Sub‐national governments in the long Italian transition

Dente, Bruno

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“…Following the law no. 142/90, northern cities' financial autonomy accounted for 60 to 70 per cent, while just 30 per cent of their income came from central government (Dente 1997). …”

Section: Literature and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The 2003 Italian local elections showed Riccardo Illy, a coffee entrepreneur with a global brand and already mayor of Trieste, winning the regional elections in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Legnante 2004). Law no.81/1993 on the direct election of mayors and the subsequent crisis in the traditional political parties created a shift in voting patterns with an increasing 'personalisation' of the votes, meaning that the electorate would Entrepreneurial Local Government 587 vote for candidates based on their personal qualities rather than on their political affiliation (Dente 1997). That created the motivation for entrepreneurial behaviour from this new breed of mayors.…”

Section: Professional Politician Vs Senior Managermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multi-level Governance and EU Structural Funds: An Entrepreneurial Local Government Perspective

Zerbinati

2012

Local Government Studies

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This article explores some of the underlying forces that provoke local governments to participate in multi-level governance through the creation of networks at the local as well as European level. We focus on the European funding process within local governments to identify some differences in the process between the Italian and the English local government authorities. Subsequently we observe that entrepreneurship theory could assist in untangling and explaining this phenomenon; therefore we explore the EU funding process from an entrepreneurship angle.

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“…Following the law no. 142/90, northern cities' financial autonomy accounted for 60 to 70 per cent, while just 30 per cent of their income came from central government (Dente 1997). …”

Section: Literature and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Professional Politician Vs Senior Managermentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-level Governance and EU Structural Funds: An Entrepreneurial Local Government Perspective

Zerbinati

2012

Local Government Studies

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“…In Britain, the emergence of ethnoregionalist parties in Scotland and Wales, and the parallel growth of the centrist Liberal (now Liberal Democrat) party which has strong roots in the 'Celtic fringe', have seriously eroded the traditional two-party system over the last three decades, laying the foundations for the devolution reforms set in train by the Blair Government. In Italy, the emergence of a strong ethnoregionalist protest party, the Northern League, was a key factor in the implosion of the party system, and the principal reason for moves towards further decentralizing reform in recent years (see Dente, 1997). In Spain, the causal pattern is unclear: ethnoregionalist parties, already significant in the first post-Franco elections, grew strongly during the transition to democracy and played a role in the major realignment of the party system in 1982.…”

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Political Decentralization, Electoral Change and Party Organizational Adaptation

Hopkin

2003

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Electoral politics in the larger Western democracies seems to be becoming increasingly `denationalized': non-statewide political parties have grown in strength, and demands for decentralization have led to major institutional changes in large unitary states in recent years. As a result, the conventional view of party politics as essentially taking place at the national level, between national parties, over national issues, appears increasingly inadequate. This article argues that party scholars need to look more closely at what we could call the `territorial dimension' of electoral politics: the spatial and geographical aspects of party competition. This article presents a preliminary analysis of how centre-periphery tensions and institutional reforms affect the way statewide parties organize, focusing on the areas of elite recruitment, electoral programmes and campaigning, and party behaviour in public office. It hypothesizes a variety of patterns of party response, and provides some tentative evidence from Western European democracies, and in particular Britain, Italy and Spain.This analysis shows that the internal workings of statewide political parties are a key variable in understanding the relationship between institutional reform and the `denationalization' of electoral politics.

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“…The strong reduction in audit compliance has not been precisely substituted 504 A. Lippi by a steady practice of evaluation, even though its diffusion is increasing and the quality of evaluation reports has quite improved. But, like Dente (1997), we still notice that, although improved, the general situation sketches a lack of control in terms of audit, and even more in terms of evaluation of results.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…In spite of the different ideological orientations, all the Acts and the Decrees issued from the 1990s onwards can be summarised in a single idea of devolution of power through decentralisation to empower the Local Authorities. Therefore, even if a coherent and unitary project has not been furnished, it is possible to trace an a posteriori policy design, such as a theory of change (Weiss, 1998), that points out a new model of decentralisation grounded on multilevel governance and vertical subsidiarity (Dente, 1997;Bobbio, 2005).…”

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Evaluating the ‘Quasi Federalist’ Programme of Decentralisation in Italy since the 1990s: A Side-effect Approach

Lippi

2011

Local Government Studies

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This article concerns institutional policy in Italy since the 1990s, when Parliament and Central Government enacted a long-term programme of decentralisation, here labelled 'quasi federalist'. The programme envisaged major changes to the intergovernmental setting, and it has pursued three main general goals: increasing performance, promoting effectiveness and improving democratic accountability. In the almost 20 years since its introduction, the programme has induced a radical change in multi-level governance and vertical subsidiarity through a wide range of laws. This article aims at evaluating the effects of this 'quasi federalist' setting in Italy, assuming a 'side-effect' approach to depict the wide range of observed outcomes. The evaluation strategy collects evidence through a secondary analysis using different sources. The ex-post evaluation looks over a well articulated range of indicators concerning many kinds of expected changes: legal aspects, financial performance, institutional arrangements, organisational innovation, etc. Two different main effects are examined: institutional effects and performance effects. At the same time, side effects and unanticipated consequences are also considered. The final assessment points out that the main effects have been only partially achieved, while relevant side effects can be observed. For this reason, the programme remains a 'work in progress' toward federalism, while some strategic problems still have to be solved before any further conscious programme can be developed in this direction, whether it relates to the procedural or to the performance aspect. The ambiguity of the former arrangement seems to have been partially solved, but it will be a hard task to improve democratic accountability.

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Sub‐national governments in the long Italian transition

Cited by 60 publications

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Multi-level Governance and EU Structural Funds: An Entrepreneurial Local Government Perspective

Multi-level Governance and EU Structural Funds: An Entrepreneurial Local Government Perspective

Political Decentralization, Electoral Change and Party Organizational Adaptation

Evaluating the ‘Quasi Federalist’ Programme of Decentralisation in Italy since the 1990s: A Side-effect Approach

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