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Interreligious dialogue under conditions of deep difference: Comparing CEDAR and EMUNA

This article offers a critical reflection on the model of interreligious interaction developed by Adam B. Seligman in his paper The Collective, Consciousness and the Person, by comparing it with the EMUNA program currently implemented at Luiss University in Rome. The starting point is the problem of coexistence under conditions of deep difference: how trust and cooperation can be sustained among actors belonging to divergent communities of meaning without presupposing normative convergence or...

‘Show me the money!’ - The Changing Dynamics of Economic Governance in the European Union

This introduction examines the ongoing transformation of economic governance in the European Union over the past decade. It argues that a series of crisis-driven reforms - most notably, the creation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the expansion of EU fiscal capacity, and the growing emphasis on industrial policy and economic security - have collectively reshaped the EU's macroeconomic framework. While these developments do not constitute a coherent grand design, their cumulative effe...

La construcción del Estado administrativo (y del derecho administrativo como ciencia autónoma) en Italia

La Spisa e l'attività scientifica: ricerche, pubblicazioni, maestri

This essay traces the historical development of the School of Specialisation in Public Administration Studies (Spisa), highlighting its role in advancing administrative science in Italy. The analysis covers three phases: the 1950s, when leading political scientists joined Bologna through an agreement with the University of California, Berkeley; the 1960s-70s, marked by collaboration with the Ford Foundation; and the maturation phase from the 1980s, when Spisa became a major centre for pub...