POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION AND URBAN POLICY IN ITALY: FROM "STATE-CENTERED" TO "STATE-SOCIETY" EXPLANATION1 (original) (raw)
1990, Policy Studies Journal
The major purpose of this paper is to examine a paradox of recent Italian politics: why in the era of natbnai "corporatism" and the "welfare state" has there been a vigorous attempt at decentralizatbn of governmental functions? Since the late 1960s there has been a reinvigoratbn of bcal government in Italy, both through the establishn>ent of a new regbnai tier of government arid a revitaiizatbn of the communal level. Although the power and effectiveness of the decentralizatbn remains in doubt, at least at the scale of Italy as a whole, the argument of this paper is that the fact of attempted decentralization suggests a pattern of state-society interactbn in Italy at considerable variance with recently popular accounts of political decentralizatbn based on the absolute power of the "capitalist" or "corporatist" natbnai state in Western Europe.
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