Giliberto Capano

The Triangle of Bureaucratic Policy Analysis and the Professional Types of High-Level Civil Servants: Empirical Evidence from Southern Europe by Giliberto Capano, Alice Cavalieri, & Andrea Pritoni Public policy and public administration research has focused on conceptualizing bureaucrats as pivotal actors in the policymaking process.…

Discover the “Triangle of Bureaucratic Policy Analysis” in this new PSJ blog - featuring three bureaucratic types shaping policy in Southern Europe.

By @gcapano.bsky.social, Alice Cavalieri, & Andrea Pritoni

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♨️ New article!
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Do policy capacities matter for federal policy design?
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@gcapano.bsky.social & Vanessa Elias de Oliveira throw light on this by examining three social policy programs in #Brazil.

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In the upcoming special issue “Policy Theories in Europe“, guest edited by C. Weible, @gcapano.bsky.social critiques the limitations of four theories in policy implementation, especially outside Western contexts. #PolicyStudies #WileyPolitics #STEP_APSA
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Just reading "Policy implementation and policy instruments: The underdeveloped dimensions of the four “political” American policy process theories. A Western European perspective" by @gcapano.bsky.social and I'd absolutely recommend reading for policy researchers, especially in Europe.

After a long but intellectually exciting journey, this paper is finally out, in Policy Sciences, early view, fully Open Access

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Season's reading 🎄

@policysociety.bsky.social's🆕Issue (4⃣3⃣-4⃣) is out❕

Guest-edited by Niklas Andersen, Valérie Pattyn & Katherine E. Smith, the Special Issue problematises the notion of “evidence culture” in evidence-informed policymaking👇

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📢In our #NewIssue (29.1)!📢
When and why high civil servants demand information from interest groups in policymaking. A Southern European perspective

⏳🆓The article by @gcapano.bsky.social & A. Pritoni is now on temporary #FreeAccess here
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Annual Review of Policy Design Annual Review of Policy Design

Vol 12 (2024) of Annual Review of Policy Design Published
- Selection of Best Work that appeared on policy design from around the world in 2024

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Despite the growing interest in the policy work and analytical capacities of bureaucracies, these dimensions have not been treated as central to characterizing and understanding the role of senior ci...

Just out in Policy Studies Journal, fully OA. I, Alice Cavalieri and Andrea Pritoni apply  our "Triangle of Bureaucratic Policy Analysis"  to a huge survey. We find 3 different empirical types of professional roles that top bureaucrats may play in policymaking
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Just assigned to the no. 1/2024 of South European Society and Politics, this article I wrote together with Andrea Pritoni.
Based on data collected through an online survey submitted to approximately 700 high-level public servants in Greece, Italy and Portugal

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💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡
‘the likelihood of high-level civil servants soliciting information [from interest groups] is greater when they hold high policy capacities’ in #Greece, #Italy and #Portugal

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💡NEW STUDY FINDS… 💡 #Greece #Italy #Portugal
civil servant-stakeholder consultation ‘‘is more probable for welfare policies and younger public servants are more accustomed to consulting interest groups’

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Outgoing ECPR Executive Committee Members, from left to right: David Farrell, Petra Meier, Giliberto Capano, Hana Kubátová, Thomas Saalfeld, Sabine Saurugger

❇️ Next week marks the end of the mandate for our 2021–24 Executive Committee, chaired by @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social

🙌 We extend heartfelt thanks to David and the outgoing EC members for their unwavering dedication and wish them all the best for the future ecpr.eu/News/News/De...

Screenshot of Policy Sciences research article "Designing policies that could work: understanding the interaction between policy design spaces and organizational responses in public sector."

How does policy design shape policy outcomes? New Policy Sciences article by @gcapano.bsky.social & Lepori identifies 2 aspects that are especially important:
(1) policy coherence
(2) changing social norms vs changing resource flows
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