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This engaging and topical book comprehensively explores the complexities surrounding the EU Cohesion Policy, which has been addressing regional and urban development across Europe since the 1980s. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, it not only considers the goals of this long-term investment policy, which is to reduce territorial disparities be...
Il rapporto qui presentato è il frutto di una ricerca che la Direzione Sviluppo Economico e Programmazione della Provincia di Firenze ha affidato a ESOC-Lab (Economic and Social Choesion Laboratory) della LSE (The London School of Economics and Political Science).
L'oggetto della ricerca sono gli investimenti diretti esteri (IDE) nel contesto della...
The volume has presented ten chapters divided into four parts looking at different aspects of the dynamics of federalist systems over time. Part IV is represented by this concluding chapter which looks at the recent European experience and how it has changed at the supranational level. We will not discuss what has happened within nation-states beca...
The thesis of this paper is that the Italian Communists are attempting to implement a top-initiated response to increasing societal demands for government services and the crisis of confidence in local politics in blending together technocratic-efficiency elements in the management of public affairs along with sustained grassroots participation. We...
This volume assesses the implementation of the EU's cohesion policy and the role that the policy has in stimulating ten new member states from eastern and southern European countries to join the EU in 2004 and another three to four countries that will join in the near future.
In 2004 the European Union’s cohesion policy entered into its fifteenth year of existence. Since its inception in 1989, the policy has covered a significant part of the European Union (EU) member states’ territory and population. What distinguishes the EU’s cohesion policy from regional development policies undertaken by national governments in Eur...
The Italian Mezzogiorno, consisting historically of eight regions,1 has contained Objective 1 regions since the beginning of the Community’s cohesion policy in 1989. Even before that year, the Italian South as a whole (rather than the regions as distinct institutions) was the recipient of an extensive national development policy that began in the i...
The definition and significance of cohesion has been hotly debated among political scientists and economists since the concept first made its appearance in the Single European Act (SEA), but it was with the subsequent Treaty on European Union (i.e., the Maastricht Treaty) of 1993 (Article B) that economic and social cohesion became one of the three...
The Treaty of Rome of 1957 which established the European Economic Community (EEC) contained in its preamble a broad goal of ensuring the harmonious development of the economies of the member states by “reducing the differences existing between the various regions and the backwardness of the less favored regions” (EC Treaties, 1987: 119). The goal...
The article looks at the role of social norms as elements in the facilitation of regional economic development in underdeveloped areas. Drawing upon the findings of "Making Democracy Work: Civic traditions in Modern Italy, " the argument is made that social norms play a vital role in determining a region's potential for economic growth. In the case...
Why do some new representative institutions succeed and others fail? This article tests several hypotheses about the ecology of institutional performance, drawing on a ten-year study of Italian regional governments. Institutional success is greater where socioeconomic development is more advanced, where the political culture is participant and soci...
This article addresses the alternatives posed by urban decentralization as a new institutional framework within which change in city planning goals and administrative practices can take place. Considering that, traditionally, the professions of city planning and public administration have been haunted by a low level of implementation of plans and a...
How stable are elite survey responses over time? Scattered previous research casts doubt on the standard assumption that elite political attitudes are significantly more stable than mass attitudes. After a discussion of problems of interpreting and measuring attitude stability, this study presents evidence from a six-year panel survey of Italian re...
Análisis de los nuevos gobiernos regionales en Italia, que abarca dos décadas -desde la creación de tales instancias en 1970- y muestra la importancia del sentido cívico en el desarrollo de instituciones políticas exitosas. Tras veinte años de examinar la eficacia de estos gobiernos en campos como la agricultura, la vivienda y los servicios de salu...
Thesis--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Vita. Bibliography : leaves 314-328. Photocopy of typescript. Ann Arbor : University Microfilms International, 1979. -- 21 cm.
Traducción de: Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy Incluye bibliografía e indice
