Province of Rome. The 2000 Report
The presentation of the Province of Rome: the 2000 Report is both a new feature and a tradition for Eurispes. A new feature because it is the first report to take into consideration a specific Italian provincial reality and a tradition because the reference model is the Italy Report that the Institute has been presenting punctually at the end of January since 1989. In the study of the provincial situation, the task has been particularly arduous and rewarding at the same time. In fact, the survey has had to come to terms with a singular provincial “landscape”, caught between a strong region and a metropolis with, to say the least, exceptional characteristics. The Province of Rome is increasingly presenting itself as a centre of union between the simple and the complex, a sounding board for both local and global problems. This is a report that is not only useful to politicians, but also and above all to entrepreneurs, local authorities and third sector players who wish to work in the province and for the province. The Report is divided into six sections devoted respectively to the economy, labour problems, citizenship, the environment and crisis points, with a special focus on the Jubilee. These are issues of vital importance in the context of the Roman provincial reality, each of which is introduced by an essay and analysed by means of six phenomenological files that provide an exhaustive qualitative and quantitative description of each particular subject.
Index
Contents
Presentation
Preface
Introduction
Province: Institutions and change between politics and policies
Public problems and institutional issues in Rome and Province
The demographic and economic variables of urbanisation
Qualitative indicators: public action in the urban dimension
The structural structure of local government in Rome
Metropolitan areas and the problems of governance in Europe
The specificity of governance issues
Definitions of metropolitan government
The ‘structural’ and ‘functional’ models
The ‘structural’ model: one territory, one government
The “functional” model: polycentrism and competitiveness
Cycles of institutional change
Reform in Rome: institutional processes and political conflict
Institutional change between “policy” and “politics
CHAPTER I – The Economy
The Economy of the Province of Rome
The economic role of the Province
The difficult Province of Rome
The economic policy of the Province: the territory
The Economic Policy of the Province: The Enterprises
The economic policy of the Province: promoting the environmental
Fact sheet 1. Agriculture
Fact sheet 2. The industrial reality
Sheet 3. The services sector
Sheet 4. Commerce
Sheet 5. Handicrafts
Sheet 6. The Chambers of Commerce and the local economic fabric
CHAPTER II – Work
Creating work: setting up new enterprises
The scenario
The role and functions
Labour policies
Labour market instruments and objectives
Sheet 7. Vocational training
Sheet 8. Health and safety in the workplace
Sheet 9. Undeclared work
Sheet 10. Youth unemployment
Sheet 11. The female condition in the labour market I
Sheet 12. The female condition in the labour market II
CHAPTER III – Citizenship
Citizenship and local politics
Introduction
From subjects to citizens, and vice versa
The transformation of the politician
Citizenship and society
Localism and citizenship
The closest of the ‘provinces of the Empire’.
Citizenship and local institutions
The direct election of the mayor
On some aspects of Public Administration Reform
New Technologies and Democratic Polity
Concluding remarks
Sheet 13. The institution
Sheet 14. Transformations of the political
Sheet 15. Supply and demand for health services
Sheet 16. Reality, potential and development of the third sector
Sheet 17. The condition of the elderly
Sheet 18. Cultural consumption and leisure
CHAPTER IV – The Environment
The Province and the Environment
The Provincial Competencies
The provincial territory
Geology
Climate
Vegetation
Wildlife
Landscape units
Citizens and the environment: a Eurispes study
The discipline of the earth
Sheet 19. A territory at risk?
Sheet 20. Environmental protection
Sheet 21. Management of water resources
Sheet 22. Parks and nature reserves
Sheet 23. Planet waste
Sheet 24. Atmospheric pollution
CHAPTER V – Crisis Points
Crisis points
Introduction
Petty crime
Marginalisation
Immigration
Public health and transport
The courage of innovation
Sheet 25. Public health
Sheet 26. Public transport
Sheet 27. The new challenges of immigration
Sheet 28. Urban malaise and social exclusion
Sheet 29. The drugs emergency
Sheet 30. Security and petty crime
CHAPTER VI – The Jubilee
The politics of the Jubilee
The objectives of the analysis
The two meanings of the Jubilee
A success or a failure? In search of evaluation parameters
Advantages and disadvantages: what the citizens think about it
The actors involved and the activities carried out
The Lazio Region
The Roman Agency for the preparation of the Jubilee
The network’s regulatory style
Prevention of allocation conflicts
Flexibility: the shift from the “major” Jubilee to the “minor” Jubilee
Concerted action in the implementation of interventions
Managing major events and political consensus: a comparison
An experience to be repeated?
Sheet 31. The style of regulation
Sheet 32. Major projects
Sheet 33. Interventions for accommodation
Sheet 34. Personal services
Sheet 35. Interventions on city assets
Sheet 36. The press and the citizens: different representations of the event
Appendix
The survey sampling plan
General bibliography