TY - JOUR
T1 - Policy agendas in Italy
T2 - Introduction to the special issue
AU - Borghetto, Enrico
AU - Carammia, Marcello
AU - Russo, Federico
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147295/PT#
UID/CPO/04627/2013
UID/SOC/04647/2013
IF/00382/2014
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - Policy agendas studies analyse the dynamics of attention to policy issues over time and across actors and institutions to obtain insights into the functioning of political systems. The articles in this special issue draw on this approach to investigate key aspects of the Italian political system, with a special emphasis on the period spanning from the political crisis of the early 1990s to the watershed elections of 2013. They analyse a broad range of institutional and policy venues, including public opinion, political parties, the executive, the Parliament, and the Constitutional Court. While single articles address different research questions and focus on different institutions, they all share a focus on the dynamics of issue attention over time. This introduction provides a summary overview of the theoretical and methodological tools employed in the volume, highlighting how the study of policy agendas can contribute to the understanding of political systems and their change over time. It then summarises the main findings of single articles which, taken together, shed new light on several classic questions that have been widely debated in the literature on the evolution of the Italian political system.
AB - Policy agendas studies analyse the dynamics of attention to policy issues over time and across actors and institutions to obtain insights into the functioning of political systems. The articles in this special issue draw on this approach to investigate key aspects of the Italian political system, with a special emphasis on the period spanning from the political crisis of the early 1990s to the watershed elections of 2013. They analyse a broad range of institutional and policy venues, including public opinion, political parties, the executive, the Parliament, and the Constitutional Court. While single articles address different research questions and focus on different institutions, they all share a focus on the dynamics of issue attention over time. This introduction provides a summary overview of the theoretical and methodological tools employed in the volume, highlighting how the study of policy agendas can contribute to the understanding of political systems and their change over time. It then summarises the main findings of single articles which, taken together, shed new light on several classic questions that have been widely debated in the literature on the evolution of the Italian political system.
KW - agenda-setting
KW - government
KW - Italy
KW - parliament
KW - political parties
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U2 - 10.1017/ipo.2018.17
DO - 10.1017/ipo.2018.17
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85059831444
SN - 0048-8402
VL - 48
SP - 265
EP - 274
JO - Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
JF - Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
IS - 3
ER -