Italy today 2001.

Indice:

Relations, conflicts and fears in the global society

(Towards a "relational" society; The decline of collective conflict; The multiplication of fears; The unstable feeling of belonging of micro-social identities; Latent tensions implode on an individual level; Intermediate bodies vis-à-vis the challenge of "representation"; The technological consumer challenged by the crisis; The new faces of Italy's dynamic thrust; The repositioning of businesses in the economic downturn)

Part III. Areas of social policy

Education and training

(The endless start-up of the Italian school system; The school system's contribution to language proficiency and computer literacy; Mass university education and the right to quality; The benefits of investing in people; Education and employment: bridging the gap; The qualification of Italy's human resources)

Work, professional skills and representation

(The commitments for post-welfare labor policies; The positive and negative aspects of individual work; Development skills; The non-reformed culture of public employment)

The Welfare System

(The demand for equity is back; Health under threat; The risk of disparity in health care devolution; The slow adjustment of health care to marginal groups; Birth rates and family policies; Integration and potential conflicts in immigrant labor; The strength of the elderly; The galaxy of non-profit organizations; The "right" pensions, between self-protection and public coverage)

Territory and Networks

(The real estate market at a turning point; Combining political will with respect for complexity in the new infrastructural policy; New responsibility for environmental conservation to the rural world; Area strategic planning for local districts; Immigrants in the city: new ways of using urban space; Towards a new model of local governance; Sustainable development: delays and discrepancies 10 years after Rio)

Key factors in Italy's economic development

(Development in the "hijacked" economy; The shock economy; Italian capitalism in black and white; The challenge of change; Enterprises and southern Italy; Spending in installments: Italians' new consumption styles; The price of Italy's logistical inefficiency; The euro turned reality)

Part IV. Means and procedures

Public administration

(The slow progress of devolution; The federalism Italians want; Professional training to lever change in public administration; Digital governance: devolution without guidelines; Stars or extras: the role of regions in security; Minors and crime: prevention, Italian style)

Communications and culture

(Available but underused: media in Italian families; The media consumption divide runs along educational lines; Television, the Esperanto of Italian media consumers; Casual or unengaged: Italian youth and their use of media; Attentive and emotional: Italian women and their use of media; Italian minors: surrounded by media; Good communications: help in the acceptance of cultural diversity)

Appendix

Looking through figures

(Foreword; Tables)

Background

(Societal self-awareness: from great goals to the emergence of spontaneous processes (1967-1971); From the "submerged" to the "emerged" economy (1972-1977); The pride of stability (1978-1981); Difficult relations between society and institutions (1982-1983); Consolidation and the need for maturity (1984-1987); Beyond proliferation (1988-1992); From revolutionary euphoria to an endless, wearisome transition (1993-1996))

Censis: an observer on the watch

(What is Censis?)

Collana: Varie

Argomenti: Rapporti Censis