International Conference
LEgality and PArticipation
Trends, Challenges, and Perspectives
16-17 June 2022
The plenary sessions in Room 1 will also be streamed live on the Department of Political Science’s YouTube channel at this link,
also reachable from the SciPol Department’s website (here).
The panel sessions, listed below, articulate into four Sections. They cover the research lines in which the LEPA project develops its activities.
THURSDAY 16 JUNE
Ore 10:00
Greetings
Maurizio Oliviero – University of Perugia Dean
Giorgio Eduardo Montanari – Political Science Department Director
Alessandra Pioggia – LEPA Project Development Responsible
Congress presentation
Enrico Carloni – LEPA Center Director
Ore 11:00 – 13:00
Introductive plenary session
Section 1: Crisis of democracy
14:30-16:30
Crisis of democracy and antipolitics in Italy 2008-2018
Keynote Speaker: Giovanni Orsina
Chair: Loreto Di Nucci
Discussant: Andrea Possieri
The topic of the panel is the great transformation that took place in the Italian political system in the period between the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, and the 2018 legislative elections, which saw the triumph of an anti-system political actor such as the Five Stars Movement.
Keywords: economic crisis, democracy, anti-politics
16:30 – 18:30
Democracy and rhetoric of the crisis
Chair: Fausto Proietti
The panel intends to investigate, mainly from a historical perspective and from the history of political ideas, the relevance that the theme of ‘crisis’ has assumed in the discourse on representative democracy since the mid-nineteenth century. The focus of the papers will be both the critical reconstruction of specific ideological rhetorics centered on the perceived irreversible ‘crisis of democracy’ (coinciding with political regimes such as the French Second Republic, the Weimar Republic, the European Union in recent years, etc.), and the thought of authors who, in various chronological and geographical contexts, have focused on the ‘crisis of democracy’ proposing it as a key to reading their contemporaneity.
Keywords: Democracy, Representation, Crisis, Ideology, Rhetoric
Andrea Marchili (Università Niccolò Cusano, Roma), Democrazia e decadenza. Retoriche della crisi alla fine dell’Ottocento;
Francesco Tuccari (Università di Torino), Crisi dei partiti, crisi della democrazia?
Pietro Sebastianelli (Università di Napoli Federico II), Populismo e crisi della rappresentanza: i dilemmi della democrazia contemporanea nel pensiero di Pierre Rosanvallon
Stefano De Luca (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli), Pensare l’impensabile: la letteratura sulla morte della democrazia
Nicola Pettinari (Università di Perugia), Dalla ‘retorica della crisi’ alla ‘retorica delle soluzioni’. Scenari di vulnerabilità del costituzionalismo contemporaneo italiano
Section 2 CHALLENGES TO LEGALITY
14:30 – 18:30
Algorithms between legality and participation
Chair: Benedetto Ponti
The datarization of elements of reality and the application of computation as a mechanism for profiling, mapping, analyzing, evaluating, selecting, and predicting/inferring constitute a challenge to the classical categories of legality. Insofar as legality is predetermination, the added (cognitive) value of machine learning – which consists in the ability to extract and expose unexpected, unforeseen, and therefore unanticipated knowledge – stands in ontological terms as a “gap” with the traditional way of aligning knowledge and legal regulation. Can traditionally-understood legality withstand this challenge? What do we risk “losing” (guarantee, democratic control, judicial review, etc.) in the crisis of legality caused by the advent of algorithmic knowledge/regulation? Can “participation” be an answer/an antidote to this challenge?
Keywords: Algorithms, big data, unexpected knowledge, legality, machine learning, privacy, freedom, democratic control
Human in the loop, citizen out of the loop?
Alessandro Puzzanghera (Università per stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria), La sfida tecnologica alla legalità amministrativa
Luca Grilli (Università di Perugia), Walter Didimo (Università di Perugia), Giuseppe Liotta (Università di Perugia), Fabrizio Montecchiani (Università di Perugia), Efficient and trustworthy decision making through human-in-the-loop visual analytics
Marta Ferrara (Università G. d’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara), Around the Disruptive Technology. Using I.A. for a gender equality assessment in the Italian University system
Francesco Merenda (Università di Perugia), Legalità, algoritmi e corruzione: le tecniche di intelligenza artificiale potrebbero essere utilizzate per la prevenzione della corruzione?
Managing AI in the public sector
Matteo Palma (Università Statale di Milano), Gli algoritmi dell’amministrazione pubblica e l’amministrazione pubblica degli algoritmi
Matteo Falcone (Università di Perugia), Bisogni conoscitivi delle amministrazioni e principio di legalità: quale predeterminazione delle scelte conoscitive pubbliche?
Luigi Previti (Università di Palermo), La gestione del rischio informatico nella decisione amministrativa robotica
16:30 – 18:30 Room 1
Understanding Corruption
Keynote Speakers: Raffaele Cantone , Lucio Picci, Alberto Vannucci
Chair: Michela Gnaldi
The discussion aims at providing a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of the main issues related to the prevention of corruption: from the definitional aspects, that help delineate the perimeter of the activities under investigation, to aspects related to its measurement, and the institutional, political, and civil responses to combat it.
Keywords: Corruption definition; Corruption and political systems; Corruption measurement; Corruption and society
Section 3 SOCIAL TURBULENCE
14:30 – 16:30
Cleavages and divides: What is changing in parties and voters?
Chairs: Marco Damiani, Giovanni Barbieri
Discussant: Silvia Bolgherini
The panel will focus on territorial cleavage, understood in a broad sense as the division between different geographical contexts, between isolated areas and urbanized territories, and between real places and virtual spaces. In particular, it will focus on the link between some fundamental aspects of contemporary politics – political dissatisfaction, the emergence and success of new forms of political parties, the innovative use of digital technologies, the different forms of political participation, the emergence of new forms and types of leadership – and the territor(ies).
Keywords: cleavages, territory, participation, center/periphery, digital, parties
Lorenzo Viviani (Università di Pisa), Heartland Politics: la ri-politicizzazione della frattura centro-periferia da parte dei leader della destra radicale populista in Europa
Luca Carrieri (Università di Siena), Nicolò Conti (Università Unitelma Sapienza), Marco Morini (Università La Sapienza, Roma), What impact does the transnational cleavage make on parties and voters?
Andrea Felicetti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze), Tying democratic innovations to grassroots politics in Europe
Francisco Javier Romero Caro (Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac research Bolzano), Horizontal cooperation and financial relations in Spain: an analysis on how the Autonomous Communities set the agenda for the reform of territorial financing
16:30 – 18:30
Territory, knowledge, and participation
Keynote Speaker: Tommaso Vitale (SciencesPo Centre d’étude européènnes et de politique comparée, Paris)
Chair: Paola de Salvo
Discussant: Alessandra Valastro, Mariano Sartore
The participatory dimension has taken the stage in contemporary territorial affairs, becoming strategic for any policy of development and regeneration. In Italy, numerous and different forms of active citizenship and dynamic localism experiment with participatory experiences create paths of social innovation and subsidiarity. The panel hosts contributions that highlight how participatory practices can activate inclusive mechanisms as a basis for more comprehensive territorial development policies.
Keywords: territory, participation, knowledge
Section 4 NEW INEQUALITIES
14:30 – 16:30
Migration processes and inequalities
Chair: Fiorella Giacalone, Luca Pieroni
Social, religious, economic inequalities are the great challenges of European societies (West and East), in a pandemic phase that has not yet been overcome. It is evident how much the pandemic and the economic crisis have sharpened the differences between migrants and natives, between men and women, how the conflicts within the urban fabric have increased. There is a need for an interdisciplinary (anthropological, economic, social) discussion on the problems of integration of old and new citizens, on the increase of discrimination against asylum seekers and economic migrants, and on the difficulties of labor policies to respond effectively to changes.
Keywords: non-discrimination, migrants, labor policies
Gaetano Martino (Università di Perugia), Lavoro migrante in agricoltura, caporalato e distribuzione del valore: lineamenti interpretativi
Paolo Grassi (Università di Milano, Bicocca), Tra accoglienza e controllo: un racconto etnografico a partire da due esperienze operative e di ricerca
Lucia Montesanti (Università della Magna Graecia di Catanzaro), Francesca Veltri (Università della Calabria), Minori stranieri non accompagnati in tempo di pandemia, tra scuola e lavoro: il ruolo dell’associazionismo e della tutela volontaria
Alessia Fiorillo (Università di Perugia), La mediazione culturale: acrobazie relazionali tra politiche di controllo e pratiche di inclusione
Margherita Giannoni (Università di Perugia), Disuguaglianze socioeconomiche, nella salute e nell’accesso ai servizi sanitari in tempi di pandemia COVID-19: prime evidenze per l’Italia con un focus sulla situazione dei cittadini stranieri immigrati
16:30 – 18:30
The other Europe: the Danubian-Balkan world between democratic crises and social inequalities in the 21st century
Chair: Dario Biocca, Francesco Randazzo
Discussant: Valentina Sommella
The legacy of a past marked by dictatorial policies in the Danubian-Balkan countries has greatly affected the relations of these societies with the democratic values of Western Europe and negatively affects the process of EU enlargement. These are slow processes that need not only time, but also personalities capable of supporting them with courage, as well as choices sometimes not in line with the mechanisms of political and social corruption – which have derived from the strengthening of the local underworld exploiting the weaknesses of the first freely elected parliamentary regimes.
Keywords: Eastern Europe, Danubian Europe, Balkan, democracy, European Union, modernization
Odeta Berberi (University of Tirana), Europeanization of the Electoral Reform in Western Balkans: Insights from Albania
Cesare La Mantia (Università di Trieste), La Polonia, l’Ue e la difficile transizione verso il modello democratico occidentale
Daniel Pommier Vincelli (Università La Sapienza, Roma), Democrazie illiberali in Europa orientale? Una breve riflessione sociologico-politica sull’Ungheria di Orban
FRIDAY 17 JUNE
9:00 – 13:00
Parallel sessions
9:00 – 11:00
Democracy at the time of the pandemic
Chair: Silvia Bolgherini
This panel welcomes contributions on how democracy can and should be defended and maintained during and after crises such as the pandemic. And after social, economic, institutional, and political transformations triggered by them, such as internal dissent within democracies and the relationship between rule of law, individual freedom, and collective obligations; the capacity (internal and in cooperation) of democratic states to manage emergencies; changed international relations (economic, social); the role of experts and technical figures in societies and governments.
Keywords: pandemic, democracy, rights, authority, emergency management
Ilaria Rivera (Università di Pavia), Democrazia e Internet: l’andamento “carsico” del moto populista;
Adolfo Russo (Università La Sapienza, Roma), Pandemia, crisi della democrazia e tecnica: la tentazione di negare il conflitto democratico;
Marco Bevilacqua (Università di Pisa), La burocrazia “necessaria” dei corpi tecnici per un nuovo contratto sociale
11:00 – 13:00
Failed democratization and new authoritarianisms
Chair: Alessandro Campi
Discussant: Leonardo Morlino
The discussion revolves around the so-called “New Authoritarianism”, examined in its specificity but also as a frequent outcome of difficult or failed democratization processes. Concerning the problem of the rise and consolidation of new authoritarianism in the contemporary world, the discussion will focus on some failed processes of democratization in recent decades, with a particular regard to the cases of some Eastern European countries (between democracy and authoritarian temptation), Russia, and finally the “Arab Springs” as a further and main example of failed democratization.
Keywords: new authoritarianism; democratization processes; failed democratization
Leonardo Morlino (Università LUISS, Roma) Introduzione
Valter Coralluzzo (Università di Torino) Democrazie e autocrazie nella politica internazionale contemporanea
Loretta Dell’Aguzzo (Università per Stranieri di Perugia), Sopravvivenza e crollo dei regimi autoritari: una prospettiva internazionale
Andrea Cassani (Università Statale, Milano), I processi di autocratizzazione contemporanei e l’ipotesi del riflusso autoritario globale
SECTION 2: Challenges to legality
11:00 – 13:00
Gender and legality: gender perspective and the fight against corruption
Keynote Speaker: Giulia Sechi (Adviser on Gender Issues at OSCE, Vienna)
Chair: Giuseppina Bonerba
Discussant: Alessandra Pioggia
The discussion deepens the analysis of the relationships between gender dissimilarities and corrupt practices and discusses to what extent a gender perspective is useful in fighting corruption. The following issues will be addressed: the presence of women in top positions and levels of corruption; the impact of corrupt practices by gender; sextortion; corrupt practices and social networks; the perception of corrupt behaviors by gender; the analysis and integration of gender empowerment and anti-corruption strategies and tools.
Keywords: gender and corruption, gender empowerment, fight against corruption
SECTION 3: Social turbulence
9:00 – 11:00
The social foundations of democracy and participation
Keynote Speakers: Giovanni Moro (Università La Sapienza Roma); Vincenza Pellegrino (Università di Parma)
Chair: Ambrogio Santambrogio
Discussant: Lorenzo Bruni
Society is increasingly crossed by a turbulence that in many cases refuses to be translated into political action. At the same time, the political sphere often seems to ignore the innovative instances coming from society. New and heterogeneous phenomena of social effervescence become the expression of a need for participation that cannot be defined as a mere reflection of the transformation of forms of political belonging. The discussion will focus on the multiple and open possibilities of re-politicization of the social, to indicate new paths of articulation of the demands and needs coming from society.
Keywords: participation, social bonding, everyday utopias
9:00 – 13:00
Populism, celebrity and new forms of participation
Chairs: Marco Mazzoni, Rita Marchetti
Discussant: Donatella Campus
The panel aims at investigating the relationship between celebrity, leadership, and populism capable of giving rise to new forms of participation (the phenomenon of political fandom). The panel will gather proposals from different disciplinary perspectives and with original methodological approaches.
Keywords: leadership, populism, celebrity, fandom, participation
9:00 – 11:00 Slot 1
Chiara Moroni (Università della Tuscia), TikTok e le nuove forme di effervescenza sociale espresse dalla generazione Z tra impegno civile e spettacolarizzazione della politica di sistema: il caso Matteo Salvini; Diego Ceccobelli (Università Statale, Milano), Luigi Di Gregorio (Università della Tuscia), The Triangle of Leadership: The case of Italy in a Multi-Level Perspective
Roberta Bracciale (Università di Pisa), Antonio Martella (Università di Torino), Leaders’ visual communication styles: between Personalisation and Populism through the celebritization of politics; Massimiliano Panarari (Università Telematica “Universitas Mercatorum”), «Le bimbe di Conte». Populismo “dal basso” e celebrity politics “con poca politica” nella traiettoria comunicativa di Giuseppe Conte
Ore 11.00-13.00 Slot 2
Fabio Giglietto (Università di Urbino Carlo Bo), Giada Marino (Università di Sassari), Pattern of Facebook interactions of Intellectual Dark Web Influencers narratives during a year of pandemic crisis in Italy; Cornel Sandvoss (University of Huddersfield), The Consequences of Political Fandom: Fanization and Populism in UK Politics
Giovanni Daniele Starita (Università di Perugia), Follow me through Instagram: Front-stage, back-stage, and intimate-stage in Giorgia Meloni’s and Matteo Renzi’s performances of celebrity politics
Lena Wängnerud (Univeristy of Gothenburg), Female political leaders and the rhetoric of honesty
SECTION 4: New inequalities
9:00 – 11:00
The Role of Morality in Social Judgment: Individual, Interpersonal, Organizational and Cultural Factors
Chair: Maria Giuseppina Pacilli
Research in social psychology has shown the crucial role of moral evaluations in social judgment and the regulation of individual behavior, intra- and intergroup behavior. The interest of this panel is to promote a reflection on the relevance of morality in the daily life of individuals by focusing on individual and interpersonal aspects (e.g., formation and updating of others’ impressions), on the regulation of intragroup dynamics (e.g., denunciation of misconduct occurring in one’s organization) and on intergroup relations (e.g., processes of moralization, moral distance, and discrimination).
Keywords: morality, impression formation, group processes, intergroup processes, moralization, moral distance
Chiara Ballone (Università di Chieti-Pescara), Manuel Teresi (Università di Chieti-Pescara), Maria Giuseppina Pacilli (Università di Perugia), Riccardo Palumbo (Università di Chieti-Pescara) e Stefano Pagliaro (Università di Chieti-Pescara), Sono soltanto animali! Moralizzazione degli atteggiamenti sui vaccini contro il Covid-19 e deumanizzazione dell’outgroup
Simona Sacchi (Università di Milano, Bicocca ), Marco Brambilla (Università di Milano, Bicocca), Oltre la prima impressione: la primarietà della moralità in contesti organizzativi
Marylisa Alemi (Università di Perugia), Ilaria Giovannelli (Università della Valle d’Aosta), Stefano Pagliaro (Università di Chieti-Pescara), Maria Giuseppina Pacilli (Università di Perugia), La sextortion in un’ottica psicosociale: fattori contestuali e individuali nella percezione della moralità della vittima
Enrico Caniglia (Università di Perugia), Selena Mariano (Università di Perugia), Il genere della giustizia: moralità e cultura patriarcale nel processo penale per stupro
11:00 – 13:00
New inequalities and gender identity
Keynote Speaker: Ismini Kriari
Chair: Alessia Valongo
Discussants: Federica Spaccatini, Ilaria Giovannelli
The discussion will address the issue of non-discrimination of people based on their gender identity in the light of the principle of legality, which means the guarantee of inviolable rights of all under conditions of equality. The objective is to promote anti-discrimination policies aimed at giving privileged protection to transgender, transsexual and intersex people, who are in minority situations, considered “anomalous” on a social and legal level.
Keywords: legality, non-discrimination, gender identity
14:30 – 17:00
Final Plenary session
Round table
Legality and participation: trends and perspectives
Alessandro Campi (Università di Perugia), Fiorella Giacalone (Università di Perugia), Francesco Merloni (Demetra), Lucio Picci (Università di Bologna), Alessandra Valastro (Università di Perugia).
Scientific and Organizing Committee
Dario Biocca, Silvia Bolgherini, Giuseppina Bonerba, Lorenzo Bruni, Enrico Carloni, Paola De Salvo, Fiorella Giacalone, Michela Gnaldi, Paolo Mancini, Rita Marchetti, Marco Mazzoni, Giorgio Eduardo Montanari, Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Luca Pieroni, Alessandra Pioggia, Benedetto Ponti, Andrea Possieri, Fausto Proietti, Valentina Sommella, Nicoletta Stradaioli, Alessandra Valastro, Alessia Valongo