Innovation policy in Italy (1993-2002) : understanding the invention and persistence of a public management reform
By: MELE, Valentina
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ArticlePublisher: Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, April 2010Subject(s): Reforma Administrativa | Modernização Administrativa | ItáliaGovernance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions 23, 2, p. 251-276Abstract: The literature on the politics of public management reform in Italy broadly contends that the country's legalistic administrative tradition suppresses reform. This article questions and qualifies this line of argument on the basis of a newly reported case of public management reform that endured for more than 10 years. The study tracks and explains the emergence of the policy issue of government innovation and its persistence on the specialized policy agenda of the Ministry for Public Administration. The initial emergence of the government innovation policy in Italy and its directional stability is explained by applying event-centric approaches to historical analysis, together with the institutional concept of policy subsystems. The article shows the need for modifying central argumentsboth substantive and theoreticalabout the politics of public management reform in Italy
The literature on the politics of public management reform in Italy broadly contends that the country's legalistic administrative tradition suppresses reform. This article questions and qualifies this line of argument on the basis of a newly reported case of public management reform that endured for more than 10 years. The study tracks and explains the emergence of the policy issue of government innovation and its persistence on the specialized policy agenda of the Ministry for Public Administration. The initial emergence of the government innovation policy in Italy and its directional stability is explained by applying event-centric approaches to historical analysis, together with the institutional concept of policy subsystems. The article shows the need for modifying central argumentsboth substantive and theoreticalabout the politics of public management reform in Italy
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