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A new approach to the history of the EU: Interview with Kiran Klaus Patel
What kind of experiment is the European project? What are its origins and how did it become so important despite the fact that it was one of many international institutions that came into being after the Second World War? The focus of the latest work by historian Kiran Patel, visiting…
Read moreLatin American and European populist right, similarities and differences according to prof. Rovira Kaltwasser
"There has been a lot of discussion and research on the rise of the far-right in Europe and the US. Much less on what happened in Latin America where we thought we were having a total different political landscape. Then Donald Trump's unexpected victory came and someone started watching at…
Read moreKathleen Thelen: Consumers and citizens, the origins of the Amazon economy
Amazon and other Big Tech have revolutionized markets and consumption in just a few years, but, Kathleen Thelen argues, professor of political science at MIT in Boston, they use some practices similar to those of large mail order or supermarket chains. Tactics already used in the early 1900s. Of course,…
Read moreEurope and the commodification of public services – interwiew to Roland Erne
Roland Erne is professor of European Integration & Employment Relations at the University College Dublin School of Business and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Project “Labour Politics & the EU's New Economic Governance Regime (European Unions)” at the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. The results of…
Read moreLabour, Europe, ecological transition, three interviews with Dominique Meda
In May, Dominique Méda, philosopher and sociologist, lecturer at Paris Dauphine University, and promoter of the Manifesto for Work, was a visiting professor and guest of the Ciampi Institute. In those days we collected an interview with Professor Meda that was published in the daily newspaper Domani. In which we…
Read moreWelfare policies between theory and reality: the virtuous case of housing policies in Vienna – Yuri Kazepov
According to Yuri Kazepov, a sociologist at the University of Vienna and visiting professor at the Ciampi Institute in February 2024, the socio-economic, institutional, political and even bureaucratic framework is the context that helps determine the effectiveness of social policies When welfare reforms, large or small, are approved, the public…
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