Stefania Ravazzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4409010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefania Ravazzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefania |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravazzi |
| SIGNATURE | RAVAZZI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6655-1839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
To Politicise or to Depoliticise, That Is the Question! On Public Encounters in Deliberative Processes
The relationship between public administrations and civil society has always been considered one of the nodes on which the quality of democratic living depends. An important part of this relationship is determined by so‐called public encounters, that is, the multiplicity of contacts and interactions between public personnel and citizens. In recent decades, participatory deliberative processes have generated new public encounters, whereby ordinary…
The Legal Institutionalisation of Public Deliberation and the Embeddedness in the Democratic System: The Italian Case
Over the last few decades, the setting up of deliberative processes has gained prominence in many democratic countries. These processes, which can be considered as small parentheses in longer and complex policy-making processes, are designed and managed so that citizens can discuss and confront a plurality of viewpoints and arguments together with politicians, public officials, experts, and stakeholders, and can then convey reasoned recommendatio…
Mini-publics, Social Legitimacy and Institutional Collaboration: Some Inherent Trade-offs and Three Alternative Design Strategies
Over the last few decades, an increasing number of governments have promoted the setting up of so called “mini-publics” to integrate policymaking processes in an attempt to improve policy decisions. This phenomenon has highlighted the importance of mini-publics to become fully integrated in our democratic systems. By presenting the findings of empirical research conducted on 29 local mini-publics, this paper aims to explain how mini-public design…
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: How emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes
Emergency policies are among the most challenging policies that policy makers have to deal with, because of their extreme seriousness, the lack of time, and the high uncertainties that are involved. Policy analyses have demonstrated that good structural and organizational strategies are important, but not sufficient, to systematically guarantee a high level of resiliency in response processes. Some scholars have therefore suggested the need to ve…
Explaining the contradictory creativity of neoliberalism: Evidence from the economic development agendas of four European second-tier cities
Neoliberalism has become dominant in many policy fields since the 1980s. However, it has evolved into multifarious and hybrid forms that have generated several variegations. This uneven development has also led to a series of systematic contradictions, which are now considered a distinctive attribute of the actually existing neoliberalism. The so-called contradictory creativity is considered inherent to neoliberal policies, but the mechanism thro…
When a government attempts to institutionalize and regulate deliberative democracy: The how and why from a process-tracing perspective
Over the last few decades, public deliberation has spread in many countries, but this has occurred mostly through experiments and pilot projects. Recently, some countries have taken some steps forward by introducing participatory policies in order to institutionalize citizen involvement practices in the policy-making processes. Among these countries, France and Italy, and Tuscany in particular, have been recognized as clear examples of democratic…
Explaining “Power to: Incubation and Agenda Building in an Urban Regime
The urban regime theory has placed the decisional power of urban policy makers in the foreground. From this perspective, enduring governing coalitions can in fact manage to change the consolidated urban policy mix to foster great changes in the social and economic context. The urban regime theory labels this capacity “power to.” Although this higher capacity has frequently been affirmed, the literature has neglected to look at the framing mechani…
Flexibility, Argumentation and Confrontation. How Deliberative Minipublics Can Affect Policies on Controversial Issues
Over the last few decades, deliberative minipublics have been used as inclusive and innovative practices to integrate traditional policy-making. Because of their policy-oriented aim, but also owing to the usually not legally-binding nature, some scholars have recently pointed out the importance of understanding how and to what extent they actually manage to influence the decisions of public authorities, especially when they deal with highly contr…
Deliberazione e conflitto: Evidenze da un'analisi comparata
The article aims at analyzing the impact of deliberation on the dynamics of the conflicts in the policy making processes. We shall argue whether and how deliberation succeeds in stopping the typical escalation of the conflicts, lowering protests, generating more open-minded institutional decisions, reducing stereotypes and developing a new constructive approach in decision making. The analysis is based on the comparison of three recent cases of d…
When a government attempts to institutionalize and regulate deliberative democracy: The how and why from a process-tracing perspective
Over the last few decades, public deliberation has spread in many countries, but this has occurred mostly through experiments and pilot projects. Recently, some countries have taken some steps forward by introducing participatory policies in order to institutionalize citizen involvement practices in the policy-making processes. Among these countries, France and Italy, and Tuscany in particular, have been recognized as clear examples of democratic…
Explaining “Power to: Incubation and Agenda Building in an Urban Regime
The urban regime theory has placed the decisional power of urban policy makers in the foreground. From this perspective, enduring governing coalitions can in fact manage to change the consolidated urban policy mix to foster great changes in the social and economic context. The urban regime theory labels this capacity “power to.” Although this higher capacity has frequently been affirmed, the literature has neglected to look at the framing mechani…
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: How emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes
Emergency policies are among the most challenging policies that policy makers have to deal with, because of their extreme seriousness, the lack of time, and the high uncertainties that are involved. Policy analyses have demonstrated that good structural and organizational strategies are important, but not sufficient, to systematically guarantee a high level of resiliency in response processes. Some scholars have therefore suggested the need to ve…
The Legal Institutionalisation of Public Deliberation and the Embeddedness in the Democratic System: The Italian Case
Over the last few decades, the setting up of deliberative processes has gained prominence in many democratic countries. These processes, which can be considered as small parentheses in longer and complex policy-making processes, are designed and managed so that citizens can discuss and confront a plurality of viewpoints and arguments together with politicians, public officials, experts, and stakeholders, and can then convey reasoned recommendatio…
Mini-publics, Social Legitimacy and Institutional Collaboration: Some Inherent Trade-offs and Three Alternative Design Strategies
Over the last few decades, an increasing number of governments have promoted the setting up of so called “mini-publics” to integrate policymaking processes in an attempt to improve policy decisions. This phenomenon has highlighted the importance of mini-publics to become fully integrated in our democratic systems. By presenting the findings of empirical research conducted on 29 local mini-publics, this paper aims to explain how mini-public design…
Deliberazione e conflitto: Evidenze da un'analisi comparata
The article aims at analyzing the impact of deliberation on the dynamics of the conflicts in the policy making processes. We shall argue whether and how deliberation succeeds in stopping the typical escalation of the conflicts, lowering protests, generating more open-minded institutional decisions, reducing stereotypes and developing a new constructive approach in decision making. The analysis is based on the comparison of three recent cases of d…
Flexibility, Argumentation and Confrontation. How Deliberative Minipublics Can Affect Policies on Controversial Issues
Over the last few decades, deliberative minipublics have been used as inclusive and innovative practices to integrate traditional policy-making. Because of their policy-oriented aim, but also owing to the usually not legally-binding nature, some scholars have recently pointed out the importance of understanding how and to what extent they actually manage to influence the decisions of public authorities, especially when they deal with highly contr…
When a government attempts to institutionalize and regulate deliberative democracy: The how and why from a process-tracing perspective
Over the last few decades, public deliberation has spread in many countries, but this has occurred mostly through experiments and pilot projects. Recently, some countries have taken some steps forward by introducing participatory policies in order to institutionalize citizen involvement practices in the policy-making processes. Among these countries, France and Italy, and Tuscany in particular, have been recognized as clear examples of democratic…
Explaining “Power to: Incubation and Agenda Building in an Urban Regime
The urban regime theory has placed the decisional power of urban policy makers in the foreground. From this perspective, enduring governing coalitions can in fact manage to change the consolidated urban policy mix to foster great changes in the social and economic context. The urban regime theory labels this capacity “power to.” Although this higher capacity has frequently been affirmed, the literature has neglected to look at the framing mechani…
Explaining the contradictory creativity of neoliberalism: Evidence from the economic development agendas of four European second-tier cities
Neoliberalism has become dominant in many policy fields since the 1980s. However, it has evolved into multifarious and hybrid forms that have generated several variegations. This uneven development has also led to a series of systematic contradictions, which are now considered a distinctive attribute of the actually existing neoliberalism. The so-called contradictory creativity is considered inherent to neoliberal policies, but the mechanism thro…
Beyond plans, governance structures, and organizational strategies: How emotional mechanisms can make a difference in emergency response processes
Emergency policies are among the most challenging policies that policy makers have to deal with, because of their extreme seriousness, the lack of time, and the high uncertainties that are involved. Policy analyses have demonstrated that good structural and organizational strategies are important, but not sufficient, to systematically guarantee a high level of resiliency in response processes. Some scholars have therefore suggested the need to ve…
Mini-publics, Social Legitimacy and Institutional Collaboration: Some Inherent Trade-offs and Three Alternative Design Strategies
Over the last few decades, an increasing number of governments have promoted the setting up of so called “mini-publics” to integrate policymaking processes in an attempt to improve policy decisions. This phenomenon has highlighted the importance of mini-publics to become fully integrated in our democratic systems. By presenting the findings of empirical research conducted on 29 local mini-publics, this paper aims to explain how mini-public design…
The Legal Institutionalisation of Public Deliberation and the Embeddedness in the Democratic System: The Italian Case
Over the last few decades, the setting up of deliberative processes has gained prominence in many democratic countries. These processes, which can be considered as small parentheses in longer and complex policy-making processes, are designed and managed so that citizens can discuss and confront a plurality of viewpoints and arguments together with politicians, public officials, experts, and stakeholders, and can then convey reasoned recommendatio…
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…
To Politicise or to Depoliticise, That Is the Question! On Public Encounters in Deliberative Processes
The relationship between public administrations and civil society has always been considered one of the nodes on which the quality of democratic living depends. An important part of this relationship is determined by so‐called public encounters, that is, the multiplicity of contacts and interactions between public personnel and citizens. In recent decades, participatory deliberative processes have generated new public encounters, whereby ordinary…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Deliberation (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Deliberative democracy (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works)