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Civil Disputes and the Judicial System. An Econometric Analysis of The Italian Case
No full textThis working paper studies the demand for "services" of justice in the Italian system. Applying an economic approach, the authors derive a testable model which they test using time series cross-section data relative to the italian juidicial districts
Public Service Motivation and Job Satisfaction in Various European Countries: A Tale of Caution and Hope
No full textMany countries are still struggling to adapt to the broad and unexpected effects of modernization initiatives. As changes take shape, governments are challenged to explore new reforms. The public sector is now characterized by profound transformation across the globe, with ramifications that are yet to be interpreted. To convert this transformation into an ongoing state of improvement, policymakers and civil service leaders must learn to implement and evaluate change. This book is an important contribution to that end.
Reforming the Public Sector presents comparative perspectives of government reform and innovation, discussing three decades of reform in public sector strategic management across nations. The contributors examine specific reform-related issues including the uses and abuses of public sector transparency, the
This volume will greatly aid practitioners and policymakers to better understand the principles underpinning ongoing reforms in the public sector. Giovanni Tria, Giovanni Valotti, and their cohorts offer a scientific understanding of the main issues at stake in this arduous process. They place the approach to public administration reform in a broad international context and identify a road map for public management. (About the book, Publisher Information
Quale performance? : indicatori e sistemi di misurazione in uso nei Ministeri di sette Paesi OCSE : proposte per le amministrazioni centrali italiane
No full textLa misurazione e la valutazione della performance della pubblica amministrazione costituiscono elementi indispensabili nel processo di modernizzazione del settore pubblico. La sfida di progettare e implementare sistemi di misurazione e valutazione della performance organizzativa, che operino anche come elemento complementare ai più tradizionali strumenti di valutazione delle politiche pubbliche, è stato uno degli elementi che più hanno caratterizzato gli ultimi vent’anni di riforme in molti Paesi del mondo. Il presente White Paper analizza i sistemi di misurazione e valutazione della performance di una selezione di Ministeri in un campione di sette Paesi rappresentativo delle tradizioni amministrative occidentali identificando un modello di misurazione e valutazione della performance per le amministrazioni centrali italian
Sistemi di pubblico impiego a confronto: casi di studio internazionali
No full textSnellire e migliorare le burocrazie pubbliche è una priorità nelle agende dei paesi industrializzati. Negli ultimi tre decenni, la maggioranza degli stati appartenenti all'Ocse ha avviato riforme del pubblico impiego con l'obiettivo di creare "a government that works better, costs less and gets results". Il presente lavoro descrive le politiche del pubblico impiego in un campione di stati rappresentativo delle tradizioni amministrative occidentali e nella Commissione Europea e identifica i trend comuni di riform
Making transparency transparent: an Assessment Model for Local Governments
No full textThis paper focuses on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to increase transparency in the public sector. In particular, we refer to transparency as a tool to enhance Government effectiveness. First, the concept of “transparency” in the public sector in the broadest sense is explored, through the review of the literature. Then, the paper presents a model for assessing the level of transparency of municipalities’ websites, based on an elaboration of previous assessing models, derived by the literature review. Finally, the results of a pilot test of this assessing model will be discussed
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
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