Overview
- Examines administrative reforms in Italy, focusing on the waves that took place since the Nineties, and more specifically on the last five years
- Develops interpretations and explanations using the theoretical tools of policy analysis
- Argues that one of the most relevant problems of the Italian public service is the weakness of independent performance evaluation
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Public Administration Reform
- policy change
- Italy
- New Public Management
- neo-Weberian State
- public governance
- implementation
- transnationalisation
- expert knowledge
- crisis-induced change
- policy learning
- OECD
- European Semester
- agenda setting
- decision making
- executive-legislature relations
- party politics
- corruption
- independent regulation
- National Anti-corruption Authority
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Antonio La Spina is Professor in the scientific sector of Sociology of Law, Deviance and Social Change (SPS/12) at the Luiss (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali ‘Guido Carli’), Rome, Italy. Among other topics, he writes on corruption, mafia-type organisations, analysis and evaluation of public policies, regulation, legislative decisions, development policies for the Mezzogiorno, social policy, poverty.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Public Administration Reform in Italy
Authors: Sabrina Cavatorto, Antonio La Spina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32288-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32287-8Published: 25 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32290-8Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32288-5Published: 24 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 147
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, European Politics, Legislative and Executive Politics, Democracy, Political Leadership