The modernization of the public administration has been one of the main objectives pursued by the Renzi government. What distinguishes the reform cycle launched in 2015 is the emphasis on centralization, unification, and the reduction of institutional fragmentation in the public sector after a long period in which autonomy and the organizational pluralism of administrations and government levels were enhanced. This reform strategy is consistent with the underlying trends of transformation in the political and institutional systems, in which the power of the prime minister has gradually increased. The actual impact of these reform measures, however, depends on concrete organizational instruments of subsequent implementing legislation in a context characterized by persistent spending cuts, which are necessary to maintain financial stability.
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The Reform of the Public Administration: Centralization and Reorganization
Fabrizio Di Mascio and Alessandro Natalini
In Italian Politics
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 155–173 (19 total)
Political Art, Cultural Policy, and Artistic Agency
Jeremy Valentine
This article attempts to show how the conventional opposition between art and culture, on the one hand, and administration and organization, on the other, has been displaced. The main reason given for this phenomenon is the convergence of the collapse of notions of the political and aesthetic causality of art and culture with the destabilizing effects of postmodernism on organizational and administrative stability. After a discussion of the emergence of political regimes of audit within relations between culture and administration, the article locates the causes of the dominance of 'cultural governance' within the dynamics of modernist aesthetic values such as autonomy. The article concludes with a discussion of some optimistic possibilities that may arise from this scenario.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2007
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 96–111 (16 total)
Book Review
Mary Hums
of valuable academics who add another level of diversity to whatever university they work at in their careers. Mary Hums Professor, Sport Administration, University of Louisville References Job Accommodation Network ( 2021 ), ‘ Benefits
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 101–103 (3 total)
Echoes arising from two cases of the private administration of populations
African immigrants in twentieth-century Spain and Indians in nineteenth-century Ecuador
Andrés Guerrero
The article simultaneously explores three lines of reflection and analysis woven around the comparative reverberations (in space and time) between citizenship and the administration of populations (states of exception) in the Republic of Ecuador during the nineteenth century and the Kingdom of Spain in the twenty century. The first thread tries to answer the question whether it is possible for concepts generated in a country of the Global South to be used usefully in analyzing a different Northern reality, inverting the usual direction in the flows of transfer and importation of “theory.“ The second theme of comparative reverberation explores a network of concepts concerning the citizenship of common sense and the administration of populations, that is the “back-patio“ aspect of citizenship, particularly its historical formation in the domination of populations in the Republic of Ecuador during the nineteenth century. It is centered on the process of identification in the daily exchanges between interpares citizens and extrapares non-citizens. The last section involves testing concepts forged in the author's studies of Ecuadorian history for their utility in analyzing the current situation of modern sub-Saharan immigrants in Spain (using concrete examples), and their reclusion to the private sphere in spaces of exception and abandonment. Here, the article concentrates on the difference between the public administration of populations and the private administration of citizens. The article uses documentary material relating to nineteenth-century Ecuador and twentieth-century Spain and Senegal.
Denkmalpflege, Denazification, and the Bureaucratic Manufacture of Memory in Bavaria
Lauren Schwartz
problematized. Looking at denazification from the perspective of a policy history during the Allied occupation and administration of Germany is to examine the denazification process in a highly administered and unique moment of German history, one whose lessons
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 23–45 (23 total)
Italian Foreign Policy and the Obama Administration: Between New Opportunities and Constraints
Emiliano Alessandri
Despite Silvio Berlusconi’s much-publicized friendship with US President
George W. Bush, the election of Barack Obama in November 2008
did not lead to any appreciable deterioration of US-Italy relations. The
clash of personalities and “ideologies” that some had predicted did not
materialize. The two leaders soon established a cordial and pragmatic
relationship. The emphasis on continuity, however, did not deter
change. In fact, the shift in priorities and approach brought about by
the Obama administration during its first year in office altered the context
within which Italian foreign policy was carried out. New opportunities
opened up as Italy’s engagement with Russia and Iran, which
had attracted criticism in the past, also became the stated goal of the
US government. At the same time, Italian foreign policy was faced
with new constraints as Obama’s new course combined US leadership
with coordination, expecting European allies to consult with Washington
on dossiers having both national and transatlantic dimensions.
In Italian Politics
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 149–167 (19 total)
The Way a Language Changes
How Historical Semantics Helps Us to Understand the Emergence of the English Exchequer
Ulla Kypta
The article argues that it is not only useful to study the changing meanings of concepts, but also to analyze the way these concepts changed their meaning over time. As a case study, I analyze the transformation of the language of the earliest surviving accounts of the yearly auditing process in England, the pipe rolls from the twelfth century. The language changed gradually and continually, without guidance or a plan. It is highly likely that the language was learned while the pipe rolls were written. Thus, the clerks could easily close their circle. This led to a strong sense of belonging and self-consciousness, which can be affirmed by other contemporary sources, and which laid the foundation for the accounting procedures that became a long-lasting organization.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 29–47 (19 total)
COVID-19 and Uncertain Intimacy
State–Society Relations in Urban China and Beyond
Jialing Luo
– 90 , doi: 10.1080/02529203.2015.1088626 . Xiong , Y. H. ( 2020 ), ‘ State Nudge and Social Growth: A Case Study of the Construction of Modern Acquaintance Communities ’, Chinese Public Administration 5 : 99 – 105 , doi: 10.19735/j.issn.1006-0863.2020.05.14 .
Social Quality Measurement and Perceived Social Quality
The Case of Peshawar, Pakistan
Muhammad Yasir Ali and Ka Lin
four million people ( PBS 2017 ), and has six administrative regions. This survey, conducted in Peshawar in the spring 2018, selected the survey cases from all these administration districts. The survey used the heterogeneous purposive sampling
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 75–93 (19 total)
Being and Becoming in a World That Won't Stand Still
The Case of Metlakatla
Richard Daly
Recently, the historical validity of concepts of aboriginality has been questioned. It is argued here that aboriginality has been and remains a significant feature of identity and a source of cultural renewal in a rapidly changing world. The nature of aboriginality must always be qualified and contextualized. In Canada, a specific notion of aboriginality is an administrative tool of government that at all times is partially accepted and partially opposed by those so defined and administrated. In the example described here, the missionary William Duncan denied the concept of aboriginality presented by his Tsimshian flock as well as that enunciated by the Canadian government. Today, the descendants of these mission communities have ontological identities linked not only to Christian modernity but also to Tsimshian aboriginality defined one way by the government and quite differently by each local community.