The Tuscany Region (Italy) has put on the field an advanced design to accomplish a new integrated approach and structure at governing the Health and Assistance Systems at local level. Among the main issues at stake, one of the most intriguing is the attempt to promote social participation in governing, delivering and evaluating local social policies, as regards some tricky issues are at stake. First, against a strong rhetoric discourse, not many are the methodological and capability concerns really tackled by the responsible institutions. Second, the designed goal at distinguishing the role of citizens and social rights groups by the one of third sector organisations implied in the public services management appears particularly innovative and, at the same time, full of cultural and political constraints. Third, the contingency of the economic crisis risks to threat the innovative process, claiming to find urgent answers to the daily problems while putting into a corner the participation theme, often perceived as non-central issue or even an ephemeral one. Methodologically, the paper discuss the different participation patterns under way resorting to a logical-formal approach and considering evaluation as a focal point, stemming from the double hypothesis that: first, the way the evaluation is put in practice depicts an indicator of the kind and rate of possible participation; second, evaluation is a key-concept and mean to change the ordinary relations of mutual influence in a given context.

Unveiling rhetoric, promoting social practices: the problem of participation in the new Tuscany Welfare System

VILLA, MATTEO;TOMEI, GABRIELE
2012-01-01

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The Tuscany Region (Italy) has put on the field an advanced design to accomplish a new integrated approach and structure at governing the Health and Assistance Systems at local level. Among the main issues at stake, one of the most intriguing is the attempt to promote social participation in governing, delivering and evaluating local social policies, as regards some tricky issues are at stake. First, against a strong rhetoric discourse, not many are the methodological and capability concerns really tackled by the responsible institutions. Second, the designed goal at distinguishing the role of citizens and social rights groups by the one of third sector organisations implied in the public services management appears particularly innovative and, at the same time, full of cultural and political constraints. Third, the contingency of the economic crisis risks to threat the innovative process, claiming to find urgent answers to the daily problems while putting into a corner the participation theme, often perceived as non-central issue or even an ephemeral one. Methodologically, the paper discuss the different participation patterns under way resorting to a logical-formal approach and considering evaluation as a focal point, stemming from the double hypothesis that: first, the way the evaluation is put in practice depicts an indicator of the kind and rate of possible participation; second, evaluation is a key-concept and mean to change the ordinary relations of mutual influence in a given context.
2012
Villa, Matteo; Tomei, Gabriele
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