Luciana Cingolani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4173907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luciana Cingolani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luciana |
| FAMILY NAME | Cingolani |
| SIGNATURE | CINGOLANI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9350-1450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The agency of (public) agencies
The third wave of autocratization has triggered changes in politico-administrative dynamics that scholars are beginning to unravel. We contribute to this endeavor by studying the role of perceived organizational protections in mitigating the impacts of democratic backsliding on state and rule of law dismantling. Through an original survey of public servants in Brazil, we test a theoretically informed model of six agency features shaping individua…
The Organizational Dynamics of Bureaucratic Resistance to Undemocratic Pressures
Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure. This study tests whether organizational networks (peers and professional associations) and resources (expertise and voice mechanisms) influence bureaucrats…
A model of bureaucratic capacities against democratic backsliding
The literature on democratic backsliding has paid relatively little attention to the role of the public administration in its potential to contain institutional dismantling. We introduce a theoretical model of the bureaucratic capacities that shape public agencies’ possibilities to resist political attacks by populist incumbents. The focus on organizational capacities fills a gap in bureaucratic contestation research, more commonly interested in …
The role of public workforce diversity and the administrative ecosystem in advancing digital public service innovation
Organizational studies have long built a 'business case' for diversity, which today includes innovation capacity among the benefits of diverse workforces.Diversity's impact on innovation has been tested in private firms, yet few systematic studies exist in public management.We address this challenge using a two-step dynamic panel data analysis via generalized methods of moment estimation in 36 European countries.The findings confirm that higher p…
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe
Representative bureaucracy theory predicts that mirroring social groups in the composition of the bureaucracy will lead to inclusive policies and less overall exclusion of diverse individuals. While supporting evidence on policy outcomes is abundant, findings on subjective perceptions are mixed. This study tests three hypotheses linking representative bureaucracy to perceived same-group discrimination in the general population. It introduces a no…
Infrastructural state capacity in the digital age
In a context where states increasingly complement their physical presence with digital means, the classic idea of infrastructural state power needs reconsideration. The COVID‐19 pandemic represents an unparalleled opportunity to that end, given the uniformity of one type of digital infrastructural intervention—the offer of contact tracing apps‐ and its highly varying performance across geographies. Against this backdrop, the article seeks to expa…
The survival of open government platforms
For a number of years scholars have theorized about a change of paradigm in the collaborative practices between governments and citizens as a result of the newly emerged many-to-many forms of connectivity. A vibrant agenda on open government has flourished since, with critical advances on the conceptual front, but much less empirical testing of its propositions. This article makes use of a recognized typology of co-production initiatives in order…
The role of agencification in achieving value‐for‐money in public spending
Agencification has been pursued globally under the promise of increasing public administration performance. In spite of ample theoretical arguments, the empirical evidence on the causal link between agencification and performance remains scarce and methodologically contested. We contribute to this debate by empirically testing the impacts of agencification across Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom on value‐for‐money, competitiveness, and time…
Innovations in Objectively Measuring Corruption in Public Procurement
While there is continued interest in measuring governance, disagreement on how best to do so has only grown over time. To provide pointers at innovative and rigorous indicator building, this chapter documents innovations in measuring a particularly challenging governance dimension: corruption in public procurement. In hopes of inspiring future research, the chapter critically reviews objective corruption proxies using administrative data on gover…
Breaking the Cycle? How (Not) to Use Political Finance Regulations to Counter Public Procurement Corruption
There are widespread perceptions and countless documented cases of tight-knit networks of politicians and businessmen colluding in the allocation of public procurement contracts in return for political party donations. In the absence of systematic evidence, neither the magnitude of the problem nor the effectiveness of policies curbing such corruption is well-understood. In order to advance our understanding of these phenomena, this paper tests wh…
Bureaucratic Structure, Regulatory Quality, and Entrepreneurship in a Comparative Perspective
The article examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a cross-country measure on the extent of meritocratic entry to bureaucracy and a time-series indicator of tenure protection, it subjects theoretical claims that these features improve the epistemic qualities of bureaucracies and also serve as a credible commitment de…
Minding Weber More Than Ever? The Impacts of State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy on Development Goals
El Estado líquido
El artículo se propone ofrecer un análisis integral sobre la manera en que ha sido abordada la cuestión de la inestabilidad de las políticas públicas: su impacto en el desarrollo económico de los países, la heterogeneidad de enfoques teóricos que la estudian, las maneras en que ha sido conceptualizada y las posibles causas que la literatura ha delineado explicando el fenómeno. Ofrece asimismo un diagnóstico sobre los niveles de inestabilidad de l…
Minding Weber More Than Ever? The Impacts of State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy on Development Goals
Bureaucratic Structure, Regulatory Quality, and Entrepreneurship in a Comparative Perspective
The article examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a cross-country measure on the extent of meritocratic entry to bureaucracy and a time-series indicator of tenure protection, it subjects theoretical claims that these features improve the epistemic qualities of bureaucracies and also serve as a credible commitment de…
The role of agencification in achieving value‐for‐money in public spending
Agencification has been pursued globally under the promise of increasing public administration performance. In spite of ample theoretical arguments, the empirical evidence on the causal link between agencification and performance remains scarce and methodologically contested. We contribute to this debate by empirically testing the impacts of agencification across Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom on value‐for‐money, competitiveness, and time…
Breaking the Cycle? How (Not) to Use Political Finance Regulations to Counter Public Procurement Corruption
There are widespread perceptions and countless documented cases of tight-knit networks of politicians and businessmen colluding in the allocation of public procurement contracts in return for political party donations. In the absence of systematic evidence, neither the magnitude of the problem nor the effectiveness of policies curbing such corruption is well-understood. In order to advance our understanding of these phenomena, this paper tests wh…
Infrastructural state capacity in the digital age
In a context where states increasingly complement their physical presence with digital means, the classic idea of infrastructural state power needs reconsideration. The COVID‐19 pandemic represents an unparalleled opportunity to that end, given the uniformity of one type of digital infrastructural intervention—the offer of contact tracing apps‐ and its highly varying performance across geographies. Against this backdrop, the article seeks to expa…
The survival of open government platforms
For a number of years scholars have theorized about a change of paradigm in the collaborative practices between governments and citizens as a result of the newly emerged many-to-many forms of connectivity. A vibrant agenda on open government has flourished since, with critical advances on the conceptual front, but much less empirical testing of its propositions. This article makes use of a recognized typology of co-production initiatives in order…
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe
Representative bureaucracy theory predicts that mirroring social groups in the composition of the bureaucracy will lead to inclusive policies and less overall exclusion of diverse individuals. While supporting evidence on policy outcomes is abundant, findings on subjective perceptions are mixed. This study tests three hypotheses linking representative bureaucracy to perceived same-group discrimination in the general population. It introduces a no…
El Estado líquido
El artículo se propone ofrecer un análisis integral sobre la manera en que ha sido abordada la cuestión de la inestabilidad de las políticas públicas: su impacto en el desarrollo económico de los países, la heterogeneidad de enfoques teóricos que la estudian, las maneras en que ha sido conceptualizada y las posibles causas que la literatura ha delineado explicando el fenómeno. Ofrece asimismo un diagnóstico sobre los niveles de inestabilidad de l…
Minding Weber More Than Ever? The Impacts of State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy on Development Goals
Bureaucratic Structure, Regulatory Quality, and Entrepreneurship in a Comparative Perspective
The article examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a cross-country measure on the extent of meritocratic entry to bureaucracy and a time-series indicator of tenure protection, it subjects theoretical claims that these features improve the epistemic qualities of bureaucracies and also serve as a credible commitment de…
Breaking the Cycle? How (Not) to Use Political Finance Regulations to Counter Public Procurement Corruption
There are widespread perceptions and countless documented cases of tight-knit networks of politicians and businessmen colluding in the allocation of public procurement contracts in return for political party donations. In the absence of systematic evidence, neither the magnitude of the problem nor the effectiveness of policies curbing such corruption is well-understood. In order to advance our understanding of these phenomena, this paper tests wh…
Innovations in Objectively Measuring Corruption in Public Procurement
While there is continued interest in measuring governance, disagreement on how best to do so has only grown over time. To provide pointers at innovative and rigorous indicator building, this chapter documents innovations in measuring a particularly challenging governance dimension: corruption in public procurement. In hopes of inspiring future research, the chapter critically reviews objective corruption proxies using administrative data on gover…
The survival of open government platforms
For a number of years scholars have theorized about a change of paradigm in the collaborative practices between governments and citizens as a result of the newly emerged many-to-many forms of connectivity. A vibrant agenda on open government has flourished since, with critical advances on the conceptual front, but much less empirical testing of its propositions. This article makes use of a recognized typology of co-production initiatives in order…
The role of agencification in achieving value‐for‐money in public spending
Agencification has been pursued globally under the promise of increasing public administration performance. In spite of ample theoretical arguments, the empirical evidence on the causal link between agencification and performance remains scarce and methodologically contested. We contribute to this debate by empirically testing the impacts of agencification across Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom on value‐for‐money, competitiveness, and time…
Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe
Representative bureaucracy theory predicts that mirroring social groups in the composition of the bureaucracy will lead to inclusive policies and less overall exclusion of diverse individuals. While supporting evidence on policy outcomes is abundant, findings on subjective perceptions are mixed. This study tests three hypotheses linking representative bureaucracy to perceived same-group discrimination in the general population. It introduces a no…
Infrastructural state capacity in the digital age
In a context where states increasingly complement their physical presence with digital means, the classic idea of infrastructural state power needs reconsideration. The COVID‐19 pandemic represents an unparalleled opportunity to that end, given the uniformity of one type of digital infrastructural intervention—the offer of contact tracing apps‐ and its highly varying performance across geographies. Against this backdrop, the article seeks to expa…
The role of public workforce diversity and the administrative ecosystem in advancing digital public service innovation
Organizational studies have long built a 'business case' for diversity, which today includes innovation capacity among the benefits of diverse workforces.Diversity's impact on innovation has been tested in private firms, yet few systematic studies exist in public management.We address this challenge using a two-step dynamic panel data analysis via generalized methods of moment estimation in 36 European countries.The findings confirm that higher p…
A model of bureaucratic capacities against democratic backsliding
The literature on democratic backsliding has paid relatively little attention to the role of the public administration in its potential to contain institutional dismantling. We introduce a theoretical model of the bureaucratic capacities that shape public agencies’ possibilities to resist political attacks by populist incumbents. The focus on organizational capacities fills a gap in bureaucratic contestation research, more commonly interested in …
The agency of (public) agencies
The third wave of autocratization has triggered changes in politico-administrative dynamics that scholars are beginning to unravel. We contribute to this endeavor by studying the role of perceived organizational protections in mitigating the impacts of democratic backsliding on state and rule of law dismantling. Through an original survey of public servants in Brazil, we test a theoretically informed model of six agency features shaping individua…
The Organizational Dynamics of Bureaucratic Resistance to Undemocratic Pressures
Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure. This study tests whether organizational networks (peers and professional associations) and resources (expertise and voice mechanisms) influence bureaucrats…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Bureaucracy (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (4 works) · Public economics (4 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (4 works)