Andrea Pettrachin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1253017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Pettrachin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettrachin |
| SIGNATURE | PETTRACHIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7238-9631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The politicisation of state-NGO relations in the field of human rights
This article develops an innovative quantitative analysis of the drivers of state–NGO relations in the field of human rights, specifically focusing on their political drivers. Drawing on cross-national survey data from 2,000+ reported interactions between NGOs, national and EU governmental actors in 26 EU Member States, we examine how national governments’ political orientation, the level of politicisation of human rights issues, and multilevel g…
Why do small Western European localities promote local integration policies? A qualitative comparative analysis
While European small and medium-sized towns (SMsTs) received growing numbers of humanitarian migrants since 2014, little is still known about the (long-term) integration policies they develop and the factors driving their emergence. Most existing works on local migration policy (including those on bigger cities) are based on few case studies, often cover ‘extreme cases’, and mostly focus on asylum-seekers’ reception rather than integration. Exist…
Whole of community or battleground? Exploring actor relationships and migrant integration in small and medium-sized towns
The role of legitimacy in robust crisis governance. Examining the failed European response to the turbulence of the 2015-16 refugee crisis
This article examines the European governance failures that occurred during the 2015-16 refugee crisis through the lens of robust crisis governance. The article asks whether these failures can be explained by a failure to meet the double criterion for robust governance proposed by Ansell and colleagues, which is (i) creating adaptive or innovative crisis responses and (ii) doing so while maintaining legitimacy. To answer this question, the articl…
How multilevel governance interactivity can contribute to the robust governance of crises. Insights from the Covid-19 and the asylum crises in Europe
This article investigates how interactivity within multilevel governance (MLG) contributes to the robust governance of crises, understood as the capacity to maintain core public functions while flexibly adapting and innovating under turbulence. Building on a conceptual framework that distinguishes vertical/intergovernmental and horizontal/state-society dimensions of MLG, the study identifies three prevailing modes of interactivity—coordination, c…
From global to local
How and why are global norms ‘localised’? Existing studies suggest that the ‘localisation’ process can lead to different outcomes (adoption, rejection, adaptation, resistance) and that such process is driven by structural and institutional factors or the activities of ‘globalizing actors’. Complementing these works, we generate a new explanation, according to which the outcomes of the localisation process can be also powerfully mediated by the op…
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities
This article explores the link between migration governance and politics in small and medium‐sized localities (SMsLs), asking: what modes of immigrant integration governance emerge in SMsLs?; how are these modes of governance shaped by political factors such as local governments' (LGs) political affiliation, the presence/absence of radical right parties (RPPs) in local councils and the political affiliation of governments at higher levels? To ans…
The drivers of multilevel governance as a mode of policymaking
This article analyses modes of policymaking related to asylum-seekers' reception in Italy and other European Union (EU) countries during the decade of the so-called 2015 asylum crisis. It shows that, while most EU countries experienced shifts towards more hierarchical modes of policymaking on asylum, Italy pursued a unique experience of multilevel governance (MLG) between 2014 and 2016, which was then dismantled in 2017. By looking at this MLG ex…
The Multi-Layered Governance of Migration in Italy
Integration Policy Networks and the Potential for Local Integration Policy Diffusion in European Small- and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas
This article aims to open a debate about the diffusion of local integration policies in European small- and medium-sized towns and rural areas (SMsTRAs), shedding light on local policymakers' relational environment and key features of policy networks that influence policy diffusion. Elaborating on data collected through 343 interviews across 34 SMsTRAs, analysed through social network analysis and qualitative content analysis, it concludes that t…
The Political Drivers of Horizontal Governance Relations in Small Localities
Refugee integration in small localities poses complex challenges that must be faced through “horizontal” cooperation between local governments, nonpublic and private actors. This article investigates how frequent and how collaborative/conflictual these horizontal governance relations are and whether, and how, they are influenced by political party control of local executives and the local strength of radical right parties (RRPs). Methodologically…
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking
This article develops and applies an innovative methodology based on social network analysis and cluster analysis to analyze the organization of policymaking relations in multi-level political systems, focusing on the migration policy field. In doing so, it addresses four limitations of existing research on multi-layered migration policymaking, which tends to focus on policy and legal documents rather than real-world interactions, conceptualize g…
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking
Several scholars have observed persistent gaps between policy responses to complex, ambiguous and politicized problems (such as migration, climate change and the recent Covid-19 pandemic) and evidence or ‘facts’. While most existing explanations for this ‘evidence-policy gap’ in the migration policy field focus on knowledge availability and knowledge use by policymakers, this article shifts the focus to processes of knowledge formation, exploring…
Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities
This article develops a comparative analysis of 'responsibility frames' of migrant integration - i.e. cognitive understandings about who should be responsible for migrant integration - held by actors involved in local integration governance across 36, rigorously selected, European small and medium towns and applies multilevel regression analysis to examine potential contextual and political drivers of the emergence of such frames. Our findings co…
Data circulation and migration governance
Inderscience is a global company, a dynamic leading independent journal publisher disseminates the latest research across the broad fields of science, engineering and technology; management, public and business administration; environment, ecological economics and sustainable development; computing, ICT and internet/web services, and related areas
Data circulation and migration governance
Does the circulation of data of third-country nationals crossing the digitised and securitised EU border affect the distribution of responsibilities among institutions and organisations involved in EU migration governance, and, if so, how? This article proposes an innovative methodology based on social network analysis and cluster analysis to study data circulation throughout EU information systems and its effects for governance and applies it to…
Modes of Migration City Network Mobilization in the EU and US Multilevel Institutional Systems
The existing literature on the multilevel governance of migration in Europe and on migration federalism in the United States tends to assume that the modes of city network (CN) mobilization can be accounted for by different institutional opportunity structures which favor collaborative relations with higher levels of government and civil society in Europe and more contentions interactions in the United States. However, comparative research on how…
Did exposure to asylum seeking migration affect the electoral outcome of the ‘Alternative für Deutschland’ in Berlin? Evidence from the 2019 European elections
This article analyses the impact of exposure to asylum-seeking migration during the European 'refugee crisis' on votes for the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland at the 2019 European elections in Berlin. While other scholars investigated the relationship between locals' exposure to asylum-seekers and far-right voting, we analyse this relationship at a very small scale (electoral district level), adopting an innovative methodological approach, …
Exploring the EU’s status quo tendency in the migration policy field
Why have fundamental policy positions within the EU migration policy field remained relatively stable despite the changing composition of policy players and several 'external shocks' in the last two decades? To complement existing explanations of status quo tendencies in EU migration policy, this article applies a network-centred organizational approach shedding light on the policy environment in which policymakers form their understanding of pol…
Responding to the 'Refugee Crisis' or Shaping the 'Refugee Crisis'? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence
This article sheds light on the cognitive dimension of subnational migration policymaking, showing how policymakers’ subjective understandings of migration dynamics can decisively shape the responses of subnational political systems to migration. It also reveals that these responses, in turn, can play a decisive role in the emergence of policymakers’ understandings of migration dynamics, suggesting that policymaking processes can themselves produ…
Making Sense of the Global
What does the research literature on refugee and asylum migration tell us about the impact of global norms and standards on the protection of asylum-seekers and refugees? Do we see the effective reach of global standards or do we see responses to be dependent on ‘local’ contexts? We conducted a systematic review of the literature across six case countries on two key issues in contemporary refugee governance: ‘mobility’ and ‘containment’. After co…
How do populists make decisions? The Five Star Movement and the Lega in local government during the ‘refugee crisis’
The actions of populist parties in government are typically assumed to be driven more by their ‘host’ ideologies than by their ‘thin’ populist ideology, especially in the highly politicized field of migration policy. We challenge this assumption with an analysis of Italian local governments led by the populist Lega and Five Star Movement during the so-called ‘refugee crisis’. Our analysis not only examines their policies and discourses, but also …
Tuscans are different’
This article sheds light on the so-far-neglected role of decision-makers’ subjective interpretations and cognitive factors in local asylum policymaking, complementing and challenging the existing literature explaining local policy responses to the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’. How and why do local decision-makers interpret the environment in which they operate? Do subjective interpretations contribute to influence local asylum policymaking, and…
Italian migration policy and politics
Key political and legislative developments related to immigration in Italy in 2019 were crystallized, represented and powerfully mediated in public debate by the Sea-Watch incident, which was emblematic not only of the politicization of immigration in Italy but also of underlying paradoxes. One paradox is that migration flows to Italy across the Mediterranean attracted huge political and media attention despite being much smaller than migration f…
The Unexpected Dynamics of Politicisation of Migration
Through analysis of decision-making dynamics on migration in Sicily, this paper shows how party elites define strategies to politicize migration. Conventional explanations of the politicization of migration assume that party elites politicize migration in reaction to increasing flows and issue salience, explicitly ignoring cognitive factors and actors’ reasoning. Conversely, I show that Sicilian party elites’ politicization strategies are not sha…
Italian migration policy and politics
Key political and legislative developments related to immigration in Italy in 2019 were crystallized, represented and powerfully mediated in public debate by the Sea-Watch incident, which was emblematic not only of the politicization of immigration in Italy but also of underlying paradoxes. One paradox is that migration flows to Italy across the Mediterranean attracted huge political and media attention despite being much smaller than migration f…
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities
This article explores the link between migration governance and politics in small and medium‐sized localities (SMsLs), asking: what modes of immigrant integration governance emerge in SMsLs?; how are these modes of governance shaped by political factors such as local governments' (LGs) political affiliation, the presence/absence of radical right parties (RPPs) in local councils and the political affiliation of governments at higher levels? To ans…
Opening the ‘Black Box’ of asylum governance
Complementing and challenging the existing literature on the Italian asylum crisis, this article develops an actor-centred approach to open the ‘black box’ of asylum governance, showing the constitutive effects of governance on the asylum issue. It then applies this approach to the case of the Veneto region in Italy during the recent ‘refugee crisis’. By doing so, the article, first, investigates the cognitive mechanisms that shape key actors’ as…
Exploring the EU’s status quo tendency in the migration policy field
Why have fundamental policy positions within the EU migration policy field remained relatively stable despite the changing composition of policy players and several 'external shocks' in the last two decades? To complement existing explanations of status quo tendencies in EU migration policy, this article applies a network-centred organizational approach shedding light on the policy environment in which policymakers form their understanding of pol…
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking
This article develops and applies an innovative methodology based on social network analysis and cluster analysis to analyze the organization of policymaking relations in multi-level political systems, focusing on the migration policy field. In doing so, it addresses four limitations of existing research on multi-layered migration policymaking, which tends to focus on policy and legal documents rather than real-world interactions, conceptualize g…
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking
Several scholars have observed persistent gaps between policy responses to complex, ambiguous and politicized problems (such as migration, climate change and the recent Covid-19 pandemic) and evidence or ‘facts’. While most existing explanations for this ‘evidence-policy gap’ in the migration policy field focus on knowledge availability and knowledge use by policymakers, this article shifts the focus to processes of knowledge formation, exploring…
Tuscans are different’
This article sheds light on the so-far-neglected role of decision-makers’ subjective interpretations and cognitive factors in local asylum policymaking, complementing and challenging the existing literature explaining local policy responses to the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’. How and why do local decision-makers interpret the environment in which they operate? Do subjective interpretations contribute to influence local asylum policymaking, and…
How do populists make decisions? The Five Star Movement and the Lega in local government during the ‘refugee crisis’
The actions of populist parties in government are typically assumed to be driven more by their ‘host’ ideologies than by their ‘thin’ populist ideology, especially in the highly politicized field of migration policy. We challenge this assumption with an analysis of Italian local governments led by the populist Lega and Five Star Movement during the so-called ‘refugee crisis’. Our analysis not only examines their policies and discourses, but also …
Did exposure to asylum seeking migration affect the electoral outcome of the ‘Alternative für Deutschland’ in Berlin? Evidence from the 2019 European elections
This article analyses the impact of exposure to asylum-seeking migration during the European 'refugee crisis' on votes for the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland at the 2019 European elections in Berlin. While other scholars investigated the relationship between locals' exposure to asylum-seekers and far-right voting, we analyse this relationship at a very small scale (electoral district level), adopting an innovative methodological approach, …
The Unexpected Dynamics of Politicisation of Migration
Through analysis of decision-making dynamics on migration in Sicily, this paper shows how party elites define strategies to politicize migration. Conventional explanations of the politicization of migration assume that party elites politicize migration in reaction to increasing flows and issue salience, explicitly ignoring cognitive factors and actors’ reasoning. Conversely, I show that Sicilian party elites’ politicization strategies are not sha…
Modes of Migration City Network Mobilization in the EU and US Multilevel Institutional Systems
The existing literature on the multilevel governance of migration in Europe and on migration federalism in the United States tends to assume that the modes of city network (CN) mobilization can be accounted for by different institutional opportunity structures which favor collaborative relations with higher levels of government and civil society in Europe and more contentions interactions in the United States. However, comparative research on how…
Responding to the 'Refugee Crisis' or Shaping the 'Refugee Crisis'? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence
This article sheds light on the cognitive dimension of subnational migration policymaking, showing how policymakers’ subjective understandings of migration dynamics can decisively shape the responses of subnational political systems to migration. It also reveals that these responses, in turn, can play a decisive role in the emergence of policymakers’ understandings of migration dynamics, suggesting that policymaking processes can themselves produ…
Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities
This article develops a comparative analysis of 'responsibility frames' of migrant integration - i.e. cognitive understandings about who should be responsible for migrant integration - held by actors involved in local integration governance across 36, rigorously selected, European small and medium towns and applies multilevel regression analysis to examine potential contextual and political drivers of the emergence of such frames. Our findings co…
Towards a universal declaration on internet rights and freedoms
This article, conceived as a mainly empirically based contribution, analyses a discursive context composed of 58 documents proclaiming Internet-related human rights drafted and launched by different actors between 1997 and 2015. The article hypothesises that a discourse on Internet-related human rights is being shaped, autonomous from the broader discourse on Internet governance. Therefore, differently from other scholarly works, it does not focu…
Opening the ‘Black Box’ of asylum governance
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Towards a universal declaration on internet rights and freedoms
This article, conceived as a mainly empirically based contribution, analyses a discursive context composed of 58 documents proclaiming Internet-related human rights drafted and launched by different actors between 1997 and 2015. The article hypothesises that a discourse on Internet-related human rights is being shaped, autonomous from the broader discourse on Internet governance. Therefore, differently from other scholarly works, it does not focu…
Italian migration policy and politics
Key political and legislative developments related to immigration in Italy in 2019 were crystallized, represented and powerfully mediated in public debate by the Sea-Watch incident, which was emblematic not only of the politicization of immigration in Italy but also of underlying paradoxes. One paradox is that migration flows to Italy across the Mediterranean attracted huge political and media attention despite being much smaller than migration f…
The Unexpected Dynamics of Politicisation of Migration
Through analysis of decision-making dynamics on migration in Sicily, this paper shows how party elites define strategies to politicize migration. Conventional explanations of the politicization of migration assume that party elites politicize migration in reaction to increasing flows and issue salience, explicitly ignoring cognitive factors and actors’ reasoning. Conversely, I show that Sicilian party elites’ politicization strategies are not sha…
Opening the ‘Black Box’ of asylum governance
Complementing and challenging the existing literature on the Italian asylum crisis, this article develops an actor-centred approach to open the ‘black box’ of asylum governance, showing the constitutive effects of governance on the asylum issue. It then applies this approach to the case of the Veneto region in Italy during the recent ‘refugee crisis’. By doing so, the article, first, investigates the cognitive mechanisms that shape key actors’ as…
Opening the ‘Black Box’ of asylum governance
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
How do populists make decisions? The Five Star Movement and the Lega in local government during the ‘refugee crisis’
The actions of populist parties in government are typically assumed to be driven more by their ‘host’ ideologies than by their ‘thin’ populist ideology, especially in the highly politicized field of migration policy. We challenge this assumption with an analysis of Italian local governments led by the populist Lega and Five Star Movement during the so-called ‘refugee crisis’. Our analysis not only examines their policies and discourses, but also …
Tuscans are different’
This article sheds light on the so-far-neglected role of decision-makers’ subjective interpretations and cognitive factors in local asylum policymaking, complementing and challenging the existing literature explaining local policy responses to the 2015 European ‘refugee crisis’. How and why do local decision-makers interpret the environment in which they operate? Do subjective interpretations contribute to influence local asylum policymaking, and…
Making Sense of the Global
What does the research literature on refugee and asylum migration tell us about the impact of global norms and standards on the protection of asylum-seekers and refugees? Do we see the effective reach of global standards or do we see responses to be dependent on ‘local’ contexts? We conducted a systematic review of the literature across six case countries on two key issues in contemporary refugee governance: ‘mobility’ and ‘containment’. After co…
Data circulation and migration governance
Inderscience is a global company, a dynamic leading independent journal publisher disseminates the latest research across the broad fields of science, engineering and technology; management, public and business administration; environment, ecological economics and sustainable development; computing, ICT and internet/web services, and related areas
Data circulation and migration governance
Does the circulation of data of third-country nationals crossing the digitised and securitised EU border affect the distribution of responsibilities among institutions and organisations involved in EU migration governance, and, if so, how? This article proposes an innovative methodology based on social network analysis and cluster analysis to study data circulation throughout EU information systems and its effects for governance and applies it to…
Modes of Migration City Network Mobilization in the EU and US Multilevel Institutional Systems
The existing literature on the multilevel governance of migration in Europe and on migration federalism in the United States tends to assume that the modes of city network (CN) mobilization can be accounted for by different institutional opportunity structures which favor collaborative relations with higher levels of government and civil society in Europe and more contentions interactions in the United States. However, comparative research on how…
Did exposure to asylum seeking migration affect the electoral outcome of the ‘Alternative für Deutschland’ in Berlin? Evidence from the 2019 European elections
This article analyses the impact of exposure to asylum-seeking migration during the European 'refugee crisis' on votes for the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland at the 2019 European elections in Berlin. While other scholars investigated the relationship between locals' exposure to asylum-seekers and far-right voting, we analyse this relationship at a very small scale (electoral district level), adopting an innovative methodological approach, …
Exploring the EU’s status quo tendency in the migration policy field
Why have fundamental policy positions within the EU migration policy field remained relatively stable despite the changing composition of policy players and several 'external shocks' in the last two decades? To complement existing explanations of status quo tendencies in EU migration policy, this article applies a network-centred organizational approach shedding light on the policy environment in which policymakers form their understanding of pol…
Responding to the 'Refugee Crisis' or Shaping the 'Refugee Crisis'? Subnational Migration Policymaking as a Cause and Effect of Turbulence
This article sheds light on the cognitive dimension of subnational migration policymaking, showing how policymakers’ subjective understandings of migration dynamics can decisively shape the responses of subnational political systems to migration. It also reveals that these responses, in turn, can play a decisive role in the emergence of policymakers’ understandings of migration dynamics, suggesting that policymaking processes can themselves produ…
The Multi-Layered Governance of Migration in Italy
Integration Policy Networks and the Potential for Local Integration Policy Diffusion in European Small- and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas
This article aims to open a debate about the diffusion of local integration policies in European small- and medium-sized towns and rural areas (SMsTRAs), shedding light on local policymakers' relational environment and key features of policy networks that influence policy diffusion. Elaborating on data collected through 343 interviews across 34 SMsTRAs, analysed through social network analysis and qualitative content analysis, it concludes that t…
The Political Drivers of Horizontal Governance Relations in Small Localities
Refugee integration in small localities poses complex challenges that must be faced through “horizontal” cooperation between local governments, nonpublic and private actors. This article investigates how frequent and how collaborative/conflictual these horizontal governance relations are and whether, and how, they are influenced by political party control of local executives and the local strength of radical right parties (RRPs). Methodologically…
The politics of multi-level migration policymaking
This article develops and applies an innovative methodology based on social network analysis and cluster analysis to analyze the organization of policymaking relations in multi-level political systems, focusing on the migration policy field. In doing so, it addresses four limitations of existing research on multi-layered migration policymaking, which tends to focus on policy and legal documents rather than real-world interactions, conceptualize g…
Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking
Several scholars have observed persistent gaps between policy responses to complex, ambiguous and politicized problems (such as migration, climate change and the recent Covid-19 pandemic) and evidence or ‘facts’. While most existing explanations for this ‘evidence-policy gap’ in the migration policy field focus on knowledge availability and knowledge use by policymakers, this article shifts the focus to processes of knowledge formation, exploring…
Who is responsible for migrant integration? Contextual political drivers of governance actors’ responsibility frames in small and medium European localities
This article develops a comparative analysis of 'responsibility frames' of migrant integration - i.e. cognitive understandings about who should be responsible for migrant integration - held by actors involved in local integration governance across 36, rigorously selected, European small and medium towns and applies multilevel regression analysis to examine potential contextual and political drivers of the emergence of such frames. Our findings co…
From global to local
How and why are global norms ‘localised’? Existing studies suggest that the ‘localisation’ process can lead to different outcomes (adoption, rejection, adaptation, resistance) and that such process is driven by structural and institutional factors or the activities of ‘globalizing actors’. Complementing these works, we generate a new explanation, according to which the outcomes of the localisation process can be also powerfully mediated by the op…
Neither multilevel governance nor battleground. Understanding the politics of immigrant integration in small and medium European localities
This article explores the link between migration governance and politics in small and medium‐sized localities (SMsLs), asking: what modes of immigrant integration governance emerge in SMsLs?; how are these modes of governance shaped by political factors such as local governments' (LGs) political affiliation, the presence/absence of radical right parties (RPPs) in local councils and the political affiliation of governments at higher levels? To ans…
The drivers of multilevel governance as a mode of policymaking
This article analyses modes of policymaking related to asylum-seekers' reception in Italy and other European Union (EU) countries during the decade of the so-called 2015 asylum crisis. It shows that, while most EU countries experienced shifts towards more hierarchical modes of policymaking on asylum, Italy pursued a unique experience of multilevel governance (MLG) between 2014 and 2016, which was then dismantled in 2017. By looking at this MLG ex…
The politicisation of state-NGO relations in the field of human rights
This article develops an innovative quantitative analysis of the drivers of state–NGO relations in the field of human rights, specifically focusing on their political drivers. Drawing on cross-national survey data from 2,000+ reported interactions between NGOs, national and EU governmental actors in 26 EU Member States, we examine how national governments’ political orientation, the level of politicisation of human rights issues, and multilevel g…
Why do small Western European localities promote local integration policies? A qualitative comparative analysis
While European small and medium-sized towns (SMsTs) received growing numbers of humanitarian migrants since 2014, little is still known about the (long-term) integration policies they develop and the factors driving their emergence. Most existing works on local migration policy (including those on bigger cities) are based on few case studies, often cover ‘extreme cases’, and mostly focus on asylum-seekers’ reception rather than integration. Exist…
Political science (21 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (20 works) · Corporate governance (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Political economy (12 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (11 works)