Tuesday 29st May pm 17.30, in the “Di Liegro” room of Palazzo Valentini in Rome, the volume edited by will be presented Caesar Pinelli on the initiative of the Astrid Foundation “Social exclusion. Public policies and guarantee of rights”, published by Passigli Editori and already on sale in bookstores.
The text, which collects a large number of analyzes and interviews with experts in the field of social sciences, offers the reader an interesting and complete framework to better understand the roots of a great scourge of our time, that of social exclusion.
A phenomenon which, in these terms, is perhaps little discussed and investigated by the mass media, but felt in everyday life by an ever-increasing number of individuals.
If the attention of political forces is – especially in these times – focused on the fight against economic and financial crisis, the institutions are revealed to be increasingly inadequate to fulfill the primary task of every democracy: that of guaranteeing, even before cash stability, the freedom and ability of every citizen to be participant of the economic, cultural and social processes that make up the collective fabric.
In the years in which the globalization and the financial crisis have revolutionized the economic and social fabric of developed countries, the growing failure of democracies to match constitutionally expressed rights with a framework of real and universal application of guarantees is increasingly evident.
We live, therefore, in a regime of substantive democracy or nominal democracy? The text aims to rally politics, so far the missing link, but "it is not asked for funds to create new areas of welfare. On the contrary, it is asked to dismantle the existing ones, together with the pockets of privileges that thrive beyond those denounced by the press, to stimulate and accompany all the initiatives useful for combating social exclusion".
A mature stance, therefore, free from easy ideologies that are difficult to translate into rules, in times of extremely tight financial constraints. The text, on the contrary, addresses some issues of a very heterogeneous nature - from the rights of immigrants to the topic of prisons, passing through the corporate social responsibility and the problem of the relationship between households and taxation – offering concrete ideas and precise and punctual regulatory references.
The round table, which will surround the presentation, will be composed of Andrea Riccardi – Minister for International Cooperation and Integration; Maurizio Lupi – Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies; Nicola Zingaretti – President of the Province of Rome; Claudio Tesauro – President of Save the Children Italy. The debate will be chaired by Franco Bassanini, President of the Astrid Foundation.
