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Teoria dell’organizzazione e giustizia. I processi organizzativi nei sistemi giustizia
No full textAccording to many scholars, studying judicial systems means dealing with its structural and functional configurations. Differently, as some contemporary authors propose to do applying the approach of the political science and the organizational studies, the analysis of justice systems is devoted to fully grasp the interactions that connect the law to justice, as public service offered to the citizens. Overcoming the limits of a purely legal and formal approach, the political science driven approach to the organization of justice systems aims to trace the concrete and real interaction among actors, powers and resources that is crucial to understand the contemporary functioning of the justice systems.
In this scenario, the article aims to reflect on the added value, both at theoretical and empirical level, of a shifting from a structural approach to a systemic-procedural one in the judicial studies.
The article, based on direct experience in empirical research and on subsequent results, deals with three theoretical questions: 1. what does it mean to study justice systems as complex organizations? 2. Why is it necessary to move from the study of “judicial systems” to the analysis of the “justice systems”, overcoming the boundaries of judicial offices? 3. How could the integration of concepts and methods from both political science and organizational studies support the development of new research perspectives and topics
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Le elezioni hanno portato al ritorno del centrosinistra al governo della città dopo 24 anni. Tuttavia, il sindaco non proviene dal centrosinistra e la sua esperienza politica è legata alla seconda giunta Pizzarott
A one-fits-all solution for Italian public sector. Inter-organizational collaboration and mergers everywhere under the austerity
No full textDuring the years of the global crisis, balanced budget goal and expenditure containment were the driver of most legislative provisions and reforms promoted by Italian governments.
Broad reforms in several policy sectors have been thus enhanced, mostly by merging and joining organizational units with the aim at minimizing redundancy and wastes and under the auspices of a “renewed” rationalization.
Our paper will present the result of a collaborative research project aiming at mapping these reforms using a cross-sectorial perspective. Four different policy sectors have been analysed – local government, health, judicial services, local public services (public transport, water and waste management) – with the purpose of understanding the rationale of these measures, the effects they produced on the Italian public sector and the “policy ideas” behind them.
In particular, some examples of collaborative efficiency measures could be found in the recent reforms: from procurement syndicates (e.g. in the local government) to forms of one-stop-shops (e.g. in the justice sector), from shared services arrangements (with ‘back-office’ activities and function sharing) and shared infrastructure facilities (like e-gov platform) in all four sectors.
From a theoretical background the evolution of the NPM ideas will be discussed as well as if and how these types of measure could be conceived as post-NPM tools. By using the policy design concept, we will then focus on hybridization and layering, which characterize the policy reform process in Italy. The implications of such collaborative measures for the organizational theory and behaviour will be addressed. In particular, it seems interesting to assess if and how the abovementioned shared and collaborative services and institutions, really bring to changes in the Italian organizational structure and culture
Countries you go, asylum adjudication you find”. Asylum appeals implementation arrangements, actors’ discretion and organizational practices.
No full textThe article investigates the implementation of a crucial area of the EU asylum policy, which is asylum adjudication at the appeal stage. According to the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), Member States must guarantee asylum seekers an effective remedy against first- instance decisions. However, the EU policy framework leaves space for each country to choose its implementation model. Filling a gap in the literature on asylum policy implementation, the article explores the implementation arrangements for asylum appeals in three countries, Italy, France, and Greece, which adopt different models. More precisely, relying on Strategic Analysis of Organizations (Crozier 1963; Crozier and Friedberg 1977) and the Street-Level Bureaucracy (SLB) approach, the article addresses how specific elements of the implementation arrangement influence organizational autonomy, implementing actors’ routines and perceptions, as well as the degree of discretion. Moreover, it investigates the influence of de facto organizational practices on policy performance. The analysis of qualitative data suggests that different implementation arrangements, such as the nature of the body, the appointment system, and mechanisms of vertical accountability, shape de facto individual and organizational practices and actors’ spaces for discretion. This process seems to impact policy performance, particularly in terms of uniformity, which is a core objective within the broader European policy framework for asylum adjudication
EL MOVIMIENTO POR UNA JUSTICIA GLOBAL EN ESPAÑA. ACTIVISTAS, IDENTIDAD Y CARTOGRAFÍA POLÍTICA DE LA ALTERGLOBALIZACIÓN
No full textA shallow rationalisation? ‘Merger mania‘ and side-effects in the reorganisation of public-service delivery
No full textThis article focuses on the mix of reorganisation measures recently
adopted by Italian governments in the delivery of public services
in four policy sectors that are (co)managed at different levels of
government, but all mostly delivered locally. The aim is twofold: to
understand whether a single, coherent approach to rationalisation
can be identified in the policy provisions; and how – and how
much – the onset of austerity affected governments’ choices. Little
attention has in fact so far been paid to the task of providing an
overall, cross-sectoral analysis of the changes that have been
made to the organisation of public intervention at the local level,
and especially those bodies actually providing public services to
citizens. The empirical evidence adduced shows that the recent
changes in the Italian administrative geography have been the
effect of a cost-cutting-oriented, recentralising trend reflecting
a one-size-fits-all solution for each and every policy sector: consolidation
through ‘merger mania’ or upscaling. Moreover, the
reorganisation measures described for the various policy sectors
have had side effects with significant political implications, especially
as far as centre-periphery relations are concerned
Up-scaling social innovation in asylum adjudication: the case of the Migrantes project in Sicily
Full text linktaly, as other European countries, saw a dramatic increase in international protection claims, heavily impacting the workload of Italian lower courts entitled to re-examine refusal decisions on asylum. The Court of Catania, in Sicily, was the most affected by this situation due to its geographical position, so that in 2016 it registered an increase of 514% in its new proceedings related to international protection. This surge in asylum claims affected the proper functioning of the judiciary and the whole asylum policy, as claims remained unsolved for a long time. In order to face these challenges, from 2015 to 2017 the project Migrantes, funded by the European Social Fund, was developed in the Court of Catania with the aim to better organise and speed up judicial procedures concerning asylum claims, the first and crucial stage of the refugee’s integration process. The present article offers an analysis of the project through the lens of the Social Innovation framework, adopting a multi-scalar perspective. In particular, it shows the innovative solutions adopted by the local court, the opportunity structures existing at local, regional, national and EU levels. Moreover, it focuses on the consolidation process that followed up-scaling dynamics and on the factors facilitating it
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