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How to Make Good Citizen Participation Relevant in European Regions The Experience of Lombardy

How to Make Good Citizen Participation Relevant in European Regions The Experience of Lombardy. Dr Martino Mazzoleni – Éupolis Lombardia Stu ttgart - 6 December 2012. Outline. Introduction : the experience of Lombardy Deliberative processes and partnership

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How to Make Good Citizen Participation Relevant in European Regions The Experience of Lombardy

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  1. How to Make Good Citizen Participation Relevant in European RegionsThe Experience of Lombardy Dr Martino Mazzoleni – Éupolis Lombardia Stuttgart - 6 December 2012

  2. Outline • Introduction: the experienceofLombardy • Deliberative processes and partnership • Participation or Subsidiarity? • Main challenges • References

  3. Introduction: the experienceofLombardy • There are many opportunities for inclusive/participative democracy in a region where civil society is particularly lively and structured. • The experience of Lombardy shows a good degree of consensus and involvement of civil society in the various participative tools that have been introduced. • Two are the dimensions of public participation in policymaking of Lombardy: - partnership with stakeholders in policy formulation, and - subsidiarity approach aimed at empowering people with the capability to pursue their own goals within the functioning of policies.

  4. Deliberative processes and Partnership • A distinctive feature of Lombardy’s governance is partnership with stakeholders: economic actors, local authorities, “functional autonomies” (such as universities), and the Third Sector. Examples: • Pact for Development • Lombardy EXPO 2015 Committee • Territorial round tables • implementation of public policies: Agenda 21, river contracts, neighbourhood contracts, social and health local plans. • new media.

  5. ParticipationorSubsidiarity? Underlying principle: subsidiarity. This has been included in the new Statute (2008) of the Region, among its fundamental principles. Article 8(3): “the Region promotes participative processes by enhancing the autonomous initiatives, those by organized social interests as well as those coming from the regional community”. Main achievements in welfare services: quasi-markets and freedom of choice. This is a different, and original perspective on participation: providing citizens themselves with the capacity to shape the functioning of policies – within the framework of laws and regulations – according to their own needs, objectives and preferences.

  6. Mainchallenges • Common procedures and co-ordination among all partnerships; • transparency and inclusiveness; • impact on policies; • a clearer linkage between policy formulation with stakeholders and empowerment of civil society and citizens.

  7. References • Brugnoli, A., Colombo, A. and Mazzoleni, M. (2007), Governance: The Lombardy Way.Assessing an Experience, Designing New Perspectives. Position Paper.Milan: IReR. • Colombo, A. (2008), “European Citizenship through Participation and Subsidiarity”, in Pellegrini G. (ed.), Technoscientific Innovation. Responsibility and New Models of Democracy in Science and Society Relationship. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, pp. 123-148. • Colombo, A. and Cucca, R. (2010) eds, Innovare la democrazia. Teorie ed esperienze di deliberazione pubblica, Milan: Guerini e Associati. • IReR (2009), Lombardia 2010. Rapporto di legislatura. Società, governo e sviluppo del sistema lombardo. Milan: Guerini e Associati.

  8. Thank you for your kind attention

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