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L'ASCESA DELL'EUROPA MERIDIONALE: CENTRO E PERIFERIA NELLA COMUNITÀ EUROPEA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2018

Robert Leonardi

Introduzione

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La ratifica del Trattato di Maastricht tra i dodici paesi membri della Comunità europea mette in evidenza una contraddizione sottesa agli studi e alle riflessioni sull'Europa meridionale. In passato gli stati di questa area - Grecia, Spagna, Portogallo e anche l'Italia - sono stati descritti come paesi periferici o semi-periferici. Nelle analisi delle loro strutture politiche ed economiche si è sottolineata la difficoltà che questi paesi hanno incontrato nell'inserirsi nel flusso dello sviluppo economico europeo, nel partecipare attivamente alla determinazione delle politiche all'interno dell'Europa e alla definizione della posizione europea sulle problematiche mondiali. La gestione delle vicende europee continua ad essere vista come un processo dominato dai paesi settentrionali, cioè da quei paesi che hanno una più antica tradizione di istituzioni democratiche e di economie robuste.

Summary

Summary

For the last two decades, growth rates in Southern European countries have exceeded those in most advanced nations. However this kind of process is not easily explained by the current political science and/or economic literature. The essay first looks at the relations within nation-states as analyzed by center-periphery theory; then attention is turned to an empirical consideration of the trend in economic development at the regional and national levels. Changes in the GDP and PPS index scores have been discussed and then related to four independent variables: distance from the core area, levels of industrialization in 1970, unemployment levels, amount of spending through the various European Community's financial instruments. Taken as a whole, the four independent variables provide valuable insights into the possible elements that are associated with variations in the dependent variables. The best predictor of change is distance from the core, while the rate of Community expenditures secures to be increasingly associated with rates of growth.

The final section of the essay is devoted to Italy's Mezzogiorno. Data clearly demonstrate that unless market considerations are reintroduced into production and investment decisions, the area runs the risk of slipping behind resurgent regions in Spain and Portugal. The essay concludes stressing the importance of institutional reforms promoting the participation of local groups and interests in socio-economic decision-making and implementation.

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Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , December 1993 , pp. 475 - 512
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Copyright © Societ Italiana di Scienza Politica 

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