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Verso una geografia variabile dei servizi pubblici locali di tipo ambientale. La gestione di acqua e rifiuti nelle regioni italiane
No full textIl saggio ripercorre le operazioni di ritaglio degli ambiti territoriali ottimali per la gestione dei servizi pubblici locali di tipo ambientale in Italia, mettendo in luce il progressivo scivolamento da una teoria del cambiamento orientata all'industrializzazione dei servizi, ad una più marcatamente ispirata a criteri di contenimento della spesa pubblica. Sono presentati, a questo proposito, dati comparati per tutte e venti le regioni italiane
Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche
No full textLa Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche analizza le dinamiche attraverso cui si cerca di dare soluzione a problemi sociali complessi nei sistemi politici contemporanei. Costituisce un forum multidisciplinare nel quale scienziati sociali e operatori che si occupano di politiche pubbliche sotto varie angolazioni possono dialogare, confrontando approcci teorici e interpretazioni, scambiandosi informazioni ed esperienze di ricerca. La rivista, che ha una naturale predilezione per la ricerca empirica, ma è aperta a contributi di carattere normativo, promuove annualmente un premio per il miglior articolo di policy scritto da un giovane studioso
‘I hope you like jabbing, too’. The Covid vaccination campaign in Italy and the measures to promote compliance
Full text linkFrom the start of 2021, the vaccination campaign against SARS-
CoV-2 was high on the agenda of governments everywhere and the
Italian Government was no exception. In this article, we shall
describe the progress of the anti-Covid vaccination campaign in
Italy with a particular focus on the policy tools adopted by the
Government to encourage citizens’ compliance and to combat
reluctance. After considering the problem of engaging with the
vaccination campaign using the analytic framework provided by
studies of compliance, focus will be first on how the targets of the
vaccination campaign came to be defined and the infrastructural
facilities for administering the doses established, and then on the
measures the Government took to overcome popular resistance to
the vaccines and to maximize compliance, considering them in
terms of their degree of ‘intrusiveness’. In the final section, we
conclude by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the
campaign and by offering an assessment of the coherence and
the timing of the Government’s measures
L'accesso ai fondi comunitari e il loro uso
No full textIl saggio prende in esame la capacità mostrata dalle regioni italiane di accedere ai fondi comunitari per la politica di coesione e di utilizzarli. Indicatori di efficienza amministrativa (tempi di elaborazione dei programmi da sottoporre alla Ue, percentuali dei pagamenti effettuati annualmente rispetto agli impegni) e indicatori relativi alla capacità delle regioni di attivarsi presso le sedi istituzionali comunitarie (tempestività nella istituzione di uffici di rappresentanza a
Bruxelles, presenza e partecipazione negli organismi di cooperazione
interregionale transnazionale, partecipazione al Comitato delle Regioni) sono combinati in un indice complessivo di rendimento. I risultati mostrano un notevole divario tra le performance delle regioni Centro-settentrionali e quelle del Mezzogiorno, nonché una stretta correlazione tra rendimento delle amministrazioni regionali e "invulnerabilità" delle maggioranze al governo
Le regioni italiane e il PNRR : la (vana) ricerca di canali d’accesso all’agenda
Full text linkFollowing years of attempted federal reforms, the relationship between the State and
the Regions in Italy is still marked by various shortcomings. The essay explores this
issue in the formulation of the Italian NRRP by investigating, on the one hand, the
vertical relations between the State and the Regions, highlighting both the weak coordination
between the two levels of government and the limited involvement of the
Regions in the governance structure; on the other, the horizontal relations between
the regions, which are affected by competitive drives aimed at defending regional
interests that are differentiated according to the North-South cleavage. Based on the
analysis carried out, the study proposes some interpretative keys which call into
question polity, politics, and policy factors
The Social Dimension of Cohesion Policy
No full textIn parallel to the formulation of the Europe 2020 strategy, the new regulation of the EU Cohesion policy has experienced some changes which - at least on paper - seem to rejuvenate its solidarity profile, bringing the aims of fighting poverty and promoting inclusive growth among the core priorities of the EU. In order to understand how and to what extent such changes in policy discourse correspond to concrete change in policy practices, this chapter tries to assess the nature and relevance of the social dimension in both the regulation of cohesion policy and the operational programs co-financed by the EU Structural Funds (today European Structural and Investment - ESI Funds), with a specific focus on the 2007-13 and 2014-20 programming periods. A distinction is made between measures oriented at increasing employment, such as services for employment, active labour market policies, human resources development and training activities, and measures which are more explicitly "social" in nature, such as reduction of poverty, fighting discrimination and the creation of social infrastructures
The politics of corporatization: what it is, why it matters
No full textThe article discusses the political facets of corporatization in Local Public Services (LPS) by focusing on three specific practices: the use of corporatization as a way to limit competition; the design and actual practice of regulation and control over service providers; the appointment of members of company boards and shareholder assemblies
Il governo regionale dei servizi pubblici locali: quali strumenti?
No full textL'articolo affronta le modalità con cui le regioni italiane, direttamente o indirettamente, si dotano di strumenti utili a governare le politiche relative ai servizi pubblici locali. Più nello specifico, il saggio si sofferma su tre tipi di strumento: gli atti normativi e di programmazione; gli strumenti di monitoraggio e controllo; e la partecipazione in qualità di socio proprietario nelle aziende (più o meno locali) di gestione dei servizi
A shallow rationalisation? ‘Merger mania‘ and side-effects in the reorganisation of public-service delivery
No full textThis article focuses on the mix of reorganisation measures recently adopted by Italian governments in the delivery of public services in four policy sectors that are (co)managed at different levels of government, but all mostly delivered locally. The aim is twofold: to understand whether a single, coherent approach to rationalisation can be identified in the policy provisions; and how – and how much – the onset of austerity affected governments’ choices. Little attention has in fact so far been paid to the task of providing an overall, cross-sectoral analysis of the changes that have been made to the organisation of public intervention at the local level, and especially those bodies actually providing public services to citizens. The empirical evidence adduced shows that the recent changes in the Italian administrative geography have been the effect of a cost-cutting-oriented, recentralising trend reflecting a one-size-fits-all solution for each and every policy sector: consolidation through ‘merger mania’ or upscaling. Moreover, the reorganisation measures described for the various policy sectors have had side effects with significant political implications, especially as far as centre-periphery relations are concerned
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