'New Programming' and the Influence of Transnational Discourses in the Reform of Regional Policy in Italy

Recent developments in regional policy in Italy may be interpreted as outcomes of a mutual fertilization between two distinct policy discourses, concerning the reframing of regional programming in the framework of a reform of the State, and the promotion of local initiatives in a perspective of endo...

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Published inEuropean planning studies Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 755 - 771
Main Author Gualini, Enrico
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.09.2001
Subjects
Community support
Development Policy
Discourse
Economic planning
Europeanization
Italy
Policy Reform
Public Policy
Regional Development
Social policy
Studies
Transnationalism
Italy
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Summary:Recent developments in regional policy in Italy may be interpreted as outcomes of a mutual fertilization between two distinct policy discourses, concerning the reframing of regional programming in the framework of a reform of the State, and the promotion of local initiatives in a perspective of endogenous development. This paper presents a critical itinerary of the mutual evolution of these lines of discourse during the 1990s. Their provisional merging in the framework of the strategy of 'new programming' adopted in connection with the reform of the Structural Funds and with the new community support framework (CSF) for the period 2000-2006 is interpreted in light of the 'Europeanization' of Italian public policy and of the influence of its progressive embedding into transnational policy discourses. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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ISSN:0965-4313
1469-5944
DOI:10.1080/09654310120073801