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Cultura y políticas públicas después del diluvio. Las ciencias sociales y la refundación de la política cultural
2015
Since its invention in the fifties, cultural policy has been the subject of analysis and reflection by the social sciences. Initially, social sciences adopted a critical point of view on the objectives and instruments of public action in the cultural sphere. An attitude that Social Science were losing and finally ended uncritically legitimizing the projects of economic and urban development based on culture. This paradigm is currently exhausted, first, by the excesses one vision instrumentalization of culture and, moreover, by a general collapse of the cultural system due to the economic crisis, lack of planning and evaluation and, because of the transition to digital paradigm. In this cont…
La géopolitique du foncier : pouvoirs et échelles d’action
2018
When it comes to land management, successive reforms to territorial governancehave resulted in power games that have placed intercommunalauthorities in charge of coordination without any clearly defined institutionalhierarchy. The interviews conducted with actors in the territories studied(the Communauté de communes [joint local authorities] of the Vallée deChamonix Mont-Blanc, Pays du Grésivaudan and Massif du Vercors) and ouranalysis of the public policy tools they use highlight the change in scale thathas occurred in land management. We argue that the geopolitical stakes ofland have been elucidated with the constitution of dedicated engineering,which invites us to distinguish between the…
SO2emissions and the environmental Kuznets curve: the case of Chinese provinces
2009
This paper aims at estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for the sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions in a panel of 28 Chinese provinces. First, using a fixed effects model, econometric findings reveal an N shape EKC with a turning point of 4500 yuans (index 1990). However, a Chow test reveals a break in 1995, so that the estimation of the model indicates an increasing linear relationship between GDP per capita and SO2 emissions. The previous results imply that the decrease of the Chinese sulphur dioxide emissions during 1996–1999 did not result from the ECK but from an exogenous public action.
A System Dynamics Approach to Analysing the Effect of Clientelism on Public Organizations Performance in Italy
2010
This paper tries to analyse the effects of political clientelism on the performance of public utilities and organizations in Italy. Shortly, clientelism consists in a series of reciprocal convenience-based relationships between politicians and individuals, commanding unequal resources and involving mutually beneficial transactions in terms of economic, social and political consequences. The motivation of this research stems from the fact that analysing the effect of clientelism may contribute in (1) improving the quality of electoral strategies and the resulting public policies and (2) managing the performance of public organizations according to a sustainable perspective. Hence, the key is…
The competitiveness of welfare systems analyzed through equity: a comparison between Italy and France
2009
The following reflections start off from a comparative research on the implementation in different European countries of the regional european policies. Leaving a sector conception of community policies apart and, on the contrary, defending their interdependence with national policies, the author suggests that the execution processes of European structural funds may be affected by welfare systems spread nationwide. In particular, we think that social equity meant in a procedural significance as a political and economic arrangement of the different welfares and as an indicator of their collective legitimacy, represents the condition that, still distinguishing French and Italian welfares, sla…
An analysis on the subjective perception of policy action on peripherality: A comparative assessment in accessible and peripheral areas of six countr…
2009
The paper presents an analysis of the subjective perception of the policy efficiency on peripherality in 12 regions of six countries of the EU. In each country two regions are selected: one peripheral but relatively dynamic and another accessible but relatively lagging. Public action conditions a range of processes and activities that continuously influence the intensity and direction of development. It can be part of the new factors of territorial development (NFTD) building up or hindering peripherality. The paper has the following aims: to identify what generic types of measures are believed to be more efficient for development; to analyse which measures (spatial or aspatial) are conside…
"Kansamme kykyyn itse arvostella ei voi luottaa!" : taidelautakunnat valtiollisina asiantuntijaeliminä ennen toista maailmansotaa
2012
Les enjeux de la professionnalisation des agents de développement. L’ingénierie territoriale prise en étau entre les conceptions organique et mécanis…
2011
International audience; Cet article relie les mécanismes de régulation de l’action publique territoriale à des enjeux de professionnalisation des agents de développement, acteurs pivot de l’ingénierie territoriale. Ceux-ci, inscrits dans des communautés épistémiques, posent les jalons d’une régulation pragmatique de l’action publique.Cependant, le registre concurrentiel de l’excellence territoriale couplé aux nouvelles formes de contrôles bureaucratique transforme les territoires de projet en segments d’exécution de politiques définies par des agences regroupant expertise et gestion. Au final, la personnalité bureaucratique des agents de développement l’emporte sur leur rôle d’ « agitateurs…