Federalizing Italy: The Convergent Effects of Europeanization and Domestic Mobilization

Fabbrini, Sergio; Brunazzo, Marco

doi:10.1080/714004782

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“…According to the governance literature, the influence of the Structural Funds has been twofold. First, it has contributed to a change in the structures of territorial administration (Coyle, 1997;Fabbrini and Brunazzo, 2003;Kleyn and Bekker, 1997;Svensson and O ë sthol, 2001). Based on the subsidiarity principle, Structural Funds management responsibilities have been devolved to lower levels of government (eg Italy, United Kingdom) or to deconcentrated offices of the state (eg France, Sweden) (Ferry, 2003a).…”

Section: Regionalism and Structural Funds In The Eu8 Member Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU Cohesion Policy and the Role of the Regions: Investigating the Influence of Structural Funds in the New Member States

Bachtler

McMaster

2008

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Based on the preaccession and postaccession experience of the new member states, it has been suggested that EU Cohesion policy will similarly lead to changes in territorial relations within Central and Eastern European countries (Grabbe, 2003; Keating, 2003). Specifically, it is anticipated that Structural and Cohesion Funds will promote the greater involvement of regional-level institutions in economic development, with the potential for wider changes in regional governance structures and policy practice (Ferry, 2003a; Hooghe, 1996). Recent policy developments would appear to support this thesis. In the run-up to EU accession, the Phare programme was used to provide direct support for subnational institutions in the new member states to assist them to prepare for Structural Funds. During the first Structural Funds programme period (2004^06) several accession countries implemented joint Regional Operational Programmes (ROPs), with the prospect of further decentralisation of programme management and delivery responsibilities in the 2007^13 period. As under the regulatory reforms of 1988, 1993, and 1999, the 2006 European Council regulations governing EU Cohesion policy for 2007^13 emphasise the importance of involving regional and local authorities in the design and delivery of Structural Funds programmes (Council of the European Union, 2006). Indeed, the European Commission has argued that the Cohesion policy goal (of promoting growth, jobs, and competitiveness) in the 2007^13 period``will only work if it is owned by all stakeholdersöat EU, national, regional and local levels'' (Hu« bner, 2006, page 2).

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Section: Regionalism and Structural Funds In The Eu8 Member Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU Cohesion Policy and the Role of the Regions: Investigating the Influence of Structural Funds in the New Member States

Bachtler

McMaster

2008

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

103

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“…Taken together, these reforms considerably strengthened the ordinary statute regional authorities, in that they acknowledged their statutory autonomy, and substantially reinforced the regional Executives and their stability -through the direct election of the regions' Presidents and the transition towards a 'neo-parliamentary' system. vi The reforms also re-allocated considerable legislative competences to the regional authorities, reversing the previous perspective of competence allocations between tiers of government (FABBRINI and BRUNAZZO, 2003;BALDI and BALDINI, 2008;MUSELLA, 2009).…”

Section: The Devolution Reformsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Does Devolution Increase Accountability? Empirical Evidence from the Implementation of European Union Cohesion Policy

Polverari

2015

Regional Studies

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The period from the late 1990s to the early 2000s witnessed trends of decentralisation, deconcentration or devolution of competencies from the national to the sub-national levels in a variety of countries. Implicit or explicit in many of the discussions about devolution is the assumption that, by bringing the design and delivery of policy 'closer to the people', it increases accountability. The main proposition of this article is to test this common assumption. Focusing, as a test case, on the implementation of European Union Cohesion Policy in two meso-level territorial units with recent experience of devolution, the article investigates empirically whether the new, devolved institutional framework within which the policy operates is indeed more conducive to accountability.

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“…At the beginning of the 2000s, Italy reformed Title V of the Constitution devoted to the regions, provinces and municipalities. Even the constitutional reform of the Italian unitary state was the outcome of a fortunate combination of a threefold pressure, one from above (Europe), another from below (local levels) and another from civil society (Fabbrini and Brunazzo, 2003). The reform introduced several important transformations into the architecture of regional and local levels in the Constitution.…”

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Territorial government reforms at the time of financial crisis: the dawn of metropolitan cities in Italy

Longo

Mobilio

2016

Regional & Federal Studies

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On 1 January 2015 a new institution, the metropolitan city, took its place among the Italian territorial authorities. Despite its incorporation in the Italian\ud Constitution since 2001, the metropolitan city become a reality only when the national government carried out a process of reform and transformation of Italian territorial government by transforming 10 large cities into metropolitan cities and depriving other intermediate governments (regions and provinces) of their fundamental competences. This article critically reviews the activation of metropolitan cities and the reshuffle of Italian territorial authorities. It stresses the way in which this reform marks the shift towards a new phase of Italian regionalism, which is dominated both by a dynamic of recentralizing intergovernmental relations and by the resulting loss for provincial and regional governments

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Federalizing Italy: The Convergent Effects of Europeanization and Domestic Mobilization

Cited by 39 publications

References 10 publications

EU Cohesion Policy and the Role of the Regions: Investigating the Influence of Structural Funds in the New Member States

EU Cohesion Policy and the Role of the Regions: Investigating the Influence of Structural Funds in the New Member States

Does Devolution Increase Accountability? Empirical Evidence from the Implementation of European Union Cohesion Policy

Territorial government reforms at the time of financial crisis: the dawn of metropolitan cities in Italy

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