456 research outputs found
Process Tracing Change Management: The Reform of the Italian Judiciary
No full textPurpose. In 2009, the Italian government started a national programme for improving the management of judicial offices. The programme implementation has been patchy, with only a few cases performing satisfactorily. Against such background, the Law Court of Milan achieved exceptional results and it is now recognised as a good practice and reference for Italy. The article investigates this case study, in order to reconstruct the local conditions supporting the success of the national programme.
Design/Methodology/Approach. The article tests a theory of the programme based on leaders’ engagement, their access to managerial knowledge, and the transfer and consolidation of such knowledge. The research applies process tracing, a qualitative method that uses Bayesian reasoning to improve the accuracy of within-case inferences.
Findings. The analysis shows that programme and context features interacted to support change. In particular, while the national programme successfully provided resources for both leaders' engagement and knowledge access, the transfer and consolidation of managerial knowledge was largely due to the performance of a brokerage function performed locally between consultants and magistrates.
Originality/value. The article sheds light on the local conditions for change management and does so by using an innovative qualitative method that improves the reliability of within-case inferences
Didattica interattiva e giochi educativi digitali. P-Cube: insegnare la complessità delle decisioni pubbliche nelle democrazie contemporanee
No full textIl paper affronta il tema dell’introduzione di strumenti di didattica interattiva negli insegnamenti universitari e nei corsi di formazione, con riferimento specifico al ruolo dei giochi educativi digitali. Questi temi sono stati oggetto di un’ampia letteratura, che si è ancor più sviluppata con le trasformazioni tecnologiche degli ultimi decenni e, recentemente, in conseguenza della pandemia Covid-19. La seconda parte del paper è dedicata alla presentazione di un gioco educativo digitale progettato e realizzato per insegnare come si prendono le decisioni pubbliche; una prima versione completa del gioco è stata testata in due corsi nell’anno accademico 2021-22 e sono discussi i principali risultati in termini di miglioramento della trasmissione dei concetti teorici, di sviluppo dell’interazione tra docente e studenti e tra studenti, e, infine, di funzionalità del supporto digital
Bruno Dente, la traiettoria di Policy Analyst e la sua eredità
No full textIl contributo ricostruisce la traiettoria di studioso, insegnante e di policy advisor di Bruno Dent
The mechanisms of food waste prevention: Theory, design, and practice for changing behaviours
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The structure of 1,3-trans-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,4-trans-di(4-pyridyl) cyclobutane, a photodimer of 4'-chloro-4-Styrylpyridine
No full textCybersecurity Politics and Policies: Actors, Strategies and Challenges
No full textThis introduction highlights the reasons and opportunities why a policy approach to the study of cybersecurity is appropriate and summarises the contributions in the special issue. The common thread linking all the articles is the institutionalisa-tion processes of cybersecurity policy, a perspective which makes it possible to an-alyse actors, values, activities, national and supranational trajctories, and connects the interventions with other policy domains. The article allows the editors of the special issue to delve into some of the characteristic themes of the cybersecurity debate, and in particular those of governance dynamics, awareness development, and the toolbox characteristic of this field. Some proposals for future research are outlined at the end of the contribution
Cybersecurity Politics and Policies: Actors, Strategies and Challenges
No full textThis introduction highlights the reasons and opportunities why a policy approach to
the study of cybersecurity is appropriate and summarises the contributions in the spe-
cial issue. The common thread linking all the articles is the institutionalisation pro-
cesses of cybersecurity policy, a perspective which makes it possible to analyse actors,
values, activities, national and supranational trajctories, and connects the interventions
with other policy domains. The article allows the editors of the special issue to delve
into some of the characteristic themes of the cybersecurity debate, and in particular
those of governance dynamics, awareness development, and the toolbox characteristic
of this field. Some proposals for future research are outlined at the end of the contributio
The Ross Sea formation: enquiring the sensitivity of basin architecture to prior conditions, with numerical models and a parameter search
No full textThe basins composing the 1000-km wide West Antarctica Rift System (WARS), derived from extensional dynamics lasting from the Cretaceous to the Middle Neogene, bear evidence of a peculiar evolution through time: a transition from a diffuse to a localized thinning style and a migration of the focus of deformation, which likely progressed towards the cratonic domains of West Antarctica. Using the current observations, we aim at identifying which inherited starting conditions [1] result in outcomes compatible with the present-time structures and which do not allow so, unless other factors are accounted for.
To this aim, we turn to an extensive grid search in the parameter space, running a large number of forward numerical models to cover the possible permutations of parameters under test. We use the open source Underworld2 code [2] with a simplified scheme of starting conditions and kinematics boundaries, for lithospheric-scale 2-D thermomechanical models. We analyse the results obtained by changing a great number of parameters, including initial geometries of the crust and lithosphere, different rheologies, inherited structures, such as strain-weakening scars and thermal remnants of slabs.
We identify that a high crustal thickness (more than 45 km) is required to accommodate the first rifting phase (170 km ca. of cumulated extension, [3]) without producing crustal necking and eventual ocean formation. Parameters that favour a weaker strength profile, chiefly temperature (due to a thicker crust and/or a shallow lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary), are also required to avoid an early transition to localized deformation, in agreement with previous studies [4]. Smaller scale features, such as partition in multiple sub-basins, require additional factors, such as inherited weak-zone seeds (“scars”) in the crust and mantle, which are likely remnants of previous compressive phases [5].
[1] Perron, P., Le Pourhiet, L., Guiraud, M., Vennin, E., Moretti, I., Portier, É., & Konaté, M. (2021). Control of inherited accreted lithospheric heterogeneity on the architecture and the low, long-term subsidence rate of intracratonic basins. BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 192. https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2020038
[2] Mansour, J., Giordani, J., Moresi, L., Beucher, R., Kaluza, O., Velic, M., Farrington, R., Quenette, S., & Beall, A. (2020). Underworld2: Python Geodynamics Modelling for Desktop, HPC and Cloud. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(47), 1797. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01797
[3] Brancolini, G., Busetti, M., Coren, F., De Cillia, C., Marchetti, M., De Santis, L., Zanolla, C., Cooper, A.K., Cochrane, G.R., Zayatz, I., Belyaev, V., Knyazev, M., Vinnikovskaya, O., Davey, F.J., Hinz, K., 1995. ANTOSTRAT Project, seismic stratigraphic atlas of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. In: Cooper, A.K., Barker, P.F., Brancolini, G., (Eds.), Geology and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin. Antarctic Research Series, vol. 68, https://doi.org/10.1029/AR068
[4] Huerta, A. D., & Harry, D. L. (2007). The transition from diffuse to focused extension: Modeled evolution of the West Antarctic Rift system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 255(1–2), 133–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.011
[5] Talarico, F., Ghezzo, C., & Kleinschmidt, G. (2022). The Antarctic Continent in Gondwana: a perspective from the Ross Embayment and Potential Research Targets for Future Investigations. In Antarctic Climate Evolution (pp. 219–296). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819109-5.00004-
Cenozoic geodynamics of the Ross sea region, Antarctica: Crustal extension, intraplate strike-slip faulting, and tectonic inheritance
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