This paper analyses Italian industrial policy patterns over the last years, characterized by the economic and financial crisis and its effects. In the first part of the paper, new international trends of economic policies, leading to a renewed central position of industrial policy, are...

In this paper I argue that the degree of consistency in implementation of the new regional policy has been poor, and could be listed among the causes of the scant economic effects of the Patti territoriali and Contratti di programma. It is argued that future policies to enhance education in the...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird versucht, die institutionellen Reibungsverluste bei der Regionalisierung von Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik näher zu beschreiben und ihre Ursachen mit einer gewissen Plausibilität zu diagnostizieren. Dabei stützt sich die Analyse auf ein zwar detailliertes,...

Proceeding from a view that a municipal level of governance seems to be a matter-of-course basis both for federate relations and an effective decentralized decision-making system in modern economy, we consider the development issues of municipal units and population settlement patterns. We also...