Vita e Pensiero

The essay starts from the thesis that the introduction of the subsidiarity principle in Italian Constitution took place in a form such that it can be interpreted on a theoretical level and implemented in practice in very different ways. Then shows how it prevailed in practice the outsourcing model and how this has created a number of problems which are causing negative reactions from relevant organizations of the same Third Sector. It proposes finally to experience a new kind of subsidiarity based on the principles of distinctiveness and appropriateness... ..

The welfare systems in the liberal-democratic countries are undergoing structural changes. Often their evolution also concerns paradigm shifts. In this essay we try to understand what and how the new challenges to citizenship (social) emerge, mainly in an economic, social, political and cultural context (mainly due to the globalization process) completely different from the past...

The survey presents 4 stages of the development and the crisis of the welfare state, conventionally: 1. from 1880 to 1945; 2. from 1946 to 1970; 3. from 1971 to 2000; 4. from 2000 to today. These stages are analyzed with to interpretatives paradigms, relates to two correspondings trade off...

The paper reports the results of a case study conducted on the project “Albinea Insieme Casa Cervi Luigi”, a multi-purpose center for the elders in Emilia-Romagna. It is an interesting experience, created in partnership between the Municipality and the Parish of Albinea, which sees the direct involvement of citizens through a specific type of popular shareholding...

This study analyzes the local welfare policies that, in a city like Naples, aimed the redevelopment of the economic structure of the city, humiliated from the spread of the undeclared activities, the black market productions and the illegal economies. This redevelopment goes through the rules and actions design in the economy that promotes transparency, efficiency, integrity and normal market society growth...