Marco Di Giulio
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 925524 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marco Di Giulio |
| PRENOMES | Marco |
| SOBRENOME | Di Giulio |
| ASSINATURA | DI GIULIO M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Genoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3331-4183 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What makes paradigms last? A study of defense policy change in Germany and Italy (1989–2022)
Policy ideas are often crafted in international fora, such as international organisations, multilateral institutions, and high-level summits. However, whether and how ideas will eventually inform policymakers at the domestic level remains an understudied subject. This paper contributes to this debate by tracing the domestic consolidation and eventual erosion of 'Crisis Management', a policy paradigm that emerged after the end of the Cold War and …
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis
Can public diplomacy in times of crisis shape citizens’ attitudes towards international politics? Using a survey experiment in Italy, we evaluated whether information cues about public diplomacy efforts by the United States and China to assist the country in dealing with the COVID-19 emergency shifted the importance citizens attached to Italy’s international allies being democracies. We found that citizens who receive positive cues about USA effo…
Motherhood, Mental Incompetence, and the Denial of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Years of Israeli Statehood
As the State of Israel defined citizenship rights for its Jewish population after independence in 1948, it also began to articulate the rights of those affected by disabilities of the mind—i.e., psychiatric, cognitive, and learning disabilities—by issuing, for example, the “Law for the Management of Institutes” (1952) and the “Law for the Treatment of the Mentally Ill” (1955). Due to haphazard state-building and insufficient funding, however, thi…
Implementing NRRP policies and the interest groups perspective in the justice sector
In the justice sector, the main objective of NRRP policies is to \nenhance the performance of the judiciary through comprehensive \nactions that impact various areas, including the courts, organizational \nmatters, civil and criminal proceedings, alternative dispute \nresolution, digitization, judicial and staff training, and judicial governance. \nThis context presents an excellent opportunity for a new \ncycle of policy design and implementatio…
Killing out of compassion
This article examines the case of Gizela Kafri, who stood trial for killing her severely disabled three-year-old son in 1964. This case sparked a public debate over mercy killing and eventually contributed to the passage of the “Law for the Treatment of Retarded Persons” in Israel five years later. Placing this event within its broader historical context reveals how competing valuations of disability shaped Israeli society’s understandings of wha…
Nonuse and hypocritical use of strategic narratives in Megaprojects
Since megaprojects are costly, impactful, and often contentious policymaking processes, scholars have started to look at policy narratives as instruments that actors use strategically to justify their preferences and achieve their goals. But is this really the case? Do actors always adopt a narrative to support their goals? Do they develop arguments that are consistent with their official goals and in a timely manner? This paper suggests that, wh…
On the eve of ecological transition? The failed institutionalization of sustainable development in Italy (1992–2020)
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) adopted in 2021 by the Italian government is explicitly committed to push the country towards a ‘radical ecological transition’ and sustainable development. However, the institutionalization of the paradigm of sustainable development, in Italy, is a story of a failure. The aim of this contribution is to investigate the hows and whys that may help explaining the failed institutionalization of the pa…
Implementing digitalization in the public sector. Technologies, agency, and governance
Technological transformations are currently reshaping the structure and strategies of public administrations and are expected to foster efficiency and policy integration. However, the literature on digital government has demonstrated that the introduction of technology is far from a smooth process, as it is often associated with conflict and negative feedback. This paper departs from James Thompson’s notion of technology, understood as one of the…
How "institutionalization" can work. Structuring governance for digital transformation in Italy
Public policy scholars have recently focused on the mechanisms accounting for the sustainability of major policy changes. Among the strategies by which policy entrepreneurs may try to avoid future backlash institutionalization is certainly one of the most used. Yet, it can foster ossification and eventually jeopardize policy effectiveness. Such a potential trade-off between institutionalization and long-term effectiveness is particularly intense …
The Origins of Israeli Deaf Ethnicity
At the first school for deaf children in the Yishuv, established in 1932, teachers used oralist methods developed in Germany to instill the Hebrew language in pupils. Graduates joined a Hebrew-speaking Deaf community that included orally trained Jews returning from Europe. This Deaf elite envisioned an extensive oral education system for children and adults, but the sudden influx of deaf immigrants in the 1950s disrupted their plans. The resultin…
Detecting anticipatory design strategies
For decades, the academic literature on migration policy change suggested that migration policies in Western Europe had become overall more liberal. Yet, in an age of strong polarization, highly institutionalized policy regimes are likely to change. Adopting the theoretical lens of policy feedback literature, this paper argues that a better grasp of policy dynamics in the field of migration requires a more nuanced definition of the policy. Namely…
Preventing children’s death by heatstroke
When public policies are designed from scratch, with no or limited possibility of learning from past experience, decision makers rely on their creativity and lateral thinking to counterbalance cognitive biases. One of the crucial issues for both evaluators and policy makers in such situations is not only to elaborate a sound theory of the programme but also to be aware of the existence of competing theories to solve the same problem. Being able t…
Managing incoherence. Social democratic parties and transnational issues in Europe
Do political parties keep their promises? The coherence between parties’ ideology and policy output have always attracted scholarly interest. Moreover, the importance of political parties’ accountability has dramatically increased also because of the rise of populist parties. This paper aims at contributing to the current debate by investigating different phases: the electoral manifestoes, the framing on issues in parliament, the votes, and the w…
From the Change of the Pattern to the Change in the Pattern. The Trilateral Game in the Italian Intergovernmental Relations
Studies on federalism, regionalism and devolution often tackle the processes of institutional change in a country's polity merely as transitions from an institutional pattern to another, thus mainly focusing on the role of legal frameworks and Constitutional setting in the transition from an equilibrium to another. Such an approach overlooks the role of incremental dynamics: what happens after a new constitutional equilibrium has been reached? Do…
Alitalia, or the inability to align regulation with industrial policies
This article aims to frame Alitalia’s crisis in the processes that have characterized the regulatory and industrial policies of the aviation industry over the last twenty years. The reasons that led to Alitalia’s state of insolvency, which have been widely documented, will only be surveyed here. Instead, this work highlights the ‘public policy’ dimension of Alitalia’s failure, that is to say the key strategic decisions, their coherence over time,…
Multilevel policy implementation and the where of learning
Industrial policies at a time of liberalization
For more than three decades, European institutions have been committed to opening up the markets of public services, which were traditionally managed under monopolistic arrangements within each member state. The internationalization of firms previously operating in this sector is a phenomenon that will reshape the relationships between national governments and national industry. The creation of a comparative advantage in these markets is thus eme…
Protecting the Jewish throat
In 1913 the Hebrew Language Council (Va’ad ha-lashon ha-ivrit) instituted guidelines for the pronunciation of Hebrew, based on the Sephardic accent. Immigrants struggled to master the new sounds, especially the guttural phonemes, and to repress their native accents. Their pronunciation was frequently criticized as ugly and in need of correction. In the 1930s, Yitzhak Epstein (1862–1943) developed a new approach to the problem of standardizing and…
Political coalitions, local leaders and the internationalization of local public services in Italy
The Internationalization of Network Industries
Internationalization constitutes a dominant strategy for former public enterprises, as they enter emerging markets in other countries. This article provides a firm-level analysis of the drivers of (and obstacles to) internationalization. It focuses primarily on the experience of Italian companies in the railway and utility sectors by comparing and contrasting them with major European companies as well as among themselves. The article shows the di…
Resisting Modernity
The translation of traditional religious texts into modern languages is a defining feature of Jewish modernization.1 As changes in patterns of Jewish learning took place under the influence of secular scholarship, Jews set out to render their religious literature into modern idioms. Beginning in Germany in the eighteenth century, Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) translated portions of the Bible to encourage the replacement of the Judeo-German dialec…
S. D. Luzzatto’s Program for Restoring Jewish Leadership in Hebrew Studies
This article demonstrates that S. D. Luzzatto’s Prolegomeni a una grammatica ragionata della lingua ebraica (1836) was a critical response to the scholarship of Christian Hebraists, motivated by the drive of its author to reclaim from Christians the leading position in the study of the Hebrew language. Luzzatto took exception to Christian scholars’ reliance on Arabic in their linguistic descriptions of Hebrew, an approach championed by the eighte…
Strong interests, weak groups? The structure and strategies of interest groups in Italian transport policy
This article discusses the role of interest groups in the field of Italian transport policy. It looks at the patterns of stability and change emerging from this field for more than 20 years after the main reforms. For national policymakers, the implementation of European Union’s transport regulations represented an extraordinary opportunity to address the field of transport in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness. Industrialisation of the p…
Multilevel policy implementation and the where of learning
How "institutionalization" can work. Structuring governance for digital transformation in Italy
Public policy scholars have recently focused on the mechanisms accounting for the sustainability of major policy changes. Among the strategies by which policy entrepreneurs may try to avoid future backlash institutionalization is certainly one of the most used. Yet, it can foster ossification and eventually jeopardize policy effectiveness. Such a potential trade-off between institutionalization and long-term effectiveness is particularly intense …
Implementing digitalization in the public sector. Technologies, agency, and governance
Technological transformations are currently reshaping the structure and strategies of public administrations and are expected to foster efficiency and policy integration. However, the literature on digital government has demonstrated that the introduction of technology is far from a smooth process, as it is often associated with conflict and negative feedback. This paper departs from James Thompson’s notion of technology, understood as one of the…
Political coalitions, local leaders and the internationalization of local public services in Italy
Nonuse and hypocritical use of strategic narratives in Megaprojects
Since megaprojects are costly, impactful, and often contentious policymaking processes, scholars have started to look at policy narratives as instruments that actors use strategically to justify their preferences and achieve their goals. But is this really the case? Do actors always adopt a narrative to support their goals? Do they develop arguments that are consistent with their official goals and in a timely manner? This paper suggests that, wh…
On the eve of ecological transition? The failed institutionalization of sustainable development in Italy (1992–2020)
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) adopted in 2021 by the Italian government is explicitly committed to push the country towards a ‘radical ecological transition’ and sustainable development. However, the institutionalization of the paradigm of sustainable development, in Italy, is a story of a failure. The aim of this contribution is to investigate the hows and whys that may help explaining the failed institutionalization of the pa…
Industrial policies at a time of liberalization
For more than three decades, European institutions have been committed to opening up the markets of public services, which were traditionally managed under monopolistic arrangements within each member state. The internationalization of firms previously operating in this sector is a phenomenon that will reshape the relationships between national governments and national industry. The creation of a comparative advantage in these markets is thus eme…
The Internationalization of Network Industries
Internationalization constitutes a dominant strategy for former public enterprises, as they enter emerging markets in other countries. This article provides a firm-level analysis of the drivers of (and obstacles to) internationalization. It focuses primarily on the experience of Italian companies in the railway and utility sectors by comparing and contrasting them with major European companies as well as among themselves. The article shows the di…
What makes paradigms last? A study of defense policy change in Germany and Italy (1989–2022)
Policy ideas are often crafted in international fora, such as international organisations, multilateral institutions, and high-level summits. However, whether and how ideas will eventually inform policymakers at the domestic level remains an understudied subject. This paper contributes to this debate by tracing the domestic consolidation and eventual erosion of 'Crisis Management', a policy paradigm that emerged after the end of the Cold War and …
Managing incoherence. Social democratic parties and transnational issues in Europe
Do political parties keep their promises? The coherence between parties’ ideology and policy output have always attracted scholarly interest. Moreover, the importance of political parties’ accountability has dramatically increased also because of the rise of populist parties. This paper aims at contributing to the current debate by investigating different phases: the electoral manifestoes, the framing on issues in parliament, the votes, and the w…
From the Change of the Pattern to the Change in the Pattern. The Trilateral Game in the Italian Intergovernmental Relations
Studies on federalism, regionalism and devolution often tackle the processes of institutional change in a country's polity merely as transitions from an institutional pattern to another, thus mainly focusing on the role of legal frameworks and Constitutional setting in the transition from an equilibrium to another. Such an approach overlooks the role of incremental dynamics: what happens after a new constitutional equilibrium has been reached? Do…
Resisting Modernity
The translation of traditional religious texts into modern languages is a defining feature of Jewish modernization.1 As changes in patterns of Jewish learning took place under the influence of secular scholarship, Jews set out to render their religious literature into modern idioms. Beginning in Germany in the eighteenth century, Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) translated portions of the Bible to encourage the replacement of the Judeo-German dialec…
S. D. Luzzatto’s Program for Restoring Jewish Leadership in Hebrew Studies
This article demonstrates that S. D. Luzzatto’s Prolegomeni a una grammatica ragionata della lingua ebraica (1836) was a critical response to the scholarship of Christian Hebraists, motivated by the drive of its author to reclaim from Christians the leading position in the study of the Hebrew language. Luzzatto took exception to Christian scholars’ reliance on Arabic in their linguistic descriptions of Hebrew, an approach championed by the eighte…
Strong interests, weak groups? The structure and strategies of interest groups in Italian transport policy
This article discusses the role of interest groups in the field of Italian transport policy. It looks at the patterns of stability and change emerging from this field for more than 20 years after the main reforms. For national policymakers, the implementation of European Union’s transport regulations represented an extraordinary opportunity to address the field of transport in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness. Industrialisation of the p…
The Internationalization of Network Industries
Internationalization constitutes a dominant strategy for former public enterprises, as they enter emerging markets in other countries. This article provides a firm-level analysis of the drivers of (and obstacles to) internationalization. It focuses primarily on the experience of Italian companies in the railway and utility sectors by comparing and contrasting them with major European companies as well as among themselves. The article shows the di…
Resisting Modernity
The translation of traditional religious texts into modern languages is a defining feature of Jewish modernization.1 As changes in patterns of Jewish learning took place under the influence of secular scholarship, Jews set out to render their religious literature into modern idioms. Beginning in Germany in the eighteenth century, Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) translated portions of the Bible to encourage the replacement of the Judeo-German dialec…
S. D. Luzzatto’s Program for Restoring Jewish Leadership in Hebrew Studies
This article demonstrates that S. D. Luzzatto’s Prolegomeni a una grammatica ragionata della lingua ebraica (1836) was a critical response to the scholarship of Christian Hebraists, motivated by the drive of its author to reclaim from Christians the leading position in the study of the Hebrew language. Luzzatto took exception to Christian scholars’ reliance on Arabic in their linguistic descriptions of Hebrew, an approach championed by the eighte…
Protecting the Jewish throat
In 1913 the Hebrew Language Council (Va’ad ha-lashon ha-ivrit) instituted guidelines for the pronunciation of Hebrew, based on the Sephardic accent. Immigrants struggled to master the new sounds, especially the guttural phonemes, and to repress their native accents. Their pronunciation was frequently criticized as ugly and in need of correction. In the 1930s, Yitzhak Epstein (1862–1943) developed a new approach to the problem of standardizing and…
Political coalitions, local leaders and the internationalization of local public services in Italy
From the Change of the Pattern to the Change in the Pattern. The Trilateral Game in the Italian Intergovernmental Relations
Studies on federalism, regionalism and devolution often tackle the processes of institutional change in a country's polity merely as transitions from an institutional pattern to another, thus mainly focusing on the role of legal frameworks and Constitutional setting in the transition from an equilibrium to another. Such an approach overlooks the role of incremental dynamics: what happens after a new constitutional equilibrium has been reached? Do…
Alitalia, or the inability to align regulation with industrial policies
This article aims to frame Alitalia’s crisis in the processes that have characterized the regulatory and industrial policies of the aviation industry over the last twenty years. The reasons that led to Alitalia’s state of insolvency, which have been widely documented, will only be surveyed here. Instead, this work highlights the ‘public policy’ dimension of Alitalia’s failure, that is to say the key strategic decisions, their coherence over time,…
Multilevel policy implementation and the where of learning
Industrial policies at a time of liberalization
For more than three decades, European institutions have been committed to opening up the markets of public services, which were traditionally managed under monopolistic arrangements within each member state. The internationalization of firms previously operating in this sector is a phenomenon that will reshape the relationships between national governments and national industry. The creation of a comparative advantage in these markets is thus eme…
Managing incoherence. Social democratic parties and transnational issues in Europe
Do political parties keep their promises? The coherence between parties’ ideology and policy output have always attracted scholarly interest. Moreover, the importance of political parties’ accountability has dramatically increased also because of the rise of populist parties. This paper aims at contributing to the current debate by investigating different phases: the electoral manifestoes, the framing on issues in parliament, the votes, and the w…
Preventing children’s death by heatstroke
When public policies are designed from scratch, with no or limited possibility of learning from past experience, decision makers rely on their creativity and lateral thinking to counterbalance cognitive biases. One of the crucial issues for both evaluators and policy makers in such situations is not only to elaborate a sound theory of the programme but also to be aware of the existence of competing theories to solve the same problem. Being able t…
The Origins of Israeli Deaf Ethnicity
At the first school for deaf children in the Yishuv, established in 1932, teachers used oralist methods developed in Germany to instill the Hebrew language in pupils. Graduates joined a Hebrew-speaking Deaf community that included orally trained Jews returning from Europe. This Deaf elite envisioned an extensive oral education system for children and adults, but the sudden influx of deaf immigrants in the 1950s disrupted their plans. The resultin…
Detecting anticipatory design strategies
For decades, the academic literature on migration policy change suggested that migration policies in Western Europe had become overall more liberal. Yet, in an age of strong polarization, highly institutionalized policy regimes are likely to change. Adopting the theoretical lens of policy feedback literature, this paper argues that a better grasp of policy dynamics in the field of migration requires a more nuanced definition of the policy. Namely…
Implementing NRRP policies and the interest groups perspective in the justice sector
In the justice sector, the main objective of NRRP policies is to \nenhance the performance of the judiciary through comprehensive \nactions that impact various areas, including the courts, organizational \nmatters, civil and criminal proceedings, alternative dispute \nresolution, digitization, judicial and staff training, and judicial governance. \nThis context presents an excellent opportunity for a new \ncycle of policy design and implementatio…
Killing out of compassion
This article examines the case of Gizela Kafri, who stood trial for killing her severely disabled three-year-old son in 1964. This case sparked a public debate over mercy killing and eventually contributed to the passage of the “Law for the Treatment of Retarded Persons” in Israel five years later. Placing this event within its broader historical context reveals how competing valuations of disability shaped Israeli society’s understandings of wha…
Nonuse and hypocritical use of strategic narratives in Megaprojects
Since megaprojects are costly, impactful, and often contentious policymaking processes, scholars have started to look at policy narratives as instruments that actors use strategically to justify their preferences and achieve their goals. But is this really the case? Do actors always adopt a narrative to support their goals? Do they develop arguments that are consistent with their official goals and in a timely manner? This paper suggests that, wh…
On the eve of ecological transition? The failed institutionalization of sustainable development in Italy (1992–2020)
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) adopted in 2021 by the Italian government is explicitly committed to push the country towards a ‘radical ecological transition’ and sustainable development. However, the institutionalization of the paradigm of sustainable development, in Italy, is a story of a failure. The aim of this contribution is to investigate the hows and whys that may help explaining the failed institutionalization of the pa…
Implementing digitalization in the public sector. Technologies, agency, and governance
Technological transformations are currently reshaping the structure and strategies of public administrations and are expected to foster efficiency and policy integration. However, the literature on digital government has demonstrated that the introduction of technology is far from a smooth process, as it is often associated with conflict and negative feedback. This paper departs from James Thompson’s notion of technology, understood as one of the…
How "institutionalization" can work. Structuring governance for digital transformation in Italy
Public policy scholars have recently focused on the mechanisms accounting for the sustainability of major policy changes. Among the strategies by which policy entrepreneurs may try to avoid future backlash institutionalization is certainly one of the most used. Yet, it can foster ossification and eventually jeopardize policy effectiveness. Such a potential trade-off between institutionalization and long-term effectiveness is particularly intense …
Motherhood, Mental Incompetence, and the Denial of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Years of Israeli Statehood
As the State of Israel defined citizenship rights for its Jewish population after independence in 1948, it also began to articulate the rights of those affected by disabilities of the mind—i.e., psychiatric, cognitive, and learning disabilities—by issuing, for example, the “Law for the Management of Institutes” (1952) and the “Law for the Treatment of the Mentally Ill” (1955). Due to haphazard state-building and insufficient funding, however, thi…
What makes paradigms last? A study of defense policy change in Germany and Italy (1989–2022)
Policy ideas are often crafted in international fora, such as international organisations, multilateral institutions, and high-level summits. However, whether and how ideas will eventually inform policymakers at the domestic level remains an understudied subject. This paper contributes to this debate by tracing the domestic consolidation and eventual erosion of 'Crisis Management', a policy paradigm that emerged after the end of the Cold War and …
Does it matter that an ally is democratic during crises? Public diplomacy and attitudes towards international allies in times of crisis
Can public diplomacy in times of crisis shape citizens’ attitudes towards international politics? Using a survey experiment in Italy, we evaluated whether information cues about public diplomacy efforts by the United States and China to assist the country in dealing with the COVID-19 emergency shifted the importance citizens attached to Italy’s international allies being democracies. We found that citizens who receive positive cues about USA effo…
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