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Social return on investment (SROI), including elements on cost-benefit Analysis

2017

The chapter deals with the theme of social return on investments (SROI), including general elements of cost–benefit analysis (CBA). In addition, some major appraisal tools for public projects are discussed. SROI is a method that aims to measure social outputs, and value of social outcomes in monetary terms (Boyd, 2004). The basic assump- tion underlying the SROI technique is that all economic organizations (whether private or public) have an impact on people, society and the environment. Thus, the technique is always underpinned by an underlying model or conception of society. Such an impact can be strictly economic, social, and/or environmental, respectively. By economic we mean all that h…

Implementing sustainable financial policies in public Organizations. A new model of management in dealing with the public debt burden.

2012

Designing a Dynamic Performance Management System to outline patients mobility policies

2015

In the Italian health care service, both public and private providers operate through the coordination of Local Health Authorities (Lhas). Such authorities, together with the regional government, are in charge to make sure citizens can access locally to a predefined health care service level. However, patients are free to move from one region to another to receive the requested health care service. This phenomenon is recognised as patients mobility. Palm and Glinos [2010] identified some of the reasons why patients decide to seek care elsewhere, such as the specific situation of the patient, the medical need and the availability (or not) of the care service at home. A patient treated in a r…

Understanding short- and long-term implications of “myopic” fleet maintenance policies: a system dynamics application to a city bus company

2010

Financial losses recorded in city bus companies often force managers to implement restructuring strategies aimed at improving business results. However, such decisions may not produce the expected consequences for a number of reasons. Both the internal and external environment in which such companies operate can make the design and implementation of long-term sustainable policies quite difficult. In fact, the result may be that decision makers introduce "effective" policies in a company subsystem, while ignoring the medium- and long-term implications of such decisions in the performance of the whole company. With the aim to detect the main causes underlying "myopic" fleet maintenance polici…

Rotazione del personale nelle amministrazioni pubbliche e politiche contrasto alla corruzione: la prospettiva dell’ANAC

2021

In the last decade, the Italian State has included staff rotation within the framework of anti-corruption policies, providing precise indications on how to implement it and verifying its practical achievements in the national public administration system. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework of the theories and practices of staff rotation from the point of view of the law and the main acts of the National anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC). The article therefore develops as follows. A first part is dedicated to the presentation of the different types of staff rotation. A second part deals with the principles guiding the reorganization actions by rotation of public administrat…

Families Are Changing: What About the Policies? Between Good Intentions and Good Practices

2022

The pandemic crisis has, on the one hand exacerbated the fragility of many Italian families, but on the other hand it has also reconfirmed the remarkable resilience of family relationships, with families having once again shown that they know how to react to the strong and rapid changes caused by the emergency, with an equally strong and rapid response capacity. As is well known, one of the pillars on which the Italian welfare system is based is family welfare, i.e. the set of caregiving and mutual support practices implemented within family relationships that make it possible to compensate for the shortcomings of public welfare in terms of both cash and in-kind support. Actually, the “fami…

Neighbourhood Housing Debate

2005

Scrutinizing the situation on the ground in Sicily

2021

Conditions of refugees and migrants in Sicily are very difficult because there are a lot of implications, variations, observations, problems, difficulties. In recent years, migration has become one of the most debated issues in public opinion because of its political, economic, social, and cultural implications. In addition to defining problems, doubts, epistemological errors, conflicts that the categories used (e.g., regular/irregular, refugee/asylum seekers) trigger. The focus on migration has become the topic for the clashes among political forces and to justify the difficulties that the country complains about. In this frame there is a gap between “reality” and its “representation”: as …

Consultare per valutare

2020

Questo capitolo esamina la consultazione all'interno del processo di policy, presentandone le caratteristiche generali. Vengono trattate nello specifico alcune tecniche di consultazione, evidenziando per ciascuna di esse i punti di forza e di debolezza definiti anche sulla base degli obiettivi conoscitivi che ci si propone di raggiungere e indicando un percorso alquanto pragmatico e operativo. This chapter examines the consultation within the policy process, presenting its general characteristics. Specific consultation techniques are dealt with, highlighting for each of them the strengths and weaknesses defined also on the basis of the cognitive objectives that we intend to achieve and indi…

Metodologia della ricerca sociale e politiche pubbliche

2020

In questo capitolo si passano in rasegna i principali concetti che devono essere padroneggiati dal buon valutatore delle politiche pubbliche e gli strumenti che devono far parte della sua cassetta degli attrezzi. Trattando la causazione e l'esperimento vedremo come nel campo delle scienze sociali sia necessario avvalersi di alcuni accorgimenti per disegnare una buona ricerca valutativa. In this chapter we review the main concepts that must be mastered by the good public policy evaluator and the tools that must be part of his toolbox. In dealing with causation and experiment we will see how in the field of social sciences it is necessary to use some precautions to design good evaluative rese…