Government, Governance and Welfare Reform

Edited by Alberto Brugnoli Professor of Applied Economics, Università degli Studi di Bergamo and Director General, Éupolis Lombardia – Institute for Research, Statistics and Training, Lombardy, Italy and Alessandro Colombo, Director, ‘Governance and Institutions’ Strategic Unit, Éupolis Lombardia – Institute for Research, Statistics and Training, Lombardy, Italy

• Contents:IntroductionAlberto Brugnoli and Alessandro ColomboPART I: GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNMENT: BEYOND THE STATE-CENTRIC APPROACH1. Key Principles of GovernanceAlberto Martinelli2. Subsidiarity: A New Partnership between State, Market and Civil SocietyGiorgio Vittadini3. Governance and SubsidiarityLorenzo OrnaghiPART II: BUILDING COMPETITIVENESS: TERRITORIES, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL4. The New RegionalismMichael Keating5. Regional Competitiveness and Regional Policy in the UKMichael Kitson6. The Pursuit of Regional Competitiveness in Lombardy: Productivity, Resilience and Aggregate WelfareMassimo M. Beber and Alberto BrugnoliPART III: WELFARE REFORMS: FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR AN EMPOWERED SOCIETY7. The Lombardy Model of GovernanceAlessandro Colombo and Tim O’Sullivan8. Innovation in Governance: The Involvement of Social Enterprises in Health Service DeliveryHelen Haugh9. Horizontal Subsidiarity in Lombardy and the UK: Decentralization, Partnership and Governance of WelfareMartin Powell10. New Frontiers of Welfare State and New Challenges for the Third SectorStefano ZamagniPART IV: THE FUTURE OF INVESTING IN PEOPLE: FROM STATE MONOPOLY TO RESPONSIBLE CHOICE11. The Importance of Investing in Very Young PeopleLuigi Campiglio12. Subsidiarity and Individual Responsibility: Quasi-markets and Asset-based WelfareJulian Le Grand13. Freedom of Choice in the Italian Educational System: The Idea of a DoteLorenza Violini and Daniele CaponeConclusionsAlberto Brugnoli and Alessandro ColomboIndex

‘Alberto Brugnoli and Alessandro Colombo have put together an important collection of essays on government and governance in Italy and Britain. This richly documented comparative study proposes to answer two key questions: how does the change from government to governance emerge, and what enables this transformation to survive and even to displace State-centric solutions to public policy issues? The book will be a milestone in highlighting the distinctive and original role of the principle of subsidiarity, in examining and assessing governance regimes, their philosophy and their organizational choices and in linking subsidiarity with the prospects of freedom, responsibility and self-governing societies in the modern world. I know of no other book that brings the principle of subsidiarity to the frontier of the most current research in social science.’