Multi‐Level Governance Feedback and Health Care in Italy in the Aftermath of Covid‐19

David Natali, Emmanuele Pavolini and Andrea Terlizzi
Additional contact information
David Natali: DIRPOLIS Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Emmanuele Pavolini: Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
Andrea Terlizzi: Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Florence, Italy

Politics and Governance, 2023, vol. 11, issue 4, 365-377

Abstract: At the crossroads of EU studies and public policy analysis, a vast literature identifies global crises as one of the main triggers of change. The present article provides a test of this hypothesis in the case of health care in the aftermath of the pandemic crisis that hit Europe between 2020 and 2022. We use Italy as an extreme case, where both the magnitude of the Covid-19 outbreak and the effect of the pre-existent domestic cost-cutting strategy potentially opened a large window of opportunity for change. Through the lenses of historical institutionalism, we aim to shed light on policy change in multi-level health governance systems. Evidence collected through semi-structured interviews, triangulated with secondary sources, proves that the governance of health care in Italy has experienced no paradigmatic change. We show that “governance feedbacks” have reinforced pre-existing dynamics and inhibited more radical forms of change.

Keywords: Covid‐19; EU governance; feedback; health care; historical institutionalism; Italy; policy change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/7356 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cog:poango:v11:y:2023:i:4:p:365-377

DOI: 10.17645/pag.v11i4.7356

Access Statistics for this article

Politics and Governance is currently edited by Carolina Correia

More articles in Politics and Governance from Cogitatio Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by António Vieira () and IT Department ().