Pianificazione strategica e indirizzo politico nelle Città metropolitane alla luce della riforma “Delrio” (legge 56 del 2014)”

In 2014, Italian law 56/2014, better known as “legge Delrio”, reorganized the system of Italian local authorities, besides introducing a specific competence for the “Metropolitan cities” of adopting a strategic plan, in which they have to fix strategies and objectives of the local policies for the economic, social and cultural development. The article shows how the regular adoption of these plans may represent a strong innovation for the Italian local administration, pushing local governments to better organize their decisional process through new models of policy.