Alessandro Indelicato

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• Ph.D.
• Researcher at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

This study analyses the relationship between the effects of climate change and environmental regulation for the first time, considering how some individuals' socioeconomic characteristics affect the different types of Amer-icans' perceptions. A panoply of fuzzy set methods, including Fuzzy Hybrid TOPSIS, Fuzzy Clustering and Fuzzy Clustering ECO-Ex...

This study assesses European citizens' attitudes towards EU policies using data from the 98th Eurobarometer. The fuzzy hybrid TOPSIS methodology assesses support for five policies, ranging from military aid to economic sanctions against Ukraine. An ordered probit model analyses how 14 factors, such as age, political orientation, household finances...

Introduction Gender equality (GE) is increasingly becoming a key point on modern political agendas. While governments and civil societies strive to achieve this goal, we may be far from “perfect” equality between women and men. Sport is a good example of some of the inequalities that men and women face, such as pay, discrimination, and unequal oppo...

Over the past decade, Europe has faced significant challenges due to the increase in net greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting economic losses associated with climate change. This article focuses on a detailed analysis of the trends in such emissions, the economic losses incurred, and the impact of adopted environmental taxation policies. Util...

COVID-19 disrupted the transportation sector and changed travel behaviour. After the outbreak of the pandemic, people began to prefer private modes to collective transport, creating a vicious cycle that often led to a reduction in transport options. This is particularly critical for those who are unable to drive or move independently, raising issue...

Social media platforms, particularly Twitter (now X), have transformed into significant arenas for public debate on immigration, showcasing a diverse spectrum of opinions and emotions. The current study utilized sentiment analysis, a method widely used in social media research, to delve into public sentiment in social network comments related to im...

The most visible and well-known consequence of natural and environmental disasters is displacement. The paper analyzes environmentally induced displacement and attitudes towards climate change in Italy between 2013 and 2023. For this purpose, the Gradient Boosting Model (GBM) is used to analyze environmental displacement, while the Fuzzy-Hybrid TOP...

Commuter satisfaction with their chosen mode of transport significantly affects quality of life, well-being, and the sustainability of commuting practices. This study uses a fuzzy-hybrid TOPSIS approach, applied to data from seven functional urban areas in Central Europe. The method effectively creates a composite indicator for assessing satisfacti...

This systematic literature review explores the relationship between demographic ageing and subjective well-being (SWB), with a focus on the roles of religion and migration background. Demographic ageing, driven by declining birth rates and increased life expectancy, poses significant challenges and opportunities for societies worldwide. SWB, encomp...

This study utilises data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), Religion module of 2018, to provide a comparative analysis between attitudes towards civil rights (ATCR) and religious beliefs (RB) in thirty-three countries, examining the influence of religion and socio-demographic factors on both latent variables. The study measures AT...

The study transcends borders to challenge conventional narratives about religious tolerance and fundamentalism. Leveraging a Fuzzy-Hybrid Approach, we delve into the multifaceted realities of eight diverse nations: Germany, Cyprus, the United States, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, and Kenya. Our innovative analysis unveils surprising complexit...

This study analyzes the satisfaction and loyalty levels of car commuters in Central Europe using data collected within the EU-funded project ‘Smart-Commuting.’ A Fuzzy-Hybrid TOPSIS approach is employed to measure synthetic indicators of satisfaction and loyalty among commuters. Subsequently, those expressing high satisfaction and loyalty to cars a...

An increase in commuting is a common trend affecting urban areas worldwide, which results in higher congestion and negative externalities for the community. Mobility restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic intensified the diffusion of homework. Initially conceived as a necessity, homework soon evolved into a new opportunity to reduce travel deman...

The academic literature showed an increasing interest in studying the link between national identity and anti-immigrant sentiment. This work is based on ten countries from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) dataset for two different waves: 2003 and 2013. The paper aims to analyse the influence of the three facets of national identity (n...

Religious beliefs are a highly debated topic in the scientific literature. Various authors have approached this issue qualitatively and quantitatively. This study examines the attitudes towards out-religious groups, considering individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics. A new approach is introduced, utilising the Fuzzy-Hybrid TOPSIS method applied...

Many reasons have shaped immigration into the EU over the past decade. Since then, attitudes towards immigration have not only gained public attention but have also shaped political debate and discourse in recent regional, national, and EU elections. The global financial crisis of 2008 increased the importance of migration in the social welfare uph...

National identity studies diverge on several issues, such as the number of factors and their respective items’ adscription. Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA) is the standard method applied to cross-national datasets. Differences between groups can be the result of measurement artefacts. We argue that these problems can be better addr...

Immigration has always been a dynamic phenomenon. In the 19th century, the United States experienced massive immigration from the United Kingdom, Germany, and Scandinavian countries. Between the two World Wars, emigration became widespread among European countries, especially towards the Americas, exemplified by Italian emigration to Argentina (Kee...

Many immigrants have risked their lives searching for a better future by crossing the Mediterranean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean. The Canary Islands became the centre of another emerging humanitarian and human rights crisis at Europe’s frontier in 2020. The study aims to analyse whether attitudes towards immigrants are affected by territories close to...

The debate on national identity has been receiving more attention from academics, social planners, and the public in recent years. This study aims to analyse citizens’ different national identity typologies using data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) in two waves: 2003 and 2013. The study is based on 10 countries for which the di...

The public and political debate about immigration now play a big role in all European elections, and there is a trend increasing an anti-immigrant sentiment that receives important media attention. This work, based on the European Social Survey (ESS) round 9 data for 27 European countries, contributes to such debate by introducing a new method in t...

The study analyzes national identity using the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) database for the waves of 2003 and 2013. First, the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and the Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA) are used to find the dimensions of the items included in the national identity module. Second, the civic and ethnic di...

The study aims to analyze the determinants for being an immigrant in Cuenca (Ecuador). Our analysis is based on the answers given to a scale formed by 30 items included in a questionnaire administered to a representative sample of 369 immigrants. A fuzzy hybrid multi-criteria decision-making method, TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similar...

The current refugees’ crisis is undermining the main government coalitions of many countries in the European Union (EU), and tolerant attitudes and open admission policies toward immigrants seem to be part of the recent past history. The dilemma is gaining a lot of media attention as the public and political debate on migration is now playing an im...