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This article investigates the evolution of the local development partnerships in Italy. In particular, we focus on a specific aspect of these cooperative experiences, ie., their consolidation as governance instruments of territorial development policy. The main aim is to reconstruct the internal processes that characterize the partnership experiences before & after their creation & to single out the main factors that affect them. On the basis of the empirical evidence provided by the study of the Territorial Pacts of the Province of Turin, the article presents an analysis of the political dynamics that have accompanied the evolution of these partnerships, focusing at the same time on the conditions that seem to facilitate or impede the persistence of the cooperation among public & private actors in local development policy. Adapted from the source document.

This article analyses the most important innovations concerning public employment introduced in Italy during the '90s. It distinguishes different timings to administrative reforms: "the first cycle" (1992/1997) & "the second cycle" (1997/2001). Both of them are oriented to control public expenditure & to compensate -- by the complete bargaining of public service terms -- trade unions of public sector for the cuttings produced, & to reform top civil servants. On this aspect, the article shows how neo-corporative practices substituted parliamentary practices. Cooperation & negotiations between the central government & interest groups (especially trade unions) led to social agreements which became the basis of public employment reform. However, administrative reforms in Italy have been also the result of both external & domestic pressures: on the one hand, the financial constraints produced by the process of European integration (Maastricht Treaty), to which the Italian government had to adjust; on the other hand, the deep crisis of the Italian political system. The fall of party government led to more direct relations between executive & interest groups & to practices of majoritarian politics which pushed for innovative reforms. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.