Large cities around the world are put under pressure from the population growth, the frenetic global economic restructuring, and the growing risks resulting from climate change. Today more than ever, these cities need, therefore, of governance models capable of balancing in an optimal size the economic issues with the social ones and positively exploit the tension that, especially at the metropolitan level, is created between effective and efficient decisions in order to find a balance between the principles of territorial differentiation and adequacy. There are also significant specificities that relate to the financing of large cities. The reason for these specificities is in the greater use of public resources (which involves an ever-growing spending), the need for a more substantial accumulation of physical and human resources, and in the disparity (nonidentification) between the land users (tourists, commuters and so on) and the community of residents. This paper intends to analyze the governance structure and finance of major Italian cities after the reform for the implementation of fiscal federalism and the enactment of the Law Delrio (Law 56/2014) on the Metropolitan Cities, the Provinces and the associations/mergers of Municipalities. The Italian case, in fact, is emblematic, because the described process of reform, rather than follow the principles established by the 2012 Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Europe Council, has been driven only by an unjustified obsession of having to achieve, at any price, a reduction of public expenditure. This obsession risks compromising the sustainability of the entire project of reorganization of territorial governments of extended area and the resilience of the Italian funding system of big cities, which is exposed also to the risks arising from an unfavorable economic cycle and to changes of the financing scheme established by the central government with the most recent Stability Acts.
The Financial Resilience and Sustainability of the Italian Big Cities after the Starting of Reform Process for the Implementation of Fiscal Federalism and the Reorganization of Territorial Governments of Extended Area / Villani, Salvatore. - (2016). (Intervento presentato al convegno Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration, and the Environment tenutosi a St. Cross College, Oxford, UK nel December 5th-6th, 2016).
The Financial Resilience and Sustainability of the Italian Big Cities after the Starting of Reform Process for the Implementation of Fiscal Federalism and the Reorganization of Territorial Governments of Extended Area
VILLANI, SALVATORE
2016
Abstract
Large cities around the world are put under pressure from the population growth, the frenetic global economic restructuring, and the growing risks resulting from climate change. Today more than ever, these cities need, therefore, of governance models capable of balancing in an optimal size the economic issues with the social ones and positively exploit the tension that, especially at the metropolitan level, is created between effective and efficient decisions in order to find a balance between the principles of territorial differentiation and adequacy. There are also significant specificities that relate to the financing of large cities. The reason for these specificities is in the greater use of public resources (which involves an ever-growing spending), the need for a more substantial accumulation of physical and human resources, and in the disparity (nonidentification) between the land users (tourists, commuters and so on) and the community of residents. This paper intends to analyze the governance structure and finance of major Italian cities after the reform for the implementation of fiscal federalism and the enactment of the Law Delrio (Law 56/2014) on the Metropolitan Cities, the Provinces and the associations/mergers of Municipalities. The Italian case, in fact, is emblematic, because the described process of reform, rather than follow the principles established by the 2012 Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Europe Council, has been driven only by an unjustified obsession of having to achieve, at any price, a reduction of public expenditure. This obsession risks compromising the sustainability of the entire project of reorganization of territorial governments of extended area and the resilience of the Italian funding system of big cities, which is exposed also to the risks arising from an unfavorable economic cycle and to changes of the financing scheme established by the central government with the most recent Stability Acts.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
