Mémoire
| Résumé : | Due to the growing importance of the debate regarding animal welfare, this work aims to contribute to the research and to sum upon the existent literature. The purpose is to study and go into detail about the precise attitudes demonstrated towards the matter, precisely the one coming from a political perspective, in this case conservative. This dissertation has the objective to test the hypothesis of a negative correlation between the conservative political perspective and animal welfare but moreover to fill the gap about it in the specific Italian case. Initially, an extended literature review is presented in order to clarify and define the main concepts and actors found along the research, such as animal welfare and conservatism, but also to understand the “behaviouralist” theoretical approach used in the work. In the next section, the conservative Italian context and its main actors (parties) of the last two decades are presented, as well as the main data and its collection and analysis methods implemented in the work. The research proceeds then through the analysis of parliamentary documents such as debates transcriptions, vote results, motions or amends, through a mixed methodology which includes bot qualitative and quantitative analysis features. The results presented demonstrate a non-unique and linear behaviour from the Italian conservative parties considered. Some of them showed a very satisfactory approach to the argument while others a more hostile one, making then impossible to classify the whole category as negatively correlated. The hypothesis has to be declared as not true but further research is needed in order to study in deep the whole situation. Research considering extra-parliamentary data and perhaps a different theoretical approach would be helpful to re-test the correlation. |
