Tesi etd-10102024-092409
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Tipo di tesi
Corso Ordinario Secondo Livello
Autore
BERNARDI, SAMUELE
URN
etd-10102024-092409
Titolo
Policy learning and policy change in times of crises. The case of the EU’s action against disinformation
Struttura
Classe Scienze Sociali
Corso di studi
SCIENZE POLITICHE - SCIENZE POLITICHE
Commissione
Tutor Prof. PIRNI, ALBERTO EUGENIO ERMENEGILDO
Relatore Prof. BRESSANELLI, EDOARDO
Presidente Prof. SOMMARIO, EMANUELE GIUSEPPE
Membro Prof.ssa LORETONI, ANNA
Membro Prof.ssa HENRY, BARBARA
Membro Prof.ssa CAPONE, FRANCESCA
Membro Prof.ssa CRISTIANI, ELOISA
Membro Prof. SOLINAS, MARCO
Relatore Prof. BRESSANELLI, EDOARDO
Presidente Prof. SOMMARIO, EMANUELE GIUSEPPE
Membro Prof.ssa LORETONI, ANNA
Membro Prof.ssa HENRY, BARBARA
Membro Prof.ssa CAPONE, FRANCESCA
Membro Prof.ssa CRISTIANI, ELOISA
Membro Prof. SOLINAS, MARCO
Parole chiave
- Crisis
- Disinformation
- Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference
- Policy change
- Policy learning
Data inizio appello
26/11/2024;
Disponibilità
parziale
Riassunto analitico
Over the past years, misinformation, disinformation and influence operations have increasingly challenged information integrity within the European Union (EU) and its Member States. This rising challenge has occurred within a context featuring growing pressure on the EU’s decision- and policy-making caused by a series of crises that have hit the EU in recent years. The concepts of “poli-crises”, “permanent state of emergency” and “permacrisis” have been proposed to encompass this new reality. The increased salience and intensity of mis/disinformation incidents surrounding certain crises have prompted the EU to take action and learn from previous experiences to tackle this threat.
Against this backdrop, this thesis aims to understand to what extent the recent crises have affected the processes and mechanisms of policy learning and policy change with respect to the EU’s action against disinformation. It focuses on specific crises, namely (i) the 2014 Russian illegal annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of Eastern Ukraine, (ii) Brexit, the 2016 US Presidential elections and the 2019 European elections, (iii) the COVID-19 pandemic, (iv) the 2022 Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and, ultimately, the 2024 European elections. To do so, it develops a more fine-grained understanding of crises, which are unpacked into their different components. These are then associated with the dynamics relating to policy learning and policy change within this policy domain over the period analysed.
Building upon the existing literature and semi-structured interviews with practitioners in the field, this thesis argues that, in the context of the EU’s action against disinformation, the relationship among the components of the triad (crisis, policy learning and policy change) is not as straightforward as one could imagine. Initial expectations regarding the correlation between acute crises and stringent policy change are only partially confirmed, like the relationship between slow-/fast-burning crises and the anticipated policy learning mechanisms. Hypotheses on intra-crisis learning in sufficiently long crises and expectations on the impact of organisational factors and scope conditions on the dynamics of policy learning and policy change are instead upheld by empirical evidence.
Against this backdrop, this thesis aims to understand to what extent the recent crises have affected the processes and mechanisms of policy learning and policy change with respect to the EU’s action against disinformation. It focuses on specific crises, namely (i) the 2014 Russian illegal annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of Eastern Ukraine, (ii) Brexit, the 2016 US Presidential elections and the 2019 European elections, (iii) the COVID-19 pandemic, (iv) the 2022 Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and, ultimately, the 2024 European elections. To do so, it develops a more fine-grained understanding of crises, which are unpacked into their different components. These are then associated with the dynamics relating to policy learning and policy change within this policy domain over the period analysed.
Building upon the existing literature and semi-structured interviews with practitioners in the field, this thesis argues that, in the context of the EU’s action against disinformation, the relationship among the components of the triad (crisis, policy learning and policy change) is not as straightforward as one could imagine. Initial expectations regarding the correlation between acute crises and stringent policy change are only partially confirmed, like the relationship between slow-/fast-burning crises and the anticipated policy learning mechanisms. Hypotheses on intra-crisis learning in sufficiently long crises and expectations on the impact of organisational factors and scope conditions on the dynamics of policy learning and policy change are instead upheld by empirical evidence.
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