STORIA DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE PUBBLICA

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, and practicing them on the subject of the relations between the State, public administration, and the management of natural environments.

- 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 nineteenth-century liberal state

- The Italian administration of the unitary state

- The administrative apparatus under the Fascist regime and its social policies

- The transition to the Republic

- SINGLE-SUBJECT SECTION: The nature of the State: public management of the natural environment

For the general section, a text of your choice from the following:

a) L. Mannori and B. Sordi, Storia del diritto amministrativo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 (only up to and including the first chapter of part four);

b) G. Astuto, L'amministrazione italiana. Dal centralismo napoleonico al federalismo amministrativo, Carocci, Roma 2021

For the single-subject section, a text of your choice from the following:

i) G. Corona, Breve storia dell'ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015;

ii) J.C. Scott, Lo sguardo dello Stato, Elèuthera, Milano 2019 (only chapters I and II);

iii)  M. Armiero, R. Biasillo, W.G. Von Hardenberg, La natura del duce. Una storia ambientale del fascismo, Einaudi, Torino 2022 (only the first five chapters)

In case of difficulty in finding the texts, please contact the professor.

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.