Title:The Englaro Case: Withdrawal of treatment in Italy from a patient in a permanent vegetative state
Author(s):MORATTI, SofiaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In 2009, the international media reported the case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old woman in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) who died following the withdrawal of her feeding tube. By the time of her death, she had been ...
Title:Reforming Italy: Institutional Change and the Federal Option
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; WILSON, AlexDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Edinburgh Europa Paper SeriesAbstract:The reform of regional government has been a key element in efforts to reform the Italian state. The aims are administrative modernization; national integration; coherent regional development; fiscal responsibility and ...
Title:Saranno Rispettati Come Per il Passato. Italian Colonial Policy towards Libyan Religious Endowments
Author(s):GAZZINI, ClaudiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper offers a survey of Italian colonial policy towards Muslim religious endowments (waqf, pl. awqaf) in Libya from 1911 to 1943. Through an analysis of 41 lawsuits presented to the colonial Court of Appeals and a ...
Title:From Public to Private: Privatization in 1920's Fascist Italy
Author(s):BEL, GermàDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Italy’s first Fascist government applied a large-scale privatization policy between 1922 and 1925. The
government privatized the state monopoly of match sale, eliminated the State monopoly on life
insurances, sold most ...
Title:Party mergers and vote shifts in Italy
Author(s):HANRETTY, ChrisDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Using data from exit polls and two different methods of ecological inference, I demonstrate how Italian voters shifted between 2006 and 2008. Newly merged parties (PdL, PD) were successful in retaining their former voters; ...
Title:Divided in Diversity: National Legal Scholarship(s) and the European Convention of Human Rights
Author(s):HENNETTE-VAUCHEZ, StéphanieDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The present article looks at the history and features of legal academic discourse on the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). It first establishes that people from inside the Convention system have been the first ...