Program
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Friday, 13 September 2002
9.15
Opening ceremony
Welcome by the academic authorities
9.30
Introductory paper
Stefano Cavazza (University of Bologna)
Legittimità e consenso nell’Europa contemporanea: dalle crisi di fine secolo all’affluent society. Rapporto sui risultati del gruppo di ricerca di Bologna *
Legitimacy and consensus in contemporary Europe: from the fin-de-siècle crisis to the affluent society. Report on the results of the Bologna research group*
10.00
Session I: 1848-1918
Chair: Tiziano Bonazzi, Director of the Department of Politics, Institutions, History (University of Bologna)
Fulvio Cammarano (University of Bologna)
Crisi politica e politica della crisi: Italia e Gran Bretagna 1880-1925 Political crisis and crisis management: Italy and Great Britain 1880-1925
Michael Freeden (University of Oxford)
Layers of legitimacy: political languages of consent and dissent
Nicolas Roussellier (Sciences-Po -Parigi)
The nature of 'tiers arbitre' in France (second half of XIXe c.): Administrative State, law-making Parliament and mass politics
Pierangelo Schiera (University of Trento)
Governanti e governati. Il consenso come elemento della costituzione liberale nella seconda metà del XIX secolo". Governors and governed. Consensus as a component of the liberal constitution in the second half of the nineteenth century
12.15 Discussion
13.00 Session concludes
14.30
Session II: 1919-1945
Chair: Raffaella Gherardi, Representative of the Directors of Department in the Academic Senate (University of Bologna)
Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University)
The palingenetic political community: rethinking the legitimation of totalitarian regimes in inter-war Europe
Horst Möller (Institut für Zeitgeschichte - München)
Integration and Disintegration. Why did the Weimarer Republic Fail?
Maria Serena Piretti (University of Bologna)
Specchi del consenso. Vicende elettorali e dibattiti costituzionali 1919-1929 Mirrors of consensus. Electoral affairs and constitutional debates 1919-1929
Henk te Velde (University of Groningen)
Crisis of Legitimacy? The Dutch Interwar Parliament and Political Parties in European Perspective.
18.00 Discussion
19.00 Session concludes
Saturday, 14 September 2002
9.15
Session III: 1946-2001
Chair: Carlo Galli, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science Forlì (University of Bologna)
Christoph Kleßmann (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung - Potsdam)
Political and social legitimation in the divided Germany
Kenneth Morgan (Queen’s College Oxford; Member of the House of Lords)
Attlee to Blair, 1945 - 2002: Consensus, Legitimacy, Order and Protest in Great Britain.
Paolo Pombeni (Università di Bologna)
Il consenso nella società del benessere: il caso italiano Consensus in the affluent society: the Italian case
Charles Powell (Instituto Universitario Ortega Y Gasset - Madrid)
The notion of “consenso” in Spain’s transition to democracy, 1975-1982
Gaetano Quagliariello (Luiss Guido Carli- Roma)
Legittimità e consenso: le origini del gollismo Legitimacy and consensus: the origins of Gaullism
12.15
Discussion
12.45
Session concludes
* The research group (historical section) financed by the University of Bologna as part of a three-year multidisciplinary research project promoted by the Department and coordinated by Raffaela Gherardi consists of Lucia Bonfreschi, Fulvio Cammarano, Stefano Cavazza, Alessandra Ferretti, Giulia Guazzaloca, Marzia Maccaferri, Maria Serena Piretti, Paolo Pombeni.