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Lessons from History: The Startling Rise to Power of Benito Mussolini [PDF]
, 2018 Rome-based scholar Emilio Iodice examines the circumstances that precipitated the rise of dictator Benito Mussolini in 1920s’ Italy – xenophobia, cultural bigotry, harsh governing measures, a condemned media – and draws the conclusion that some of those ...
Iodice, Emilio F
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
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Ezra Pound and the Republican Tradition [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2019 The topics of fascism and anti-Semitism constitute the core research problems of contemporary scholarship on the political ideas of Ezra Pound. This article shifts the research focus to the topic, which has attracted much less academic attention, namely –
Rodion Yu. Belkovich
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Governance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines how political and administrative elites shape regime transformations under authoritarian rule, proposing an elite‐centered analytical perspective that complements prevailing accounts of “democratic backsliding.” We show how embedding political–administrative relations within a broader elite‐theoretical framework clarifies ...
Kutsal Yesilkagit, Johan Christensen
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Chin up: A novel functional explanation for the evolution of the chin
Acta Zoologica, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 404-408, October 2025.Abstract The human chin, also frequently referred to as the mental prominence, is a part of the human anatomy whose evolutionary origin and function have divided scientific opinion to this day. There were suggestions it could have been used in defence, assisted in the mastication process, aided in the formation of words (i.e.
Victor Benno Meyer‐Rochow
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Political connections cause resource misallocation: Evidence from the fall of fascism in Italy
Financial Management, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 549-583, Autumn (Fall) 2025.Abstract The fall of fascism in Italy in 1943–1944 was followed by the issuance of laws and decrees that made former fascist politicians ineligible for political office. This setting provides a unique quasi‐natural experiment that exogenously and permanently disrupted then prevalent corporate political connections.
Mara Faccio, John J. McConnell
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Hard power e soft power na realidade e na memória da Itália de Mussolini
Estudos do Século XXBenito Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III on 30 October 1922. His regime soon back-dated itself by a couple of days, proclaiming the Fascist ‘March on Rome’ had brought ‘revolution’ to Italy on 28 October.
Richard Bosworth
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
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Wealth, Inheritance, and Concentration: Italy and Its Regions From the Unification to the Great War
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 71, Issue 3, August 2025.ABSTRACT In the economic history of post‐unification Italy, the question of wealth has been largely neglected. We fill this gap with a new set of estimates of wealth concentration from 1863 to 1914, using national inheritance tax tabulations, combined with existing micro‐data for the cities of Milan and Naples. While the level of our estimates for this
Giacomo Gabbuti, Salvatore Morelli
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