State, Market and Social Regulation: New Perspectives on Italy

by Peter Lange, Marino Regini

Overview

Recent scholarship on the role of the state in designing regulatory policies in industrialized democracies has identified a shift from the increasingly direct role of the state in the 1970s to a diminishing role in the 1980s. The question of the changing role of the state is particularly interesting in the Italian case, where direct state intervention has been extensive but also highly inefficient and susceptible to the pressures of private interests. The essays in this volume provide a systematic analysis of the contemporary means of regulation employed in a range of economic and social policy areas in Italy. They support the general thesis that policy in Italy is characterized by a complex interaction of state, market and social regulation, rather than by a general trend away from state intervention. Originally published in Italian in 1988.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521354530
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/29/1989
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction: interests and institutions - forms of social regulation and public policy-making Peter Lange and Marino Regini; Part I. Models of Regulations: 1. Unregulated regulators: parties and party government Gianfranco Pasquino; 2. Politics and policies in Italy Bruno Dente and Gloria Regonini; 3. Protest and regulation: the interaction of state and society in the cycle of 1965–74 Sonia Stefanizzi and Sidney Tarrow; Part II. Regulation of the Economy: 4. Politics, institutional features, and the government of industry Maurizio Ferrera; 5. The Italian labor market: between state control and social regulation Emilio Reyneri; 6. The divorce of the Banca d'Italia and the Italian treasury: a case study of central bank independence Gerald A. Epstein and Juliet B. Schor; Part III. Industrial Relations and its Actors: 7. Criteria of regulation in Italian industrial relations: a case of weak institutions Gianprimo Cella; 8. The representation of business interests as a mechanism of social regulation Antonio Chiesi and Alberto Martinelli; Part IV. The Welfare State: 9. Public and private in the Italian welfare system Massimo Paci; 10. Public intervention and health policy: an analysis of tendencies in progress Elena Granaglia; Conclusion: the Italian case between continuity and change Peter Lange and Marino Regini; Bibliography; Index.