The Party Politics of Decentralization: The Territorial Dimension in Italian Party Agendas (Comparative Territorial Politics) - Hardcover
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This book addresses the process of decentralization in Italy, examined from the perspective of political parties. In particular, it assesses whether and to what extent the dynamics of party competition are likely to shape policy agenda and affect policy change. The author starts by providing a thorough account of the process and history of Italian decentralization and the policy outcomes achieved over time, before discussing how party attention to an issue triggers related policy changes (manipulation of salience). Next, the focus shifts to the concrete positions adopted by parties on decentralization to assess whether the pattern of party competition has been consensual or adversarial, and how this pattern influenced the process of reform (manipulation of position). Finally, the author examines the role of frames in party competition. This volume offers essential research that will prove useful to a variety of audiences, ranging from scholars of territorial and Italian politics to those interested in agenda-setting, policy change, and party politics.
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Linda Basile is Research Fellow at the Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy. Her work has been published in Party Politics and Regional & Federal Studies.
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This book addresses the process of decentralization in Italy, examined from the perspective of political parties. In particular, it assesses whether and to what extent the dynamics of party competition are likely to shape policy agenda and affect policy change. The author starts by providing a thorough account of the process and history of Italian decentralization and the policy outcomes achieved over time, before discussing how party attention to an issue triggers related policy changes (manipulation of salience). Next, the focus shifts to the concrete positions adopted by parties on decentralization to assess whether the pattern of party competition has been consensual or adversarial, and how this pattern influenced the process of reform (manipulation of position). Finally, the author examines the role of frames in party competition. This volume offers essential research that will prove useful to a variety of audiences, ranging from scholars of territorial and Italian politics to those interested in agenda-setting, policy change, and party politics.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xxi + 259 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1 Party Politics of Decentralization: Theory, Definitions, Research Design, Methods [A Study on the Party Politics of Decentralization; Setting Up the Study; From Concepts to Measurements: Operationalization, Data, and Research Design (Measuring Party Strategies on the Territorial Dimension: A Method Based on Content Analysis; Translating Words to Numbers: The Coding Scheme; Reliability and Validity of the Measurement Instrument; Research Design: Choosing a Case Study); An Integrated Model of the Party Politics of Decentralization] 2 Setting the Scene: The Direction and Pattern of Decentralization in Italy [(Never-Ending) Pursuit of Decentralization; Is It Decentralization or Federalism? (Unitary and Decentralized Systems; Federal Systems); Why Do Central Governments Surrender Their Powers?; Whither Decentralization? Patterns and Outcomes of the Process of Decentralization in Italy (1948-2017) (1948-1967: "Frozen" Regionalism; 1968-1977: Dawn of a Decentralist Era; 1978-1995: Precarious Equilibrium of Italian Regionalism; 1996-2001: Decentralist Makeover; 2001: Watershed Reform of Title V; 2002-2012: "Rightist Flag" on Decentralization; 2013-2017: 2016 Referendum: A Backlash Against Decentralization?); Long and Winding Road Toward Decentralization (Italy: A Centralist Tradition with Federalist Ambitions; Italian Gridlock: The "Punctuated Equilibrium" of Agenda-Setting)] 3 Salience: Putting Decentralization on the Agenda: Role of Political Parties [Process of Decentralization Between Deep-Rooted Obstacles and Agenda-Setting Dynamics; Do Parties Have an Impact on Decentralist Reforms? An Agenda-Based Model of Policy Change; Party Competition and Policy Change in the Italian Process of Decentralization; Did the Party System Agenda Prompt Decentralist Reform? (A Gradual Rise in Attention as a Prelude to Major Reforms; Years of Gridlock; Renewed Attention to Decentralization and the Season of Partisan Reform; Uneven Attention in the PSA and an Uneven Path of Reform); Party Competition and the PSA: Who Takes the Lead? (Jumping on the Autonomist Bandwagon; Left Side of Territorial Reforms; A Chicken and Egg Situation?); Concluding Remarks: The Reforming Process, Between Gridlock and Party Attention] 4 Position: Sharp Conflict or Shared Consensus? [Getting to Reform: A Search for Consensus or Party Competition?; Parties' Strategic Considerations When Setting the Rules of the Game: A Framework for Analysis (Why Do Parties Talk as They Do? Party Competition in the Electoral Debate; Why Do Parties Vote as They Do? Party Competition in the Parliamentary Arena); Mapping Party Electoral Strategies on Decentralization; Party Strategies over Time: A Diachronic Analysis (First Republic; Second Republic); Devil Is in the Details: Is There Conflict Behind the Surface Consensus? (Greater the Complexity, the Higher the Conflict; "Yes, but" Strategy on Decentralization: - Land Management and the Environment - Social Policies and Services to Citizens - Organization of the State, Home Affairs, and Citizens' Rights - Foreign/Defense Policy and Economic/Fiscal Policy); Reality Check for Parties: From Electoral Pledges to Parliamentary Behavior (Parties at the Proving Ground: The Approval of L. 62/1953; Approval of Law 108/1968: Between Parallel Convergences and Harsh Obstructionism; Emerging Patterns of Dissent: Regionalist Reforms in the 1970s; Polarized Way to Reform in the Second Republic; Failed Reforms and Fiscal Federalism; Do Parties Walk the Walk?); Concluding Remarks] 5 Frames: The Art of Justifying Preferences [Issue Framing and the Party System Agenda; Don't Think of a Region!; Functional Pressures and Frames; Identity Pressures and Frames; Political Opportunity Structures and Frames]; Concluding Remarks; Appendix; Index. Seller Inventory # 007380
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