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Governance Arrangements for Transboundary Issues: Lessons from the Food Waste Programs of Italian Regions
Author(s) -
Righettini Maria Stella,
Lizzi Renata
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/ropr.12360
Subject(s) - corporate governance , typology , variety (cybernetics) , government (linguistics) , multi level governance , public policy , business , public economics , empirical evidence , empirical research , regional science , environmental planning , economics , economic system , sociology , economic growth , computer science , environmental science , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , anthropology , finance
Focusing on transboundary issues contributes to highlighting how new governance modes can emerge from increasing interdependence and complexity in public policies. This article analyzes food waste as a transboundary issue that cuts across different policy subsystems (PSs), intersects multiple levels of government, and calls into question consolidated policy making for new modes of governance. The analytical framework provides a multidimensional approach and a new typology of governance arrangements to be used in empirical research. Evidence from an Italian case study and an empirical investigation of 20 regional food waste programs shows that regions can adopt different driving ideas and can activate a variety of governance arrangements and differentiated, as well as viable, modes of integration between consolidated PSs. The article argues that different tool mixes combined with different levels of governance complexity may lead to a variety of governance arrangements and a differentiated likelihood of policy integration.