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For a Still “Social” Housing: The Fluent Governance



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Michelina Venditti¹, Gianluca Antonucci¹, Camillo Stefano Pasotti² and Simone di Zio³

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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2015.08.007

1. Department of Business Administration, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara 65127, Italy
2. Department of Literature Arts and Social Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara 66100, Italy
3. Department of Legal and Social Sciences, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara 65127, Italy

Network governance, widely used as theoretical model in investigations on social housing, is not free from critiques, first of all, for the fact that it has a uni-directionality of bottom-up processes, when oriented to public deliberation, or top-down when decision-makers are technical experts at the political level. Given the new complexity of the social housing issue and the considered limits of the network governance, this work aims at looking for a possible different theoretical framework able to give different tools to simplify decision making processes without any alteration of any basic decisional element. The contribution given by this work is the proposition of what has been called “fluent governance” as a framework of decision making able to represent the whole spectrum of interventions in the process, also taking into account aspects not captured by standard models. The paper reports an experimentation of the proposed model conducted in Italy in the field of renovating social housing policy.

Governance, social housing, structural analysis, network governance, decision making.