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4. Redesigning Territorialisation to Improve Planning and Management Capabilities in Social Policy. Change or Business as Usual?

Authors : Pietro Previtali, Eugenio Salvati

Published in: Local Welfare and the Organization of Social Services

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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In this chapter the reform’s attempt concerning the organization of the Local Area Plans in Lombardy will be presented. How does the regional decree 7631/2017 work? How is it structured? Which are the implications, the aims and the opportunities of this reform?

The chapter will present the way in which the Local Area Plans coped with the new regional legislative framework, how they have complied with it and how they have failed.

This analysis gives us a composite picture, which shows a large variance among Lombardy’s territories that differ from making a great push towards innovation – both in governance and policy terms – to being substantially immobile and resistant to change. This immobilism can be connected to a series of variables like a persistent resistance to change from the public administration sector, difficulty in embracing innovative practices, structural limits in governance instruments dedicated to territorial coordination, stalemate among actors (joint decision trap) and a certain “parochial” approach in inter-municipal courses of action that consider routinized procedures as the best options from which it would be a mistake to move away (path dependence).

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This because the formation of the new Local Area Plans would not necessarily be the result of a fusion among just two Local Area Plan but could involve more territories.

The ISEE is a mathematical instrument used to measure the overall economic level of the household, considering - with some exceptions - all the items of “wealth” attributable to that same household, such as real estate, financial annuities, miscellaneous income, etc.

4 Local Area Plans do not have the authorisation to access the second step because they planned the new Local Area Plan for the 2018–2020 period, even if they did not comply with the population parameters stated in the Decree No. 7631.

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Title: Redesigning Territorialisation to Improve Planning and Management Capabilities in Social Policy. Change or Business as Usual?
Authors: Pietro Previtali
Eugenio Salvati
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Local Welfare and the Organization of Social Services
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-66127-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-66128-1

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66128-1_4

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