Keywords: Urban and local security policy; Quantitative narrative analysis; Social network analysis; Contractualization of public policies.
This article focuses on the evolution of urban security policy in Italy. The aim is to
depict the range of morphological and dynamic aspects of this policy empirically. It
seeks to outline both the original and persistent governmental pattern which seems
to have influenced the implementation of the (inter)organizational models between
1994-2007. The adoption in 2007 of «Security Pacts» is identified as a turning point
which served as a means to redefine the original governance. Our investigation is an
attempt to show if, and to what extent, security policy networking activities were indeed
adopted by the public administration between 2007-2009. In order to accomplish
this, a Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) and a Social Network Analysis
(SNA) of the actions undertaken by administrations between 2007-2009 has been
conducted.