STORIA DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE PUBBLICA
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Lorenzo COCCOLIExpected Learning Outcomes
The course has three parallel but coordinated objectives: a) to reconstruct the framework of the main conceptual and historiographical problems related to the history of public administration in the transition from the ancient regime to the contemporary age; b) to provide the essential knowledge of the development of the Italian administrative apparatus from the Unification to the Republic; and c) to equip students with the basic tools for designing and carrying out an autonomous path of historical research.
Course Structure
The course combines face-to-face lectures with seminars and workshops designed to provide the basic tools and skills for historical research and scholarly writing.
Required Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of modern and contemporary political and institutional history.
Attendance of Lessons
Recommended but not mandatory.
Detailed Course Content
- The main lines of the historiographic interpretation of the administrative phenomenon
- The political philosophy of administration
- The "prehistory" of administration: "state of justice" and police in the ancient regime
- The turning point of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
- The Italian administration of the unitary state
- The administrative apparatus under the Fascist regime and its social policies
- The transition to the Republic
- The political philosophy of administration
- The "prehistory" of administration: "state of justice" and police in the ancient regime
- The turning point of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
- The Italian administration of the unitary state
- The administrative apparatus under the Fascist regime and its social policies
- The transition to the Republic
Textbook Information
- L. Mannori and B. Sordi, Storia del diritto amministrativo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 (only chapter II of the first part and chapters I and II of the second part);
- G. Astuto, L'amministrazione italiana. Dal centralismo napoleonico al federalismo amministrativo, Carocci, Roma 2021 (chapters 1 to 6)
- G. Astuto, L'amministrazione italiana. Dal centralismo napoleonico al federalismo amministrativo, Carocci, Roma 2021 (chapters 1 to 6)
- C. Giorgi and I. Pavan, Storia dello Stato sociale in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2021 (chapter II)
Additional material will be made available to attending students in the form of handouts.
In case of difficulty in finding the texts, please contact the professor.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Public administration: historiographical and conceptual problems | Handouts |
| 2 | The "prehistory" of administration from a European perspective. | L. Mannori and B. Sordi, Storia del diritto amministrativo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 (chapter II of the first part and chapters I and II of the second part) |
| 3 | Public administration in Italy from Napoleon to fascism | - G. Astuto, L'amministrazione italiana. Dal centralismo napoleonico al federalismo amministrativo, Carocci, Roma 2021 (chapters 1 to 6) |
| 4 | Fascism's welfare policies between consensus and control | - C. Giorgi and I. Pavan, Storia dello Stato sociale in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2021 (chapter II) |
| 5 | The transition to the Republic | - G. Astuto, L'amministrazione italiana. Dal centralismo napoleonico al federalismo amministrativo, Carocci, Roma 2021 (chapter 7) |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Attending students may replace part of the syllabus with an oral presentation and a written paper (on a topic agreed upon with the professor). Non-attending students will be tested orally on the entire syllabus.