Andrea Terlizzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1488415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Terlizzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Terlizzi |
| SIGNATURE | TERLIZZI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4417-2405 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ideas, business, and social policy: Insights from European Union employers’ organisations
This article seeks to advance our understanding of how business organisations articulate ideas about welfare policy – an aspect that remains underexplored in existing research. It does so by focusing on the European Union (EU) level, where social dialogue initiatives have spread since the 1980s. It looks at the three cross-sectoral EU employers’ organisations (EEOs) – the Confederation of European Business (BusinessEurope), Services of General In…
Socio-technical Governance and Legitimation Processes: A Comparative Analysis of the Belgian, Italian, and Spanish National Recovery and Resilience Plans
This article investigates legitimation processes in crisis situations, focusing on the European Union’s Next Generation EU (NGEU) program and its core instrument, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). To access RRF funds, Member States must submit National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs), which integrate social and technical components. The article conceptualizes NRRPs as socio-technical governance instruments and examines how legit- …
Strategies of agenda denial: Anti-gender opposition to LGBTQ+ policies in Italy
While the agenda setting literature largely focuses on how issues gain the attention of policy-makers, the strategies used to keep certain issues off the governmental agenda remain underexplored. This paper addresses this gap by examining agenda denial in the context of LGBTQ+ equality policies. It analyzes how opponents of such policies employ both strategies of avoidance and non-confrontation, as well as strategies of attack and issue redefinit…
Introduction to the special issue: Megatrends and grand challenges: The strategic organization of long-term and large-scale policy interventions
This article advances a conceptual framework to understand how long-term and large-scale policy interventions can be strategically organized in response to contemporary grand challenges. It argues that today’s interconnected environmental, economic, technological, and geopolitical crises are rooted in megatrends—large-scale, persistent, and transformative forces reshaping social, political, and economic systems. Megatrends generate constellations…
Smart City Development as Public Entrepreneurship: An In-Depth Case Study of Mayoral Action Based on Actor-Network Theory
This article examines how mayors in Belgium facilitate smart city development through interactions with actors in public administrations, businesses, and civil society. By applying public entrepreneurship and actor-network theories, it explores actions mayors can take to establish urban innovation networks. The research reveals mayors’ crucial role in translating initial ambiguous smart city ideas into public programs shared and implemented by di…
Far-Right on the Offensive: Public Sphere Responses to the Extremist Attack in Macerata, Italy
This article examines public sphere responses to a far-right attack in Macerata, Italy, just before the 2018 national elections. Adopting a deliberative democratic perspective, we conduct a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles discussing the attack. Our findings reveal a limited capacity for democratic resilience. The communication following the attack was neither reflective nor inclusive, despite the unanimous rejection of politica…
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 coordination practices influence the temporal evolution and layering of policy design choices. Designing R&I policies involves the intersection of diverse policy areas often overlapping with, or extending beyond, traditional ministerial responsibilities. T…
Who is to blame? Stories of European Union migration governance in Italian, Maltese, and Spanish newspapers
While scholars have investigated how media frame human mobility and securitize irregular border crossings, little research has been dedicated to how European Union (EU) actors are portrayed in media coverage of migration across the Mediterranean. By integrating framing into narrative analysis through the Narrative Policy Framework, our article fills this gap. Specifically, we provide a content analysis of Italian, Maltese, and Spanish newspapers …
Between institutions and narratives: Understanding collective action in innovation policy processes
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, accounting for the narratives through which policy actors make sense of their actions helps in understanding strategic behavior. However, applying institutional and narrative perspectives together is daunting, in part because there has not been a common wa…
The Panopticon reloaded: A critical analysis of performance management systems in the trans-European transport network policy
This article examines Performance Management Systems (PMSs) as socio-technical policy instruments for shaping power relations in megaprojects. Employing an abductive approach, it innovatively applies Foucault's Panopticon theory to the case of the Lyon-Turin railway, a megaproject funded by the European Union's Trans-European Transport Network policy. Our research reveals that PMSs operate as intellectual technologies that enable megaproject prom…
Multi‐Level Governance Feedback and Health Care in Italy in the Aftermath of Covid‐19
At the crossroads of EU studies and public policy analysis, a vast literature identifies global crises as one of the main triggers of change. The present article provides a test of this hypothesis in the case of health care in the aftermath of the pandemic crisis that hit Europe between 2020 and 2022. We use Italy as an extreme case, where both the magnitude of the Covid-19 outbreak and the effect of the pre-existent domestic cost-cutting strateg…
Participatory governance in megaprojects: The Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation
Megaprojects are increasingly common across countries and attract substantial political attention from a variety of actors. Recent studies have highlighted the need to move from an understanding of megaprojects as linear and rational processes towards a more nuanced approach that accounts for non-linear and conflictual aspects. Participatory governance is often proposed as a valuable resource in this regard. In this paper, we investigate the sett…
Governing wickedness in megaprojects: Discursive and institutional perspectives
Megaprojects are now as important as ever. As a response to the pandemic, the European Union has put forward the Next Generation EU policy, making available a 2021–2027 long-term budget of €1.8 trillion to fund projects with ecological and digital applications in the field of telecommunication, transportation, and energy infrastructures. Similarly, in the United States a $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan is on the way. Also, China has planned to ex…
The marble cake of social services in Italy and Spain: Policy capacity, social investment, and the national recovery and resilience plans
This article analyses the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the infrastructure of social services in Italy and Spain. Drawing from the policy capacity framework and focusing on childcare and elderly care, we investigate how the National Recovery and Resilience Plans are likely to impact the core functions of the social investment approach. Through document analysis, the article shows that, whereas the infrastructure of the socia…
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium
This article adopts an interpretive approach to investigate how local policy-makers portray and justify their own visions of digital governance initiatives at the municipal level. Our investigation focuses on smart city projects submitted by various Belgian municipalities in the framework of the ‘Intelligent Territory’ call for proposals initiated in 2019 by the Walloon Region. We use Boltanski and Thévenot’s theory of orders of worth and combine…
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the Covid ‐19 pandemic
The study of scientific advisory committees (SACs) is a recurrent topic of research in public policy and public administration. Scholars are increasingly interested in analyzing the scientization of policy advice as well as the role played by knowledge‐based policymaking processes. Despite recent developments in the field, SACs studies continue to face an analytical and empirical gap due to the lack of parsimonious conceptualizations of the chara…
Policy narratives and megaprojects: The case of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway
This article investigates how policy narratives developed by proponents and opponents of infrastructure megaprojects generate controversies that affect the megaproject implementation. Drawing evidence from the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway, we argue that megaproject implementation is a complex public management endeavour which can hardly be considered a rational, straightforward process. It is rather a non-linear process involving stakeholders wi…
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions
Pensions at the European level have been, since the sovereign debt crisis, affected by several decision-making innovations. Retirement policy has been embedded in the European Semester, which strengthened the hitherto inadequate European socioeconomic policy coordination mechanisms. Given that the additional powers bestowed upon the Commission were qualified, a supranational response followed. With the effect of strengthening its rational-legal a…
New Public Management Reform ideas and the remaking of the Italian and Danish health systems
This article explores the role of New Public Management (NPM) ideas in the reform of the Italian and Danish health systems. In particular, it investigates the arguments that have supported changes in their institutional and territorial dimensions. Whereas the institutional dimension is concerned with the allocation of authority between layers of government, the territorial dimension is related to the definition of the size of subnational governme…
Narratives in power and policy design: The case of border management and external migration controls in Italy
This article explores the relationship between policy narratives and the design of the Italian border management and external migration control regime in the last two decades. First, drawing from the theory of social construction and policy design and through a qualitative application of the Narrative Policy Framework, the article traces the evolution of narratives developed by key actors in government. Second, it investigates the design of the I…
Migration controls in Italy and Hungary: From conditionalized to domesticized humanitarianism at the EU borders
This article analyses the humanitarianism and securitisation nexus in effect to migration controls in Italy and Hungary. Noteworthy for our purposes is how the humanitarian discourse is undervalued as the EU border states emphasise either full securitisation or else securitisation as a condition for humanitarianism when it comes to border management and refugee protection measures. Our goal is to trace, on the one hand, how politicians conceptual…
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. Drawing from discursive and historical institutionalism, the explanatory framework revolves around the role of ideational and institutional factors. The methods include process tracing and interpretive‐discourse analysis. Empirical material is drawn fro…
Governing wickedness in megaprojects: Discursive and institutional perspectives
Megaprojects are now as important as ever. As a response to the pandemic, the European Union has put forward the Next Generation EU policy, making available a 2021–2027 long-term budget of €1.8 trillion to fund projects with ecological and digital applications in the field of telecommunication, transportation, and energy infrastructures. Similarly, in the United States a $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan is on the way. Also, China has planned to ex…
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium
This article adopts an interpretive approach to investigate how local policy-makers portray and justify their own visions of digital governance initiatives at the municipal level. Our investigation focuses on smart city projects submitted by various Belgian municipalities in the framework of the ‘Intelligent Territory’ call for proposals initiated in 2019 by the Walloon Region. We use Boltanski and Thévenot’s theory of orders of worth and combine…
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the Covid ‐19 pandemic
The study of scientific advisory committees (SACs) is a recurrent topic of research in public policy and public administration. Scholars are increasingly interested in analyzing the scientization of policy advice as well as the role played by knowledge‐based policymaking processes. Despite recent developments in the field, SACs studies continue to face an analytical and empirical gap due to the lack of parsimonious conceptualizations of the chara…
Participatory governance in megaprojects: The Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation
Megaprojects are increasingly common across countries and attract substantial political attention from a variety of actors. Recent studies have highlighted the need to move from an understanding of megaprojects as linear and rational processes towards a more nuanced approach that accounts for non-linear and conflictual aspects. Participatory governance is often proposed as a valuable resource in this regard. In this paper, we investigate the sett…
Narratives in power and policy design: The case of border management and external migration controls in Italy
This article explores the relationship between policy narratives and the design of the Italian border management and external migration control regime in the last two decades. First, drawing from the theory of social construction and policy design and through a qualitative application of the Narrative Policy Framework, the article traces the evolution of narratives developed by key actors in government. Second, it investigates the design of the I…
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions
Pensions at the European level have been, since the sovereign debt crisis, affected by several decision-making innovations. Retirement policy has been embedded in the European Semester, which strengthened the hitherto inadequate European socioeconomic policy coordination mechanisms. Given that the additional powers bestowed upon the Commission were qualified, a supranational response followed. With the effect of strengthening its rational-legal a…
Migration controls in Italy and Hungary: From conditionalized to domesticized humanitarianism at the EU borders
This article analyses the humanitarianism and securitisation nexus in effect to migration controls in Italy and Hungary. Noteworthy for our purposes is how the humanitarian discourse is undervalued as the EU border states emphasise either full securitisation or else securitisation as a condition for humanitarianism when it comes to border management and refugee protection measures. Our goal is to trace, on the one hand, how politicians conceptual…
Multi‐Level Governance Feedback and Health Care in Italy in the Aftermath of Covid‐19
At the crossroads of EU studies and public policy analysis, a vast literature identifies global crises as one of the main triggers of change. The present article provides a test of this hypothesis in the case of health care in the aftermath of the pandemic crisis that hit Europe between 2020 and 2022. We use Italy as an extreme case, where both the magnitude of the Covid-19 outbreak and the effect of the pre-existent domestic cost-cutting strateg…
New Public Management Reform ideas and the remaking of the Italian and Danish health systems
This article explores the role of New Public Management (NPM) ideas in the reform of the Italian and Danish health systems. In particular, it investigates the arguments that have supported changes in their institutional and territorial dimensions. Whereas the institutional dimension is concerned with the allocation of authority between layers of government, the territorial dimension is related to the definition of the size of subnational governme…
Who is to blame? Stories of European Union migration governance in Italian, Maltese, and Spanish newspapers
While scholars have investigated how media frame human mobility and securitize irregular border crossings, little research has been dedicated to how European Union (EU) actors are portrayed in media coverage of migration across the Mediterranean. By integrating framing into narrative analysis through the Narrative Policy Framework, our article fills this gap. Specifically, we provide a content analysis of Italian, Maltese, and Spanish newspapers …
Between institutions and narratives: Understanding collective action in innovation policy processes
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, accounting for the narratives through which policy actors make sense of their actions helps in understanding strategic behavior. However, applying institutional and narrative perspectives together is daunting, in part because there has not been a common wa…
The marble cake of social services in Italy and Spain: Policy capacity, social investment, and the national recovery and resilience plans
This article analyses the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the infrastructure of social services in Italy and Spain. Drawing from the policy capacity framework and focusing on childcare and elderly care, we investigate how the National Recovery and Resilience Plans are likely to impact the core functions of the social investment approach. Through document analysis, the article shows that, whereas the infrastructure of the socia…
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. Drawing from discursive and historical institutionalism, the explanatory framework revolves around the role of ideational and institutional factors. The methods include process tracing and interpretive‐discourse analysis. Empirical material is drawn fro…
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. Drawing from discursive and historical institutionalism, the explanatory framework revolves around the role of ideational and institutional factors. The methods include process tracing and interpretive‐discourse analysis. Empirical material is drawn fro…
Migration controls in Italy and Hungary: From conditionalized to domesticized humanitarianism at the EU borders
This article analyses the humanitarianism and securitisation nexus in effect to migration controls in Italy and Hungary. Noteworthy for our purposes is how the humanitarian discourse is undervalued as the EU border states emphasise either full securitisation or else securitisation as a condition for humanitarianism when it comes to border management and refugee protection measures. Our goal is to trace, on the one hand, how politicians conceptual…
New Public Management Reform ideas and the remaking of the Italian and Danish health systems
This article explores the role of New Public Management (NPM) ideas in the reform of the Italian and Danish health systems. In particular, it investigates the arguments that have supported changes in their institutional and territorial dimensions. Whereas the institutional dimension is concerned with the allocation of authority between layers of government, the territorial dimension is related to the definition of the size of subnational governme…
Narratives in power and policy design: The case of border management and external migration controls in Italy
This article explores the relationship between policy narratives and the design of the Italian border management and external migration control regime in the last two decades. First, drawing from the theory of social construction and policy design and through a qualitative application of the Narrative Policy Framework, the article traces the evolution of narratives developed by key actors in government. Second, it investigates the design of the I…
Policy narratives and megaprojects: The case of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway
This article investigates how policy narratives developed by proponents and opponents of infrastructure megaprojects generate controversies that affect the megaproject implementation. Drawing evidence from the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway, we argue that megaproject implementation is a complex public management endeavour which can hardly be considered a rational, straightforward process. It is rather a non-linear process involving stakeholders wi…
Beyond the European Semester: The supranational evaluation cycle for pensions
Pensions at the European level have been, since the sovereign debt crisis, affected by several decision-making innovations. Retirement policy has been embedded in the European Semester, which strengthened the hitherto inadequate European socioeconomic policy coordination mechanisms. Given that the additional powers bestowed upon the Commission were qualified, a supranational response followed. With the effect of strengthening its rational-legal a…
The Panopticon reloaded: A critical analysis of performance management systems in the trans-European transport network policy
This article examines Performance Management Systems (PMSs) as socio-technical policy instruments for shaping power relations in megaprojects. Employing an abductive approach, it innovatively applies Foucault's Panopticon theory to the case of the Lyon-Turin railway, a megaproject funded by the European Union's Trans-European Transport Network policy. Our research reveals that PMSs operate as intellectual technologies that enable megaproject prom…
Multi‐Level Governance Feedback and Health Care in Italy in the Aftermath of Covid‐19
At the crossroads of EU studies and public policy analysis, a vast literature identifies global crises as one of the main triggers of change. The present article provides a test of this hypothesis in the case of health care in the aftermath of the pandemic crisis that hit Europe between 2020 and 2022. We use Italy as an extreme case, where both the magnitude of the Covid-19 outbreak and the effect of the pre-existent domestic cost-cutting strateg…
Participatory governance in megaprojects: The Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation
Megaprojects are increasingly common across countries and attract substantial political attention from a variety of actors. Recent studies have highlighted the need to move from an understanding of megaprojects as linear and rational processes towards a more nuanced approach that accounts for non-linear and conflictual aspects. Participatory governance is often proposed as a valuable resource in this regard. In this paper, we investigate the sett…
Governing wickedness in megaprojects: Discursive and institutional perspectives
Megaprojects are now as important as ever. As a response to the pandemic, the European Union has put forward the Next Generation EU policy, making available a 2021–2027 long-term budget of €1.8 trillion to fund projects with ecological and digital applications in the field of telecommunication, transportation, and energy infrastructures. Similarly, in the United States a $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan is on the way. Also, China has planned to ex…
The marble cake of social services in Italy and Spain: Policy capacity, social investment, and the national recovery and resilience plans
This article analyses the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the infrastructure of social services in Italy and Spain. Drawing from the policy capacity framework and focusing on childcare and elderly care, we investigate how the National Recovery and Resilience Plans are likely to impact the core functions of the social investment approach. Through document analysis, the article shows that, whereas the infrastructure of the socia…
Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium
This article adopts an interpretive approach to investigate how local policy-makers portray and justify their own visions of digital governance initiatives at the municipal level. Our investigation focuses on smart city projects submitted by various Belgian municipalities in the framework of the ‘Intelligent Territory’ call for proposals initiated in 2019 by the Walloon Region. We use Boltanski and Thévenot’s theory of orders of worth and combine…
A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees. Evidence from the Italian response to the Covid ‐19 pandemic
The study of scientific advisory committees (SACs) is a recurrent topic of research in public policy and public administration. Scholars are increasingly interested in analyzing the scientization of policy advice as well as the role played by knowledge‐based policymaking processes. Despite recent developments in the field, SACs studies continue to face an analytical and empirical gap due to the lack of parsimonious conceptualizations of the chara…
Who is to blame? Stories of European Union migration governance in Italian, Maltese, and Spanish newspapers
While scholars have investigated how media frame human mobility and securitize irregular border crossings, little research has been dedicated to how European Union (EU) actors are portrayed in media coverage of migration across the Mediterranean. By integrating framing into narrative analysis through the Narrative Policy Framework, our article fills this gap. Specifically, we provide a content analysis of Italian, Maltese, and Spanish newspapers …
Between institutions and narratives: Understanding collective action in innovation policy processes
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, accounting for the narratives through which policy actors make sense of their actions helps in understanding strategic behavior. However, applying institutional and narrative perspectives together is daunting, in part because there has not been a common wa…
Smart City Development as Public Entrepreneurship: An In-Depth Case Study of Mayoral Action Based on Actor-Network Theory
This article examines how mayors in Belgium facilitate smart city development through interactions with actors in public administrations, businesses, and civil society. By applying public entrepreneurship and actor-network theories, it explores actions mayors can take to establish urban innovation networks. The research reveals mayors’ crucial role in translating initial ambiguous smart city ideas into public programs shared and implemented by di…
Far-Right on the Offensive: Public Sphere Responses to the Extremist Attack in Macerata, Italy
This article examines public sphere responses to a far-right attack in Macerata, Italy, just before the 2018 national elections. Adopting a deliberative democratic perspective, we conduct a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles discussing the attack. Our findings reveal a limited capacity for democratic resilience. The communication following the attack was neither reflective nor inclusive, despite the unanimous rejection of politica…
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 coordination practices influence the temporal evolution and layering of policy design choices. Designing R&I policies involves the intersection of diverse policy areas often overlapping with, or extending beyond, traditional ministerial responsibilities. T…
Ideas, business, and social policy: Insights from European Union employers’ organisations
This article seeks to advance our understanding of how business organisations articulate ideas about welfare policy – an aspect that remains underexplored in existing research. It does so by focusing on the European Union (EU) level, where social dialogue initiatives have spread since the 1980s. It looks at the three cross-sectoral EU employers’ organisations (EEOs) – the Confederation of European Business (BusinessEurope), Services of General In…
Socio-technical Governance and Legitimation Processes: A Comparative Analysis of the Belgian, Italian, and Spanish National Recovery and Resilience Plans
This article investigates legitimation processes in crisis situations, focusing on the European Union’s Next Generation EU (NGEU) program and its core instrument, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). To access RRF funds, Member States must submit National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs), which integrate social and technical components. The article conceptualizes NRRPs as socio-technical governance instruments and examines how legit- …
Strategies of agenda denial: Anti-gender opposition to LGBTQ+ policies in Italy
While the agenda setting literature largely focuses on how issues gain the attention of policy-makers, the strategies used to keep certain issues off the governmental agenda remain underexplored. This paper addresses this gap by examining agenda denial in the context of LGBTQ+ equality policies. It analyzes how opponents of such policies employ both strategies of avoidance and non-confrontation, as well as strategies of attack and issue redefinit…
Introduction to the special issue: Megatrends and grand challenges: The strategic organization of long-term and large-scale policy interventions
This article advances a conceptual framework to understand how long-term and large-scale policy interventions can be strategically organized in response to contemporary grand challenges. It argues that today’s interconnected environmental, economic, technological, and geopolitical crises are rooted in megatrends—large-scale, persistent, and transformative forces reshaping social, political, and economic systems. Megatrends generate constellations…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Corporate governance (6 works)