Welfare, politiche pubbliche e società civile. Un'analisi dell'applicazione del'accesso civico generalizzato (Foia) in Italia

The purpose of this article is an investigation on the use of the so-called Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in Italy. A FOIA law was enacted in Italy in 2016 and became operational in 2017. In particular, by using different datasets, we try to correlate the use of FOIA by associations and organizations of civil society to their actions either as producers of social cohesion or as actors of welfare initiatives. Access to information, by increasing information capital of actors, enables the management of complexity