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Administrative Reforms in Italy. From new Public Management to National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
No full textItalian public administration has an history of excessive legal formalism and poor attention to results. The first step of a Public Administration reform in Italy was at the end of the 70s when a distinguished academic expert was called to serve as Minister of the Public Service. In a Public Service Report outlined the contours of a reform that today we would call New Public Management model. Yet the political conditions were not ready for this change. At the beginning of the 90s, when Italian state got close to a default, the first attempt was resumed with a new report and this time Government began a path of Public Management reforms along which the different governments with different political coalitions brought some new initiative. Each new legislative reform was introduced when the evaluations of the previous one was still to be done. Policy learning was not the first concern of decision makers. Only in 2015, during Renzi Government, there was a try to put some order. In 2021, when the National Recovery and Resilience Plan was under construction, the legislative field of reforms was even too full. From the point of view of the Plan, public service is a tool to achieve the goal while its efficiency is a goal in itself. That's why the Conte Government decided to bet much more on speeding the decision making than on a comprehensive reform of the quality of the governance. Draghi went the same way. Pressed by the necessity to meet the deadlines of the EU, the focus of PNRR is now on the speed of spending much more than the quality of spending. A new centralized Governance of planning, spending and assessing was designed at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Deadlines for decisions have been halved and in case of administrative appeals the State prefers to pay than change its decisions. If state local units or autonomous local administrations do not hurry up, the Government has the power to overtake their decisions making. Considering the already poor attention to the quality of spending, this haste can bring many unintended consequences today and even worse when resources will be scarce again
The suggested structure of final demand shock for sectoral labour digital skills
Full text linkInternational data seem to confirm that countries with a relative abundancy of highly-skilled labour with digital competences grow faster than others. For this reason, digital competences and skills in general are progressively assuming a central role in labour market policies. In this article, we show the potential of the disaggregated multisectoral analysis with the macro multipliers approach as a tool of economic policy. Such analyses allow identifying a set of endogenous policies in which specific objectives do not clash with growth objectives. The identification and the quantification of the macro multipliers is based on an extended multi-industry, multi-factor and multi-sector model, which accounts for the representation of the income circular flow as in the social accounting matrix (SAM). The SAM constructed for this exercise allows for a proper disaggregation of the labour factor by formal educational attainment, digital competences and gender for the case of Italy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Specialty and ordinariness in models of administrative law reform
No full textThe reform of the public administration in the National recovery and resilience plan: ordinary and special procedural and decision-making models
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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