Fostering Policy Change in Anti-Poverty Schemes in Italy

Still a Long Way to Go

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5933583
AutoresFranca Maino (0000-0002-3275-8102, University of Milan, autor de correspondencia), Celestina Valeria De Tommaso (0000-0003-1326-3742, University of Milan, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen11
Número8
Páginas327
Fecha de publicación2022-07-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci11080327
OpenAlexW4287877833
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas9

This article explores the poverty phenomenon and anti-poverty policies in Italy, before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to contribute to the mainstream literature on policy change, looking at how the convergence of multiple streams (problem, policy, and political) contributed to achieving the adoption of the Italian Minimum Income scheme, the Citizenship Income. Despite increasing political and public awareness of poverty, the 2022 Budget Law failed to achieve a structural reform-considering amendments proposed by the Ministry of Social Policy's Commission and the Italian Anti-Poverty Network-to improve both the equity and efficiency of the anti-poverty measure. Strong path dependency in the conceptualization and implementation of the anti-poverty tool is still evident; policy change thus has a long way to go

Basic needs · Culture of poverty · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Equity (law · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Public economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies