This article investigates how municipalities choose their organizational arrangements for
delivering early childhood services and the interplay among the regional framework, local …

In 2001 a constitutional reform was approved with the aim to considerably increase the
powers and the political autonomy of the Italian Regions. In championing the federalisation …

The institution of intermunicipal cooperation has been studied in the world literature from
different perspectives, from the motivation for undertaking cooperation, to the presentation of …

This book is about EU Cohesion Policy and the economic convergence of European
underdeveloped regions: it investigates the political and institutional factors that determine …

Local autonomy is a core issue in democracies, and there have been multiple attempts to
measure it. Most of these efforts provide cross-country comparable data based on country …

I comuni devono far fronte a richieste crescenti in termini di qualità ed efficienza dei servizi
pubblici, ma non tutti sono in grado di soddisfare queste aspettative. Gli strumenti di …

Local Government (LG) cooperation is often identified as a tool aimed at overcoming issues
linked with territorial fragmentation which can often be seen in Italy. Even though the wider …

A quasi un anno di distanza è possibile trarre un bilancio di come i diversi livelli di governo
hanno dialogato fra loro durante la prima fase della pandemia da Covid-19. Il saggio …

For nearly 25 years, the problem of managing public affairs in metropolitan areas in Poland
has been present in the public debate and the legislative process. The aim of the study is to …

Il contributo studia le peculiarità politico-istituzionali di quattro Unioni di Comuni ad un
avanzato livello di gestione associata, in particolare tramite l'analisi dello statuto dell'ente e …