Catching up with the European Union’s recovery and resilience agenda: green transition reforms in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan

IF 2.2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Contemporary Italian Politics Pub Date : 2022-09-22 DOI:10.1080/23248823.2022.2126925

B. Cotta, Ekaterina Domorenok

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ABSTRACT Drawing on Europeanization and policy change scholarships, and with the aim of understanding the extent to which Next Generation EU has become a vector of policy change in the country, this article analyses policy reforms concerning the ecological transition, which Italy has designed within the framework of its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). More specifically, the study provides a descriptive analysis of the two versions of the plan (Conte’s proposal and Draghi’s final version) in order to unveil the nature and direction of policy change embedded in particular in its final version, as compared to previous Italian ecological policies. The empirical research presented in the article shows that the logics of path-dependence and policy layering have prevailed in the design of the green pillar of the NRRP, as it introduced a limited number of policy reforms; lacked specific implementation targets, and was developed in conformity with a highly fragmented and top-down style of policy making: one that was typical of previous Italian environmental and climate policies.

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追赶欧盟的复苏和恢复力议程:意大利国家复苏和恢复力计划中的绿色转型改革

借鉴欧化和政策变化奖学金，以了解下一代欧盟在多大程度上成为该国政策变化的载体为目的，本文分析了意大利在其国家恢复和弹性计划(NRRP)框架内设计的有关生态转型的政策改革。更具体地说，该研究对该计划的两个版本(孔蒂的提议和德拉吉的最终版本)进行了描述性分析，以揭示与之前的意大利生态政策相比，其最终版本中嵌入的政策变化的性质和方向。本文的实证研究表明，路径依赖逻辑和政策分层逻辑在绿色支柱的设计中占据主导地位，因为它引入了有限数量的政策改革;缺乏具体的实施目标，并且是按照高度分散和自上而下的政策制定风格制定的:这是意大利以前环境和气候政策的典型风格。

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Contemporary Italian Politics Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy. The journal has two main aims: Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product. We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties. On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media. Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate. On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies[...] The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful. With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.