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 [...]
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 [...]
