The new edition of the School of Political Science for the academic year 2024/2025 will analyse and host the excellent witnesses of the "Republics", giving them the floor to tell History from the side of the protagonists.
These are the leading figures of the institutions at the highest levels of parliamentary representation and national government, invited taking into consideration the need to maintain a balance between the political cultures of origin.
The scanning of political cycles in the last decades has seen an initial period that we could define as the "Great Crisis”, with the protagonist being 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 caesura with the political governments produced by the season of strong polarisation between right-wing and left-wing alliances. To the same season belongs the President of the Senate Renato Schifani (2008 to 2013).
A second part of the cycle could be defined as that of the “Infinite Transition”, with 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 seats of the Parliament we have had, among others, Elisabetta Casellati (President of the Senate from 2018 to 2022) and Roberto Fico (President of the Chamber of Deputees).
The third part of the cycle is marked by the drastic reduction in the number of parliamentarians following the entry into force of the constitutional law, with the presidency of Giorgia Meloni.
Events
Academic year 2024/2025
Contacts, enrolment, and fees
Lectures will be held every Thursday in mixed mode in-person and online on the platform Everywherefrom 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm, unless otherwise scheduled, starting from 11 December 2024.
The School is open to all UNINT students. The number of ECTS to be awarded to each student is determined by their respective degree course.
How to register:
Send an e-mail 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 e-mail your name and surname, the degree course you are enrolled in and your matriculation number.
A certificate of attendance will be issued to participants under the following conditions:
- participation in at least 80% of the lectures;
- 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 governance.
Institutions and leaders in the transition of the Republics.
Without using bombastic and somewhat démodé adjectives, such as those referring to “fatal” passages in the life of peoples, we must recognise that the last decades, starting from the 90s, have profoundly changed the anthropological and then political and institutional landscape of Italy.
The media, with a fortunate synthesis that was influenced by the Gaullist scansion of the constitutional institutions beyond the Alps, baptised the ordinal numbering of the Republics, which ended up imposing itself, as often happens, also in other lexicons and even in the academic sphere.
Thus 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 (bribery scandal), ends in 1994, with the decline of the party form, the advent of the majority system and, with it, 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 right/left polarisation that the majoritarian system was supposed to promote.
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, sterilising its most folkloric aspects but not the posture that from the leader directly reaches the people in a dialogue (promoted by social media, because the media of the past, such as print and television, are now considered obsolete) that skips all mediation.
A New Republic that welcomes the first woman Prime Minister in the history of the Italian constitutional system, who is also culturally close to what was the so-called “excluded pole”.
