Territorial Government Reforms at the Time of Financial Crisis: The Dawn of Metropolitan Cities in Italy

Longo, Erik; Mobilio, Giuseppe

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“…Operational manifestations include structured but essentially voluntary forms of municipal cooperation to address city-region issues that span both the urban core and the suburban hinterland, as well as more formalized structural arrangements such as met-ropolitan councils or metropolitan mayors (OECD 2017). We could therefore see metropolitan governance as primarily being a response to longer-term trends in globalization -that said, there are also some examples of countries introducing metropolitan structures as a response to the financial crisis (see for example Longo and Mobilio 2016).…”

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A thematic approach to the research agenda for regional and local government

Callanan¹,

Loughlin²

2021

A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government

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The backgroundBefore the 1980s, academic research on subnational government in Western states concentrated primarily on local government in the context of fairly stable national welfare regimes. In this context, local authorities acted as 'agents' of central governments in the delivery of policy programmes which were mostly designed by the centre (Darby et al. 2002). Local governments in most of these states were assigned specific tasks such as transport and housing related to their own localities. They also provided an important dimension of democratic representation through local elections. The degree of political, fiscal and policy autonomy varied across the different states as did the situation of local authorities in federal versus unitary states (Loughlin 2004;Loughlin et al. 2010).From the early 1980s, two developments changed this situation of top-down approaches to subnational government. First, there was the inauguration of a new phase of globalization following the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of exchange, the two oil crises in the 1970s, and the crisis of the Keynesian economic model as well as of the welfare state (Held et al. 2009). This meant a shift in the role of the state which moved from greater intervention in society and the economy to a more hands-off approach, that is, a shift from Keynesianism to neoliberalism (Jessop 1990). Henceforth, the market would be favoured over the state in policy approaches. Some scholars would argue that this phase of globalization was a de facto propagation of neoliberalism across the globe (Held et al. 2009;Harvey 2005). The role of international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the

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Section: The Global Financial and Economic Crisis As A Watershed For Regional And Local Government? Some Preliminary Observationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A thematic approach to the research agenda for regional and local government

Callanan¹,

Loughlin²

2021

A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government

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The response of the Italian regions to the pandemic: a quanti-qualitative analysis

Filippetti,

Tuzi

2023

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Covid-19 is the first emergency that affected Italy in its regional institutional set-up. Through a qualitative-quantitative analysis of the regional resolutions in 2020, the article proposes a first analysis of the regional system. Drawing from their own resources, the regions have deployed 7.3 billion euros, of which two billion is intended for interventions to support families and 5.3 to support the production system. The regions that have implemented the most significant interventions per capita are the Autonomous Provinces, the regions with special statute and the large southern regions, the latter largely drawing on the resources of the structural funds. We observe an evolution in the allocation of resources from general and emergency aspects to specific characteristics of the regional production sectors. The regional system has shown a certain ability to mobilize financial resources and a significant degree of differentiation.

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Territorial Government Reforms at the Time of Financial Crisis: The Dawn of Metropolitan Cities in Italy

Cited by 2 publications

References 35 publications

A thematic approach to the research agenda for regional and local government

A thematic approach to the research agenda for regional and local government

The response of the Italian regions to the pandemic: a quanti-qualitative analysis

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