Stefano Sacchi (Unimi)
20 February 2014 @ 14:00
- Past event
“Conservative and innovative policy change in labour market reforms. A policy process-based explanatory framework”
abstract
The main explanations of labour policy reforms focus on either endogenous or exogenous factors that have triggered change in some specific critical junctures. As such, they seek to explain the introduction of reforms, i.e. why policy change occured. By contrast, building on theories of the policy process and institutional change in this paper we will investigate how policy change occurs, and takes different shapes, based on variables related to the policy process itself, the way it unfolds, its dynamics, rather than to functional drivers, external pressures, or domestic politics. Italy’s labour market policy is selected to illustrate the framework.