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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Conceptualising the Nexus Between Territorial Policies and Local Development in Europe´s Periphery -- 1.1 The Concept of Periphery and How It Can Be Analysed -- 1.2 Why Mediterranean Islands Can Be Considered Europe´s Periphery -- 1.3 Territorial Policies and How They Can Be Classified -- 1.4 Territorial Policies and Local Development in Europe´s Periphery: An Assessment of the Italian Case -- 1.4.1 The Italian Political and Administrative Structure -- 1.4.2 Evaluation Studies of Territorial Policies and Local Development in Italy´s Periphery -- 1.5 Territorial Policies as Instruments for the Local Development of Peripheral Areas: Preliminary Research Questions -- 1.6 Outline of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Analysing the Quality of Territorial Policies in Europe´s Periphery: The Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- 2.1 Theoretical Issues -- 2.1.1 Definition of the Quality of Public Policies and How It Can Be Analysed -- 2.1.2 Institutionalisation as an Independent Variable for Descriptive and Prescriptive Explanations of the Quality of Public P... -- 2.1.3 Politics-Oriented Perspectives -- 2.1.4 Policy-Oriented Perspectives -- 2.2 Looking for a Unified Policy-Oriented Theoretical Framework -- 2.2.1 The Relations Among the Institutionalisation of the Governance System and the Quality of Territorial Policies -- 2.2.2 The Unified Policy-Oriented Theoretical Framework -- 2.3 Methodological Issues -- 2.3.1 The Island of Sardinia as the Territorial Context of the Research: A Demographic and Socio-economic Profile -- 2.3.2 The Multiple-Case Research Design -- 2.3.2.1 Planning, Regulation of Use and Transformation of the Territory as Territorial Policy -- 2.3.2.2 Urban Regeneration and Environmental Protection as Policy Areas.

Chapter1. The Territorial Policies as an Instrument for the Development of the Peripheral Areas -- Chapter2. The Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- Chapter 3. Transport -- Chapter4. Urban Regeneration -- Chapter5. Environmental Protection -- Chapter6. Conclusions. Territorial Policies and the Local Development of Europe's Periphery: Descriptive and Prescriptive Implications.

Abstract This paper explores the territorial dimension of local security policies, with reference to the "Security Pacts" signed in Italy between 2007 and 2009. These Security Pacts are an innovative instrument introduced by the central government, aimed at changing the model of security governance at the local level. After describing how Security Pacts have spread, and which institutional actors have participated in them, this study aims at deepening the analysis of their territorial dimension. More specifically, the research question at the basis of this study focuses on the identification of factors that can explain why the pacts feature variations in numbers and types of public administration at different levels, and why they tend to acquire particular spatial configurations rather than others. Three hypotheses are tested based on empirical data (obtained using a Quantitative Narrative Analysis with the aid of Geographic Information Systems and other statistical tools) used to identify which variable may best explain the propensity to use such pacts to solve security-related issues in different areas of the country.

Abstract Almost 50 years ago Robert Dahl maintained "we can […] reasonably hope 1 day to achieve great democratic cities. As the optimum unit for democracy in the 21st century, the city has a greater claim, I think, than any other alternative" (Am Polit Sci Rev 61: 953–970, 1967 ). This article intends to ascertain whether the words of one of the greatest scholars of democracy have had a concrete outcome along the pathways taken by democratic theory and whether, therefore, as was the case in classical theory, real superiority has therefore been restored to the city compared with the other territorial institutions of democracy. In this article we begin with two assumptions, each concerning the theoretical status of democratic theory. The first maintains that a realistic and an idealistic dimension coexist in variable dimensions in theoretical democratic models. According to the second assumption, it can be stated that democratic theory envisages the presence of a local territorial dimension, the importance of which is nevertheless variable in the different theoretical models. The thesis we intend to demonstrate here is that the variable nature of the importance of the local-urban territorial dimension depends on the type of balance created between the idealistic and realistic dimensions of the different models of democracy. Concluding, we aim to theoretically demonstrate why (and at which conditions) the city can become, more and better than any other institutional place, the ultimate arena within which the best results may be achieved for democracy in 21st century.