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B000262 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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Course program
Academic Year 2012-13
Course year
Second year -
Belonging Department
Political and Social Sciences (DSPS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
SPS/04 - POLITICAL SCIENCE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
42
Teaching Term
⇒
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B000110 - GOVERNO LOCALE
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in POLITICAL SCIENCE
Curriculum STUDI POLITICI
B000110 - GOVERNO LOCALE
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in POLITICAL SCIENCE
Curriculum STUDI POLITICI
Teaching Language
Italian - Local Government
Course Content
The first part focuses on some basic issues of current local politics in Italy: provincial political élite; local government; public administration and local policy process. The second part focuses on local policy process.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Attending Students: Carlo Baccetti, La nuova politica locale, UTET 2008; Other texts are indicated by the professor at the beginning of the course.
Not attending Students: Carlo Baccetti, La nuova politica locale, UTET 2008; Carlo Baccetti, Il popolo in Comune. Politica e amministrazione a Empoli dal 1946 al 1980, Pacini Editore, 2011.
Not attending Students: Carlo Baccetti, La nuova politica locale, UTET 2008; Carlo Baccetti, Il popolo in Comune. Politica e amministrazione a Empoli dal 1946 al 1980, Pacini Editore, 2011.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge: The course aims to provide students with the analytical tools to understand how and why the nineties has been launched in Italy a thorough review of the relationship between state, regional and local governments and what effect this revision has obtained.
Skills: Ability to analyze potential political phenomena with particular regard to local policy.
Skills: Ability to analyze potential political phenomena with particular regard to local policy.
Prerequisites
It is imperative to have taken the exam of Political Science
Teaching Methods
Lectures; seminar lectures
Type of Assessment
Oral questions
Course program
Local politics in the transformation of the Italian political system; The intergovernmental relations: a periodization in four phases; Regional and local governments; Institutional actors in local politics: municipalities, provinces, other actors; The reforms of the Nineties, electoral reform (Law 81/1993; The political class; New strategies and new content of local public policies; Local policies and participatory democracy.