Sessione 14 - The LTC reform puzzle facing the longevity challenge: policy and politics dimensions at work

Coordinatori / Coordinatrici di sessione: Laura Cataldi (Università di Torino), Cristiano Gori (Università di Trento), Franca Maino (Università di Milano)

Abstract:
In the wake of the pandemic crisis as a “focusing event” and thanks to the “window of opportunity” (Kingdon 1984) opened by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan, the possibility of an LTC reform as a third-order policy change (Hall 1993) has finally materialized in Italy, albeit with a considerable delay compared to other European and OECD countries.

The session aims to promote a collective reflection on the reform underway in Italy. The session intends to consider, also from a comparative perspective and welcoming analysis of other countries, policy and political factors that have made it possible now and those that have hindered it previously, despite the strong pressures associated with LTC as a “new social risk” (Ranci & Pavolini 2015).

The theoretical approaches developed for the interpretation of policy change and reform processes that “capture” the interaction between policy and politics dimensions are manifold: advocacy coalition framework; neo-institutionalist theories, including historical, rational choice, and organizational/sociological streams; punctuated-equilibrium theory; and narrative approach. 

Accepted paper:

• Polish senior care system. Yesterday, today and tomorrow di Beata Ziębińska (KEN Pedagogical University Krakow)
• The politics of long-term care: the Italian policy-making scenario di Celestina Valeria De Tommaso (Università degli Studi di Milano)
• Di quali informazioni statistiche disponiamo, e di quali avremmo bisogno, per monitorare l'applicazione della legge 33 di Mara Gasbarrone (inGenere)
• Policy preferences & interests of for-profit actors in welfare markets: The case of Ireland's nursing home sector di Nicholas O'Neil (University College Dublin)