In the context of the RegioSuisse annual meeting the present paper addresses Italian regional policies in order to compare one of the Swiss neighbouring countries with the new direction included in the NPR (the Swiss New Regional Policy). The task of an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis of the issue is largely beyond the possibility of a short note, mainly due to the fact that Italy is, among the big European countries, one with the largest inter-regional variance. Here the attention is therefore concentrated on Northern Italy (also because it is more interesting to compare with the Swiss case): the first part of the title is therefore justified in this way. In the second part of the title, the term ‘multi-level governance’ challenge refers to a more recent major trial which Italy has still to win. The Italian national frame is somehow moving from a re-distributive centralism towards a more devolutionary federalism but, due to the severe budget constraint which Italy is presently experiencing, the alternative seems politically even more radical than it would probably be from a technical point of view.
Regional Policies in Northern Italy: A Multilevel Governance Challenge
BRAMANTI, ALBERTO
2012
Abstract
In the context of the RegioSuisse annual meeting the present paper addresses Italian regional policies in order to compare one of the Swiss neighbouring countries with the new direction included in the NPR (the Swiss New Regional Policy). The task of an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis of the issue is largely beyond the possibility of a short note, mainly due to the fact that Italy is, among the big European countries, one with the largest inter-regional variance. Here the attention is therefore concentrated on Northern Italy (also because it is more interesting to compare with the Swiss case): the first part of the title is therefore justified in this way. In the second part of the title, the term ‘multi-level governance’ challenge refers to a more recent major trial which Italy has still to win. The Italian national frame is somehow moving from a re-distributive centralism towards a more devolutionary federalism but, due to the severe budget constraint which Italy is presently experiencing, the alternative seems politically even more radical than it would probably be from a technical point of view.
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