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The fortieth edition of the Annual Report on the Italy’s social situation focuses on providing a detailed analysis of instances of economic recovery, on interpreting the socio-political dynamics that have been prevalent over recent months and on pinpointing the real processes of growth within Italian society. The report includes analyses of the following sectors: training, employment, welfare, health, local areas, networks, private businesses, security, citizenship, innovation, media and institutional communication.

The annual Report on Italy’s social situation by CENSIS Foundation once again interprets and analyses the most significant aspects of Italy’s socio-economic trends. The General Considerations, introducing this year’s Report, confirm the fragility of our socio-cultural structure and the multiplication of small or big fears. In the same breath, the original features of our system of coexistence help us to face the current crisis, meanwhile we catch a glimpse of the signs of a silently starting second metamorphosis.

The Report offers an analysis of the most significant socio-economic processes underway in Italy. It shows how Italian society, faced with the crisis, has once again adopted a traditional adaptive-reactive approach. The second chapter deals with some of the most interesting emerged trends, like the impoverishment of the public dimension... The third part deals with key aspects of Italian society: education, the labor market, the public welfare and health system, media and communications, security and citizenry...

The CENSIS Report interprets Italy’s most significant socio-economic dimensions at a difficult moment in the country’s history. After a discussion of how Italian society has turned out to be fragile, isolated, and lacking autonomy, the report addresses some of the main issued that emerged during 2011: what is left of the Italian model of development, the causes of the country’s economic stagnation, and how to revitalize its growth potential.

Italy’s Participation in Three IEA Civic Education Studies (1971- 2009) - Following a brief history of the three Civic Education Studies conducted by IEA over nearly 30 years, the focus is on results for Italian 14-15 year olds in the 1971 and 1999 studies. The first civic education study (1971) showed that Italian teachers had poor preparation to teach civic education (stressing good manners rather than civic or political information). Italian students performed poorly on the 1971 civic knowledge test (7th out of 8 countries). The second study, CIVED (1999) showed marked improvement for Italian students, who had an average knowledge score above the international mean for 28 countries. Italian students expressed interest in protest participation. They trusted political information from the mass media less than those in the other 27 countries. Students and teachers reported an absence of opportunities for students to learn to protect the environment (compared with other countries).

Keywords civic knowledge, IEA civic education study, ICCS, trust in media, political socialization (Italy), adolescents (Italy).

This article examines the key features of the corporate tax reforms introduced in Italy from 1998 to 2012 and analyses their impact on firms’ tax burden. To this end the author calculates firm-specific average and marginal tax rates for a panel of firms of the manufacturing sector. Results show that the tax reforms generally reduced the firms’ tax burden, though with different effects as to neutrality of the corporate tax system over company financing choices.

Gli itinerari culturali sono beni del patrimonio culturale e beneficiano di una legislazione multilivello. Sono rilevanti a livello internazionale, europeo, nazionale e regionale. Nell’ambito della normativa multilivello sono individuabili vari tipi di itinerari culturali: itinerari culturali in senso stretto e itinerari tematici. Queste ultime tipologie di itinerari si differenziano dalle altre perché perseguono finalità di sviluppo territoriale, economico e turistico. Nonostante questa distinzione funzionale, nella legislazione multilivello degli itinerari culturali possiamo individuare alcune caratteristiche comuni a tutte le tipologie di detti itinerari.

Nell’indire il Giubileo Straordinario, Papa Francesco ha inteso rendere più evi-dente la missione della Chiesa di essere testimone della misericordia di Dio. L’Anno Santo ha portato milioni di pellegrini, compresi molti malati e disabili, a recarsi a Roma da tutto il mondo. Questo fenomeno di particolare interesse è stato indagato nel suo significato profondo attraverso un lavoro di ricerca condotto a livello nazionale con un approccio metodologico integrato che ha previsto l’utilizzo di una molteplicità di strumenti e tecniche quantitative, qualitative e vi-suali. Il presente lavoro propone una lettura del significato epistemologico della misericordia nell’anno giubilare per una pluralità di attori: pellegrini, professionisti della salute, malati, persone diversamente abili e accompagnatori.