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Cybersecurity Policy in the European Union. Comparing the Design of Cybersecurity Agencies in Italy and Germany with the Institutional Grammar

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Jonathan Kamkhaji, Mauro Santaniello & Giancarlo Vecchi

Abstract

The article aims at contributing to advance the study of cybersecurity policies by investigating one of the primary and most consequential processes in the cybersecurity policy field, i.e. the establishment of national cybersecurity agencies. Particularly, an empirical comparative analysis on two cases, i.e. the German and the Italian national agencies for cybersecurity, is carried out by deploying Ostrom’s rule typologies categorization on the legal texts that establish and discipline the two agencies. The evidence arising from the analysis is functional to the evaluation of and the comparison between the institutional design of the two cybersecurity agencies, and, more broadly, to the elaboration of considerations concerning general trends brought about by digitalization in the public sector.

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Mauro Santaniello

Mauro Santaniello is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Salerno, where he teaches Internet Governance, Digital Policy, and Local Public Policy. Mauro is also Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), where he works within the Digital Governance Cluster. Mauro is the director of the Internet & Communication Policy Center (ICPC), and the scientific coordinator of the Salerno Winter School on Internet Governance (SWING). Mauro is also Principal Investigator of the PRIN project on "Digital Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective: State Authority, Corporate Power and Fundamental Rights in Cyberspace", funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. He is also the coordinator of the GIG-ARTS international conference series. His main research interests include internet governance, digital sovereignty, digital constitutionalism, cybersecurity policy, and geopolitics of information networks.

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