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• On the 9th March 2020 the Italian president Giuseppe Conte placed the country in lockdown as a preventative measure against the threat of the growing COVID-19 virus. As the first western democracy to restrict the movement of an entire country this move sparked what would become an international wave of emergency lockdown measures. At its peak in Italy COVID-19 claimed 919 lives in one day. As the measures continued into a third month the wider economic, political and social repercussions of this extensive lockdown became as pertinent as the death count. Through the operationalisation of an analytical framework that queries narratives of state responsibility, uncertainty and freedom in the reaction to the COVID-19 virus, as paralleled to the an auto-ethnographic account of an anthropologist quarantined with a Roman family this study will interpret the realities of life in lockdown for those living in Italy during this unprecedented health crisis. 

  Barker, S.M. (2020)

  On the 9th March 2020 the Italian president Giuseppe Conte placed the country in lockdown as a preventative measure against the threat of the growing COVID-19 virus. As the first western democracy to restrict the movement ...

• Trust in the National Government and in the European Union During COVID-19: Can Strictness of Lockdown Measures and COVID-19 Cases Explain the Differences in Trust in the Two Political Institutions Between European Countries? 

  Verlasevic, M. (2021)

  This study focusses on the effect of strictness of lockdown measures and reported COVID-19 cases in a country on trust in the national government and in the European Union (EU) within the 27 EU member states. Studies show ...

• Abstract: The development and diffusion of clean technologies, such as heat pumps, is crucial for mitigating CO2 emissions. Technological Innovation Systems (TIS) provide a framework for understanding the diffusion and development of clean technologies in developed countries. For developing countries, however, researchers suggest an extended version of the TIS framework accounting for their characteristics of developing countries. On the top of this, researchers claim that there is a need for ex 

  Şanal, Irem (2023)

  Abstract: The development and diffusion of clean technologies, such as heat pumps, is crucial for mitigating CO2 emissions. Technological Innovation Systems (TIS) provide a framework for understanding the diffusion and ...