Abstract
This qualitative chapter focuses on the cases of South Tyrol and Lombardy and shows that territorial mobilisation has played a very important role in the process of regional welfare building in both regions. The qualitative analysis also highlights the shortcomings of welfare classifications that take the nation-state as the only level of analysis. Indeed, both South Tyrol and Lombardy show characteristics that cannot be found in the general description of Italy as a Southern European welfare model. Indeed, the latter is characterised by low generosity and coverage of benefits, high fragmentation, low development of social services and familism. The ‘Alpine model’ of South Tyrol, on the other hand, is very generous, highly integrated, and supportive of families though a well-developed system of benefits and services. The Lombard model is also very peculiar, since it has promoted important forms of horizontal subsidiarity between public and private sectors and has stressed the importance of individual citizens’ freedom of choice.
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Vampa, D. (2016). The (Re)emergence and Strengthening of the Centre-Periphery Cleavage in Italy: (Old and New) Regionalist Parties and Sub-state Welfare Building. In: The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain. Comparative Territorial Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39007-9_4
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