What is it about?
This article analyses the Italian experience of planning and governance in local welfare systems, after the adoption of a specific planning instrument called the ‘Piano di Zona’ (Area Social Plan), which has reached its sixth triennial review. Our goal is to explore the relationship between governance and performance by examining under which circumstances the social planning is successful, that is one Area Social Plan is preferable to another. Our research is based on the empirical observation of the nine Area Social Plans in the Province of Pavia which involves 188 municipalities.
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Why is it important?
Our results demonstrate the fundamental role of public administrations and the negative effects that horizontal multi-level forms of governance may have on the planning of the Area Social Plan, almost as though there were a sort of path dependence from previous/pre-existing governance relationships.
Perspectives
Through these insights we can state that the presence of a governance structure which is fully and exclusively dedicated to welfare policy making is a condition for successful planning in the area of social policies, while the presence of other governance relationships make the reaching of all the planned goals more complicated and in particular it influences the ability to produce innovative policies, independently from the number of municipalities involved.
prof pietro previtali
university of pavia
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This page is a summary of: Social planning and local welfare. The experience of the Italian area social plan, International Planning Studies, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2018.1528864.
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