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Review of A modern guide to public policy, by Giliberto Capano y Michael Howlett (eds.)
No full textReseñaReseña del libro “A Modern Guide to Public Policy” (versión electrónica) de Giliberto Capano y Michael Howlett (eds.)
Rincorrere, rincorrere, rincorrere. AntiCovid-19 Italian Style
Full text linkThis paper analyses the characteristics of the Italian policy dynamics in managing the pandemic
during the first year of the outbreak. By assuming that the Covid-19 crisis must be defined as
a creeping crisis, the analytical focus sheds light on how the characteristics of the recurrent
cycles of agenda setting, decision-making and implementation, and their intersections with the
political, institutional, organizational, and digital capacities have shaped the Italian response to
the pandemic. What emerges is that decision-makers have reiterated the same cognitive and
behavioral schemes both in defining the problem and in taking the decisions, while implementation
has been deeply affected by weak institutional capacity, marginal consideration of digital
tools, and conflictual inter-governmental relations. Thus, since the beginning, the Italian response
policy has always been a step behind in relation to the pandemic, and has never shown any
attempt at learning from the experience
Studying public policy: a mechanistic perspective
No full textThis chapter shows “why” and “how” a mechanistic perspective does
improve the analytical, explanatory and prescriptive dimensions of the study
of public policy
Systemic Governance: Convergence or Hybridization?
No full textystemic governance in higher education – that is, the way in which higher education policy is coordinated through institutionalized arrangements and practices – has received particular attention from scholars over the last decades, the exact period during which the inherited characteristics of HEs have been significantly changed by the effects of massification, welfare state financial crises, and globalization/internationalization. These changes have been mostly the effects of governmental policies that have apparently following the same template to solve a common set of problems (how to make higher education more competitive, inclusive, effective and accountable). However, these consistent shifts in systemic governance of higher education do not look to have really driven to a global convergence towards the same way to organize the systemic arrangement of higher education governance. This chapter focuses exactly on the question of whether and how there has been convergence in the process of reforms of systemic higher education. The conclusion, based on a policy instrumental perspective, is that more the convergence there has been a kind of complex process of hybridization
Theorizing the Governance of Higher Education: Beyond the ‘Republic of Scholars’ Ontology
No full textScholarship on higher education has long been dominated by organisational and functionalist literatures, leading to what we argue has been a ‘republic of scholars’ ontology which has denuded the prospects for theory development or explanatory models able to account for the configuration and changing patterns of higher education governance. To address this problem, this chapter proposes three correctives to traditional analogical frameworks. First, abandoning standpoint-guildism perspectives and adopting political economy and market segmentation lenses of inquiry. Second, abandoning methods of inquiry that situate the locus of change in higher education governance predominantly in mechanistic institutional-group processes and adopting instead frameworks that focus on the sociology of goods, their classification and value construction (esteem, reputation) as central drivers in market stratification and coextensive processes of divergence and convergence. And third, adopting more analytically rigorous conceptions of convergence and governance as a means of overcoming what we term has been a false empiricism; i.e., the tendency to conflate policy labels and political rhetoric with policy instruments and governance tools to produce overly inflated images of convergent higher education governance trajectories
sj-docx-1-ras-10.1177_00208523231188506 - Supplemental material for Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ras-10.1177_00208523231188506 for Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey by Giliberto Capano, Alice Cavalieri and Andrea Pritoni in International Review of Administrative Sciences</p
Higher Education Governance in North America
No full textThis chapter is focused on describing how systemic governance in higher education has been changing in the two Northern American federal countries. To grasp the characteristics of governance and accountability in the higher education systems of Canada and the USA, the chapter shed lights on the systemic characteristics of such systems (the types of institutions are distinguished by their respective missions and ownership), on the role of and eventual changes to the state/provincial and federal governments across time, on the impact on NPM in the activities of the systems, and finally, on the characteristics and roles of policy networks. By focusing on these four dimensions, it is possible to better describe and understand how systemic governance works in the US and Canada and how the countries have been changing by remaining quite different each othe
First and second order mechanisms: a case study application
No full textEmpirical application of a mechanistic perspective to public policy
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