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This article discusses the policy design of the Italian Third Sector reform, and aims at identifying the cultural patterns that shaped its contents. To this end, the implementing decrees of Law no. 106/2016, and especially the Third Sector Code, are taken into consideration. In the article, five issues are analyzed and critically assessed: the legal forms of Third Sector organizations; their social value; the criteria and rules defining the relationship with public institutions; Third Sector organizations representation and representativeness; and their constitutional status.

Nello studio della cultura costituente in tema di pianificazione economica, l’attenzione al periodo considerato (1943-1948), caratterizzato dalle contingen- ze di un’economia di guerra e dal recupero della libertà politica, pone il preliminare interrogativo di cogliere, dall’incrocio dei dibattiti, il significato del termine pianificazione di volta in volta impiegato: se si stesse parlando di interventi a sostegno della ricostruzione, di piani pluriennali, o di un principio di sistemazione delle storiche presenze statali nell’economia.

To speak the truth is a fundamental duty of democratic politics, being required for ensuring mutual trust between representatives and citizens. When it is ostensibly neglected by the former, and the public even loses sight of its value, democracy is deeply eroded from within. There is ground for assuming that this is the case in contemporary democracies.

Climate policy-making and decarbonization require instruments to create and manage economic expectations. There is increasing concern that the existing panoply of domestic (emission trading schemes, regulation, taxes) and external instruments (climate change treaties) be insufficient to anchor expectations to decarbonization and isolate abatement policies from risk to be reneged or insufficiently implemented.