Costituzionalismo numerico o costituzionalismo simbolico? BES & SDGs nell’ordinamento italiano

[Machine translation] Characterized by the attempt to provide a measure of the well-being and sustainable progress of the community that goes beyond a purely economic assessment, the Equitable and Sustainable Wellbeing (BES) indicators and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) intend to promote the design of public policies with medium-long term axiological horizons. However, both have an underlying ambiguity: although they play a role in promoting specific key issues, their ability to constrain the action of public authorities appears indefinite. That said, the objective of the contribution is to reconstruct the framework in which these parameters are articulated (examining, on the one hand, the process that led to their definition and, on the other, their practical-applicative scope) to understand if, and to what extent, they are able to guide public policies., Characterised by the attempt to provide a measure of the well-being and sustainable progress of the community that goes beyond a merely economic assessment, the indicators of Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being (BES) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are intended to foster the design of public policies with medium- to long-term axiological horizons. However, they both present a basic ambiguity: although they fulfil a promotional function of specific key-issues, their capacity to bind the action of public authorities appears indeterminate. That said, the aim of the paper is to reconstruct the framework in which these parameters are articulated (examining, on one hand, the process that led to their definition and, on the other, their practical-applicative scope) to understand whether, and to what extent, they are able to orient public policies.