7 results on '"Lavinia, Bifulco"'
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2. The public at a time of crisis: some notes on the Italian case
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Lavinia Bifulco
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Public Administration ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Public policy ,Context (language use) ,Public administration ,Democracy ,State (polity) ,Service (economics) ,Vocational education ,Political Science and International Relations ,Mediation ,Sociology ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
The article focuses on some dynamics affecting the public in Italy in connection with the financial and economic crisis. The hypothesis is that, faced with a growing desire for state, processes of institutional mediation underway are further weakening. The analysis goes into depth in some Italian policy cases: university and secondary school on a national level and vocational training policies in a regional context. These cases show rather critical phenomena as far as the public is concerned: the debate on research and knowledge is impoverishing; the change in the structure of the state is teetering between the possibility of solving secular problems and the risk of further endangering a collective service; and there are many signals of privatisation of citizenship. In the conclusions, some interpretive points on the themes of public, future and democracy are developed. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. more...
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- 2011
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3. Governance and Participation in Local Welfare: The Case of the Italian Piani di Zona
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Lavinia Bifulco, Laura Centemeri, Bifulco, L, and Centemeri, L
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Participation, Local governance ,Public Administration ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate governance ,Social Welfare ,Development ,Public administration ,Local governance ,Northern italy ,Order (exchange) ,Economics ,Institutional analysis ,Welfare ,media_common - Abstract
This article analyses four cases of governance in Italian local welfare systems. Following Law 328/2000, the design and management of the social services system in Italy involve different public responsibility levels, mainly regional and municipal. In order to manage social policies, Italian municipalities have to join in new inter-municipal groupings called 'Piani di Zona' (Area Plans). Moreover, the law provides for engaging in these Plans even local third-sector organizations and citizens. The article attempts to highlight the implications of this complex system that is leading local authorities to open new governance arenas. We hereby present the results of a research project on two Piani di Zona in the Region of Lombardy (Northern Italy) and on two in the Region of Campania (Southern Italy), carried out by means of institutional analysis. We particularly focus on the dynamics of participation triggered by the Piani di Zona. Our hypothesis is that the role of public administration is a fundamental variable to understand the different ways of participating. In this sense, we discuss the dynamics of local governance by relaying them to four main questions: who participates in what, where and how? © Journal compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. more...
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- 2008
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4. Activation and Local Welfare in Italy: Trends and Issues
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Lavinia Bifulco, Massimo Bricocoli, and R Monteleone
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Public Administration ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Development ,Policy analysis ,Decentralization ,Promotion (rank) ,Scale (social sciences) ,Regional science ,Organizational structure ,Social citizenship ,Sociology ,Economic system ,Welfare ,Social policy ,media_common - Abstract
This article deals with the development of local welfare in Italy and is grounded on a research project focusing on activation as a main feature of change in Italian social policies. Along with decentralization processes, many Italian regions have been acting as policy laboratories, developing and testing very different approaches according to their political attitude. On the one hand this results in a fragmented policy landscape which is difficult to recompose, and, moreover, in growing inequalities in the Italian welfare system. On the other hand, it opens opportunities for experimentation on institutional and organizational structures on a regional scale, creating a variety of practices for research and policy analysis. In the article we first describe the main trends in national social policies, with a specific focus on the dynamics of change referring to activation. We will then focus on a pilot programme which is aiming at the promotion and implementation of innovative practices in health and social care services in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a region in which there is a significant orientation towards enhancing social citizenship and enforcing the central position of the public actor. We investigate how the dynamics of territorialization and personalization, implied by the programme, trigger specific logics and practices of activation. Finally, referring to this case study, we propose an analytical overview of some relevant issues in the development of ‘local active welfare’ in Italy. more...
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- 2008
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5. Old and new organizational cages. What about autonomy and freedom?
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Lavinia Bifulco and Bifulco, L
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Iron cage ,Public, governance, Italy ,business.industry ,Social resource ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate governance ,Public sector ,Public relations ,Public administration ,New public management ,Political science ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Bureaucracy ,business ,Law ,Autonomy ,media_common ,Public finance - Abstract
The discourses on the so-called "post-bureaucracy" emphasizes the importance of autonomy and freedom in present-day organizations. Yet, differently to the discourses, the practices are not univocal and there is a mix of continuity and transformation to be investigated. The article addresses these issues aiming to understand if and how organizational cages are changing, in particular in the public sector. After discussing the issues of autonomy and freedom in the contemporary organizations, the analysis focuses on the New Public Management in Italy on the basis of a case study. The research highlights the role of institutional and social resources that mediate freedom and autonomy. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. more...
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- 2011
6. Becoming Public. Notes on Governance and Local Welfare in Italy
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Lavinia Bifulco and Bifulco, L
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Marketing ,Public Administration ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Corporate governance ,Local welfare, public ,Public administration ,Ambivalence ,Policy studies ,Intervention (law) ,State (polity) ,Realm ,Sociology ,Welfare ,media_common - Abstract
As the sectors of intervention traditionally assigned to the responsibility of the State gradually become spaces of mobilization for a plurality of actors, the notion of "public" appears problematic: it is difficult to define what distinguishes the structures of governance, the actors involved, and the problems and interests treated, as being of a public nature. This article tackles these issues with particular attention given to governance of social policies in Italy. The aim is twofold: to shed light on the ambivalence of the current transformations of the public realm and to outline their implications with respect to public administration. © 2011 SAGE Publications. more...
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- 2011
7. Contracting for Welfare Services in Italy
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Lavinia Bifulco, Tommaso Vitale, Département de sociologie et sciences sociales, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEE), Bifulco, L, and Vitale, T more...
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Civil society ,Public Administration ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Psychological intervention ,Social Welfare ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Profit (economics) ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,Economics ,Accreditation ,media_common ,Italy, Welfare Mix, Capabilities, Contract, Public Administration ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,Public economics ,business.industry ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,Freedom of choice ,Public relations ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,0506 political science ,business ,Welfare ,050203 business & management ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
The 1990s witnessed the spread and broadening in Europe of different types of relationships between public administration and private organisations (both for-profit and non-profit), derived from the two main categories of contracting out and accreditation. These models, linked to the process of developing new modes of governance, also focus on forms of contracting between providers and users of services. This contractual configuration of local welfare systems appears to encourage ‘civil society’ and recipients to play a more active role in designing interventions and putting them into practice. Nonetheless, several questions still remain to be answered, mainly concerning the different position adopted by the beneficiaries in the case of intervention theoretically aimed at ensuring or increasing their ‘freedom of choice’. This article sets out to analyse these questions with specific reference to the implementation of the Italian legal reform of social services. The field of observation covers interventions based on economic benefits looking to promote recipients' independence. Our intention is to focus on whether and how the present structures incorporate and elaborate this impulse towards change, with particular reference to the new configuration of the users' own position. more...
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