Regional and Local Government in Italy: An Overview

Broadcasting In Italy: An Overview

The main broadcasting organization in Italy has been RAI, whose origins date back, indirectly, to 1910 when a Royal Law gave the Italian state the monopoly for all wireless and radio communications.' In 1924, during the Fascist era, the privately owned Italian Radio Union (URI) obtained a six-year, renewable monopolistic concession on broadcasting, subject to government censorship. URI was fina...

Local administration funding and regional disparities in Italy before WW1

An Overview of AI Research in Italy

This chapter aims to provide an overview of the main Italian research areas and activities. We first analyze the collaboration structure of Italian research, which involves more than eight hundred scholars and researchers from both universities and industry. From a network perspective it appears to be scale-free. Next, we briefly illustrate the main subjects of investigation and applications. A...

Decentralization and Local Government in Bolivia: an Overview from the Bottom Up

Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results on the effects of decentralization nationally, and then turn to qualitative research – the focus of ...

E-Government and Developing Countries: An Overview

E-governance is more than just a government website on the Internet. The strategic objective of e-governance is to support and simplify governance for all parties; government, citizens and businesses. The use of ICTs can connect all three parties and support processes and activities. In other words, in e-governance electronic means support and stimulate good governance. Therefore, the objective...