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Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence from three regions in Italy
Full text linkEffective response to a pandemic depends not only on national dynamics and characteristics but also on the features of a country’s political and administrative decentralization and on the organizational capacities of the health system. As a result, different policy capacities can be present in the same national health system, and this variance allows us to understand local policy actions and their outcomes. Based on this assumption, this paper compares the process and the content of the initial policy response in three Italian regions (Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna). These three regions simultaneously experienced the most intense diffusion of infections and adopted very different strategies to mitigate the transmission of the virus. Our comparison reveals how the characteristics of Italy’s decentralized health system and the consequent differentiation in terms of health policy capacities have clearly driven very different regional first health policy responses and outcomes with regard to dealing with the spread of COVID-19
Gli strumenti di governo stanno cambiando? Aspetti teorici e problemi empirici
No full textThe article concerns the broad range of new strategies and instruments of policy-making emerged during the last twenty years. It prefaces a special issue structured primarily on Italian case-studies and focused on different policy sectors. The contribution aims at introducing
theoretical frames and empirical dimensions for policy instruments and it especially entails four different scopes. Firstly, it argues the role of policy analysis on the ground of policy instruments looking at the juridical and economic point of view. Then, it presents the main definitions and the most relevant classifications, especially concerning with approaches on how and why people usually select a
policy instrument. Finally, an interpretation of the phenomenon as a case of incoherent pluralism is suggested
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
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