Sussidiarietà, Identità e Governance comunitaria

Community governance stands beside the Market and the State not as\r\na residual choice of governance, but with equal dignity. Being a\r\nspontaneous and “natural” way to solve coordination problems, it\r\nhas, first, a logic and, then, a historic primacy on the others. In this\r\npaper we analyze areas of application, features and limits of systems\r\nof governance based on the recognition of identity. We highlight that\r\nelements of Community governance are common to settings as\r\ndiverse as firms and systems of regulation on the use of common\r\npool resources. In a perspective based on subsidiarity, we then\r\npropose a taxonomy of governance systems based on the level of\r\ncentralization of decisions and on the extent of recognition of\r\nidentities. Finally, we suggest that the acknowledgement of the role\r\nplayed by Community governance provides us with a different\r\nreading key of what is meant by Social market economy and of the\r\nEuropean economic model as a whole.