Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno

Bull, MJ; Baudner, J

Abstract

The change in Italy's main regional policy (for the south) in the course of the 1990s provides a prima facie case of Europeanization tout court for scholars of Europeanization. A new policy was adopted that was evidently inspired by the European regional policy launched in 1988. However, examining Europeanization only from a top-down perspective (in terms of policy outcome) provides a limited insight into the process. A bottom-up approach that evaluates the impact of Europeanization through a temporal dimension of change, integrating the Europeanized and domestic effects, allows a more precise assessment of the degree to which Europeanization may have caused or reinforced a process of change in Italian southern policy.

Citation

Bull, M., & Baudner, J. (2004). Europeanisation and Italian policy for the Mezzogiorno. Journal of European Public Policy, 11(6), 1058-1076. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350176042000298101

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2004
• Deposit Date: Jan 21, 2009
• Journal: Journal of European Public Policy
• Print ISSN: 1350-1763
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1058-1076
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1350176042000298101
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1350176042000298101