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100			_aCastaldo, Antonino and Verzichelli, Luca _955029
245			_aBehind the technocratic challenge: Old and new alternatives to party government in Italy
260			_aInternational Political Science Review
300			_a46(1), Jan, 2025: p.74-90
520			_aThe growing presence of technocrats in contemporary governments has emerged as a relevant phenomenon worldwide. Italy, once known as a paradigmatic case of party government and now identified as the promised land of technocracy, constitutes a crucial case to test the major short-term (critical junctures) and long-term (complexity of policy-making; party decline) factors identified to explain this phenomenon. Our analysis is based on two innovative tools: a new dataset updated to the current back-to-politics Meloni Italian government, including all the cases of the ‘technocratic decade’ (2010s); and a new typology combining partisanship and expertise, which allows us to overcome dichotomous categorizations equating technocrats and non-partisans. This more accurate and updated picture of minister profiles in Italy unveils unexpected dynamics and allows us to reassess both previous findings on the Italian case and the explanatory power of the tested theories on the growing diffusion of technocrats in contemporary governments.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01925121231216438
650			_aItaly, Technocracy, Party government, Critical junctures, Party decline. _955030
773			_aInternational Political Science Review
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