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Le politiche scolastiche: sempre incompiute tra riforme radicali e riforme incrementali
No full textRicostruzione delle riforme della scuola negli ultimi 25 anni operata sulla base delle teorie del Policy Desig
L’età delle riforme incompiute
No full textil Capitolo offre una interpretazioen generale della dinamiche delle politiche pubbliche italiane negli ultimi 25 ann
Le politiche universitarie al tempo del Covid-19: le risposte parallele
No full textIn the HE sector, two different policy dynamics have simultaneously taken place during
the pandemic. The first dynamics has been characterized by incremental change, mostly of
a routine nature and carried on by internal actors. It has consisted of a series of relatively
minor measures, presented as a response to the health and economic emergency, but
prompted by a traditional vision of the problems of the university sector and its possible
solutions. Their objective has been to improve the internal functioning of the HE system
by ensuring greater financial resources and greater autonomy. The second dynamics, on
the other hand, stems from a vision of the university and research system as a key factor
in the transformation of the Italian economy into a more knowledge intensive system –
a transformation made necessary by the deep economic crisis. The main actors in this
dynamics have been external to the university system: namely, the national government
and its networks of experts and consultants that have been in charge of drafting the
various versions of the Italian recovery plan. In all these versions – from the first general
proposals to the final, very detailed, draft of the PNRR presented to the European Commission
– the university’s mission to provide highly educated human capital and useful
knowledge to its socio-economic system becomes paramount and inspires some radical
changes. In a sense, we may say that the pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis have
been a «critical juncture»: besides fostering the participation of new actors in the HE
policies, in fact, they have weakened the role of traditional actors and neutralized to some
extent the entrenched veto powers. However, these two parallel responses will produce
all their effects in the next few years, and it remains to be seen whether the two policy
dynamics can be effectively integrated and whether the ambitious PNRR objectives will
be implemented
Le Politiche Pubbliche in Italia
No full textIl libro offre gli strumenti più aggiornati per uno studio efficace delle politiche pubbliche nel nostro paese. Nella loro analisi empiricamente fondata, e sulla base di specifici riferimenti teorico-interpretativi, gli autori - tutti qualificati esperti della materia - illustrano le caratteristiche e la portata del policy change (in termini di cambiamenti dei processi e della performance) avvenuto nei 25 anni della cosiddetta «seconda repubblica»
No good recommendation without a mechanistic explanation? : the case of higher education governance
Full text linkIn higher education, reforms have long been driven by the theory that system performance depends on governance design; yet it remains far from clear which arrangements can actually deliver results, as shown in the analysis of various streams of research devoted to assessing performance in higher education. We reason that such a question can be better answered if research aims for a mechanistic explanation and operationalizes it to avoid the shortcomings of both ‘variable-oriented’ and ‘case-oriented’ strategies. We therefore develop a ‘diversity-oriented’ mechanistic framework that explains differences in performance by differences in policy tool mixes, which we define as governance regimes. This set of policy tools is meant as a configuration of properties of delivery vehicles, decision-making design, and accountability design. Such an explanatory focus has many advantages: policy tools are manipulable, as they depend on political and administrative decisions; moreover, they are efficient causes, as they trigger mechanisms at the individual level that directly account for both individual and institutional behavior and, hence, performance. Tool-based explanations therefore can more easily allow for policy learning and transfer than can ‘remote’ constitutional, historical, or cultural accounts
Il parlamento italiano fra logica di governo e logica istituzionale : molto fumo per quale arrosto?
No full textGovernance reforms and organizational dilemmas in European universities
No full textThe aim of this article is to examine how European universities, confronted with national reforms of their governance, have tried to resolve the dilemmas traditionally associated with internal reorganization, the redistribution of power, and the reformulation of teaching and research policies. The article does not focus on the central governance of universities-which is the object of most current analyses-but on their "peripheral" units and decision-making processes. There are four basic organizational dilemmas encountered when structuring the internal organization and functioning of universities. They concern the degree of differentiation and integration of the organizational units, the role and modes of action of middle management, the search for synergies and the optimal extent of aggregation, and the degree of centralization or decentralization of functions and processes. The article offers a comparative analysis of eight universities in four European countries-the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and France-aimed at understanding how these universities have dealt with such organizational dilemmas
The Italian Parliament twixt the Logic of Government and the Logic of Institutions : (Much Ado about Something - but What Exactly?)
No full textChanging governance in Universities Italian : higher education in comparative perspective
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