2020/2021

2020/2021

DM270

SPS/04 (POLTICIAL SCIENCE)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC POLICIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (28/09/2020 - 11/12/2020)

6

40 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

SPALLA FLAVIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic knowledge of public law and political science

Knowledge of local government systems: institutions, changes, recent reforms.
Useful preparation also for training and professional updating.

Reflections on theories and empirical investigations on Italian local governments, with European comparisons. First part:
theories of local systems and administrative models: territorial bodies, purposes, administrative culture, relationships, controls. Second part:
surveys on small municipalities, administrative decentralization, municipal associations, metropolitan areas, provinces, crises and reforms.

The compulsory teaching is 40 hours frontal and in streaming.
The course includes oral lessons with slides projection both on theoretical topics and on research data.

F. Spalla, Il governo locale in Italia, Milano-San Francisco, McGraw-Hill, 2012 (main book for everyone).

F. Spalla, A. Dossena, La Provincia in Italia. Il percorso di un’identità, Aracne Ed., Roma, 2009. (complementary book recommended for non-attending students, from page 247 )
P. Allum, Democrazia reale, Novara, Liviana –De Agostini, 2006, (cap.VIII)
L. Bobbio, I governi locali nelle democrazie contemporanee, Roma-Bari, Laterza Ed., 2002, (due capp. a scelta fra i primi quattro)
S. Operto (a cura di), Votare in città: riflessioni sulle elezioni amministrative in Italia, Milano, F. Angeli Ed., 1999 (capp. I, II, IV).
W. Tortorella (a cura di), Lo Stato dei Comuni, Venezia, Marsilio Ed., 2012.
F. Spalla, D. Bottà, Governo e metropoli in Europa: quaranta casi a confronto, in “Quaderni di Scienza Politica”, n.1, 2005.
F. Spalla, Deframmentazione istituzionale e cooperazione sistemica locale. Comuni e Province in trasformazione, in “Il Politico”, n. 1, pp 184-194, 2013.
F. Spalla, La Città metropolitana: problemi istituzionali, in “Quaderni di Scienza Politica” n. 1, pp. 137-160, 2016.
F Spalla, Settant'anni di Fusioni comunali nei Paesi europei: modelli, processi, esiti (1950-2020), in "Quaderni di Scienza Politica", n. 1, 2020, pp. 123-144.

Attending students: written exercise at the end of the course on the first part of the program. Oral exam on the second part of the program.
Short written report on a specialist topic.
Non-attending students: oral exam on the whole program. Main and complementary book.

Attending students: written exercise at the end of the course on the first part of the program. Oral exam on the second part of the program.
Short written report on a specialist topic.
Non-attending students: oral exam on the whole program. Main and complementary book.