Giancarlo Vecchi

The book that @marcodigiulio.bsky.social and I wrote on digitisation policies in the public sector has been published: Policy Making and the Digitalisation of the Public Sector. Actors and Strategies in Italy. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan (ISBN: 978-3-031-83954-2).

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@prof-b-t.bsky.social

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Noise at the street level: revealing unwanted variability in seismic safety Street-level bureaucrats play a crucial role in translating policy statutes into services to citizens, but their discretion can have positive and negative impacts. This article examines noise – unw...

Just out in @pmreview.bsky.social! We explore #noise, #bias & #discretion in street-level bureaucracy, revealing major inconsistencies in seismic controls. Noise matters for public administrations—Time to improve decisions! Read it Open Access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Christopher Hood has died today. Public administration has lost one of its absolute best. RIP

Student Evaluations Can’t Be Used to Assess Professors. They’re Discriminatory. And that means they’re illegal.

Did you see this experiment my colleague Kristina conducted not just at my university but *in my department*? She and the male instructor assumed eachothers’ names for an online course: and the difference in feedback they received was horrifying.

Contribution to the December special issue of Canadian Public Administration on public sector reform:
"RInstitutionalizing Spending and Strategic Reviews: Supporting Effective Public Management
by Robert P. Shepherd and Evert A. Lindquist

Come funziona il sistema di intelligenza artificiale della Commissione europea Si chiama GPT@EC, permette di accedere a modelli di OpenAI o a Llama di Meta e serve per sintetizzare documenti o scrivere analisi. Wired ha ottenuto alcuni documenti del progetto

La Commissione europea si è fatta il chatbot. Per riassumere documenti o scrivere report. Ma come funziona? Grazie a un accesso civico ai documenti, su @wired.it raccontiamo tutti i dettagli. Spoiler: la tecnologia è tutta made in Usa www.wired.it/article/inte...

Big Data & Society
@BigDataSoc
Dec 11
We are looking for Assistant Editors (AE) for BD&S. More details at buff.ly/3ZNwRNx and you can submit your interest at buff.ly/4fbtOmT Deadline is January 10, 2025. For questions contact the Editor-in-Chief , Dr. Matthew Zook (zook@uky.edu).

Public Administration December 2024 Issue now out

Over the next few days, we will highlight the excellent research in 102(4). In the meantime, should you want to get a head start, please review the articles, replication, and book reviews here:

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Health system decentralization and recentralization in Italy: Ideas, discourse, and institutions This paper explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization in Italy, investigating why and how the territorial organization of the health system has changed over time. Dr...

1/ A little thread on “rigorous” process tracing. A few years ago, just after finishing my PhD, I published my very first paper ever in SP&A, using process tracing to investigate how and why Italy’s health system’s territorial organization changed over time. 🧵
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The Italian Journal of Public Policy is now on Bluesky! 🦋 Follow us for the latest updates on public policy research. We publish work in both Italian and English, embracing both theoretical explorations and empirical research. #AcademicSky

Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences ‘Case study research is ubiquitous in the field of adult and continuing education. The editors did a great service to the field through their book, Your Guide to Case Study Research (2011). This Handb...

"Handbook of Case Study Research in the Social Sciences" Edited by Peter Rule and Vaughn M. John and published by Edward Elgar.

The first chapter is #Free2DownloadAndRead

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#evaluation in times of #AI and #populism: which role and strategies to support public discourse and policies? 👉 Check the #ICPP7 panel T09 and submit a paper proposal! See you next year in Chiang Mai, Thailand 🇹🇭
#IPPA www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/i...
wth @Erica Melloni, #DomijikaWojtowicz

European Policy Analysis | PSO Policy Research Journal | Wiley Online Library Explanations for collective action focus on both institutions and narratives. On the one hand, institutional approaches emphasize the role of rules that guide human behavior. On the other hand, accou...

Among my latest contributions is this piece written with Giovanni Esposito, @gaiataffoni.bsky.social, and Nathalie Crutzen on the role of narratives and institutions in innovation policy processes.

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ECPR General Conference 2025, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 26 – 29 August 2025 Call for Panels and Papers

👩‍🏫 Showcase your research on a prestigious global stage 🌎
📢 Call for Panels & Papers now OPEN for our General Conference https://buff.ly/3AMuRvm
🔍 Seeking contributions across 60 Sections covering all corners of political science
👉 Submit by 6 Jan https://buff.ly/34n6JwY
#ecprgc25

Public Policy & Political Science. Politecnico di Milano. Here my opinions only.