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European Democratic Institutions and Administrations

Cohesion and Innovation in Times of Economic Crisis

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Editors:
  1. Francesco Merloni

    1. ANAC-Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione, Roma, Italy

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  2. Alessandra Pioggia

    1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

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  • Elaborates the consequences of reforms on democratic systems of different countries
  • Evaluates different and innovative measures adopted to counter the crisis
  • Appeals to practitioners and policy makers
  • Adopts a legal approach

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Francesco Merloni, Alessandra Pioggia
    Pages 1-22

  4. Economic Crisis and Social Rights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Function of Redistribution Between Crisis and Inclusion

      • Antonio Brancasi, Carlo Marzuoli
      Pages 123-148

    3. Constitutional Law and Social Welfare After the Economic Crisis

      • Stefano Civitarese Matteucci, Simon Halliday
      Pages 149-168

    4. Rights in Times of Crisis: Considerations on Security, Migrations and Inclusive Citizenship

      • Salvatore Bonfiglio, Gabriele Maestri
      Pages 169-193

    5. Social Rights and the Economic and Financial Crisis. Problems and Perspectives

      • Silvio Gambino, Danilo Pappano, Giovanni M. Caruso, Walter Nocito, Giampaolo Gerbasi, Donatella Loprieno et al.
      Pages 195-226

    6. The Administrative Architecture of Financial Integration

      • Edoardo Chiti, Giulio Vesperini
      Pages 227-238

  5. Economic Crisis and Tools of Government

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Administrative Simplification As an Instrument for Coping with the Economic Crisis

      • Aldo Travi, Davide Occhetti, Nicola Gambino
      Pages 241-263

    3. Administrative Cooperation in the Public Contracts and Service Sectors for the Progress of European Integration

      • Roberto Cavallo Perin, Gabriella M. Racca
      Pages 265-296

    4. Taking Care of Commons to Tackle the Financial Crisis

      • Marco Bombardelli
      Pages 297-320
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This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies. The collected studies describe and analyse the measures (often referred to as  "reforms") adopted to counter the crisis and the effects of these measures.It investigates three areas: the impact on the functioning of institutions, with respect to the relationship between representative institutions and governments, and the organisational structure of administrations at national and local levels; the impact that the austerity policies on public spending have on social rights; and the impact on traditional instruments of public action (administrative simplification, public services delivering, the use of common assets).
The general findings highlight the effect of reducing the administrative and government capacity of the democratic institutions: the public sector, rather than beinginnovative and made more effective, declines, offering increasingly poor public services and making bad decisions, fuelling substantive or formal privatisation solutions, which in turn cause further weakening.


Editors and Affiliations

  • ANAC-Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione, Roma, Italy

    Francesco Merloni

  • University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Alessandra Pioggia

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Francesco Merloni, University of PerugiaAlessandra Pioggia, University of Perugia

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