The first scientific output from the PRIN by the Politecnico di Milano and Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali - Università di Padova on “Administrative capacity: definitions, measurement, policy interventions and economic impacts” is now out in the journal "Governance": "Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Administrative Capacity With Open Data: Could ‘Administrative Throughput’ [...]

Details Written by Laura Polverari and Cristina Zerbinati (2026), in Perspectives and futures of public administration in Italy (pp. 223-239). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Read the article This chapter examines the relationship between administrative capacity and economic and social development in Italy, and the administrative strengthening measures implemented in the 2014–2020 and [...]

On 6 November, the event “Public Policy and Public Administrations in Challenging Times in the EU and Beyond” took place in Aula M at Palazzo Wollemborg. The conference, moderated by Prof. Paolo Graziano (University of Padua), brought together scholars from different universities to discuss the challenges facing democracy and public administration in Europe and [...]