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

该奖项将资助一个关于1948-1988年期间意大利文化和政治的研讨会。研讨会由密歇根大学的Samuel H.Barnes教授和意大利博洛尼亚大学的Marzio Barbagli教授和Gianfranco Pasquino教授联合举办。在过去的40年里，很少有国家像意大利那样发生了巨大的变化。移民和经济增长改变了人口结构，创造了一个巨大变化的社会。加入欧洲共同体以及世俗化和教育的增加也带来了重要的变化。这次讲习班的重点是评估意大利文化在这一时期的延续和变化，因为它们对政治制度产生了影响。与会者将研究文化模式和政治制度运作之间的关系。他们将讨论意大利文化和亚文化的连续性和变化如何与大众公众以及政治相关机构中的精英和非精英的政治取向的变化相关联的问题。在收集立场文件的数据时，将使用大量的国家调查以及内容分析、对代表性文件和议事程序的解释、个人观察、历史记录本身等不引人注目的方法。组织者是杰出的学者，他们对拟议的研讨会的概念、理论和方法基础做出了很大贡献。讲习班有可能增进我们对广泛的文化关切和更狭隘的政治关切之间的关系的理解，并重新评估我们看待复杂政治制度和进程的方式。

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.