U.S.-Italy Joint Seminar on the Political Science of Cultureand Politics in the Italian Republic, 1948-1988; Bellagio, Italy; July 4-8, 1988

该奖项将支持一个关于意大利文化的研讨会， 1948-1988年的政治。该研讨会已联合 由Samuel H.密歇根大学的巴恩斯 和Marzio Barbagli教授和Gianfranco Pasquino教授， 博洛尼亚大学，意大利。 很少有国家像意大利在过去发生了如此巨大的变化 四十年 移民和经济增长已经改变 人口模式，并创造了一个巨大变化的社会。 加入欧洲共同体和日益世俗化 教育也带来了重要的变化。 这 讲习班将侧重于评估连续性， 意大利文化在这一时期的变化，因为他们有一个 对政治制度的影响。 与会者将审查 文化模式与社会功能之间的关系 政治制度 他们将讨论如何 意大利文化和亚文化的连续性和变化 群众和政府的政治取向的变化， 精英和非精英在政治相关的机构。 许多国家调查以及不引人注目的方法 例如内容分析、代表发言解释 文件和程序，个人意见，历史 记录本身，等等将用于收集数据， 立场文件 组织者是杰出的学者， 在概念上、理论上和方法上 拟议讲习班的基础。 研讨会有 增加我们对关系的理解的潜力 在广泛的文化和更狭隘的政治问题之间， 重新评估我们看待复杂政治体系的方式， 流程.

This award will support a workshop on Italian culture and politics from the years 1948-1988. The workshop has been jointly organized by Prof. Samuel H. Barnes of the University of Michigan and Prof. Marzio Barbagli and Prof. Gianfranco Pasquino, both of the University of Bologna, Italy. Few countries have changed as dramatically as Italy over the past forty years. Migration and economic growth have altered demographic patterns and created a vastly changed society. Membership in the European Community and increased secularization and education have brought about important changes too. This workshop will focus on the evaluation of the continuity and change in Italian culture over the period, as they have had an impact on the political system. The participants will examine the relationship between cultural patterns and the functioning of the political system. They will address the question of how continuity and change in Italian culture and subcultures relate to changes in the political orientations of mass publics and of elites and non-elites in politically relevant institutions. Numerous national surveys as well as unobtrusive methodologies such as content-analysis, interpretation of representative documents and proceedings, personal observations, the historical record itself, and the like will be used in gathering data for position papers. The organizers are distinguished scholars who have contributed much to the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological underpinnings of the proposed workshop. The workshop has the potential to increase our understanding of the relationship between broad cultural and more narrow political concerns and to reassess the way we look at complex political systems and processes.