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{"title":"The role of the left to the path to a minimum income policy in Italy","authors":"Rosa Mulè, Stefano Toso","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2258667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2258667","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn 2018, Italy became the last of the E.U. member states to introduce a minimum income policy. Our work helps explain why Italy was a laggard in this field by investigating the role the Italian left played, historically, in the evolution of policies to combat poverty. This is a surprisingly neglected topic. We argue that until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Italian left focused on labour-market insiders – that is, full-time core workers – and appeared largely unconcerned about the most vulnerable individuals, the outsiders, thus accepting the lack of policies to combat poverty. The policy status quo, however, dovetailed with a lively debate among left-wing intellectuals and politicians. This debate paved the way for several attempts by left-wing governments in the 1990s to implement a national pilot scheme (called the Reddito Minimo di Inserimento [R.M.I.]) along with local minimum income policies. The electoral success in 2013 of a new populist movement, the Five-star Movement (M.5.s.), campaigning on the flagship project of the Reddito di Cittadinanza (R.d.C.), fuelled the political debate on anti-poverty policies. This electoral ‘threat’ finally convinced the centre-left government under Paolo Gentiloni to establish in 2018 the Reddito di Inclusione, the first minimum income scheme in Italy. Our work demonstrates the importance of political variables, such as the structure and dynamics of party competition, in the fight against poverty. It also highlights the role of the Italian left as a political innovator in this field.RIASSUNTONel 2018, l’Italia è diventata l’ultimo degli Stati membri dell’UE a introdurre una misura di reddito minimo. Il nostro lavoro contribuisce a spiegare perché l’Italia è approdata così tardivamente a una simile misura, indagando il ruolo che la sinistra italiana ha storicamente svolto nell’evoluzione delle politiche di lotta alla povertà. Si tratta di un argomento sorprendentemente trascurato. La nostra tesi è che fino alla caduta del Muro di Berlino, la sinistra italiana si è concentrata sugli insiders del mercato del lavoro – cioè i lavoratori dipendenti a tempo pieno e indeterminato – senza apparentemente preoccuparsi degli individui più vulnerabili, gli outsiders, legittimando in questo modo l’assenza di una politica di lotta alla povertà in quanto tale. Lo status quo politico si è, tuttavia, accompagnato a un vivace dibattito tra gli intellettuali e i politici di sinistra. Questo dibattito ha aperto la strada a diversi tentativi da parte dei governi di centro-sinistra negli anni ‘90 di avviare sperimentazioni nazionali insieme a politiche locali di reddito minimo. Il successo elettorale nel 2013 di un nuovo movimento populista, il Movimento 5 stelle (M.5.s.), che ha fatto del Reddito di Cittadinanza (R.d.C.) la sua bandiera politica, ha alimentato il dibattito pubblico sulle politiche contro la povertà. Questa ‘minaccia’ elettorale ha contribuito a far sì che il governo di centro-sinistra guidato da Pao","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136293222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Facts in search of a theory’. Gianni Toniolo’s economic history (1942–2022)","authors":"Giovanni Farese","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2255059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2255059","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTOn Sunday, November 13, 2022, the cultural section of the ‘Il Corriere della Sera’ devoted its main article to the first volume of Gianni Toniolo’s latest opus, Storia della Banca d’Italia. Formazione ed evoluzione di una banca centrale, 1893–1943. The article characterized the book as an ‘extraordinary economic autobiography of the country’, and Toniolo as ‘undoubtedly the greatest of Italian economic historians’. That very day Gianni Toniolo died in Rome at the age of eighty. To review Toniolo’s work and life, even in the limited space these pages allow, is to go back over a period of Italian and international economic historiography, from the 1970s to the present day, to which Toniolo made vital and original contributions in a number of different ways.RIASSUNTODomenica 13 novembre 2022 “Il Corriere della Sera” dedicava l’articolo principale della pagina della cultura al primo tomo della Storia della Banca d’Italia. Formazione ed evoluzione di una banca centrale, 1893–1943 di Gianni Toniolo. Nell’articolo il volume era definito una “straordinaria autobiografia economica del Paese” e Toniolo “senza dubbio il maggiore storico italiano dell’economia”. Quel giorno stesso Gianni Toniolo moriva a Roma all’età di 80 anni. Ripercorrere la sua opera e la sua vita significa, sia pure nello spazio breve di qualche pagina, ripercorrere una stagione della storiografia economica, italiana e non solo, dagli anni Settanta a oggi, alla quale egli ha dato contributi fondamentali e originali in diverse direzioni.KEYWORDS: Gianni Tonioloeconomic historydevelopmentinstitutionsItalyPAROLE CHIAVE: Gianni Toniolostoria economicasviluppoistituzioniItalia AcknowledgementsThe author is grateful to professors Sabino Cassese, Pierluigi Ciocca and Barry Eichengreen for their helpful comments and generous feedback on an earlier version of this article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. F. Fubini, “L’olio di ricino alla lira,” Corriere della Sera, November 13, Citation2022, p. 34.2. G. Toniolo, Storia della Banca d’Italia. Tomo I. Formazione ed evoluzione di una banca centrale, 1893–1943, il Mulino, Bologna, 2022, p. 1.3. G. Toniolo, Storia economica dell’Italia liberale 1850–1918, il Mulino, Bologna, 1988, p. 8.4. G. Toniolo, Storia della Banca d’Italia, cit., p. 5.5. G. Toniolo, “Effective Protection and Industrial Growth: The Case of Italian Engineering, 1898-1913,” The Journal of European Economic History, 8, 3, 1977, pp. 659–673.6. G. Toniolo, P. Ciocca, Industry and Finance in Italy, 1918–1940, “The Journal of European Economic History,” special issue “Banks and Industry in the Interwar Period,” 13, 4, Citation1984, pp. 113–136. Charles P. Kindleberger and Hyman P. Minsky also wrote for that issue. Toniolo organized a conference on this topic at MIT in 1982.7. As early as 1969, with R.E. Sylla, Toniolo wrote an article, “‘New Economic History’: methods, objectives, limitations” in Quaderni storici delle Marc","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135590764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pavese controcorrente <b>Pavese controcorrente</b> , by Riccardo Gasperina Geroni, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2020, 112 pp., €12,00 (soft cover), ISBN: 9788822904355","authors":"Ivan Tassi","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2258657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2258657","url":null,"abstract":"\"Pavese controcorrente.\" Journal of Modern Italian Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135829370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can the left respond to new cleavages in Italy?","authors":"Nicola Pasini, Luciano Mario Fasano, Giovanni Antonio Cerutti","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2241262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2241262","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTOver the last forty years, there has been a mounting societal shift towards post-materialist values in all countries adhering to the democratic tradition. This has fuelled demand for increasingly personalized content, reflected in political and electoral preferences that, shaped by new agencies of socialization, have gradually distanced themselves from former loyalties. The political supply has been reorganized as a result. The old mass parties have morphed into the so-called catch all party and the more recent variations of the professional-electoral party, forced to drum up votes however it can, chiefly by concocting new issues to compensate for the weakening of traditional subcultures and the fact that the social groups and classes that were the mainstay of twentieth-century parties have now exited the scene. In Italy, this process has led to a political system that is – to say the least – fragmented and unstable. Taken as a whole, the Italian left is even harder pressed than other European lefts, though they too have shown themselves incapable in recent years of sensing the changing pulse and adapting to the new milieu and how it will affect the left’s legacy in terms of the industrial conflict between capital and labour. This is a cleavage that has marked the platforms of liberal-democratic political systems and the form that parties accordingly take even more than it has affected their value content. The Italian left’s perennially upwelling legacy has thus prevented it from retooling for a changing society and formulating policies that can build a solid voter base by interpreting the expectations of the more moderate portions of the electorate who, though sceptical about the centre-right coalition, harbour even greater doubts concerning the centre-left’s ability to actually govern.RIASSUNTONel corso negli ultimi quarant’anni in tutti I paesi a tradizione democratica il mutamento sociale orientate alla progressiva affermazione di valori post-materialisti ha fatto emergere nuove domande dal contenuto sempre più individualizzato, riflesse in preferenze politiche ed elettorali che, condizionate nel loro formarsi da nuove agenzie di socializzazione, si sono progressivamente emancipate dalle appartenenze tradizionali. Tali domande hanno innescato una ristrutturazione dell’offerta politica, caratterizzata dalla trasformazione dei tradizionali partiti a integrazione di massa dapprima nei cosiddetti partiti pigliatutti, per giungere fino alle più recenti varianti di partiti professionali-elettorali, sempre più costretti a costruire il proprio consenso in maniera trasversale e mutevole, soprattutto attraverso l’elaborazione di nuove issues, per compensare il cedimento delle sub-culture tradizionali e superare la scomparsa dalla scena di classi e gruppi sociali di riferimento che costituivano l’asse portante del consenso organizzato dai partiti novecenteschi. In Italia questo processo ha determinato, inoltre, la formazione di un Sistema politi","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135395232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The shifting landscape of the Italian left: Exploring its contemporary state","authors":"James L. Newell","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2241256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2241256","url":null,"abstract":"This article asks, ‘What’s left of the Italian left?’ arguing that an answer to the question presupposes having the answer to four more specific questions, namely, what does the term ‘left’ mean? What parties belong to this category thus defined? What accounts for the parties’ electoral decline since the end of the cold war? What, if anything, can be done to revive their fortunes? I argue that the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ describe a spatial metaphor having to do with attitudes to equality. The electoral difficulties of the parties belonging to this category over the past thirty years can be explained by reference to three interlinked processes of long-term economic, social and political change that help account for the electoral decline of mainstream parties of the left in Western democracies in general in recent decades. In the context of globalization, a revival of the fortunes of the left in Italy appears to lie in the direction of an embrace of a social democratic ideology combined with a renewed emphasis on the principal of internationalism.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135733879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gastrofascismo e Impero: Il cibo nell’Africa Orientale Italiana, 1935–1941","authors":"Patrizia Sambuco","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2245241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2245241","url":null,"abstract":"\"Gastrofascismo e Impero: Il cibo nell’Africa Orientale Italiana, 1935–1941.\" Journal of Modern Italian Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135734223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Italian industrial literature and film. Perspectives on the representation of postwar labor","authors":"Alessandro Ceteroni","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2249361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2249361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gli Uomini della Marcia su Roma: Mussolini e i quadrumviri","authors":"Ernest Ialongo","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2249360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2249360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Il Gramsci di Pasolini. Lingua, Letteratura e ideologia","authors":"Yuri Brunello","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2249362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2249362","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Italian Democratic Party: the explanation for a ‘quasi-failure’","authors":"Sofia Ventura","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2023.2241258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2023.2241258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47794551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}