Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marco Giovagnoli Title: Editoriale Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:5-9 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48969&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Valle Occupato Teatro Title: La bellezza non ha atteso Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:10-13 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48970&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ottavio Marzocca Title: Democrazia e territorio nell?epoca del liberalismo post-democratico: alla ricerca di un framework di riferimento Abstract: The environmentally and socially destructive effects of the global economy make it urgent that local territories and communities become fundamental contexts for forms of democracy and active citizenship that are aimed at sustainability. In this paper, I consider the supremacy of liberalism and neoliberalism over all other political cultures as one of the major obstacles for this perspective, because, historically, they have essentially limited the freedom of citizens to the pursuit of private interests, and the main function of governments to the promotion of the market economy. In this context, active citizenship aiming at trans-economic goals such as the defense of a territory as a common good, encounters radical difficulties in being politically legitimized, because it is irreconcilable with the idea of a public interaction between the interests that governments should politically represent and economically satisfy. Today, the prevalence of neoliberal policies makes this situation even more serious, since, on the one hand, they tend to address territorial problems primarily when they become environmental emergencies, while, on the other hand, they openly favor the eagerness of private economic players to pursue strategies of urban redevelopment and regeneration, aimed above all at making cities and regions economically competitive on the global scene. In order to regenerate the destiny of democracy and sustainability in such a framework, we need to answer questions like the following: is it possible today to promote and make permanent, democratic politics and governmental practices that are fully entitled to limit the autonomy of the economic? Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:14-27 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48971&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Allegretti Title: Pratiche partecipative in Europa: quali nuove sfide? Abstract: While the number of democratic countries grows, the intensity of their democracies lowers down. Nevertheless, the article focuses on innovative experiments at local level, which involve citizens in the setting of public policies and projects. It analyses these experiences showing their joint-effort to fight the disenchantment on public institutions and create a pedagogic learning environment for dynamising social fabric. It then proposes some challenges for the near future, centred on hybridisation of models. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:28-53 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48972&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francesca Rispoli Title: "La carta del Nuovo Municipio" Abstract: "The Charter for a New Municipium" is a document presented and discussed at the Word Social Forum in Porto Alegre (January 2002) and at the European Social Forums in Florence (November 2002) and St. Denis (November 2003), due to the initiative of several research laboratories based in Florence, Bologna, Milan, Rome and Venice universities. To implement the principles contained in the Charter, The New Municipium Network (ARNM) was created in 2003; it is a no-profit association linking local Authorities, territorial associations and academic experts. The association aims to function as a permanent place for the discussion and the promotion of common action strategies amongst its members, experimental territorial workshops and participatory intermediate institutions centred on the themes of self-sustainable local development (new forms of direct democracy, new multicultural territories, new welfare indicators, new sustainable economic systems, valorisation of territorial heritage, fair exchange and trading networks), identifying the local dimension as the strategic level for analysis and action towards a fair and non-hierarchical bottom-up globalization. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:54-67 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48973&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonio Floridia Title: Partecipazione e politiche pubbliche: riflessioni a partire dall?esperienza Toscana Abstract: The article proposes an analytical framework about the relationship between participation and public policies, as it results from the various participative processes (around hundred), which have taken place in Tuscany, from 2008 to 2012, and have been supported by a regional law (n. 69/2007). After an illustration of the main normative contents of this law, the article presents an evaluation of its main results and the problems that this experience has faced. The article also proposes a typology of these participative processes founded on a twofold dimension: their potential conflictual implications and their political salience. In addition, other features are considered: their impact on social cohesion and civicness, their connection with a wider public sphere and the political system, their effects on policy-making process. Finally, while many critical points may be noted, in the whole the outcomes of this innovative strategy to promote and diffuse new participatory models within the policy-making processes may be considered positive. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:68-86 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48974&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002006 Number: 6 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pier Paolo Fanesi Title: Costruire un bilancio partecipativo: l?esperienza di Grottammare Abstract: The participatory processes in Grottammare began in 1994 with participatory budgeting, one of the first of this kind in Europe. Many important results have since been achieved, not only in the increase in terms of transparency of the decisional processes, but also in the implementation of a co-decisional approach to matters. One of its most important results was the demonstration that citizens could have a strategic role in many other policy-making decisions. Thus, the participatory processes were adopted for the realization of a series of projects such as a new City Plan, two central squares, the requalification of a neighborhood, public problem solving actions and other important public works. Since 1994, the city has been governed by a citizens? movement named "Solidariet? e Partecipazione" (Solidarity and Participation) and the most important decisions about the city are taken in weekly meetings in which everyone can participate. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:87-100 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48975&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002007 Number: 7 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giorgio Piccinato Title: Il racconto di una ricerca sulla felicit? urbana Abstract: The paper intends to upset consolidated approaches, following new paradigms coming to light in human social sciences: it tries to emphasize the determinant role of quality in economic advanced contexts, where basic quantities are substantially granted. Such quality can be mentioned as "happiness", "beauty", "well being", and is strongly linked to the form and the uses of the urban and territorial space. It is also suggested that local culture and public polices can positively reverberate one on the other. A first case study is the city of Fermo, in the Marche region. After a survey on the basic socio-economic data, an investigation was carried out on attitude, behaviour and wishes of the inhabitants toward their territory Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:101-110 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48976&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002008 Number: 8 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pasquale Iorio Title: La partecipazione nelle aree critiche. Il caso del Casertano Abstract: In recent years there has been a strong movement of active citizenship and conscious participation in those areas of Southern Italy -so far uncontested domain of organized crime of "Casalesi" - in which a new era of social, economic and democratic redemption has started. On the one hand, one can observe numerous facts and stories of civil and cultural mobilization and active citizenship, in Terra di Lavoro and even in those areas most notorious for recurring events linked to the Camorra criminal groups but, on the other hand, there are still some very critical points: too much political collusion without significant episodes of resistance, poor attention to the phenomenon by the enterprises. But in recent times a turnaround is occurring, especially with the start of activities undertaken by grassroot associations, social forces of production and the world of work, often linked to the social uses of confiscated goods. From bottomup experiences like those of "M? Basta" association, "Consorzio Agrorinasce" and "Piazze del Sapere" arise paths of hope for a lifelong learning culture of legality and democratic participation Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:109-124 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48977&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002009 Number: 9 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fiorenza Maria Martufi Title: Percorsi, risultati e incertezze nella pianificazione strategica a Pesaro Abstract: The article analyzes the experience of strategic planning carried out in the city of Pesaro, which involved a group of local actors - public, private and third sector - in a process of discussion and public argumentation about missions, priorities and actions to be performed on the territory. The Strategic Plan "Pesaro 2015 City of Quality" is a pact for the city built around a broad dialogue with the local society that has involved the Municipality of Pesaro in an investment with a strong participation by local actors. The issue of the relationship between participation and the more traditional forms of political representation, that of the incisiveness of the activated processes and the management of political leadership, were among the most substantial elements of criticality and uncertainty of this public policy. Among the most significant effects of the Plan is the availability of a cognitive framework of the territorial reality and a pool of projects that allowed the territory to seize the opportunities offered by regional and EU planning and to improve the effectiveness of public policies Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:125-137 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48978&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002010 Number: 10 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Davide Dazzi Title: Gli effetti benefici della partecipazione Abstract: The paper is focused on the role of employee participation within the innovation strategies at company level and its impact on job quality and job satisfaction. After a rapid overview on the meaning of employee participation and its different forms, the paper presents the results of two empirical research projects conducted in Emilia-Romagna region. The first project investigates the relationships among innovation, work organisation and industrial relations through casestudy methodology. On the other side, the second project consists of a large scale survey based on a questionnaire collecting workers? perception on their working conditions (about 4,500 questionnaires in the province of Bologna). Even though the two projects have different objectives and diverse theoretical basis, both results emphasize the role of employee participation Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:138-141 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48979&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002011 Number: 11 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luigi Benedetti Author-Name: Evasio Ciocci Author-Name: Antonio Mastantuono Title: Commenti Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:142-157 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48980&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002012 Number: 12 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonio Pergolizzi Title: Mercati globali illegali Abstract: Illegal markets of waste, counterfeit goods and animals have now reached a global dimension, representing one of the most critical - and at the same time one of the less known - aspects of trade globalization. Legal and illegal routes, which sometimes are two sides of the same coin, mix and overlap, growing at the speed of light: this is one of the most typical aspect of the so called "globalization in black". The border between the legal and the illegal economy is smaller and smaller. Licit and illicit activities seem to merge in the same "grey zone" because of the widespread corruption in the public administration. In the last two years the Italian law enforcement have concluded at least 163 international investigations involving Italy for illegal trafficking of waste, counterfeit goods and animals. Trades that have moved mainly on the sea, especially for heavy loads and long distances. It is here according to the European Commission that moves 81% of world trade Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:158-179 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48981&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002013 Number: 13 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Pianta Author-Name: Natalia Paci Title: Nove su dieci. Perch? stiamo (quasi) tutti peggio di 10 anni fa Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:180-184 Volume: 2012/2 Year: 2012 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=48982&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:pripri:v:html10.3280/PRI2012-002014 Number: 14