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Replication Data for: Italy’s return to Africa: between external and domestic drivers |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/JANYF4 |
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2023-05-09 |
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Carbone, Giovanni, 2023, "Replication Data for: Italy’s return to Africa: between external and domestic drivers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JANYF4, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Replication Data for: Italy’s return to Africa: between external and domestic drivers |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/JANYF4 |
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Authoring Entity: |
Carbone, Giovanni (Università degli Studi di Milano) |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Carbone, Giovanni |
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Carbone, Giovanni |
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Date of Deposit: |
2023-01-03 |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JANYF4 |
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Social Sciences, Africa, Italy’s foreign policy, policy diffusion, process tracing |
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A steadily increasing number of European countries recently adopted their own ‘Africa policies’. The temporal and geographical clustering of such plans suggests that a policy diffusion process might have been at play, with the introduction and the shape of a policy in a given country being influenced by those of other countries. This paper tests the policy diffusion hypothesis through an in-depth analysis of the case of Italy, a country that in recent times stepped up substantially its engagement with sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the origins and features of Rome’s policy towards the region, however, shows that external influences were much more limited than expected. It was primarily two country-specific drivers – namely, the enduring effects of the European debt crisis on the Italian economy and a sudden and massive, if temporary, increase in irregular migration – which pushed Italy towards Africa and shaped its approach. The paper thus sheds light on how the marked resemblance of policies almost contemporaneously adopted by distinct EU member states – that is, a tight succession and a highly interconnected environment strongly pointing at cross-country influences – can hide motives and processes that are actually highly specific to each of them and essentially by-pass policy diffusion dynamics. |
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10.1017/ipo.2023.2 |
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Carbone G (2023). Italy’s return to Africa: between external and domestic drivers. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2023.2 |
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Data - replication material for IPSR paper (Dec. 2022).xlsx |
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