The Role of Institutions in Policy Design: The Case of Research and Innovation Policies This article investigates the diachronic evolution of institutional approaches to research and innovation policies (R&I) in France and the UK, with a focus on how institutional arrangements and coo...

Claudia Acciai and I have a new article out #OpenAccess in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis!

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Applying this to a smart city development case, we showed how policy-makers strategically make use of institutional rules and narratives across these phases to build and maintain policy networks.

We accomplished this by combining the IGT to examine institutional work with the NPF to analyze narrative work. We used Actor-Network Theory to animate these frameworks, providing a dynamic, process-oriented view of how policies evolve through distinct phases.

Our study introduces a novel analytical and methodological approach for understanding complex innovation policies by detailing how policy-makers manage collective action using both rules and persuasive stories.

I truly believe, and I am sure my co-authors share this, that advancements in the practice of policy-making pass through advancements in policy theory, and advancements in policy theory require empirical research. This is exactly what we aimed to achieve in this article.

A massive thank you to the entire EPA editorial team @nilsbandelow.bsky.social @johannahornung.bsky.social Fritz Sager and Ilana Schröder for this prestigious honor.

We are incredibly proud of this work! So many thanks to my co-authors Giovanni Esposito, @gaiataffoni.bsky.social , and Nathalie Crutzen, for this wonderful collaboration.

It is a great pleasure to share that our article "Between institutions and narratives: Understanding collective action in innovation policy processes" has been awarded the @epa-journal.bsky.social Editors' Choice Best Paper Award 2024!

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We identify a critical policy design misfit arising from fundamental flaws in goal coherence, means consistency, and congruence. This misalignment prevented the anticipated transformative shift in the health sector.

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) has been a significant innovation in European Union (EU) governance and represents an opportunity to prioritize healthcare investments and reforms, among ot....

Our article (with David Natali and Emmanuele Pavolini) on the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan is just out in Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy!

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Benvenute e benvenuti nel nuovo canale social di Politiche Sociali/Social Policies!

Abbiamo deciso di continuare a condividere qui con lettrici e lettori aggiornamenti, articoli e iniziative della rivista.

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Far-Right on the Offensive: Public Sphere Responses to the Extremist Attack in Macerata, Italy

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6/6 Though liberal democratic institutions remained intact, the discursive space failed to offer critical, inclusive reflection.

5/6 The findings point to a substantial lack of democratic resilience in how the public sphere responded. Far-right perspectives gained prominence, while victims’ voices were sidelined.

4/6 Moreover, the victims were portrayed as outsiders, often reduced to generic labels and associated — as the attacker had done — with criminal behavior.

3/6 This gave rise to open contention over the government’s responsibility for failing to control migration — a claim strongly advanced by far-right actors.

2/6 We find that, although political violence was universally condemned, the view that migration was the underlying problem received wide resonance across the debate, echoing the attacker’s own justification.

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1/6 How resilient are liberal democracies when faced with extremist violence? @andreafelicetti.bsky.social and I have just published an article in @psrjournal.bsky.social‪ examining the discursive effects of the 2018 Macerata attack in Italy

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Il volume offre una panoramica sullo stato del foresight in Italia e propone spunti utili per rafforzarne l’adozione nella governance pubblica.

Il Capitolo 12 propone una lettura trasversale dell’uso dello strategic foresight in cinque ministeri, mettendo a confronto pratiche, tecniche adottate e barriere riscontrate.

Insieme a Giovanni Esposito, ho avuto il piacere di contribuire a due capitoli. Il Capitolo 2 approfondisce come organizzare e integrare lo strategic foresight nel policy design delle amministrazioni pubbliche, analizzando approcci e sfide.

📢 È uscito il Quaderno SNA "Verso l’ecosistema italiano di strategic foresight"! La pubblicazione della Scuola Nazionale dell'Amministrazione (SNA), curata da S. Bandera, S. Battini e A. Lippi, raccoglie ricerche e iniziative sullo strategic foresight nella PA italiana. #StrategicForesight

Excited to have started my visiting stay at DSPI, University of Oxford! Looking forward to sharing ideas about my work and getting inspired 🤩

📣 Call for Papers – SISP Conference 2025

📍 University of Naples Federico II | 🗓 Sept 4–6, 2025

Giovanni Esposito and I are inviting contributions to our panel on the policy-making of #megaprojects.

Submit your abstract by May 25, 2025! www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...

Why the European Journal of Public Health and EUPHA are opposing President Trump’s attack on the language of diversity The news that the Trump administration has ordered scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles co

Why the European Journal of Public Health and EUPHA are opposing President Trump’s attack on the language of diversity

📢 The first issue of 2025 is out now!

We are pleased to announce the publication of our new Special Issue "Gender Politics and Policy: Women and LGBTIQ+ Persons as Policy Advocates, Makers, and Takers", edited by Fedra Negri, Pamela Pansardi, and @massimoprearo.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers – SISP Conference 2025

📍 University of Naples Federico II | 🗓 Sept 4–6, 2025

Giovanni Esposito and I are inviting contributions to our panel on the policy-making of #megaprojects.

Submit your abstract by May 25, 2025! www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...