The Role of civil society in immigration policy making in Italy : changing patterns of conflictual cooperation
By: BOZZINI, Emanuela
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Contributor(s): FELLA, Stefano.
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ArticlePublisher: Bristol, UK : The Policy Press, April 2008Policy & Politics 36, 2, p. 245-259Abstract: This article seeks to explain models of inclusion of civil society actors in the immigration policy process (and particularly matters related to the social integration of immigrants) in Italy in terms of a model of 'conflictual cooperation' that has developed out of the theoretical literature on social movements and on interest intermediation. The article explores how the model of conflictual cooperation that appeared to have been established under the centre-left government in the second half of the 1990s was affected by the election of a centre-right government in 2001, with the latter downgrading relations with civil society and appealing directly to popular opinion on this issue
This article seeks to explain models of inclusion of civil society actors in the immigration policy process (and particularly matters related to the social integration of immigrants) in Italy in terms of a model of 'conflictual cooperation' that has developed out of the theoretical literature on social movements and on interest intermediation. The article explores how the model of conflictual cooperation that appeared to have been established under the centre-left government in the second half of the 1990s was affected by the election of a centre-right government in 2001, with the latter downgrading relations with civil society and appealing directly to popular opinion on this issue
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