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Dal modello neoparlamentare a quello presidenziale? Assessori esterni e potere decisionale dei Presidenti nelle nuove Giunte delle Regioni a Statuto ordinario
No full textThis article analyzes the new executive bodies which were appointed in
Italian ordinary charter Regions after the 2013-2015 elections, in order
to understand whether the critical state of public finance has led to
a reduction in the appointment of external officers, who cost more than
those chosen among members of regional parliaments. Moreover, the article
investigates the relationship between directly elected presidents and
appointed officers in order to assess how decision-making power is actually
divided within the regional executive body officers. On the basis
of empirical data, a typology is developed which detects a strengthened
decision-making role of presidents, shifting the form of regional government
toward a more fully presidential model
Second Chamber Reform in Italy: Federalism Left Behind
No full textThe 2016 Italian Constitutional reform, rejected by popular referendum, focused mainly on bicameralism, proposing a territorial revision of the Senate. Since the 1980s, when the debate on institutional reforms started developing, the need to overcome the ‘perfect’ Italian bicameralism has been clear to reformers. This article traces the history of attempts to reform the Italian Senate, focusing mainly on the latest one, and addresses the reasons for its failure. It shows that territorial representation, as a new basis for Senate legitimacy, was not seen as great worth, and the shift from direct to indirect election for senators was perceived as a loss of democracy
The National Strategy for Inner Areas: Innovation, Policy Transfer and Post-Earthquake Reconstruction
No full textThis article analyses the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (NSIA) as a new policy for local development only partially linked to the European cohesion policy. It focuses on its innovative contents (vision, governance and methodology), and mainly on the transfer of innovation to lower levels of government and between local administrations. As an empirical study of policy transfer and policy innovation in a system of multilevel governance it shows an unexpected transfer of the NSIA methodology to another policy field: that of post-earthquake reconstruction in Central Italy. The article concludes by applying the typology of policy transfer developed in its first part to the analysis of the case-study as a whole
Il nuovo senato italiano?
Full text linkQuesto fascicolo monografico ospita contributi di vari studiosi che, nel loro insieme, aiutano a riflettere, in prospettiva comparata, sul nuovo Senato italiano, come disegnato dalla riforma costituzionale sulla quale i cittadini saranno chiamati ad esprimersi attraverso referendum il prossimo 4 dicembre. La decisione di comparare le Camere territoriali di Austria, Belgio e Francia è derivata dall’osservazione che, nel quadro europeo, è con queste esperienze che la proposta del nuovo Senato presenta i maggiori punti di contatto. La scelta del riformatore, infatti, è stata quella di non optare per il modello tedesco, come suggerito, seppur in modo non univoco, dal dibattito accademico italiano, ed escluso quel modello, l’esperienza delle Camere territoriali in Europa si riconduce essenzialmente a questi tre casi. Complessivamente, gli studi presentati giungono a due importanti risultati. Innanzitutto, evidenziano come la riforma italiana, pur nelle sue peculiarità, prospetti un Senato in linea con le tendenze evolutive delle Camere territoriali europee. Secondariamente, indicano quali sono gli aspetti critici da correggere e quali le potenzialità da sviluppare per il nuovo Senato. Sebbene ciò assuma particolare rilevanza nella eventuale messa in opera della riforma, la sua utilità non sembra essere preclusa qualora l’esito del referendum dovesse essere negativo. Il futuro dibattito sulle riforme istituzionali, sulla cui necessità le forze politiche concordano, non potrà infatti che ripartire dalla proposta respinta, cercando di migliorare le criticità che possono avere giustificato un voto negativo
Le regioni italiane e il PNRR : la (vana) ricerca di canali d’accesso all’agenda
Full text linkFollowing years of attempted federal reforms, the relationship between the State and
the Regions in Italy is still marked by various shortcomings. The essay explores this
issue in the formulation of the Italian NRRP by investigating, on the one hand, the
vertical relations between the State and the Regions, highlighting both the weak coordination
between the two levels of government and the limited involvement of the
Regions in the governance structure; on the other, the horizontal relations between
the regions, which are affected by competitive drives aimed at defending regional
interests that are differentiated according to the North-South cleavage. Based on the
analysis carried out, the study proposes some interpretative keys which call into
question polity, politics, and policy factors
Teoria dell’organizzazione e pubbliche amministrazioni. Le riforme del rapporto fra politica e amministrazione
No full textThe intense season of administrative reforms that began in Italy in the 1990s has opened up new spaces for the organizational analysis of public administrations, but so far legal studies, in line with the Italian tradition of administrative studies, and business studies, in tune with the New Public Management approach, have prevailed. This article aims to illustrate the potential of applying a political model of organizational analysis to the study of administrative reforms, focusing on those of public management, which are briefly examined. Such a model concentrates on power resources in the relationship between politics and administration, enabling for a new dialogue between organization theory and political science. Furthermore, it does not neglect the role that public managers can assume in the external dimension of public administration as most legal and business studies do. The adoption of a political model of organizational analysis makes it possible to reconstruct the actual power dynamics that develop in the relationship between public managers and political bodies as main actors of public decision-making. In this perspec¬tive, it allows for assessing the extent of change produced by the reforms, which have modified the distribution of power resources between these two actors, thus overcoming the limits of a purely legal or business approach to the study of public management
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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