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The paper presents the results of a research conducted from 2012 to 2014 that, using theoretical and methodological categories of the Social Network Analysis, provides a relational analysis respect to the party transformation process. Specifically, the paper examines in depth two regional case studies (Campania and Sardegna), that highlight shapes, modes and actors with (and through) which the parties organize and structure their action along the axis «local-regional», composing relationships with other parties and collective stakeholders acting within the territorial governance system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many consumers express concern about the ecological consequences of their purchases and go so far as to promote collective action to encourage the spread of practices that address environmental impacts. Among the informal initiatives promoting the culture of sharing and reusing objects, we are interested in the phenomenon of free shops. These activities are characterised by the fact that they are promoted by groups of citizens whose aim is to explore alternative routes to ecological transition, while at the same time proposing a critique of the dominant market model. In this paper, we wanted to highlight the modalities of ecological engagement through the individual and collective trajectories of the people who frequent these atypical places as they reveal the evolutions and contradictions that remain in the transition between social and ecological challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper has an optimistic attitude about the impact of new technologies, including digital technology, in protecting workers’ collective interests. It distinguishes digital workers from those employed in traditional manufacturing sectors. It goes on to point out that while the physical place (the factory), which facilitated union activity in the former sectors, has disappeared, this does not imply the end of collective interests or the complete fragmentation of employment relations. Examples inItalyinclude the spontaneous assembly of riders working via food delivery apps and collective activities exploiting the potential of the web and of digital platforms. For workers employed in traditional manufacturing contexts, the exercise of trade union rights, especially those under Title III of the Workers' Statute, could be facilitated by the web and by the immediate and generalised access to virtual spaces. However, the paper also discusses whether the current configuration of trade union rights based on physical spaces is obsolete or whether they merely need to be re-interpreted. Finally, the paper briefly reflects on the role of trade unions, which will not be marginalised if they are able to embrace these new technologies.

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The concept of solidarity is of central importance to the political sense of collective action. But it is a curious fact that solidarity is virtually unmentioned across the large and growing literature in philosophical collective action theory. Instead, we see discussions of collective action overwhelmingly focus on epistemic conditions and group-level correlates of individual action explanations such as collective intentions, collective beliefs, and so on. The aim of this paper is to elucidate the relationship between solidarity and collective action theory. I will try to answer two questions: (1) What is it about the structure of accounts of collective action that seems to preclude discussions of solidarity and related concepts; and (2) How can solidarity be made to play a useful role in those accounts?

The analysis focuses on the development of the innovative tertiary sector in Calabria, presenting some analysis on the role of innovative tertiary sector in peripheral areas, which have deep-rooted weaknesses, and yet numerous resources that are not duly activated. For this reason, it is necessary to understand what are the variables that activate these resources. This pushes to consider the non-political as well as the non-economic dimensions (Coleman 2005; Granovetter 1985; Ramella 2013) as central to the unfolding of innovation, especially if considered as a collective social action (Trigilia 2007). The method used is qualitative and quantitative. The first part focuses on the local economic structure using data from Istat, the Ministry of Labor, and Aida updated to 2020. In the second part, there is a multidimensional qualitative study, through the analysis of thirteen semi-structured interviews with innovative entrepreneurs of the context. The results highlight a central role of non-political institutions, the structure of the market and of the networks to which they belong, in reinforcing innovative organizational dynamics, which are also useful for others local productive sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The root causes of the Italian decline lie in the distortions of collective action, which enhance the perverse behavior of both the elite and the people. The elites are "packs of wolves" that extract income and wealth to the detriment of society, shaping formal institutions. The people cultivate myriads of small special interests, operating as "swarms of locusts", by circumventing and emptying formal institutions. The dualism of wolves and locusts derives from the many atavistic national dualisms and strengthens them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper concerns a case of environmental mobilisation in the Chiese basin, a medium-length river that flows between Trentino and Lombardy. The case seems to contradict the idea that ecological mobilisation is almost absent in semi-rural areas due to cultural and territorial factors. To verify this hypothesis, the socio-environmental mobilisation along the Chiese is compared with that of the neighbouring river basins. We found more long-term and inclusive mobilisation along the Chiese river, and this is due not only to the local identity strength of the river, but also the occurrence of catalytic events that have threatened the sense of dignity and territorial justice of the inhabitants of the Chiese valley. After reviewing the specific literature on environmental mobilisation, we adopted a model of ‘baseline conditions-events catalysts-collective action’ and applied it to the specific case. The history of the mobilisation serves as empirical material on which to test the hypothesis.

The transformation of work in the perspective of collective action. A methodological exercise between law and sociology The article aims to subject the studies on the transformation of work to methodological review, in order to check whether sociology of work and labour law are able to dialogue and to converge on the same object. Taking unions action as an observation point, the Author aims to highlight the need for social studies and legal studies on work to be increasingly intertwined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Institutions help solving collective action problems and common-pool resources need institutions for their successful and sustainable management. However, institutional creation, functioning and changing are also second level collective action problems with no automatic solutions. This paper analyzes institutions functioning and change in users-managed irrigation systems in Valle d'Aosta, a northern Italy alpine region. Irrigation systems represent a complex resource, crucial for the traditional economy of the valley. Although the transition to advanced economy has partially reduced their importance, most of them are still in use and managed by the farmers themselves, with only external help from the region's administration. Nine cases are here studied, and a special focus is directed toward the social elements affecting both agricultural and institutional performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El objeto de este trabajo es profundizar en el conocimiento de las organizaciones creadas por ciudadanos argentinos radicados fuera de su país, como una de las estrategias que caracterizan a este colectivo de migrantes. Se buscará una mayor claridad en la definición conceptual de las organizaciones de argentinos eb el exterior debido a la variedad y heterogeneidad que se observa en ellas a través de los resultados de un trabajo empírico que será utilizado para sostener un acercamiento más detallado sobre la existencia y las características del funcionamiento de estas organizaciones. Palabras Clave: Migrantes, Acción colectiva, Argentina, Organizaciones sociales ________________Abstract:The purpose of this study is to deepen the knowledge of the organizations created by Argentine citizens residing abroad, as one of the strategies that characterizes this group of migrants. The paper seek clarity in the conceptual definition of eb Argentine organizations abroad because of the variety and heterogeneity seen in them by the results of an empirical study that will be used to support a more detailed report on the existence and operating characteristics of these organizations.Keywords: Migrants, Collective action, Argentina, Social Organizations

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The article offers information on the creation of models for studying social change taken into consideration the collective action, institutions and social networks. The attempt of searching for the general theory of social change has brought about three kinds of errors, namely nomological prejudice, structuralist prejudice and the ontological prejudice. Nomological prejudice consists of the illusion of searching for the laws of social change. Structuralist prejudice comprises of the research of the invariant structures of change, whereas ontological prejudice generates the research of the "motor" of change.