Politicization without institutionalization: relations between State and Regions in crisis governance

IF 2.2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Contemporary Italian Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/23248823.2022.2049513

S. Bolgherini, A. Lippi

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article considers how intergovernmental relationships (Igr) between the State and the Regions in Italy changed during 2021, the second year of the pandemic outbreak. Three events altered significantly the previous cooperative arrangements and opened a new phase: the vaccination campaign, the new government led by Mario Draghi, and the launch of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). These events helped to shift the former cooperative governance (grounded in joint decision-making in the development of provisions and policies) towards a centralized governance (grounded in the leadership of the Prime Minister and an ‘adhocracy’) where the Regions had mostly an implementation rather than a more active decision-making role. This change is visible through two analytic dimensions: delegation/autonomy and cooperation/conflict. Empirical evidence was gathered on both dimensions. The article argues that the new centralized governance implied no formal change at the institutional level. Political variables determined it, analogously with what occurred in 2020 with cooperative governance. This means that relations between State and Regions in Italy change according to the political climate: they are more prone to politicization, than to institutionalization and permanent consolidation.

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没有制度化的政治化：危机治理中的国家与地区关系

本文考虑了2021年，即大流行爆发的第二年，意大利国家和地区之间的政府间关系(Igr)如何变化。有三件事显著改变了以前的合作安排，并开启了一个新阶段:疫苗接种运动、马里奥·德拉吉领导的新政府以及启动了国家恢复和应变计划。这些事件有助于将以前的合作治理(以制定规定和政策的共同决策为基础)转变为集中治理(以总理的领导和“民主”为基础)，在这种治理中，各区域主要是执行而不是更积极的决策作用。这种变化通过两个分析维度可见:授权/自治和合作/冲突。在这两个方面都收集了经验证据。本文认为，新的集中式治理并不意味着制度层面的正式变革。政治变量决定了这一点，类似于2020年合作治理的情况。这意味着意大利国家和地区之间的关系随着政治气候的变化而变化:它们更倾向于政治化，而不是制度化和永久巩固。

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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.