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Forme e dinamiche del terzo settore

Analyzing the data research carried out in Naples, the essay traces the transformation process has affected local governance in Naples during last two decades and investigates the role that Third sector has assumed in the local welfare and in the development of networks and partnerships. The essay recovers the analytical and methodological categories of Social Network Analysis to provide an interpretation of the principle of territorial subsidiarity from relational point of view and to construct the network of Third sector in Naples, capturing the dynamics of stratification into the network, inside a general local welfare scenario caracterized by the presence of practices of subsidiarity among a multiplicity of actors.