LEADER EU Program and Its Governance - A Fuzzy Assessment Model

Luca Anzilli, Gisella Facchinetti, Giovanni Mastroleo, Alessandra Tafuro

2015

Abstract

In regard to the LEADER program (European Union initiative for rural development), in the paper the authors propose a model for assessing the governance system of Local Action Groups (LAGs) in terms of structure, decision making processes and principles that ensure a clear and transparent activity thus creating significant value for the community. Governance, in particular, is a highly important theme when it evaluates the impacts of LEADER measures: if the quality of their governance is high, they could contribute to make the rural development process more efficient in each region of EU. The empirical literature on this subject is not well developed and the authors hope and expect that this new assessment model will produce important ideas for making governance of the LAGs more effective. It is based on a Fuzzy Expert System and here are presented results for Puglia (Italy) LAGs.

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Anzilli L., Facchinetti G., Mastroleo G. and Tafuro A. (2015). LEADER EU Program and Its Governance - A Fuzzy Assessment Model . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 2: FCTA, (ECTA 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-157-1, pages 121-130. DOI: 10.5220/0005589401210130


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@conference{fcta15,
author={Luca Anzilli and Gisella Facchinetti and Giovanni Mastroleo and Alessandra Tafuro},
title={LEADER EU Program and Its Governance - A Fuzzy Assessment Model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 2: FCTA, (ECTA 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={121-130},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005589401210130},
isbn={978-989-758-157-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 2: FCTA, (ECTA 2015)
TI - LEADER EU Program and Its Governance - A Fuzzy Assessment Model
SN - 978-989-758-157-1
AU - Anzilli L.
AU - Facchinetti G.
AU - Mastroleo G.
AU - Tafuro A.
PY - 2015
SP - 121
EP - 130
DO - 10.5220/0005589401210130