Introduzione

The Introduction to volume "Dinamiche del potere e dell'ideologia nell'Europa contemporanea (1814-1989)", outlines the items between Restoration and the end of "bipolarism" in 1989, including the debate on forms of government, kind of States and political and social models, together with the ideologies that facilited or obstructed their formation. Through the interpretation of Authors' essaies that range from historical to institutional and from philosophical and epistemological to iconographical analysis, Marco Ferrari underlines how the variety of government forms and political doctrines hides a convergence to a making of an administrative and national state. This state is a political and administrative centralized model that cause reflections on federalism, on individuality, on culture autonomy, on value of constituent processes and on relativity of reason that serve to reveal and avoid the political power trasformation into autocracy.