This paper focuses on the Local Action Group as a partnership and considers how such entities fit within the Polanyian triadic model of social order. The rhetoric of leader and endogenous development would suggest that lags are a manifestation of the principle of reciprocal relationships. Osti concludes, however, that although there is a shift away from the hierarchical principle, the direction of change is, in fact, towards quasi‐markets. In these markets, territories are provided with an enhanced capacity as strategic agents but are also susceptible to control by local/regional economic and political interests. His theoretical ideas are grounded in a study of leader in Italy.

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Although some rural areas of Italy are close to the country’s most developed regions, in recent decades they have entered demographic decline: today, these areas are characterised by very high percentages of old people and very small numbers of family members. In some mountain villages the relational web is so weak as to represent a severe form of exclusion. Increasing virtual and physical mobility is seen as an answer to depopulationand marginality. The article seeks to verify the plausibility of the idea that mobility organisation can improve the traditional policies of territorial development by placing more emphasis on the involvement of the local population in transport services. To thisend, it constructs a typology of rural areas on the basis of Kaufmann’s categories of connectivity and reversibility. These ideal types are then used to analyse the trends and chances of mobility in remote Italian rural areas