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Journal articles on the topic "Public welfare – Italy"

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Auteri, Monica, and Fabrizio Antolini. "Geographical Redistribution and Public Pensions: The Case of Italy." Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 21, no. 2 (October 1, 2003): 167–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/251569203x15668905422045.

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Abstract This paper focuses on the effects of selected Italian welfare instruments, such as the seniority pensions and the early retirement pensions. The main instruments of the Italian welfare state are described, distinguishing between assistance and insurance transfers. With a cluster analysis, the distribution of specific welfare instruments among Italian regions is thoroughly investigated and then the link between retirement decisions and the selected welfare instruments is assessed. T h e main hypothesis under investigation is that the relatively easy access to various social transfer programs enabled certain categories of older workers to withdraw from the labor market. In this framework, Italian public pensions played a prominent role in the transfer programs becoming the improper device used by the Italian government to cope with unemployment problems.
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BIFULCO, LAVINIA, and TOMMASO VITALE. "Contracting for Welfare Services in Italy." Journal of Social Policy 35, no. 3 (June 26, 2006): 495–513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279406009895.

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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.
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Bifulco, Lavinia. "Becoming Public Notes on Governance and Local Welfare in Italy." Administration & Society 43, no. 3 (March 18, 2011): 301–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399711400044.

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Perocco, Fabio, and Francesco Della Puppa. "The Racialized Welfare Discourse on Refugees and Asylum Seekers: The Example of “Scroungers” in Italy." Social Sciences 12, no. 2 (January 20, 2023): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020059.

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The rise of anti-immigrant racism over the past two decades has taken place through multiple mechanisms and processes, including the resurgence of welfare racism, which has been re-functionalized towards refugees and asylum seekers. As a key weapon of today’s sovereignism and white supremacism, the “return” of welfare racism is intrinsic to the rise of neo-liberal racism and is an integral part of a global process of erosion of social rights, weakening of social citizenship, and dismantling of the welfare state. Welfare racism—a combination of racial discrimination in the welfare system and racialized welfare discourse—operates through discriminatory laws and measures related to social benefits and through public discourses depicting refugees, immigrants, and people of color as parasites and scroungers sponging off the welfare state. The resurgence of welfare racism in the last decade has seen the specific spread of welfare racism against refugees and asylum seekers as part of the dual war on asylum and on the welfare state. This article examines the ideological-discursive dimension of welfare racism (that is, the public discourses, rhetoric, and images), first analyzing the development, dimensions, and characteristics of racialized welfare discourse more generally, then focusing on racialized welfare discourses about refugees and asylum seekers in contemporary Italy. It explores the arguments and conceptual metaphors of the racialized welfare discourse on asylum seekers, revealing the devices and dynamics at play in the construction of the refugee as a “scrounger” and welfare abuser. Furthermore, it highlights the consequences of racialized welfare discourse on public policies (particularly on social policies and welfare controls), on migration policies (particularly on immigration controls and internal controls), and on the relationship between citizens and migrants, receiving societies, and newcomers.
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Paniga, Massimiliano. "Public Health Institutions in Italy in the 20th Century." Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies 8, no. 2 (March 15, 2022): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajms.8-2-3.

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Only recently studied by Italian historiography, public health is one of the most important sectors of a modern Welfare system. During the Twentieth century Italy faced the hygienic and sanitary problem often with different ways and tools than other European countries. The aim of this article is to understand better the attitude and the development of the main public health institutions, both at the central and peripheral level, during the three great phases that marked the history of Italy in the last century: the liberal age, fascism and the Republic, as well as to highlight the organisations, men and structures that exercised decisive functions in the bureaucratic and administrative State machine. The essay focuses on the most significative legislative measures (for example, the “Testi Unici” of 1907 and 1934) and the turning points that have changed the sector on the institutional plan, from the creation of the Directorate-General for Public Health inside the Ministry of the Interior, and destined to remain for the entire Fascist period, to the birth, in the post-war years, of the High Commission for Hygiene and Public Health, then replaced by the Ministry of Health, until the establishment of the National Health Service in 1978. Keywords: Welfare State, social policies, public health, assistance, institutions
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Siza, Remo. "Narrowing the gap: the middle class and the modernization of welfare in Italy." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 38, no. 1/2 (March 12, 2018): 116–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-02-2017-0011.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a contribution to our understanding of the changing relations of the middle classes with the Italian welfare state. The paper argues that the new interplay between public and private welfare is based on a very simplified analysis of Italian society. Design/methodology/approach The paper aims to integrate a variety of different theoretical approaches. The paper makes extensive use of the EU-SILC database, as well as the recently updated historic series of consumer studies undertaken by the Italian National Institute of Statistics. The data used in the paper were also drawn from the biennial cross-sectional Survey on Household Income and Wealth carried out by the Bank of Italy. Findings The analysis suggests that the problems of Italian society include not only a high incidence of poverty, but also increasing financial constraints for households placed between the established middle class and people in conditions of persistent poverty. The current public-private mix in service delivery appears less and less capable of protecting this social stratum against the growing risk of instability across all life domains, let alone of creating opportunities and fostering social mobility. Originality/value The paper explores some ways in which current politics of welfare have been designed with the view of fundamentally changing the welfare regime. It highlights how the public and private welfare mix has been purposefully organized in order to introduce a new model of social protection that aims to overcome certain specific characteristics of Southern European welfare states. It examines the sustainability of this model compared to the real living conditions of the Italian middle classes.
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Guazzaloca, Giulia. "‘In the name of justice and compassion’: animal protection in Italy during the Liberal Age (1861-1914)." Modern Italy 22, no. 3 (August 2017): 261–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2017.36.

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This essay reconstructs the emergence of a growing sensitivity towards animal welfare in Italy during the so-called ‘liberal’ years. An examination of the origins and activities of animal protection societies, the debate on use of animals for scientific experimentation, and the earliest provisions for animal protection, reveals a growing concern for animal welfare in Italy too during the course of the twentieth century. This was channelled by the liberal-bourgeois values of the time: public decency, moderation, and goodwill towards animals as well as humans were all seen as signs of ‘civilisation’ and ‘progress’. It was claimed that foreign influence, particularly British, was of vital importance in such developments in Italy, including both the thoughts of the anti-vivisectionists and the work and propaganda of the societies for animal protection. This essay also examines the 1913 Law, which was the first important Italian legislation governing animal welfare and protection.
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Miele, M., I. Veissier, A. Evans, and R. Botreau. "Animal welfare: establishing a dialogue between science and society." Animal Welfare 20, no. 1 (February 2011): 103–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0962728600002475.

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AbstractFarm animal welfare has become an important issue for the European public, especially in the last two decades when a number of crises (eg Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Avian Influenza) have affected farm animal populations. Public concern about this issue led the European Union to fund the Welfare Quality® project. This project aimed to develop a protocol for assessing animal welfare on farms and at slaughter plants, to identify the main animal welfare problems, and to address possible welfare improvement strategies. In fulfilling these aims, the Welfare Quality® project incorporated inputs from both science and society. This was crucial, as the public perception of what constitutes ‘animal welfare’ sometimes differs from animal science-based definitions. Furthermore, these differences are often interwoven with broader variations in ethical- and value-based understandings about human/non-human animal relationships. This paper presents the steps that we adopted to establish a dialogue between science and society during the construction of the Welfare Quality® assessment protocols. This dialogue involved numerous interactions between animal scientists, social scientists and members of the public. These interactions took several forms, including: meetings, conferences, workshops, websites, newsletters, interviews, focus groups, and citizen and farmers juries. Here, we address four key moments within this dialogue: the development of the initial list of twelve welfare criteria; the consumer focus groups; the development of the Welfare Quality® scoring system; and the citizen juries. In particular, we focus on the results of the focus groups and citizen juries. The focus groups were conducted in France, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Hungary and the citizen juries were carried out in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Norway. Drawing on this research, we highlight the similarities and differences between societal understandings of farm animal welfare and the views of scientific experts. Furthermore, and crucially, we outline how the animal scientists took account of societal opinion when developing their farm animal welfare assessment tools.
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Fazzi, Luca. "L'evoluzione dei rapporti tra enti pubblici e nonprofit nel settore dell'assistenza in Italia: nodi e prospettive." ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, no. 5 (September 2009): 77–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ep2008-005004.

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- Since the 1990s Italy has experienced a strong expansion in social enterprises and in the third sector. Empirical literature has focused overall on the economic and employment dimensions of the third sector's role in the economy of social care. However, in the last years little has been written about the empirical process of evolution of the welfare mix in Italy. To address this need, the paper analyzes the recent dynamics of the relations between public agencies and nonprofit enterprises. The central conclusion emerging from this analysis is that the evolution of nonprofit in Italy still suffers from a number of drawbacks and limitations, while the regulative approach to the welfare mix is only partially appropriate to enforce the advantages of nonprofit enterprises in a modern economy of welfare.JEL L300
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Seung Yoon, Lee, and Kim Yun Young. "Precarious Working Youth and Pension Reform in the Republic of Korea and Italy." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 28, no. 3 (December 31, 2013): 51–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps28303.

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This paper focuses on two aspects of the welfare state: the old agepension system and the labor market, where the majority of youth are workingin precarious jobs. We discuss the interplay between pension funds and theincrease in young atypical workers by studying the case of Italy and the Republicof Korea, closely analyzing the projected benefit level of both standard and nonstandard workers among the youth population in Korea in order to assess whereyoung workers will find themselves after retirement age and what Korea canlearn from the case of Italy.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Public welfare – Italy"

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Amore, Katia. "Refugees and return : a comparative study of Kosovar Albanians in Italy and the UK." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3857/.

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This thesis, through a comparative study of Kosovar Albanian refugees in the UK and Italy, develops an understanding of refugees' attitudes towards return and identifies the factors that influence their decision-making process through the analysis of their interaction with the country of origin and the society of reception. It formulates a theoretical approach to the study of refugee repatriation based on Archer's form of sociological realism and her morphogenetic model, while also drawing on previous studies of refugee flight, settlement and return, which argue for the advantage of studying refugee specific issues as part of the whole chain of events that characterise the experience of exile. As such, it represents a contribution towards the theoretical understanding of refugees in general and refugee repatriation in particular. The case study is grounded on this theoretical approach and analyses refugees' perspectives on return within the proposed frame. It is based upon a qualitative study through fieldwork with refugees in both countries of exile and in this respect marks a distinctive contribution to the study of refugees in the UK and in Italy in general, and to the study of refugees' approach to return in particular. The thesis dismisses the predominant assumption of governments that' all refugees want to return' and concludes that refugees' attitudes towards return depend on a range of factors: their relationship with the country of origin, their interaction with the country of exile and their personal background. More significantly, it demonstrates the linkages between these factors and the time and modality of their flight, their interaction with the reception, integration and repatriation policies of the country of exile and their relationship with the conflict and society in the country of origin. In this respect, it represents a contribution to existing studies of refugee repatriation through the development of a more sophisticated account of what influences the decision-making process of refugees vis-a-vis return.
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Glendinning, Eleanor Ruth. "Guilt, redemption and reception : representing Roman female suicide." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13450/.

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This thesis examines representations of Roman female suicide in a variety of genres and periods from the history and poetry of the Augustan age (especially Livy, Ovid, Horace, Propertius and Vergil), through the drama and history of the early Principate (particularly Seneca and Tacitus), to some of the Church fathers (Tertullian, Jerome and Augustine) and martyr acts of Late Antiquity. The thesis explores how the highly ambiguous and provocative act of female suicide was developed, adapted and reformulated in historical, poetic, dramatic and political narratives. The writers of antiquity continually appropriated this controversial motif in order to comment on and evoke debates about issues relating to the moral, social and political concerns of their day: the ethics of a voluntary death, attitudes towards female sexuality, the uses and abuses of power, and traditionally expected female behaviour. In different literary contexts, and in different periods of Roman history, writers and thinkers engaged in this same intellectual exercise by utilising the suicidal female figure in their works.
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Trasciani, Giorgia. "The relationship between public authorities & third sector organisations in changing welfare states : the case of asylum reception services in France and in Italy." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2020. http://theses.univ-amu.fr.lama.univ-amu.fr/200630_TRASCIANI_837vt58uqiido899ltvzya60yzenx_TH.pdf.

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L'objectif de cette recherche est d'analyser l'évolution des Organisations du Tiers Secteur (OTS) impliqués dans l’offre de un service social, en particulier, l’accueil de demandeurs d’asile. Cette étude se focalise sur la transformation marchand du secteur, la corporatization des structures; et la professionnalisation de ses acteurs. Afin de comprendre ces dynamiques, j'ai formulé la suivante demande de recherche: "sous de fortes pressions institutionnelles, comment les OTS impliqués dans l’offre de services d'accueil des demandeurs d'asile, sont-elles capables de maintenir leur identité organisationnelle, tout en continuant à se distinguer des autres formes d’organisation?”En ordre de répondre à cette question, j'ai appliqué une analyse à plusieurs niveaux (multi-level analysis) et processuelle, basée sur une perspective institutionnelle. Alors que le niveau macro est analysé à travers une approche économique - New Institutional Economics (North, 1991, Williamson 2000), les niveaux méso et micro sont abordés dans une perspective organisationnelle. D’ un point de vue méthodologique, l’ analyse multi-niveaux et processuelle est poursuivie en utilisant une approche de méthodes mixtes. Alors que l’imposition de la concurrence par moyen des marchés publiques et appel à projets est justifiée comme étant capable de permettre d’améliorer l’efficacité du marché, mais ce que on a pu observer par moyen de cette étude c’est que ces mécanismes ouvrent surtout le marché à des entreprises commerciales avec le risque de provoquer une perte du lien relationnel, et la disparition du tissu associatif
The aim of this research is to analyse the business- like evolution of third Sector Organisations (TSOs) My case Study is based on the migration reception system and is a comparison between the Italian and the French case. The sector is particularly interesting, because we can observe a very rapid change, at the institutional, governance and organisational level. The very rapid legislative evolution on migration policies, at national as well as European level, the definition of a quasi-market through the implementation of specific funding instruments with a consequent change in number and kind of actors, are three of the main aspects characterising the evolution of the sector in the last 30 years.In order to understand these dynamics I formulated the following Research Question: “under strong institutional pressures, how are TSOs dealing with asylum seekers reception services, able to maintain their organisational identities, continuing to distinguish themselves from other organisational forms?”Concerning the Analytical framework adopted to study the business like evolution, I applied a multilevel and processual analysis based on an institutional perspective. While the macro level will be analysed through a new institutional economic lens, the meso and micro levels will be tackled through an organisational perspective. Finally, this multilevel and processual analysis will be pursued using a mix methods approach
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FARGION, Valeria. "Welfare state e decentramento in Italia: Le politiche socio-assistenziali negli anni settanta." Doctoral thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5173.

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Defence date: 9 May 1986
Examining board: Prof. Peter Flora, Supervisore ; Prof. Giorgio Freddi ; Prof. Yves Mény ; Prof. Sidney Tarrow
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
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VAMPA, Davide. "The regional politics of welfare in Italy, Spain, and Great Britain : assessing the impact of territorial and left-wing mobilisations on the development of 'sub-state' social systems." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/37642.

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Defence date: 30 September 2015
Examining Board: Professor Stefano Bartolini, EUI (Supervisor); Professor László Bruszt, EUI; Professor Maurizio Ferrera, Università degli Studi di Milano; Professor Jonathan Hopkin, London School of Economics and Political Science.
In recent years, a number of European countries have undergone important processes of territorial reconfiguration in the administration and delivery of social services. This has produced substantial divergences in the levels and types of welfare development across regions belonging to the same country. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult to talk about 'national welfare systems' or 'national social models' – although most of the mainstream welfare literature continues to do so. The aim of this study is to explore the political factors that explain cross-regional variation in the development of health care and social assistance policies in three countries that have witnessed the gradual strengthening of regions as arenas of social policy making: Italy, Spain and Great Britain. The research focus is on the effects of two political cleavages, centre-periphery and left-right, on sub-national social policy. The findings of the quantitative and qualitative analyses presented throughout this research suggest that the main driving force in the construction of sub-state welfare systems is the political mobilisation of territorial identities through the creation and electoral consolidation of regionalist parties. Indeed, such parties may use regional social policy to reinforce the sense of distinctiveness and territorial solidarity that exists in the communities they represent, thus further strengthening and legitimising their political role. Additionally, the centre-periphery cleavage may also affect relations across different organisational levels of 'statewide' parties and further increase the relevance of territoriality in welfare politics at the regional level. On the other hand, traditional left-right politics does not seem to play the central role that welfare theories focusing on 'nation-states' might lead us to expect. For left-wing parties, the regionalisation of social governance may present either an opportunity or a challenge depending on the role they play in national politics and on the characteristics of sub-national electoral competitors. Generally, mainstream centre-left parties are torn by the dilemma of maintaining uniformity and cohesion in social protection across the national territory and addressing the demands for more extensive and distinctive social services coming from specific regional communities.
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LOMBARDI, Daniela. "Povertà maschile, povertà femminile: l'Ospedale dei mendicanti nella Firenze medicea." Doctoral thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5884.

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Books on the topic "Public welfare – Italy"

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Sereni, Antonio. La riforma dell'assistenza sociale: La Legge-quadro n. 328/2000 e le norme di attuazione. Firenze: It.Comm., 2003.

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Government, governance and welfare reform: Structural changes and subsidiarity in Italy and Britain. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012.

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Agnoli, Francesco Mario. Il sistema integrato dei servizi sociali: La Legge quadro 8 novembre 2000, n. 328, commentata ed annotata : gli interventi di assistenza sociale e le autonomie. Gorle (Bergamo): CEL, 2001.

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Maurizio, Ferrera, ed. Welfare state reform in Southern Europe: Fighting poverty and social exclusion in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.

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Hage, Jerald. State responsiveness and state activism: An examination of the social forces and state strategies that explain the rise in social expenditures in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, 1870-1968. London: U. Hyman, 1989.

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Lombardi, Daniela. Povertà maschile, povertà femminile: L'Ospedale dei mendicanti nella Firenze dei Medici. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1988.

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Charity and power in early modern Italy: Benefactors and their motives in Turin, 1541-1789. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Basso, R. La pietà secolarizzata: Pauperismo e beneficenza pubblica nella cultura riformista salentina. Galatina, Le: Congedo, 1993.

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Le origini del servizio sociale italiano: Tremezzo, un evento fondativo del 1946 : saggi e testimonianze. Roma: Viella, 2012.

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Ricci, Luca. La Croce verde di Lucca: Storia della pubblica assistenza. Lucca: San Marco Tipolito, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Public welfare – Italy"

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Franzoni, Simona. "Public Governance of Welfare Services in Italy." In Manufacturing Civil Society, 136–58. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137351630_8.

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Powell, Fred. "The welfare state debate." In The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State. Policy Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447332916.003.0006.

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This chapter analyses the post-war evolution of a welfare state in Ireland. It explores the tension between traditionalist influences (clientelism, localism, and religion) and the modernising forces of social democracy that were reshaping civic culture and the idea of citizenship into what T. H. Marshall (1950) has called a ‘three-legged stool’ of civil rights, political rights, and social rights. The Irish welfare state is often categorised as belonging to the Anglo-Saxon model. However, Ireland's ideological orientation (driven by Catholic social teaching in the form of the principle of subsidiarity) and an informal Church–State alliance suggests the Irish welfare state had more in common with the Mediterranean countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy), Nonetheless, a shared language and popular culture did influence the public imaginary concept of the ideal of a welfare state and similarly shape public demands for higher levels of social expenditure.
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Cairney, Paul, Michael Keating, Sean Kippin, and Emily St Denny. "Inequalities Policies in Practice." In Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe, 71–85. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898586.003.0005.

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Abstract This chapter explores the scope for regional (or meso-level, sub-state) policymakers to redesign policy, and pursue differing priorities, within national systems of social welfare. Regional levels of government have increased powers to address inequalities, but their role is contested. There is no such thing as a typical division of responsibilities or one best way to address inequalities. Rather, we use examples from four countries—Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom—to explore how different regional-level governments make sense of inequalities policies. Examples include taxation and spending, social assistance, public service subsidies, minimum income guarantees, and charged, active labour market policies. From the available evidence, it would be an exaggeration to speak of distinct regional welfare regimes.
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Morano, Pierluigi, Francesco Tajani, and Marco Locurcio. "Land Use, Economic Welfare and Property Values." In Sustainable Infrastructure, 414–37. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0948-7.ch018.

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In the paper an analysis of functional correlations of property prices with the main locational and socio-economic variables, which generally contribute to define the market value of properties, has been developed. Locational characteristics are represented by the surfaces of soil used for the main functions, borrowing the logic of the system of classification of CORINE Land Cover (European Commission). The analysis has been contextualized to the 258 municipalities of the Apulia region (Southern Italy), and has been referred to two different moments (years 2006 and 2011), and two different market segments (residential and retail). The functional relationships between property prices and explanatory variables considered, estimated through a software that implements a genetic algorithm, are particularly interesting. The methodology outlined constitutes a valuable reference for the definition of models aimed at supporting, in a more rational and convenient way, public planning decisions and private investment choices.
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Minervini, Dario. "Waste management and value extraction in Italy: Where is the citizen? Waste to worth." In The Foundational Economy and Citizenship, 159–80. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447353355.003.0008.

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The chapter focuses on the role of citizens and how this role is framed in official reports about waste. The hypothesis advanced is that the “objectivity” of the win-win game of waste recycling, accounted for by the official national reports, neutralizes the political overlapping of the neoliberal logic of waste commodification with the logics of public utility and urban welfare. A documentary analysis of official reports released by three of the most important actors performing Italian governance of waste management and recycling, is presented. The findings show how different logics adopted in the institutional accounting strategy contribute towards enacting a particular identity and agency of citizens in the process of waste valorisation.
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Cavenago, Dario, and Laura Mariani. "Re-Inventing the Social Business Model." In Handbook of Research on Emerging Business Models and Managerial Strategies in the Nonprofit Sector, 295–314. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2537-0.ch015.

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The recent global economic crises and the decline of the traditional welfare state are challenging the development of third sector organisations involved in the provision of public services. With the support of the Italian case and the experiences of different Italian third sector organisations, this contribution highlights how organisational survival and growth require reinvention of the business model, commencing with the concept of social, economic and environmental sustainability. The scope of third sector organisations depends on the type of government, the stage of economic development, the model of civil society, the existence of philanthropic traditions and the law and regulation. All these variables affect the business model of third sector organisations. This chapter contributes to the third sector knowledge in Italy and concludes with a discussion on solutions that are able to incentivize the use of entrepreneurial principles, stimulate networking, cooperation and growth while maintaining the relationship with the territories.
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Cavenago, Dario, and Laura Mariani. "Re-Inventing the Social Business Model." In Social Entrepreneurship, 931–50. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8182-6.ch047.

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The recent global economic crises and the decline of the traditional welfare state are challenging the development of third sector organisations involved in the provision of public services. With the support of the Italian case and the experiences of different Italian third sector organisations, this contribution highlights how organisational survival and growth require reinvention of the business model, commencing with the concept of social, economic and environmental sustainability. The scope of third sector organisations depends on the type of government, the stage of economic development, the model of civil society, the existence of philanthropic traditions and the law and regulation. All these variables affect the business model of third sector organisations. This chapter contributes to the third sector knowledge in Italy and concludes with a discussion on solutions that are able to incentivize the use of entrepreneurial principles, stimulate networking, cooperation and growth while maintaining the relationship with the territories.
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Conference papers on the topic "Public welfare – Italy"

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Ferrante, Linda, Simona Normando, Daniela Florio, and Barbara De Mori. "Animal welfare and Ethics course for post-graduate at Veterinary School: how to improve assessment methodologies with a bottom up approach." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5535.

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Animal Welfare, with its strong ethical component, is increasingly central to public debate and in all sectors dealing with animals has become a key expertise to acquire. This paper presents a post-graduate level course on animal welfare and ethics assessment delivered by the Veterinary School of Padua University, Italy. The course was delivered at Garda Zoological Park, Italy, allowing students to do an experience with wildlife in a peculiar management system. Teachers used an inquiry-based approach to lead students ‘construct’ their experience in welfare assessment. At the end of the course students, divided into groups, had to develop a protocol for the assessment of the animal welfare of a species in the zoo. The analysis of these final works and a pre-test and post-test questionnaires were used to assess the effectiveness of the course. Results highlighted a growing awareness of the complexity of assessment methodologies and more attention on animal based indicators. Students found difficulties using a bottom-up approach but were satisfied at the end of the course. Improvements can be done to promote reflections on reasons to assess animal welfare and its ethical component, on the utility of such assessment and on a balanced use of tools and methodologies.
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