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Annick Magnier

Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, via delle Pandette, 21 50127 FIRENZE

Tel +39-055-2759402 (401), E-mail magnier@unifi.it

Born in Paris, 1952

1973: diplôme de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Section Politique Economique et Sociale, with “Félicitations du Jury”

1973: licence en lettres modernes, Université de Paris X

1977: laurea in Scienze Politiche, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche “Cesare Alfieri” di Firenze

2013: “abilitazione” as Full Professor in “Sociologia dei processi economici, del lavoro e dell’ambiente”

Main Teaching Acticity

1984-1998: Ricercatore Confermato in the Faculty of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri" in Sociology , and successively in Urban Sociology

1992- 1998: Incaricato of Urban Sociology, Faculty of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri"

1994- 1998: Incaricato of Urban and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Architecture, Florence

1997-2005: Holder of the "Permanent Course Jean Monnet" “Local Politics and European Integration” in the same Faculty

2000- : Professore Associato in Urban Sociology, Faculty of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri", Florence (“confermato” in 2003

2004 – 2015 Steering Committee, Ph D Dottorato interuniversitario in Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali, promoted by the University of Florence and currently of the doctoral school in Scienze storico sociali into which it converged

2010- Jean Monnet Chairholder «La ville dans l’intégration européenne»

2014- Coordinator, Curriculum Studi Sociali, Bachelor Course in Scienze politiche, Scuola di Scienze Politiche “Cesare Alfieri”, Firenze

2015-2019 Chair, Master course in « Projecting and Managing Social Policies », Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, University of Florence

2017-2018 Coordinator, master (I level) in “Management dei servizi di accoglienza per migrant, profughi e richiedenti protezione”

Presently, in the Scuola di Scienze Politiche “Cesare Alfieri” in Florence, teaches “Cities in the global arena” and “Territorial Analysis for Social Projecting”.

Participation in Academic and Expert Committees

2001- 2004 General Secretary Section “Sociologia del Territorio” of the Associazione Italiana di Sociologia

2001-: Editorial Board Urban Research International Series, Leske&Budrich, VS

2001-2002: Experts Committee, Communication Plan ATAF

2002- 2004 Board of Consultants: Florence Strategic Plan

2002- 2006: Executive board, Centro Interiuniversitario di Sociologia Politica

2003-2004, Chair, Sociological Expert Team, E-move Project (e-government for local mobility), Florence City-Hall

2004- Leading Committee Dottorato interuniversitario in Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali promosso dall’Università di Firenze

2004-Board of Experts, series "Comparative Local Politics", Vanden Broelen, Bruxelles

2004 – Albo degli esperti Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca

2007- Leading Committee Master Interuniversitario di II livello “Scuola di Governo del Territorio”

2007- 2010 Member of the National Bureau, ’Associazione Italiana di Sociologia

2007-2008 Chair, Corso di laurea specialistica in Methedology and Empirical Research in Social Sciences 2008-2010 Coordinator, Curriculum of Applied Sociology, Facolty of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri”

2010-2015 Member of Expert Committees in different Participative Processs, Tuscany and Liguria

2018- Member of the national network UrbanIt

2018- Coordinator of the Research Center “Nuove Patologie Sociali”

Constant activity as referee for English and American reviews in Local Politics e Urban Sociology

Research activity

-comparative analysis of European local administrative cultures, in particular through the: participation in the Udite Leadership Study, first large comparative survey on local administrative élite in Europe

-comparative analysis of European great urban systems, mainly in quantitative researches

- comparative analysis of the role of local elected officials and of the decisional process at local level, in particular promotion and coordination until 2006, of the European research “Political Leaders in European Cities. Selection, daily-life and values of local elected officials across the integrating Europe», developed in Italy with the sustain of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, the Consiglio regionale delle Autonomie Locali, and in each of the 16 other European countries involved on diversified national funds. From this survey have been published a final comparative research report, The European Mayor, Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy, chez VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2006 (eds. A.Magnier, H.Heinelt, H. Bäck), five national monographies in different European counties and around thirty articles. Acted similarly as promotor and coordinator of a second round of this research aiming at assessing the changes occurred in fundamental dimensions of recruitment and role interpretation, with a particular new focus on urban policies (The European Mayor II). To the project adhered 29 national teams. In this project, acted as general international coordinator and coordinates the subgroup “Urban agenda and planning practices”. The first book from the project has been published in 2018 by Palgrave under the title: Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy.

-spatial planning practices analysis, in expert committees for municipal urban plans, in comparative assessments, specially under the profile of citizens’ involvement and corresponding analysis of the role of sociologists in planning (see the article published in 2013 in the collective volume Regieren at Springer V., the chapter from the data gathered in The European Mayor II in Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy (2018) and in the contribution on the Tuscan case “Alla ricerca di regole paesaggistiche per gli ambiti urbani”.

- is more recently working on the situation of public space in the European City, the conflicts for its use, and the corresponding public debate and local policies,

Recent publications

2001, Elite e comunità, I poteri locali nella transizione italiana (ed.), Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli.

2002, “Beyond the City Hall: Municipal Administrative Leadership and Local Community”, in Dahler-Larsen P. (ed.), Social Bonds to City Hall, Odense University Press., Odense

2002, L’educazione degli adulti in Toscana (co-author) Giunti, Firenze

2002, Sociologia dei sistemi urbani (co-author), Il Mulino, Bologna.

2003, “Consigli e consiglieri comunali nel governo locale”, in Brasca A., Morisi M., Democrazia e governo locale. Il ruolo delle assemblee elettive, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 185-217.

2003 “Subsidiarity: premise or fall of local government reforms”, in Kersting N., Vetter A. (eds.), Reforming Local Government, Leske+Budrich, Opladen

2003, Governo del territorio. Il modello Toscana (coed.), Il Mulino, Bologna.

2004, “Between Institutional Learning and Re-legitimization: Italian Mayors in the Unending Reform”, in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 28, n.1, 166-182

2005, « Large Urban Systems », in Bettin G :, Recchi E., Comparing European Societies, Monduzzi, Bologna,

2005, “European Local Government Reforms and Cultures of Political Representation”, in H. Reynaert, K. Steyvers, Renovation or Revolution. Reforming European Local Government, Van den Broelen, Bruxelles.

2004, “Sistemi urbani”, in Costantino S. (ed.), Pensare la complessità, Sigma, Palermo

2005, “Citizen participation in large European cities: notes for a comparative assessment”, lezione inaugurale al II convegno Iniciativas y modelos de participazion cuidanana en grandes ciudades. Madrid, 16-17 novembre 2005, cd, Comune di Madrid.

2006, The European mayor: Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy, (coed.), Vs Verlag, Wiesbaden

2008 (co-author), "Government-business cooperation: a multilevel comparison, in International Journal of Urban and

2009 (co-author) "Neither Notables nor Partymen But Established Policy-Makers. ‏Intentional and Perverse Effects of the Italian Mayors’ Direct Election", in Steyvers et al., Town Chief, City Boss or Loco President? Comparing a Strengthened Local PoliticalLeadership across Europe, Vanden Broele/Nomos, Bruxelles

2009 "Sociologia e piani strategici territoriali: alcune osservazioni sull'esperienza italiana", in G.Borelli, La città: bisogni, desideri, diritti. La governance urbana, p. 13-56, FrancoAngeli, Milano e in Sociologia urbana e rurale, n. 1, 2008

2009 (co-author), Professioni e competitività territoriale, PLUS, Pisa

2010 (coed.), Mosaico Italia. Lo stato del Paese agli inizi del XXI secolo, Associazione italiana di sociologia, FrancoAngeli, Milano

2011, "W poszukiwaniu włoskiej polityki szkolnictwa wyższego", in: C. Kościelniak, J. Makowski. Wolność, Równość Uniwersytet, p. 257-281, Instytut Obywatelski, Warsawa

2012, Luoghi comuni. Le assemblee nella democrazia urbana italiana, FrancoAngeli, Milano

2012, “Governing through instruments? The challenging revival of spatial planning in European politics”, in Egner B., Haus M., Terizakis G., Regieren, Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 191-204

2013 (co-author), “Municipal priorities in urban planning and local development”, in Egner B., Sweeting D., Klok P.-J., Local Councillors in Europe, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 237-254

2013, “In search of Italian higher education policy”, in C. Kościelniak, J. Makowski, Freedom, Equality, University, Civic Institut, Warsaw, p. 247-272

2013, Paesaggi in mutamento (coed.), FrancoAngeli, Milano.

2016( co-author) “The Italian Second tier level in search of Identity: The eliminatin of the provincia and the birth of the Metropolitan city”, in Revista catalana de dret public

2018 (co-ed.), Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy, The European Mayor, Palgrave, Basingstoke

2018 (co-author), “Mayors Agenda's: Emerging Variations on the Theme of Entrepreneurialism”, in Heinelt H., Magnier A., Cabria M., Reynaert H. , Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp.245-274

2018 (co-author), “Mayors Agenda's: Emerging Variations on the Theme of Entrepreneurialism”, in Heinelt H., Magnier A., Cabria M., Reynaert H. , Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp.245-274

2018 (co-author), “Mayors and Spatial Planning in Their Cities”, in Heinelt H., Magnier A., Cabria M., Reynaert H. , Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp413.447

2018, (co-author) “Analysing governance through local leaders’ perceptions: comparative surveys, academic networks, and main results”, Revista Española de Ciencia Política (RECP), March, 46, pp. 157-172.

2018 “Alla ricerca di regole paesaggistiche per gli ambiti urbani”, in Il paesaggio nel governo del territorio” in Poli D, Rossi D., Riflessioni sul Piano Paesaggistico della Toscana, Firenze University Press, pp. 151-160 2018 “ (co-author) Centri storici e dipendenza turistica": Firenze, tra conflitto locale e mercato globale”, Working Papers Urban@It

2019, “Per il rilancio del dibattito su spazi comuni e sfera pubblica : appunti da un caso emblemático”, CittàCreative-DiverseCity, http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1179509

2019 “Piazze Verdi. Spazio pubblico materiale e immateriale nella città italiana” in SocietàMutamentoPolitica, 10, pp.183-195

2019 “Die Stadt e la teoria contemporanea della citta”, in SocietàMutamentoPolitica, 10, pp. 85-92

2020 (co-author) Un giusto ufficio. Creare luoghi di innovazione aperta nei servizi sociali?, Pacini, Pisa

2020 (co-author) "Local State-Society Relations in Italy", in Teles F. et al. Close Ties in European Local Governance. Linking Local State and Society, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp- 215-230

2020 "Maires", Dictionnaire des Politiques Publiques, Presses de Sciences-po. Paris

2021 (co-ed.), Chi possiede la città? Proprietà, Potere e Politiche, VII rapporti Urban@it, Il Mulino, Bologna.

2022 (co-author), "Collaborative Governance and the Re-scaling of Local State-Society Networks", in Perspectives on Local Governance across Europe, Palgrave, Basingstoke

Firenze, Feb. 24, 2020   

Annick Magnier

Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, via delle Pandette, 21 50127 FIRENZE

Tel +39-055-2759402 (401), fax +39-055-2759931, E-mail magnier@unifi.it

Born in Paris, 1952

1973: diplôme de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Section Politique Economique et Sociale, with “Félicitations du Jury”

1973: licence en lettres modernes, Université de Paris X

1977: laurea in Scienze Politiche, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche “Cesare Alfieri” di Firenze

2013: “abilitazione” as Full Professor in “Sociologia dei processi economici, del lavoro e dell’ambiente”

Main Teaching Acticity

1984-1998: Ricercatore Confermato in the Faculty of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri" in Sociology , and successively in Urban Sociology

1992- 1998: Incaricato of Urban Sociology, Faculty of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri"

1994- 1998: Incaricato of Urban and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Architecture, Florence

1997-2005: Holder of the "Permanent Course Jean Monnet" “Local Politics and European Integration” in the same Faculty

2000- : Professore Associato in Urban Sociology, Faculty of Political Science "Cesare Alfieri", Florence (“confermato” in 2003

2004 – 2015 Steering Committee, Ph D Dottorato interuniversitario in Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali, promoted by the University of Florence and currently of the doctoral school in Scienze storico sociali into which it converged

2010- Jean Monnet Chairholder «La ville dans l’intégration européenne»

2014- Coordinator, Curriculum Studi Sociali, Bachelor Course in Scienze politiche, Scuola di Scienze Politiche “Cesare Alfieri”, Firenze

2015-2019 Chair, Master course in « Projecting and Managing Social Policies », Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, University of Florence

2017-2018 Coordinator, master (I level) in “Management dei servizi di accoglienza per migrant, profughi e richiedenti protezione”

Presently, in the Scuola di Scienze Politiche “Cesare Alfieri” in Florence, teaches “Cities in the global arena” and “Territorial Analysis for Social Projecting”.

Participation in Academic and Expert Committees

2001- 2004 General Secretary Section “Sociologia del Territorio” of the Associazione Italiana di Sociologia

2001-: Editorial Board Urban Research International Series, Leske&Budrich, VS

2001-2002: Experts Committee, Communication Plan ATAF

2002- 2004 Board of Consultants: Florence Strategic Plan

2002- 2006: Executive board, Centro Interiuniversitario di Sociologia Politica

2003-2004, Chair, Sociological Expert Team, E-move Project (e-government for local mobility), Florence City-Hall

2004- Leading Committee Dottorato interuniversitario in Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali promosso dall’Università di Firenze

2004-Board of Experts, series "Comparative Local Politics", Vanden Broelen, Bruxelles

2004 – Albo degli esperti Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca

2007- Leading Committee Master Interuniversitario di II livello “Scuola di Governo del Territorio”

2007- 2010 Member of the National Bureau, ’Associazione Italiana di Sociologia

2007-2008 Chair, Corso di laurea specialistica in Methedology and Empirical Research in Social Sciences 2008-2010 Coordinator, Curriculum of Applied Sociology, Facolty of Political Science “Cesare Alfieri”

2010-2015 Member of Expert Committees in different Participative Processs, Tuscany and Liguria

2018- Member of the national network UrbanIt

2018- Coordinator of the Research Center “Nuove Patologie Sociali”

Constant activity as referee for English and American reviews in Local Politics e Urban Sociology

Research activity

-comparative analysis of European local administrative cultures, in particular through the: participation in the Udite Leadership Study, first large comparative survey on local administrative élite in Europe

-comparative analysis of European great urban systems, mainly in quantitative researches

- comparative analysis of the role of local elected officials and of the decisional process at local level, in particular promotion and coordination until 2006, of the European research “Political Leaders in European Cities. Selection, daily-life and values of local elected officials across the integrating Europe», developed in Italy with the sustain of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, the Consiglio regionale delle Autonomie Locali, and in each of the 16 other European countries involved on diversified national funds. From this survey have been published a final comparative research report, The European Mayor, Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy, chez VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2006 (eds. A.Magnier, H.Heinelt, H. Bäck), five national monographies in different European counties and around thirty articles. Acted similarly as promotor and coordinator of a second round of this research aiming at assessing the changes occurred in fundamental dimensions of recruitment and role interpretation, with a particular new focus on urban policies (The European Mayor II). To the project adhered 29 national teams. In this project, acted as general international coordinator and coordinates the subgroup “Urban agenda and planning practices”. The first book from the project has been published in 2018 by Palgrave under the title: Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy.

-spatial planning practices analysis, in expert committees for municipal urban plans, in comparative assessments, specially under the profile of citizens’ involvement and corresponding analysis of the role of sociologists in planning (see the article published in 2013 in the collective volume Regieren at Springer V., the chapter from the data gathered in The European Mayor II in Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy (2018) and in the contribution on the Tuscan case “Alla ricerca di regole paesaggistiche per gli ambiti urbani”.

- is more recently working on the situation of public space in the European City, the conflicts for its use, and the corresponding public debate and local policies,

Recent publications

2001, Elite e comunità, I poteri locali nella transizione italiana (ed.), Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli.

2002, “Beyond the City Hall: Municipal Administrative Leadership and Local Community”, in Dahler-Larsen P. (ed.), Social Bonds to City Hall, Odense University Press., Odense

2002, L’educazione degli adulti in Toscana (co-author) Giunti, Firenze

2002, Sociologia dei sistemi urbani (co-author), Il Mulino, Bologna.

2003, “Consigli e consiglieri comunali nel governo locale”, in Brasca A., Morisi M., Democrazia e governo locale. Il ruolo delle assemblee elettive, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 185-217.

2003 “Subsidiarity: premise or fall of local government reforms”, in Kersting N., Vetter A. (eds.), Reforming Local Government, Leske+Budrich, Opladen

2003, Governo del territorio. Il modello Toscana (coed.), Il Mulino, Bologna.

2004, “Between Institutional Learning and Re-legitimization: Italian Mayors in the Unending Reform”, in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 28, n.1, 166-182

2005, « Large Urban Systems », in Bettin G :, Recchi E., Comparing European Societies, Monduzzi, Bologna,

2005, “European Local Government Reforms and Cultures of Political Representation”, in H. Reynaert, K. Steyvers, Renovation or Revolution. Reforming European Local Government, Van den Broelen, Bruxelles.

2004, “Sistemi urbani”, in Costantino S. (ed.), Pensare la complessità, Sigma, Palermo

2005, “Citizen participation in large European cities: notes for a comparative assessment”, lezione inaugurale al II convegno Iniciativas y modelos de participazion cuidanana en grandes ciudades. Madrid, 16-17 novembre 2005, cd, Comune di Madrid.

2006, The European mayor: Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy, (coed.), Vs Verlag, Wiesbaden

2008 (co-author), "Government-business cooperation: a multilevel comparison, in International Journal of Urban and

2009 (co-author) "Neither Notables nor Partymen But Established Policy-Makers. ‏Intentional and Perverse Effects of the Italian Mayors’ Direct Election", in Steyvers et al., Town Chief, City Boss or Loco President? Comparing a Strengthened Local PoliticalLeadership across Europe, Vanden Broele/Nomos, Bruxelles

2009 "Sociologia e piani strategici territoriali: alcune osservazioni sull'esperienza italiana", in G.Borelli, La città: bisogni, desideri, diritti. La governance urbana, p. 13-56, FrancoAngeli, Milano e in Sociologia urbana e rurale, n. 1, 2008

2009 (co-author), Professioni e competitività territoriale, PLUS, Pisa

2010 (coed.), Mosaico Italia. Lo stato del Paese agli inizi del XXI secolo, Associazione italiana di sociologia, FrancoAngeli, Milano

2011, "W poszukiwaniu włoskiej polityki szkolnictwa wyższego", in: C. Kościelniak, J. Makowski. Wolność, Równość Uniwersytet, p. 257-281, Instytut Obywatelski, Warsawa

2012, Luoghi comuni. Le assemblee nella democrazia urbana italiana, FrancoAngeli, Milano

2012, “Governing through instruments? The challenging revival of spatial planning in European politics”, in Egner B., Haus M., Terizakis G., Regieren, Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 191-204

2013 (co-author), “Municipal priorities in urban planning and local development”, in Egner B., Sweeting D., Klok P.-J., Local Councillors in Europe, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 237-254

2013, “In search of Italian higher education policy”, in C. Kościelniak, J. Makowski, Freedom, Equality, University, Civic Institut, Warsaw, p. 247-272

2013, Paesaggi in mutamento (coed.), FrancoAngeli, Milano.

2016( co-author) “The Italian Second tier level in search of Identity: The eliminatin of the provincia and the birth of the Metropolitan city”, in Revista catalana de dret public

2018 (co-ed.), Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy, The European Mayor, Palgrave, Basingstoke

2018 (co-author), “Mayors Agenda's: Emerging Variations on the Theme of Entrepreneurialism”, in Heinelt H., Magnier A., Cabria M., Reynaert H. , Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp.245-274

2018 (co-author), “Mayors Agenda's: Emerging Variations on the Theme of Entrepreneurialism”, in Heinelt H., Magnier A., Cabria M., Reynaert H. , Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp.245-274

2018 (co-author), “Mayors and Spatial Planning in Their Cities”, in Heinelt H., Magnier A., Cabria M., Reynaert H. , Political Leaders in Changing Local Democracy, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp413.447

2018, (co-author) “Analysing governance through local leaders’ perceptions: comparative surveys, academic networks, and main results”, Revista Española de Ciencia Política (RECP), March, 46, pp. 157-172.

2018 “Alla ricerca di regole paesaggistiche per gli ambiti urbani”, in Il paesaggio nel governo del territorio” in Poli D, Rossi D., Riflessioni sul Piano Paesaggistico della Toscana, Firenze University Press, pp. 151-160 2018 “ (co-author) Centri storici e dipendenza turistica": Firenze, tra conflitto locale e mercato globale”, Working Papers Urban@It

2019, “Per il rilancio del dibattito su spazi comuni e sfera pubblica : appunti da un caso emblemático”, CittàCreative-DiverseCity, http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1179509

2019 “Piazze Verdi. Spazio pubblico materiale e immateriale nella città italiana” in SocietàMutamentoPolitica, 10, pp.183-195

2019 “Die Stadt e la teoria contemporanea della citta”, in SocietàMutamentoPolitica, 10, pp. 85-92

2020 (co-author) Un giusto ufficio. Creare luoghi di innovazione aperta nei servizi sociali?, Pacini, Pisa

2020 (co-author) "Local State-Society Relations in Italy", in Teles F. et al. Close Ties in European Local Governance. Linking Local State and Society, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp- 215-230

2020 "Maires", Dictionnaire des Politiques Publiques, Presses de Sciences-po. Paris

2021 (co-ed.), Chi possiede la città? Proprietà, Potere e Politiche, VII rapporti Urban@it, Il Mulino, Bologna.

2022 (co-author), "Collaborative Governance and the Re-scaling of Local State-Society Networks", in Perspectives on Local Governance across Europe, Palgrave, Basingstoke

Firenze, Feb. 24, 2020