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Lobbying in tempi difficili. Gruppi di interesse e policy-making nell'Italia della disintermediazione
No full textThis introductory essay illustrates the common analytical framework followed by all contributions to the special issue, which reconstruct five policy processes in the period of the so-called disintermediation (Renzi cabinet 2015-2016) between policymakers and interest groups in Italy. It combines politics and policy factors using the policy cycle as the main tool of analysis. The contingency of configurations in the interplay between cabinets and interest groups emerges as a common and dynamic trend: groups are resilient and able to adapt to the uncertainty and variability of the policy context, while cabinets - during their life cycles - need the resources of groups throughout the policy cycl
Garanzia Giovani, dal programma nazionale alla dimensione territoriale delle politiche per l’occupabilità
Full text linkGaranzia Giovani (Gg) è un programma di policy finalizzato al contrasto della disoccupazione giovanile e all’occupabilità dei giovani Neet. La sperimentazione di Gg in Italia ha avuto il merito di avere inserito la questione giovanile nell’agenda politica, di avere fornito una risposta immediata all’emergenza della disoccupazione dei giovani e avere contribuito a ridisegnare le politiche attive per il lavoro. L’articolo, nella prima parte, ripercorre le vicende di Gg in Italia, focalizzando l’attenzione non solo sulle difficoltà di implementazione, ma anche sul difficile contesto di relazioni ntergovernative che ha costretto a ridefinire, in corso d’opera, il disegno di policy ed evidenziato l’importanza della dimensione territoriale. Nella seconda parte, con riferimento alle politiche per l’istruzione e la formazione professionale e a casi di sperimentazione locale in modalità di governance flessibile tra centro e periferia, viene evidenziata una prospettiva di programmazione incentrata sulla costruzione di reti e di combinazioni inter-settoriali per nuovi percorsi di occupabilità. Nella parte conclusiva, si propongono alcune riflessioni per la progettazione di politiche per l’occupabilità dei giovani
Food Policy in Italy
No full textStarting from a broad definition, the article traces the historical evolution of food policy in Italy identifying some central themes: the relationship with agricultural 'productionism', the protection of local traditions and cultures, the challenges of globalization to food safety, the increasing intervention of the European policy in the face of the food crise
How scholars break down “policy coherence”: The impact of sustainable development global agendas on academic literature
Full text linkLiterature on policy coherence (PC) has been expanding particularly since the diffusion of the 2030 Agenda to better understand intersectoral policymaking and steering governance complexity in sustainable development, environmental and climate policies. Through research domain analysis, this article gives systematic evidence regarding the rise of PC literature; moreover, via content analysis, the research highlights the most relevant topics addressed by PC articles published over the last 20 years. Our analysis pinpoints that policy coherence has been studied regarding some research areas, such as sustainable development, environment, climate change, and the increasing transboundary governance concerns. Thus far, PC has been scrutinized mainly by addressing the implementation phase. Evidence suggests that, within the 2030 Agenda framework, future research and theoretical efforts should consider neglected dimensions of the policy process and incorporate them in a process-oriented analytical framework
Agri-Food Policy
No full textAgri-food policy is a privileged field of study that can further the analytical knowledge of interest group politics, government and interest group relations, and lobbying strategies in a changing policy domain. Agri-food policies are designed to support and influence the operations around production, processing, and consumption of food, and a significant public intervention is dedicated to this peculiar policy domain. Studies on agricultural exceptionalism reveal state interventionism in past national policies, the special treatment given to the sector and the privileged position reserved for agricultural interests. Powerful farmers’ groups and dedicated institutions in compartmentalized policymaking developed special relationships: in different contexts, iron triangles, close policy communities, or corporatist alliances emerged and differently consolidated the state-assisted policy paradigm. Since the 1980s, trade liberalization and budget constraints have defined new agendas for governments. Structural changes in agriculture, fragmented agricultural interests, and criticism for overproduction and environmental externalities, facilitated state retrenchment and the spread of neo-liberal policy paradigms. Different policy networks have emerged and a wider range of interests – commodities groups, organic farmers, food processors, retailers – have lobbied governments and international organizations. New interests related to food, consumerism, the environment, and conservationism have mobilized, playing an outsider role in the policy process. Studies on the post-exceptionalism of agri-food policies highlight the pluralism of interests and the politicization of issues in national and supranational arenas. In the transnational policy space, governments and agricultural interest groups remain relevant players among many other actors, such as retailer chains and corporations, international organizations, and alternative agri-food movements
Persistenze classiche e innovazioni cristiane: iconografia e epigrafia nelle Venezie
No full textI mosaici aquileiesi di età tardo-antica si prestano a diversi livelli di lettura ma è plausibile che la fonte di ispirazione fosse condivisa e tradizionale
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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