Simona Piattoni
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 120759 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simona Piattoni |
| NOMBRES | Simona |
| APELLIDO | Piattoni |
| FIRMA | PIATTONI S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7385-8011 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 222 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
From ordo-liberalism to ordo-Keynesianism? The contradictory nature of EU economic governance
Introduction to ‘Italy and Germany
This article introduces the questions that motivate this special issue: the growing divergence among Eurozone member states and the overall disappointing performance of the Eurozone as a whole. It justifies the choice of Germany and Italy as the two countries that can best exemplify what are considered, respectively, the northern and southern politico-economic models coexisting in the Eurozone and proposes an approach to these questions that devi…
Italy and Germany
This article critically examines the main assumptions underlying the reforms embedded in EMU and European Semester recommendations. We proceed in three steps. First, we question the notion that Italy and Germany embody two distinctive politico-economic models and challenge the conclusion, drawn from this assumption, that structural rigidities are the primary cause of Italy’s economic woes and that its lackluster performance since the 1990s is due…
Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
The literature on forms of particularism explores the impact of institutional variables on what is denoted, alternatively, as constituency service, pork-barrel politics, or corruption. Attention has mostly been given to electoral systems, but other institutional provisions and political factors, such as party strength, are also relevant. The present contribution investigates the likely effects of electoral reforms on corruption control and seeks …
Corruption Control in the Developed World
Conventionally considered a developmental trait that would tend to disappear with the increase of wealth and the stabilization of democracy, corruption is rampant not just among developing countries and recent democracies, but also in mature democracies and developed countries. This editorial introduces the thematic issue and considers what the contributions tell us about new approaches to corruption control in the developed world. It also outlin…
Towards a European political union
EMU and the Italian debt problem
While during the first decade the common currency helped stabilise the Italian economy by overcoming political constraints that blocked debt reduction, during its second decade the euro has rather served to destabilise the country politically and economically. The combination of a single currency and a single market in financial services turned into an engine of massive macroeconomic imbalances that came to a head in a typical sudden stop in the …
The European Semester
In this contribution to the symposium “What's the problem? Multilevel governance and problem‐solving,” we discuss possible reasons that make difficult for the European Semester to achieve the goals of developing mutual learning and the acquisition of “ownership” over fiscal restraint, budgetary coordination and structural reforms. We underscore the uneasy coupling of a “soft” multilevel governance mode with “hard” forms of governance associated w…
Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism
This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that…
Convergence towards a single economic model? Italy and Germany in the interconnected euro system
Structural reforms have failed to bring about convergence in the Eurozone. This argument is made here by comparing two countries – Italy and Germany – assumed to embody contrasting economic models. Three main points are made in the paper. First, the generalisation of the macroeconomic strategy of the northern countries threatens to undermine political support for European integration, as the disparities it engenders drive the electoral successes …
Amici come prima? Italy and Germany in times of crisis
The introductiry chapter to this special issue justifies the decision to focus on Italo-German relations in times of crisis – and in particular on the way in which prejudices and stereotypes affect them – in light of a long history of parallel political and economic development of the two countries and the central role that they are likely to play in the next phase of European integration. After briefly presenting the chapters that compose the sp…
The European Union between Intergovernmentalism and ‘Shared and Responsible Sovereignty
The article starts from a critique of the widespread assumption that intergovernmentalism is not only the more practical but also the more democratic way of handling the current European crises – and particularly the euro crisis – to argue for the need to rethink the working and the definition of democracy in the current heightened interconnectedness of political organization. It suggests that perceiving European citizens as being separated into …
Representation as delegation
This contribution tackles the issue of EU democracy from the point of view of representation. Building on the discussion of 'political' and 'democratic' representation offered, respectively, by Pitkin (1967 Pitkin, H. 1967. The Concept of Representation, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and Urbinati (2006 Urbinati, N. 2006. Representative Democracy. Principles & Genealogy, Chicago, IL: The University of…
Italy and the European Union – By F. Bindi
The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU
The paper explores the difficult coexistence between territorial and functional representation in the European Union. It starts by presenting a rather general framework for the analysis of territorial and functional claims that distinguished between ‘lumpy’ claims — indivisible claims that can be made only by representatives of collective actors on the basis of shared identities and that cannot, therefore, be parceled out or compromised upon — an…
From Bologna to Lisbon
This contribution explores the transformation of higher education \npolicy from the mere co-ordination of educational curricula by national governments \nto the embodiment of the Lisbon Agenda’s ‘governance architecture’, together with \nits impact on national policies, institutions and actors. It does so by charting change \nin both policy outputs and policy outcomes in four different European countries – \nEngland, the Netherlands, Germany and …
The Theory of Multi-level Governance
This title explores the theoretical issues, empirical evidence and normative debates elicited by the concept of multi-level governance (MLG). Three policy areas are investigated in vindicating the usefulness of MLG as a theoretical and empirical concept, with particular reference to the UK and Germany.
Multi‐level Governance
In this paper I perform a historical and conceptual analysis of multi‐level governance (MLG) in order to tease out its characterizing traits and allow for its utilization for both empirical and normative purposes. MLG is a dynamic three‐dimensional concept that blurs and problematizes three analytical distinctions that have been central to the conventional reflection on the European modern state: (1) that between centre and periphery, (2) that be…
Informal Governance in the European Union
Volossov offered excellent research assistance
Negotiating the regulation of the Structural Funds
The role of Italy in the reform process of the regulations concerning EU regional policy has traditionally been weak. Since 1998, however, Italian actors in Brussels started to play an increasingly more central role. Looking at the 1998 Regulation, we analyse the internal and external factors that explain this improved performance and conclude that this change might lead to an even more active and creative role being adopted by Italian institutio…
Political Clientelism, Democracy, and Market Economy
Introduction
This introductory article discusses the circumstances under which Italy manages to forge 'national preferences' and push them through the European policy-making process. Drawing from the analysis of several policy areas, it concludes that Italy plays a major policy-making role, particularly when it acts as mediator between large countries and small- and medium-sized ones, and when it argues its case according to policy- and EU-appropriate logics.…
Clientelism in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Clientelism as Strategy Political clientelism and patronage are widely diffused phenomena spanning across time and space and touching virtually all political systems in which votes count for something. In Europe, political clientelism and patronage are commonly considered as phenomena typical of only some countries, normally the Latin or Mediterranean countries. The ascription of clientelism and patronage to given geographical areas goes hand in …
Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation
This 2001 book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the 'supply-side' - the institutional context in which party leaders devise and implement their political strategies - and the 'demand-side' - the degree of 'empowerme…
Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation
Real democracies, as opposed to idealized ones, do not operate only on the basis of categorical interests represented through territorially elected representatives and through functionally selected spokespersons. The interests which are worthy of being represented and supported are not necessarily only those broad enough to claim to represent "the general interest" of society or to be harmonized, with other equally broad interests, to yield "the …
Multi‐level Governance
In this paper I perform a historical and conceptual analysis of multi‐level governance (MLG) in order to tease out its characterizing traits and allow for its utilization for both empirical and normative purposes. MLG is a dynamic three‐dimensional concept that blurs and problematizes three analytical distinctions that have been central to the conventional reflection on the European modern state: (1) that between centre and periphery, (2) that be…
Political Clientelism, Democracy, and Market Economy
From Bologna to Lisbon
This contribution explores the transformation of higher education \npolicy from the mere co-ordination of educational curricula by national governments \nto the embodiment of the Lisbon Agenda’s ‘governance architecture’, together with \nits impact on national policies, institutions and actors. It does so by charting change \nin both policy outputs and policy outcomes in four different European countries – \nEngland, the Netherlands, Germany and …
Representation as delegation
This contribution tackles the issue of EU democracy from the point of view of representation. Building on the discussion of 'political' and 'democratic' representation offered, respectively, by Pitkin (1967 Pitkin, H. 1967. The Concept of Representation, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and Urbinati (2006 Urbinati, N. 2006. Representative Democracy. Principles & Genealogy, Chicago, IL: The University of…
The European Semester
In this contribution to the symposium “What's the problem? Multilevel governance and problem‐solving,” we discuss possible reasons that make difficult for the European Semester to achieve the goals of developing mutual learning and the acquisition of “ownership” over fiscal restraint, budgetary coordination and structural reforms. We underscore the uneasy coupling of a “soft” multilevel governance mode with “hard” forms of governance associated w…
Italy and Germany
This article critically examines the main assumptions underlying the reforms embedded in EMU and European Semester recommendations. We proceed in three steps. First, we question the notion that Italy and Germany embody two distinctive politico-economic models and challenge the conclusion, drawn from this assumption, that structural rigidities are the primary cause of Italy’s economic woes and that its lackluster performance since the 1990s is due…
Convergence towards a single economic model? Italy and Germany in the interconnected euro system
Structural reforms have failed to bring about convergence in the Eurozone. This argument is made here by comparing two countries – Italy and Germany – assumed to embody contrasting economic models. Three main points are made in the paper. First, the generalisation of the macroeconomic strategy of the northern countries threatens to undermine political support for European integration, as the disparities it engenders drive the electoral successes …
Clientelismo Virtuoso
IntroduzioneIn questo articolo sosterrò, innanzitutto, che il clientelismo può anche promuovere lo sviluppo economico. Proporrò poi, ma non svilupperò appieno, la tesi che il clientelismo possa perfino portare al proprio superamento, ovvero a un modo di fare politica più conforme alla comune concezione di una democrazia moderna. Clientelismo e sviluppo economico possono, cioè, innescare processi reciprocamente «virtuosi» che, nel tempo, possono a…
Introduction to ‘Italy and Germany
This article introduces the questions that motivate this special issue: the growing divergence among Eurozone member states and the overall disappointing performance of the Eurozone as a whole. It justifies the choice of Germany and Italy as the two countries that can best exemplify what are considered, respectively, the northern and southern politico-economic models coexisting in the Eurozone and proposes an approach to these questions that devi…
EMU and the Italian debt problem
While during the first decade the common currency helped stabilise the Italian economy by overcoming political constraints that blocked debt reduction, during its second decade the euro has rather served to destabilise the country politically and economically. The combination of a single currency and a single market in financial services turned into an engine of massive macroeconomic imbalances that came to a head in a typical sudden stop in the …
The European Union between Intergovernmentalism and ‘Shared and Responsible Sovereignty
The article starts from a critique of the widespread assumption that intergovernmentalism is not only the more practical but also the more democratic way of handling the current European crises – and particularly the euro crisis – to argue for the need to rethink the working and the definition of democracy in the current heightened interconnectedness of political organization. It suggests that perceiving European citizens as being separated into …
The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU
The paper explores the difficult coexistence between territorial and functional representation in the European Union. It starts by presenting a rather general framework for the analysis of territorial and functional claims that distinguished between ‘lumpy’ claims — indivisible claims that can be made only by representatives of collective actors on the basis of shared identities and that cannot, therefore, be parceled out or compromised upon — an…
Introduction
This introductory article discusses the circumstances under which Italy manages to forge 'national preferences' and push them through the European policy-making process. Drawing from the analysis of several policy areas, it concludes that Italy plays a major policy-making role, particularly when it acts as mediator between large countries and small- and medium-sized ones, and when it argues its case according to policy- and EU-appropriate logics.…
Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism
This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that…
Negotiating the regulation of the Structural Funds
The role of Italy in the reform process of the regulations concerning EU regional policy has traditionally been weak. Since 1998, however, Italian actors in Brussels started to play an increasingly more central role. Looking at the 1998 Regulation, we analyse the internal and external factors that explain this improved performance and conclude that this change might lead to an even more active and creative role being adopted by Italian institutio…
Clientelismo Virtuoso
IntroduzioneIn questo articolo sosterrò, innanzitutto, che il clientelismo può anche promuovere lo sviluppo economico. Proporrò poi, ma non svilupperò appieno, la tesi che il clientelismo possa perfino portare al proprio superamento, ovvero a un modo di fare politica più conforme alla comune concezione di una democrazia moderna. Clientelismo e sviluppo economico possono, cioè, innescare processi reciprocamente «virtuosi» che, nel tempo, possono a…
Clientelism in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Clientelism as Strategy Political clientelism and patronage are widely diffused phenomena spanning across time and space and touching virtually all political systems in which votes count for something. In Europe, political clientelism and patronage are commonly considered as phenomena typical of only some countries, normally the Latin or Mediterranean countries. The ascription of clientelism and patronage to given geographical areas goes hand in …
Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation
This 2001 book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the 'supply-side' - the institutional context in which party leaders devise and implement their political strategies - and the 'demand-side' - the degree of 'empowerme…
Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation
Real democracies, as opposed to idealized ones, do not operate only on the basis of categorical interests represented through territorially elected representatives and through functionally selected spokespersons. The interests which are worthy of being represented and supported are not necessarily only those broad enough to claim to represent "the general interest" of society or to be harmonized, with other equally broad interests, to yield "the …
Informal Governance in the European Union
Volossov offered excellent research assistance
Negotiating the regulation of the Structural Funds
The role of Italy in the reform process of the regulations concerning EU regional policy has traditionally been weak. Since 1998, however, Italian actors in Brussels started to play an increasingly more central role. Looking at the 1998 Regulation, we analyse the internal and external factors that explain this improved performance and conclude that this change might lead to an even more active and creative role being adopted by Italian institutio…
Political Clientelism, Democracy, and Market Economy
Introduction
This introductory article discusses the circumstances under which Italy manages to forge 'national preferences' and push them through the European policy-making process. Drawing from the analysis of several policy areas, it concludes that Italy plays a major policy-making role, particularly when it acts as mediator between large countries and small- and medium-sized ones, and when it argues its case according to policy- and EU-appropriate logics.…
Multi‐level Governance
In this paper I perform a historical and conceptual analysis of multi‐level governance (MLG) in order to tease out its characterizing traits and allow for its utilization for both empirical and normative purposes. MLG is a dynamic three‐dimensional concept that blurs and problematizes three analytical distinctions that have been central to the conventional reflection on the European modern state: (1) that between centre and periphery, (2) that be…
The Theory of Multi-level Governance
This title explores the theoretical issues, empirical evidence and normative debates elicited by the concept of multi-level governance (MLG). Three policy areas are investigated in vindicating the usefulness of MLG as a theoretical and empirical concept, with particular reference to the UK and Germany.
The Problematic Coexistence of Functional and Territorial Representation in the EU
The paper explores the difficult coexistence between territorial and functional representation in the European Union. It starts by presenting a rather general framework for the analysis of territorial and functional claims that distinguished between ‘lumpy’ claims — indivisible claims that can be made only by representatives of collective actors on the basis of shared identities and that cannot, therefore, be parceled out or compromised upon — an…
From Bologna to Lisbon
This contribution explores the transformation of higher education \npolicy from the mere co-ordination of educational curricula by national governments \nto the embodiment of the Lisbon Agenda’s ‘governance architecture’, together with \nits impact on national policies, institutions and actors. It does so by charting change \nin both policy outputs and policy outcomes in four different European countries – \nEngland, the Netherlands, Germany and …
Italy and the European Union – By F. Bindi
Representation as delegation
This contribution tackles the issue of EU democracy from the point of view of representation. Building on the discussion of 'political' and 'democratic' representation offered, respectively, by Pitkin (1967 Pitkin, H. 1967. The Concept of Representation, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and Urbinati (2006 Urbinati, N. 2006. Representative Democracy. Principles & Genealogy, Chicago, IL: The University of…
The European Union between Intergovernmentalism and ‘Shared and Responsible Sovereignty
The article starts from a critique of the widespread assumption that intergovernmentalism is not only the more practical but also the more democratic way of handling the current European crises – and particularly the euro crisis – to argue for the need to rethink the working and the definition of democracy in the current heightened interconnectedness of political organization. It suggests that perceiving European citizens as being separated into …
Amici come prima? Italy and Germany in times of crisis
The introductiry chapter to this special issue justifies the decision to focus on Italo-German relations in times of crisis – and in particular on the way in which prejudices and stereotypes affect them – in light of a long history of parallel political and economic development of the two countries and the central role that they are likely to play in the next phase of European integration. After briefly presenting the chapters that compose the sp…
The European Semester
In this contribution to the symposium “What's the problem? Multilevel governance and problem‐solving,” we discuss possible reasons that make difficult for the European Semester to achieve the goals of developing mutual learning and the acquisition of “ownership” over fiscal restraint, budgetary coordination and structural reforms. We underscore the uneasy coupling of a “soft” multilevel governance mode with “hard” forms of governance associated w…
Revisiting Transnational European Consociationalism
This article discusses the notion of consociationalism as applied to the EU and assesses whether the institutional and procedural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon (ToL) and by the management of the Euro and refugee crises still warrant considering the EU as a case of consociational democracy. Our contention is that the changes introduced by the ToL bore the promise to strengthen the consociational structural traits of the Union but that…
Convergence towards a single economic model? Italy and Germany in the interconnected euro system
Structural reforms have failed to bring about convergence in the Eurozone. This argument is made here by comparing two countries – Italy and Germany – assumed to embody contrasting economic models. Three main points are made in the paper. First, the generalisation of the macroeconomic strategy of the northern countries threatens to undermine political support for European integration, as the disparities it engenders drive the electoral successes …
Does Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case
The literature on forms of particularism explores the impact of institutional variables on what is denoted, alternatively, as constituency service, pork-barrel politics, or corruption. Attention has mostly been given to electoral systems, but other institutional provisions and political factors, such as party strength, are also relevant. The present contribution investigates the likely effects of electoral reforms on corruption control and seeks …
Corruption Control in the Developed World
Conventionally considered a developmental trait that would tend to disappear with the increase of wealth and the stabilization of democracy, corruption is rampant not just among developing countries and recent democracies, but also in mature democracies and developed countries. This editorial introduces the thematic issue and considers what the contributions tell us about new approaches to corruption control in the developed world. It also outlin…
Towards a European political union
EMU and the Italian debt problem
While during the first decade the common currency helped stabilise the Italian economy by overcoming political constraints that blocked debt reduction, during its second decade the euro has rather served to destabilise the country politically and economically. The combination of a single currency and a single market in financial services turned into an engine of massive macroeconomic imbalances that came to a head in a typical sudden stop in the …
Introduction to ‘Italy and Germany
This article introduces the questions that motivate this special issue: the growing divergence among Eurozone member states and the overall disappointing performance of the Eurozone as a whole. It justifies the choice of Germany and Italy as the two countries that can best exemplify what are considered, respectively, the northern and southern politico-economic models coexisting in the Eurozone and proposes an approach to these questions that devi…
Italy and Germany
This article critically examines the main assumptions underlying the reforms embedded in EMU and European Semester recommendations. We proceed in three steps. First, we question the notion that Italy and Germany embody two distinctive politico-economic models and challenge the conclusion, drawn from this assumption, that structural rigidities are the primary cause of Italy’s economic woes and that its lackluster performance since the 1990s is due…
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