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Italian Budgeting Policy

Between Punctuations and Incrementalism

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Authors:
  1. Alice Cavalieri

    1. Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  • Develops a new twin dataset with information about the Italian budget bill and the budget law
  • Studies different but equally fundamental passages of budgetary decision-making
  • Tests the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory on Italian budget policy

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Alice Cavalieri
    Pages 1-18

  3. Policy-Making and Budget Changes

    • Alice Cavalieri
    Pages 19-41

  4. Budgeting Policy Within the Union: Italy in the European Context

    • Alice Cavalieri
    Pages 43-76

  5. Approaching an Explanation of Longitudinal Change in the Italian Budget

    • Alice Cavalieri
    Pages 77-115

  6. Incremental Changes or Punctuations?

    • Alice Cavalieri
    Pages 117-150

  7. To Change or Not to Change: Governments’ Spending Intentions

    • Alice Cavalieri
    Pages 151-173

  8. The Impact of the Decision-Making Process

    • Alice Cavalieri
    Pages 175-198

  9. Conclusion

    • Alice Cavalieri
    Pages 199-216

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 217-262
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About this book

This book assesses Italian budgetary policy over the last thirty years. Covering more than three decades of political change and national transformation, it considers the institutional and external factors that have shaped long-term budgetary changes. The book analyses the levels of expenditure allocation across varying budget categories, and compares the budget bill and budget law in order to shed new light on the specific dynamics that have influenced budgetary decision-making processes. Overall, the book provides important conclusions on the role of the budget as a governmental policy instrument, the consequences of multilevel governance over national budgetary policy, and the impact of national and international crises on budgetary changes. With Italy being one of the most important parliamentary democracies in Europe and a key actor within the European Union, these conclusions have important repercussions for other European parliamentary democracies. The book will appeal to scholars and students of European public policy, public administration and economic governance.

Reviews

"Alice Cavalieri has produced a careful and comprehensive analysis of public budgeting during the turbulent course of modern Italian history. Utilizing and improving upon existing budgetary theories, she shows that neither external shocks to the budgeting system nor fiscal reforms directed at making the budgetary process more stable address the key problem in budgetary politics: too many large spending changes and too few appropriate moderate adjustments. It is bound to become a standard go-to resource for future studies of budgeting and policy processes more generally."— (Bryan D. Jones, JJ “Jake” Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA)

"Alice Cavalieri’s volume is an original piece of empirical research and a great contribution to the understanding of recent political changes in Italy. Indeed, the volume fills a gap in the study of budgetary politics in a difficult parliamentary democracy, which has been struggling with controversial issues in the management of public finance.

At the same time, the volume offers a remarkable example of intensive case study analysis: by following the theoretical perspective of the “comparative agendas project”, the author produces an inspiring interpretation of policy punctuations in a crucial domain." — (Luca Verzichelli, Professor of Political Science, University of Siena, Italy)


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Alice Cavalieri

About the author

Alice Cavalieri is a Researcher at the University of Trieste, Italy. She is the Italian country lead for the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), and a member of the Comparative Agendas Project. Her research interests include budget politics and policy change in Italy and Europe.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Italian Budgeting Policy

  • Book Subtitle: Between Punctuations and Incrementalism

  • Authors: Alice Cavalieri

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15447-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15446-1Published: 15 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15449-2Published: 15 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15447-8Published: 14 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Science

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