Award for IGOP researcher Nicolás Barbieri
The journal Critical Policy Studies chose an article by Nicolás Barbieri, IGOP researcher and lecturer in Political Science, as the best paper published in its journal by a young researcher. The article analyses why and how public policies change through the study of the evolution of cultural policies in Catalonia.
In the distinction awarded article, Nicolás Barbieri applies an original model which adapts and applies the concept of frame alignmentto understand and respond to why and how public policies change and, in particular, to when and how political discourses influence changes in public policies. All this based on the analysis of the evolution in cultural policies in Catalonia.
In his article, the author concludes that the continuity of public policies is more probable when government legitimacy is high in a certain area, which in this case is culture; and that a crisis in legitimacy opens the door to the possibility of changes in policies; and that a crisis of this kind is not enough to bring about substantial changes in public policies: the most significant changes are produced when goverments try and achieve to reach an acceptable level of legitimacy through their discourses.
Nicolás Barbieri, 37 years old, holds a PhD in Political Science and is researcher of the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) and lecturer of the Department of Political Science and Public Law at the UAB. His research focuses on the analysis of changes in public policies, particularly those related to society and culture. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Montpellier, France, and at the Argentinian universities of Nacional de Avellaneda and Nacional de Tres de Febrero. He has published books, book chapters and articles in international journals, all of which can be consulted at the following link. He is also author of the blog http://ubicarse.net