.
A New Republic that welcomes the first female Prime Minister in the history of the constitutional system, who is also culturally close to what was the so-called “excluded pole”.
