Francesco Stolfi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4128829 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Francesco Stolfi |
| NOMBRES | Francesco |
| APELLIDO | Stolfi |
| FIRMA | STOLFI F |
| AFILIACIONES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0565-5888 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Doctors vs. doctors
If associations include multiple constituencies with conflicting preferences, whose preferences will they represent? We argue that the higher the territorial level of policy-making authority in a polity, the more influence the resource-rich constituencies will have on an association’s policy positions. We apply this argument to the contrasting positions over medical remuneration taken by the medical associations in two federal countries, Australi…
Worse than Failure
Sociopolitical reputation and the reform of pharmacies in Greece and Portugal
This article argues that differences in sociopolitical reputation can explain why interest groups fail or succeed in influencing policymakers and that therefore sociopolitical reputation is a useful addition to the conceptual toolbox of interest groups scholars. Focusing on pharmacies and their associations in Greece and Portugal between 2005 and 2021, this article uses the concept of sociopolitical reputation to explain why reform attempts to re…
More Flexible, Less Productive? The Impact of Employment Protection Legislation Reforms in Italy
Through a meta-analysis of all publicly available research over a span of 25 years, the article assesses the productivity impact of the employment protection legislation reforms that have been introduced in Italy since 1997. European Union institutions and domestic reformers advocated the reforms in order to increase the competitiveness and productivity of the Italian economy. Yet, by incentivising temporary employment, the reforms have favoured …
Border clashes
This article studies the political conflict surrounding the implementation of the European Union’s Services Directive in Greece between 2010 and 2018, the period in which the country was subject to external conditionality by external institutions. Focusing on the opening of jurisdictional boundaries for four professions (tourist guides, taxi owners, lawyers and engineers) that differ in terms of power and of organisational structure, we find that…
Too big to fail? The dynamics of EU influence and fiscal consolidation in Italy and Spain (2008–2016)
The article studies the dynamics of fiscal consolidation and public sector reforms in Italy and Spain under the EU governance that took shape as a reaction to the Eurozone crisis. We show how three types of EU pressure – fiscal and economic coordination rules, conditionality, and back-room diplomacy have operated in conjunction. We also show that Italy was more willing than Spain to resist EU pressure. Based on a Two-Level Game framework, we argu…
A more German Italy? Competition and the development of relationship lending
Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, this article shows that since the 1990s, greater competition in Italy's banking industry has pushed commercial banks to develop some of the institutions of relationship lending (RL) typical of coordinated economies, namely to develop closer relationships with firms. While these developments do not amount to full-fledged RL, our findings have, first, implications for the assessment of in…
Learning-Shaping Crises
This article analyses the attempts to reform public administration, notably personnel management, in Italy between 1992 and 2014, with a focus on implementation and the period following the multiple crises that have unfolded since 2008. By untangling the policy learning processes between multiple crises, past reform attempts and domestic and European “contexts in motion”, the article finds that efficiency-oriented reforms have floundered regardle…
Clientelistic budget cycles
Political budget cycles (PBCs), namely the manipulation of taxation or government spending close to elections, are an enduring topic in the study of economic policy-making. While the literature explains their occurrence based on information asymmetries between incumbents and voters, we argue that a source of variation in the extent of PBCs is, via the effect of clientelism, the level of economic development. In jurisdictions where voters have few…
The implementation of administrative burden reduction policy
Mechanisms and Public Administration Reform
This article applies a processual approach to the explanation of administrative reform in Italy over fifteen years. By carrying out a comparison between better regulation and digitalization policies it shows that the oscillation in the level of implementation over time and across policies can be explained by the intensity and direction of spillover and certification mechanisms and that in turn these mechanisms are activated by design features and…
The Ghost of Crises Past
Using a process sequencing approach, this article shows how Italy's response to an earlier fiscal crisis has shaped the response to the current one in two public sector areas that are especially susceptible to fiscal constraints: the budget process and personnel policies. Substantively, it shows the extent to which Italian policymakers have used the repertoire of solutions of the past and the pressures of the current crisis to freeze the expendit…
Testing Structuralist and Interpretative Explanations of Policy Change
This article compares the relative explanatory power of structuralist and interpretative approaches to the study of policy change. By assessing the fit of these approaches against the actual reform of the formulation, approval, and implementation stages of Italy's budget process in the 1990s, the article shows that structural factors (such as fiscal pressures and changes in the electoral rules) played a key role in the reform of the formulation s…
The Europeanization of Italy's budget institutions in the 1990s
This article examines the impact of European monetary integration on the reform of Italy's budget institutions in the 1990s. Using an approach that explicitly assesses the impact of European factors on domestic change alongside domestic factors and that follows institutional change over long periods of time, the article concludes – contrary to much of the literature on Europe's impact on Italy – that in fact Europe did not matter, or that at most…
Telecommunications and Transnationalism
This article critically assesses the policy orientation, social impacts, and linkages of telecommunications in the United States within a government deregulated policy environment and an increasingly globalized economy. Deregulation has been driven by both ideological and technological demands, stemming from several political and economic transformations in the world economy, the collapse of state socialism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet…
The Ghost of Crises Past
Using a process sequencing approach, this article shows how Italy's response to an earlier fiscal crisis has shaped the response to the current one in two public sector areas that are especially susceptible to fiscal constraints: the budget process and personnel policies. Substantively, it shows the extent to which Italian policymakers have used the repertoire of solutions of the past and the pressures of the current crisis to freeze the expendit…
The Europeanization of Italy's budget institutions in the 1990s
This article examines the impact of European monetary integration on the reform of Italy's budget institutions in the 1990s. Using an approach that explicitly assesses the impact of European factors on domestic change alongside domestic factors and that follows institutional change over long periods of time, the article concludes – contrary to much of the literature on Europe's impact on Italy – that in fact Europe did not matter, or that at most…
Mechanisms and Public Administration Reform
This article applies a processual approach to the explanation of administrative reform in Italy over fifteen years. By carrying out a comparison between better regulation and digitalization policies it shows that the oscillation in the level of implementation over time and across policies can be explained by the intensity and direction of spillover and certification mechanisms and that in turn these mechanisms are activated by design features and…
Clientelistic budget cycles
Political budget cycles (PBCs), namely the manipulation of taxation or government spending close to elections, are an enduring topic in the study of economic policy-making. While the literature explains their occurrence based on information asymmetries between incumbents and voters, we argue that a source of variation in the extent of PBCs is, via the effect of clientelism, the level of economic development. In jurisdictions where voters have few…
Testing Structuralist and Interpretative Explanations of Policy Change
This article compares the relative explanatory power of structuralist and interpretative approaches to the study of policy change. By assessing the fit of these approaches against the actual reform of the formulation, approval, and implementation stages of Italy's budget process in the 1990s, the article shows that structural factors (such as fiscal pressures and changes in the electoral rules) played a key role in the reform of the formulation s…
The implementation of administrative burden reduction policy
Border clashes
This article studies the political conflict surrounding the implementation of the European Union’s Services Directive in Greece between 2010 and 2018, the period in which the country was subject to external conditionality by external institutions. Focusing on the opening of jurisdictional boundaries for four professions (tourist guides, taxi owners, lawyers and engineers) that differ in terms of power and of organisational structure, we find that…
A more German Italy? Competition and the development of relationship lending
Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, this article shows that since the 1990s, greater competition in Italy's banking industry has pushed commercial banks to develop some of the institutions of relationship lending (RL) typical of coordinated economies, namely to develop closer relationships with firms. While these developments do not amount to full-fledged RL, our findings have, first, implications for the assessment of in…
Telecommunications and Transnationalism
This article critically assesses the policy orientation, social impacts, and linkages of telecommunications in the United States within a government deregulated policy environment and an increasingly globalized economy. Deregulation has been driven by both ideological and technological demands, stemming from several political and economic transformations in the world economy, the collapse of state socialism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet…
Telecommunications and Transnationalism
This article critically assesses the policy orientation, social impacts, and linkages of telecommunications in the United States within a government deregulated policy environment and an increasingly globalized economy. Deregulation has been driven by both ideological and technological demands, stemming from several political and economic transformations in the world economy, the collapse of state socialism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet…
The Europeanization of Italy's budget institutions in the 1990s
This article examines the impact of European monetary integration on the reform of Italy's budget institutions in the 1990s. Using an approach that explicitly assesses the impact of European factors on domestic change alongside domestic factors and that follows institutional change over long periods of time, the article concludes – contrary to much of the literature on Europe's impact on Italy – that in fact Europe did not matter, or that at most…
Testing Structuralist and Interpretative Explanations of Policy Change
This article compares the relative explanatory power of structuralist and interpretative approaches to the study of policy change. By assessing the fit of these approaches against the actual reform of the formulation, approval, and implementation stages of Italy's budget process in the 1990s, the article shows that structural factors (such as fiscal pressures and changes in the electoral rules) played a key role in the reform of the formulation s…
Mechanisms and Public Administration Reform
This article applies a processual approach to the explanation of administrative reform in Italy over fifteen years. By carrying out a comparison between better regulation and digitalization policies it shows that the oscillation in the level of implementation over time and across policies can be explained by the intensity and direction of spillover and certification mechanisms and that in turn these mechanisms are activated by design features and…
The Ghost of Crises Past
Using a process sequencing approach, this article shows how Italy's response to an earlier fiscal crisis has shaped the response to the current one in two public sector areas that are especially susceptible to fiscal constraints: the budget process and personnel policies. Substantively, it shows the extent to which Italian policymakers have used the repertoire of solutions of the past and the pressures of the current crisis to freeze the expendit…
The implementation of administrative burden reduction policy
Learning-Shaping Crises
This article analyses the attempts to reform public administration, notably personnel management, in Italy between 1992 and 2014, with a focus on implementation and the period following the multiple crises that have unfolded since 2008. By untangling the policy learning processes between multiple crises, past reform attempts and domestic and European “contexts in motion”, the article finds that efficiency-oriented reforms have floundered regardle…
Clientelistic budget cycles
Political budget cycles (PBCs), namely the manipulation of taxation or government spending close to elections, are an enduring topic in the study of economic policy-making. While the literature explains their occurrence based on information asymmetries between incumbents and voters, we argue that a source of variation in the extent of PBCs is, via the effect of clientelism, the level of economic development. In jurisdictions where voters have few…
A more German Italy? Competition and the development of relationship lending
Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, this article shows that since the 1990s, greater competition in Italy's banking industry has pushed commercial banks to develop some of the institutions of relationship lending (RL) typical of coordinated economies, namely to develop closer relationships with firms. While these developments do not amount to full-fledged RL, our findings have, first, implications for the assessment of in…
Too big to fail? The dynamics of EU influence and fiscal consolidation in Italy and Spain (2008–2016)
The article studies the dynamics of fiscal consolidation and public sector reforms in Italy and Spain under the EU governance that took shape as a reaction to the Eurozone crisis. We show how three types of EU pressure – fiscal and economic coordination rules, conditionality, and back-room diplomacy have operated in conjunction. We also show that Italy was more willing than Spain to resist EU pressure. Based on a Two-Level Game framework, we argu…
Border clashes
This article studies the political conflict surrounding the implementation of the European Union’s Services Directive in Greece between 2010 and 2018, the period in which the country was subject to external conditionality by external institutions. Focusing on the opening of jurisdictional boundaries for four professions (tourist guides, taxi owners, lawyers and engineers) that differ in terms of power and of organisational structure, we find that…
More Flexible, Less Productive? The Impact of Employment Protection Legislation Reforms in Italy
Through a meta-analysis of all publicly available research over a span of 25 years, the article assesses the productivity impact of the employment protection legislation reforms that have been introduced in Italy since 1997. European Union institutions and domestic reformers advocated the reforms in order to increase the competitiveness and productivity of the Italian economy. Yet, by incentivising temporary employment, the reforms have favoured …
Sociopolitical reputation and the reform of pharmacies in Greece and Portugal
This article argues that differences in sociopolitical reputation can explain why interest groups fail or succeed in influencing policymakers and that therefore sociopolitical reputation is a useful addition to the conceptual toolbox of interest groups scholars. Focusing on pharmacies and their associations in Greece and Portugal between 2005 and 2021, this article uses the concept of sociopolitical reputation to explain why reform attempts to re…
Worse than Failure
Doctors vs. doctors
If associations include multiple constituencies with conflicting preferences, whose preferences will they represent? We argue that the higher the territorial level of policy-making authority in a polity, the more influence the resource-rich constituencies will have on an association’s policy positions. We apply this argument to the contrasting positions over medical remuneration taken by the medical associations in two federal countries, Australi…
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