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- Giorgia Nesti
- Paolo Graziano
Abstract
The Citizen Income (Reddito di cittadinanza—RdC) is the most extensive program to fight poverty ever adopted in Italy. RdC is a Minimum Income Scheme that grants a cash amount to beneficiaries but obliges some specific groups to participate in active measures and in social inclusion programs. After 4 years of implementation, RdC seems not to have fully achieved its goals and scholars blame policy legacies as one of the main causes of its failures. Drawing on the literature on policy feedback, the paper proposes an analytical framework that identifies the mechanisms related to resources, incentives, and meanings affecting policy actors (public administration, organized civil society, and citizens). The framework is then applied to the case of RdC to detect through what specific mechanisms deriving from past anti‐poverty, active, and social policies impacted on the implementation of the RdC. The paper is moreover aimed at advancing the debate about policy legacies and their effects on current policies through the elaboration of a framework specifying the mechanisms through which policy feedback produces change or stability. 公民收入计划(Reddito di cittadinanza—RdC)是意大利有史以来实施的最广泛的消除贫困计划。RdC是一项最低收入计划,其向受益人发放现金,但要求某些特定群体参与积极措施和社会包容计划。经过四年的实施,RdC似乎并未完全实现其目标,学者则将其失败的一个主要原因归咎于政策遗产。本文借鉴政策反馈文献,提出了一个分析框架,该框架识别了一系列机制,后者有关于影响政策行动者(公共行政、有组织的公民社会、公民)的资源、激励措施和意义。然后将该框架应用于RdC案例,以检测积极的社会政策通过哪些具体机制(这些机制来自以往反贫困举措)来影响RdC的实施。此外,通过阐述一项框架(关于政策反馈产生变化或稳定性的机制),本文旨在推进有关政策遗产及其对当前政策影响的辩论。. El Renta Ciudadana (Reddito di cittadinanza—RdC) es el programa de lucha contra la pobreza más amplio jamás adoptado en Italia. RdC es un régimen de renta mínima que concede una cantidad en efectivo a los beneficiarios, pero obliga a algunos grupos específicos a participar en medidas activas y en programas de inclusión social. Después de cuatro años de implementación, RdC parece no haber logrado plenamente sus objetivos y los académicos culpan a los legados políticos como una de las principales causas de sus fracasos. Basándose en la literatura sobre retroalimentación de políticas, el artículo propone un marco analítico que identifica los mecanismos relacionados con los recursos, incentivos y significados que afectan a los actores políticos (administración pública, sociedad civil organizada y ciudadanos). Luego, el marco se aplica al caso de RdC para detectar a través de qué mecanismos específicos derivados de políticas antipobreza, activas y sociales del pasado impactaron en la implementación de la RdC. Además, el documento tiene como objetivo promover el debate sobre los legados políticos y sus efectos en las políticas actuales mediante la elaboración de un marco que especifique los mecanismos a través de los cuales la retroalimentación de las políticas produce cambio o estabilidad.
Suggested Citation
Giorgia Nesti & Paolo Graziano, 2025.
"The impact of policy legacies on the implementation of Citizen Income in Italy: A policy feedback perspective,"
Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 42(2), pages 276-290, March.
Handle:
RePEc:bla:revpol:v:42:y:2025:i:2:p:276-290
DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12608
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