Abstract
Autore:
Rositi Franco
Titolo:
"I magistrati: durata e rischi di una situazione di ceto"
The tensions between the judiciary
and politicians remain frequent in Italy.
Which impact do they have on the public
opinion? A recent study on the judiciary and
public opinion, carried out by Nadio Delai
and Stefano Rolando in 2014, and promoted
by the Scuola Superiore della Magistratura
(Higher School of the Judiciary), now allows
for the construction of empirical sound
conjectures to answer this question. The interviews
display a broad consensus of the
vocational and pro-social character of the
magistrate profession, and, at the same time,
are highly critical of some of its practices.
This ambivalence is interpreted as a mirroring
of a more general tension: on the one
hand, the interviewed have positive expectations
as regards the resilience of some status
situations (ständische Lagen in Max Weber’s
vocabulary), of whose the judiciary is maybe
the clearest example. On the other hand, they
are aware of the privilege inherent to these
status situations, when confronted with the
most common market situation (Marktlage
or Klassenlage in Weber’s vocabulary). The
higher the positive expectations, the sharper
the critiques towards behaviors are considered
inappropriate.
