How to govern the City-Region of Milan?
A project proposal for the study and the development of new model of governance for the city-region Milan, on the basis of the analysis of local power elites and of […]
Archivi categoria: Globalization and power
Globalization: a challenge for social coexistence
Introduction This work has arisen from the general purpose of examining the globalization phenomenon as a matter of coexistence from a psycho-sociological perspective (Barus, M. J., Enriquez E. & Lévy […]
Globalization as a socio-symbolic process
Introduction The issue of globalization has been addressed from different theoretical perspectives (Berry 2008, Martell 2010). The neoclassical approach (Ohmae 1993, Wolf 2005), who first defined the concept and is […]
The governance of the global city-region Milan
Introduction This work concerns the analysis of the role of the power elite in the processes of urban governance, through the study of decision-making mechanisms related to the development of […]
The social construction of the financial crisis
Political and economic measures taken so far to face the ongoing global economic and financial crisis show a general tendency to remain anchored to a pre-crisis economic paradigm, tied to […]
The European power elites
The Democratic deficit in Europe. A wide debate is currently ongoing about the problem of democratic deficit in the European Union (Azman 2011), concerning the issue of political representation at […]
