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    Pianificazione strategica tra sviluppo locale e policentrismo: alcune evidenze empiriche sul caso siciliano

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    Abstract Strategic planning, local development and policentrism: empirical evidence for Sicily Objectives The aim of this paper is the analysis of metropolitan strategic planning in Sicily. Urban areas are becoming important units for territorial cohesion policy and strategic planning represents more and more an important policy instrument. Evidence of a policentric pattern is tested across 30 strategic plans carried out by Sicilian cities in order to derive useful insights for policies implications. Methods and Result This study uses multidimensional scaling and rank-size regressions across Sicilian Functional Urban Areas (FUA) as well as descriptive information drawn from strategic plans in order to identify the main characteristics of these instruments and to provide evidence on their capacity to innovate traditional local development policies. Conclusions The empirical results show a strong evidence in favour of hierarchical patterns across urban areas which are adopting a strategic plan while polycentric forces appear to be very limited

    Federalismo Fiscale, dinamica della spesa in conto capitale e processi di interazione spaziale: alcune evidenze empiriche

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    A growing number of countries throughout the world are reconsidering the role and functions of the various levels of government in order to make public policies more effective in meeting the needs of citizens by firmly pursuing administrative devolution. This paper analyses regional interactions in the dynamics of capital public expenditure based on the estimates of a dynamic gravity model (Dendrinos-Sonis,1990) using the database on Italian Regional Public Accounts (RPA) in the 1996-2007 period. This empirical model allows for the analysis of dynamic relations of a horizonal nature (i.e., between various regions) and vertical nature (i.e., between various levels of government) compared to the interest variable to determine whether they are based mainly on competitive or complementary interactions. The implications of these results within the wider debate on fiscal federalism currently under way in Italy are assessed in the analysis alongside the evaluation of the sensibility of results

    Capitale territoriale e partenariato pubblico-privato: un'analisi dei fattori locali di successo

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    Al centro di una possibile tassonomia del capitale territoriale si collocano le reti di cooperazione ed, in particolare, i servizi in partenariato pubblico-privato (PPP) che rappresentano beni e servizi ad un intermedio livello di materialità e rivalità. Questa categoria di beni consente di sfruttare le complementarietà tra pubblico e privato e, attraverso un complesso meccanismo di distribuzione del rischio e dei profitti tra i soggetti coinvolti, di accrescere l’efficienza complessiva dei progetti di investimento. Nel presente lavoro sono state analizzate le possibili determinanti territoriali degli esiti dei bandi di PPP promossi in Italia. Tali determinanti riguardano aspetti relativi alla dotazione di infrastrutture, l’efficienza delle amministrazioni locali, il tessuto imprenditoriale, il dinamismo nelle iniziative di sviluppo locale ed il funzionamento dei meccanismi dl mercato. La scala di analisi adottata è quella provinciale.The territorial capital is a concept which tries to encompass all material and non-material assets competitiveness at a local level. The paper focuses on a particular aspect of the territorial capital with an intermediate degree of rivalry and material content, namely the public-private partnership (PPP). PPP determines cooperation between local institutions and private agents in the production of goods and services. Public-private partnership determinants range from the infrastructure/endowments to the efficiency of local administrations, from dynamism in local development initiatives to firms’ density and the smooth functioning of the market mechanisms
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