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Introduction A massive amount of data is now available to policy makers although the effective exploitation of its potential in the public arena still needs to be assessed. The area of public policy is a difficult terrain, where it is easy to create high expectations, and just as easy to cause rapid disillusionment (Munch 2017). Little research has focused in fact on how new digital data can facilitate ...
Introduction Scientific journals have been undergoing an important transformation fort the last two decades. Some of the main changes affecting them have been driven by digitisation, the globalisation of the publishing market, the emergence of metrics and the use of journals in research evaluation and science policy (Mackenzie 2007; Larivière et al. 2015; Moed 2006; Malsch and Tessier 2015). ...
Introduction The presence of many – sometimes contradictory – theories is arguably considered a strength in the social sciences. The multitude of available theories today makes it seem impossible to have a grand theory, a specific unique theory that may be applied to all situations at all times in order to explain social phenomena. Therefore another solution becomes more and more reliable: ...
1. Is it the time for hybrid and mixed approaches? During the Twentieth century, the analysis of the texts produced by political communication has been one of the busiest areas of research for many social sciences scholars (Laswell and Leites 1949). However, the use of online social text data becomes more and more essential for understanding and analyzing new forms of participation in the communication ...
The essay discusses some of the theoretical and methodological criticism against Critical Discourse Analysis, focusing especially on the charge of belaboring the obvious, of providing empirical findings that were already implicit in the research premises and/or that were attainable by the average lay reader of the texts without the application of peculiar analytical techniques. Instead of following ...

Articolo rivista - AIS - 2019/13

Ambrosini Maurizio, De Luca Deborah

A case of inequality in the labour market: the situation of EU and non-EU migrants


Recent studies have shown that the economic crisis of 2008 has heavily affected migrants, thus exacerbating a disadvantage already present in many countries and further weakening the position of migrants in the labour market. This paper focuses on two distinct groups of migrants: EU citizens and those from third, «non-EU» countries. In our opinion, the legal status of «European» should provide ...
--- « Je viens d’une famille de prolétaires, donc militer, c’est dans mon ADN. Quand tu nais, soit tu nais fasciste, soit tu nais militant, il n’y a rien à faire. » (Paolino) Introduction Des mouvements contestataires de 1968-1969 à l’enlèvement puis à l’exécution d’Aldo Moro le 9 mai 1978 jusqu’à l’attaque de la base américaine d’Aviano le 2 septembre 1993 par ...
Introduction The aim of this article is to discuss the efficacy of the welfare action commonly known as the «Personal Budget», which stands for the development of reforms reorganising the funds for social and health benefits, allocated directly to people with disabilities, allowing them to choose and pay for needed supports. To serve this purpose, we will conduct a systematic literature review ...
Introduction Fatherhood is alleged to have undergone dramatic changes in recent decades, and is described in public and academic discourse with several labels such as «intimate», «new», «involved» (Dermott 2003, 2008; Henwood and Procter 2003; Miller 2011; Dermott and Miller 2015). Although the practices of fatherhood are changing slowly, the figure of the involved father is increasingly ...
1. Cultural and social conceptions of domestic violence The term domestic violence includes every type of physical, psychological, economic and/or sexual abuse that occurs within the internal workings of a couple’s relationship and which in almost all cases consists in acts committed by a man against a woman. This violence manifests itself in various forms and combinations that have dramatic ...