Adaptation or transformation?: interpreting participation in times of austerity in an old red region

• Mattia Casula ^[1]
  1. [1] Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

     Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

     Roma Capitale, Italia

     
• Localización: Partecipazione e conflitto, ISSN-e 2035-6609, Vol. 10, Nº. 3, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Anti-Corruption Movements), págs. 1005-1036
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article investigates how political, social and associative participation is changing in the last years in an old Italian "red" region (Emilia-Romagna) with respect the previous decades. The analysis of the new model of participation that is increasingly consolidating in the selected case shows that a process of adaptation, rather than transformation, is taking place. In fact, the actual economic crisis is only accentuating the establishment of this new model, which continues to a large extent to be conditioned by the civic-mindedness historically present in this region, and which has been subject of several studies in the past by Italian and American scholars