#CAPIS Director Professor Laura Polverari was on a visit to the United States from 24 March to 11 April. She first stopped in New York, where she gave a guest lecture on the topic of "EU Cohesion Policy – yesterday, today… and tomorrow" in Professor Stella Ladi's course on the Political Economy of Europe, [...]

Details Written by Ugo Fratesi, Felipe Livert, Laura Polverari and Cristina Zerbinati (2026). Governance, 39(2), e70117. Read the article Despite the popularity of the concept, the measurement and the conceptualization of administrative capacity remain ambiguous, based on proxies, and overlook the local level. Conceptualization is weakened by the conflation of exogenous variables. Quantitative and [...]

What is the level of administrative capacity of Italian municipalities, and how has it changed following the interventions and reforms introduced through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and Cohesion policy? These questions were at the heart of the closing event of the project, “Administrative Capacity: Definitions, Measurement, Policies and Economic Impacts”, which took [...]