Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione
Personal information
Born in Milano, Italy in 1957
Married with two children
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Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione
Facoltà di Architettura e Società - Politecnico di Milano
Via Bonardi 3 - 20133 MILANO - Italy -
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Academic career
Costanzo Ranci graduated in Political Science at the University of Milan, 1983, cum laude. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy (1990). Between 1989 and 1992 he took many research grants from the Department of Sociology at the University of Milan. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Milanin 1991-92, and Visiting Scholar at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, in 1992-93, with a grant from CNR-NATO "Advanced Fellowships Programme". Since 2003 he teaches Sociology and Social Policy at the Polytechnic of Milan, Department of Architecture and Planning.
Academic positions
Costanzo Ranci is currently Full Professor in Economic Sociology at the Polytechnic of Milan. He teaches Sociology (BA) and Urban Sociology (MA in Urban Planning). He is board member of the SPUD (Spatial Planning and Urban Development)Ph.D program (at the Polytechnic) and of the URBEUR (Urban and Local European Studies) Ph.D. program (at the Universityof Milano-Bicocca). He currently teaches a Ph.D. courseon “Global cities”. He is member of the Board of Alta Scuola Politecnica, where he coordinates a Winter School about “Innovation and Society”.
At the Polytechnic of Milan he founded and currently leads the Research Lab in Social Policy. He is also in the scientific board of the Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, the most relevant Italian scientific journal in Sociology. He is also member of the scientific boards of La Rivista delle Politiche. He has served as reviewer of many national and international journal such as Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Policy and Politics, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Social Policy and Administration, Stato e mercato.
Research activity
Costanzo Ranci hase published numerous articles and books on social policy and the welfare state, social inequalities and new social risks, the third sector and voluntary organizations, urban social problems. His interests include the following fields:
a)social inequalities and vulnerability: the growth of new social risks and new forms of vulnerability as a consequence of the crisis of the fordist model of organization of society;
b)social policy: privatization of public services, new forms of governance, the growth of social care markets, reforms in long-term care, local welfare systems;
c)urban problems: competitiveness and social cohesion in European cities;
d)voluntary action and the third sector: the management of nonprofit organizations, the involvement of private bodies in public policy.
He is currently involved in many research projects both at the national and international levels. Among them there are:
“The political economy of the new middle class in Italy”, rereach funded by Consiglio delle Scienze Sociali (Social Science Council), 2009-2011
“Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion” (FLOWS), UE 7 Framework Program, 2011-2014.
“Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion” (WILCO), UE 7 Framework Program, 2011-2013.
“Reforms in long-term care policies in EU countries”, coordinator of an international research group; project finded by Spi-Cgil, 2009-2011
“Social cohesion and competitiveness in six European cities”, comparativeresearch finded by the Chamber of Commerceof Milan, 2008-2012
Pubblications (selection)
Individual and edited books
Città nella rete globale. Competitività e disuguaglianze in sei città europee, (a cura di), Bruno Mondadori, 2011
Social Vulnerability in Europe. The new configuration of social risks(a cura di), Palgrave MacMillan, p. 1-299, 2010
Milano e le città d'Europa tra competitività e disuguaglianze(a cura di),Maggioli Editore, 2009
Volontariato. I volti della solidarietà. Il Mulino, 2006
Politica sociale: bisogni sociali e politiche di welfare, Il Mulino, 2006
Le nuove disuguaglianze sociali in Italia, Il Mulino, 2002
Dilemmas of the welfare mix. The new structure of the welfare in an era of privatization (a cura diU. Ascoli e C. Ranci), Kluwer/Plenum Publ., 2002
Il mercato sociale dei servizi alla persona(a cura di), Carocci, 2001
L‘assistenza agli anziani in Italia e in Europa. Verso la costruzione di un mercato sociale dei servizi, (a cura di), F. Angeli, 2001
Oltre il welfare state. Terzo settore, nuove solidarietà e trasformazioni del welfare, Il Mulino, 1999
Contributions to edited books
C. Ranci, E. Montagnini, The impact of the commodification of social care on the role and identity of the third sector in Italy, in A. Evers e A. Zimmer (a cura di), Third Sector Organizations Facing Turbulent Environments. Sports, Culture and Social Services in Five European Countries, Nomos, 2010
C. Ranci, P. Pellegrino, E. Pavolini, The third sector and the policy process in Italy: between mutual accommodation and new forms of (blurred) partnership, in J. Kendall (a cura di). Handbook on Third Sector Policy in Europe. Multilevel Processes and Organized Civil Society. p. 95-118, Edward Elgar, 2009
C. Ranci, T. Bransen, E. Pavolini, B. Sittermann, A. Zimmer. National Action Plans on Social Inclusion: opportunities for the third sector?, in J. Kendall (a cura di). Handbook on Third Sector Policy in Europe. Multi-level Processes and Organized Civil Society. p. 253-275, Edward Elgar, 2009
C. Ranci, L. Di Maria, P. Lembi, E. Pavolini,Come cambia il lavoro autonomo tra vecchi e nuovi profili, in A. Bagnasco (a cura di). Ceto medio. Perchè e come occuparsene. p. 211-254, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008
C. Ranci,Problemi di coesione sociale a Milano, in Mauro Magatti et al.,. Milano, nodo della rete globale. Un itinerario di analisi e proposte. p. 265-299, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2005
C. Ranci,Società civile e terzo settore: un profilo, in T.Padoa-Schioppa e S.R. Graubard (a cura di). Il caso italiano 2. Dove sta andando il nostro paese. p. 123-145, Milano: Garzanti, 2001
C. Ranci, Altruism in voluntary organizations. Mobilization and trasformation of voluntary action in Italy, in M. Giugni, F. Passy (a cura di). Political altruism? Solidarity Movements in International Perspective. p. 67-86, New York: Rowman e Littlefield, 2001
C. Ranci, Government policy and future issues, In P. Barbetta (a cura di). The nonprofit sector in Italy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997
Scientific articles
C. Ranci, Competitiveness and Social Cohesion in Western European Cities, in Urban Studies, 2011, forthcoming.
S. Benedetto, F. Bernelli Zazzera, P. Bertola, M. Cantamessa, S. Ceri, C. Ranci, A. Spaziante, R. Zanino, Alta Scuola Politecnica: an Ongoing Experiment in the Multidisciplinary Education of Top Students Towards Innovation in Engineering, Architecture and Design, in European Journal of Engineering Education, 35, 6, 627-43, 2010.
C. Ranci Vulnerabilità sociale e nuove disuguaglianze sociali, in Sociologia del Lavoro, vol. 110; p. 161-171, 2008
C. Ranci, E. Pavolini, Nuevas tendencias en la politica de cuidados de larga duraciòn en Europa occidental: hacia un mercado social de cuidados?, in Revista Española del Tercer Sector, vol. 10; p. 133-169, 2008.
E. Pavolini, C. Ranci, Restructuring the welfare state: reforms in long-term care in Western European countries, in Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 3; p. 246-259, 2008
C. Ranci, Tra vecchie e nuove disuguaglianze: la vulnerabilità nella società dell’incertezza, in La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, vol. 4; p. 111-127, 2007
C. Ranci. Le sfide del welfare locale. Problemi di coesione sociale e nuovi stili di governante, in La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, vol. 2; p. 3-20, 2005
C. Ranci, Fenomenologia della vulnerabilità sociale, in Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, vol. 4; p. 521-552, 2002
C. Ranci, Democracy at work: social participation and the "third sector" in Italy, in Daedalus, vol. 3; p. 73-84, 2001