'italy' Tag

  • Aug
    05
    2010

    Party financing bleg

    Anyone know how much, as a percent, each party asks its deputies and senators to contribute to the party from their indennità? or how this is enforced? or if there’s a paper trial?

  • Jun
    28
    2010

    More proof that Sky is the white knight for the Italian media

    Here.

  • May
    20
    2010

    The press in the Gogol Bordello

    Fresh from… well, fresh from doing something, one presumes, the Italian parliament is ready to vote on a law hamstringing the press even further (the so-called <a href=”http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2010/05/19/news/senato_accelera-4186524/?ref=HRER1-1″>legge bavaglio</a>).
    The main provisions of the law relate to the publication of leaks from public prosecutors’ office: in particular, a ban on any information before the initial hearing, [...]

  • May
    12
    2010

    Videocracy gets a UK release

    Thank God someone’s bringing this out in the UK — for my classes I’ve had to rely on an Italian copy with outrageously bad English subtitles.

  • May
    09
    2010

    Fratricidal tendencies at the best possible moment

    Back in Italy, one can always count on the left to tear itself apart just when some ministers in the Berlusconi government are under fire.

  • Mar
    26
    2010

    How unbalanced is the Italian media?

    So, it’s election time here in Italy, and as usual, all politicians are concentrating on how to make Italy’s stagnant economy perform better.
    Oh, sorry, no, they’re talking about how much time they get on television.
    Silvio Berlusconi has now been formally placed under investigation for pressuring officials within Agcom (the sectoral regulator) and Rai. Mauro [...]

  • Mar
    22
    2010

    Slides for Italian media presentation

    Some image-heavy slides from my presentation on the Italian media. Thanks to Jeppe for reminding me.

  • Feb
    04
    2010

    Review of Simona Piattoni’s Il Clientelismo

    Clientelism, like corruption, is a juicy topic; it is made so by the seemingly-inexorable conflict between protestations of public virtue on the one hand and particularistic exchanges on the other. The topic becomes even more interesting when one tries, as Simona Piattoni does in her book Il clientelismo: L’Italia in [...]

  • Feb
    01
    2010

    Berlusconi 2020!

    This interview with Carlo Taormina is fantastic. Key points (all according to Taormina):

    The “processo breve” is a bargaining tool. Offering to remove it from the agenda can be seen as a concession; a concession can win quick approval of a text of “legitimate impediment”.
    The bill on “legitimate impediment” (repeated postponement of trial hearings due to [...]

  • Nov
    30
    2009

    Leave the country

    Depressing editorial from Pier-Luigi Celli. Celli, a most capable man, is the director of Luiss, the closest thing (with the exception of Bocconi) that Italy has to an ENA; and yet I can’t imagine any Frenchman writing this kind of editorial.

 
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