Europeanization and Italian policy for the<i>Mezzogiorno</i>

Bull, Martin J.; Baudner, Joerg

doi:10.1080/1350176042000298101

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“…In addition, the regional governments had different policy priorities which emphasised the distribution of targeted benefits, especially through large infrastructure programmes (La Spina, 2003). The transformation of Italian party politics began towards the end of this phase (in 1992) and effectively brought regional policies to a standstill, the old policy for the south being dismantled, and European control of state aid being used to begin the privatisation of public holdings and abolish large-scale wage subsidies (Bull and Baudner, 2004).…”

Section: Italy: European Regional Policy As a Lever For Controlled Dementioning

confidence: 99%

The Europeanisation of national institutions reassessed: A comparison of regional policies in Germany and Italy

Baudner

Bull

2013

Comp Eur Polit

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This article explores an aspect of Europeanisation which notions of 'adaptive pressure' and 'usage' of European policies have tended to neglect: in a complex policy field such as regional policy it is the evolving nature and heterogeneity of (different) domestic institutional arrangements which will shape and determine the opportunities for domestic actors to exploit European policies. The article explains the differential impact of European regional policies in eastern Germany and southern Italy by focusing on the different domestic institutional settings and the competition between domestic actors for the position of gatekeeper in relation to the Commission. Despite similar exposure to European regional policies, the existence of 'parallel institutions' in German regional policy proved to be the basis for an empowerment of the regions through the reinforcement of one institutional arrangement at the expense of the other while limiting change within the institutions. By contrast, the dichotomous nature of formal and informal rules and institutions in Italian policies for the south resulted in the exploitation of European regional policy by a national actor in order to drive through change in governance and administration.

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Section: Italy: European Regional Policy As a Lever For Controlled Dementioning

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The Europeanisation of national institutions reassessed: A comparison of regional policies in Germany and Italy

Baudner

Bull

2013

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“…This is the second result. Europeanised policies change state-society relations (see Cowles et al on pressure groups), empower technical bureaucracies, change the institutions of economic policy (Dyson 2002), transform the cultural and organizational 'governance software' of departments (Jordan 2003), transform the operating environment for party politics (Ladrech 2002), and enable domestic actors to tilt the balance of power between regions and central government (Bull and Baudner 2004). The adage that 'policies change but politics and polity do not' is obsolete.…”

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Europeanization: Solution or Problem?

Radaelli¹

2006

Palgrave Advances in European Union Studies

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Is there something new in recent research on Europeanisation? Or should we go back to what we already know about political integration in Europe and avoid the term? This article reviews recent work in four steps: the identification of the specific domain of Europeanisation; the relationship between Europeanisation, on the one hand, and governance, institutions, and discourse, on the other; the methodological problems and the models emerging in this new field of research; and an assessment of the results arising out of theoretical and empirical research. One theme throughout the article is that, in order to develop a progressive agenda, Europeanisation should be seen as a problem, not as a solution. It is neither a new theory, nor an ad-hoc approach. Rather, it is a way of orchestrating existing concepts and to contribute to cumulative research in political science. Europeanisation does not provide any simple fix to theoretical or empirical problems. Quite the opposite, it can deliver if approached as a set of puzzles. A problem in search of explanation -not the explanation itself (Gualini 2003). The conclusion is that Europeanisation has contributed to the emergence of new insights, original explanations, and interesting questions on three important issues: the understanding and analysis of 'impact', how to endogeneise international governance in models of domestic politics, and the relationship between agency and change. These three issues are prominent in the research agendas of international relations, theoretical policy analysis, and comparative politics. To contribute to major issues at the core of political science is a valuable result for a relatively new field of inquiry. Kurzfassung Gibt es irgendetwas Neues in der jüngsten

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“…The second type of Europeanisation research focuses on Y (or domestic change) as its point of departure and adopts a bottom-up research design that aims to overcome the inbuilt bias of top-down research design, tending to find the EU input as the cause driving domestic change (Radaelli 2006;Quaglia & Radaelli 2007;Bulmer & Radaelli 2005;Radaelli & Franchino 2004;Bull & Baudner 2004). The criticism against topdown research design is that the incompatibility between the EU and domestic levels is taken as a structural variable, whereas 'the actualisation of this structural property (i.e.…”

Section: Europeanisation As a Research Programmementioning

confidence: 99%