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| ISPA- Institute of Studies on Public Administration |
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The Institute of Public Administration Studies (ISPA) brings together, consolidates and relaunches the experience acquired by the Public Administration and Monitory and Assessment Research Units set up by the Rosselli Foundation in 1997.
Over the course of these years, a number of research reports have been produced focusing on the different facets that have characterised the process of Italy’s administrative reform. The reform process started in the early 90s and, although to some extent it was backed by constitutional rules, it has introduced radical changes in relations between public powers and citizens, and is now exerting a significant effect on the balancing of functions at different levels of government.
Why do the public administrations need reform? Why have the governments of many western countries, for some years, modernised the public administration and improved the regulation of private activities? ISPA aims to help answer these and other questions through carefully targeted analyses and studies, offering all stakeholders a privileged place for reflection.
The Institute focuses mainly on three broad themes: administrative policies and public action; local development and territorial marketing; monitoring and assessment of public services. The wide spectrum of expertise in the Institute (academics, researchers, professionals) guarantees the use of multidisciplinary and integrated approaches aimed at carrying studies that respond to specific requirements. ISPA provides an effective integration between research activities, assessment, consultancy and training, therefore meeting the needs of a vast range of public bodies from the European Union to local administrations, and private parties. In fact, ISPA’s research activities are aimed at all parties, both public and private, who are involved, for various reasons, in the processes of elaborating and implementing public policies.
ISPA’s main lines of research are:
policy assessment and evaluation, namely the application of methods and techniques to formulate judgements on the efficacy, efficiency and quality of the outcome of public initiatives;
the study and analysis of institutional and administrative innovation, paying special attention to public governance, modernisation processes and the introduction of ICT;
the elaboration of dynamic cognitive frameworks and specific indicators of quantitative and qualitative development in order to analyse the competitiveness of individual areas, production sectors and services;
drawing up suggestions and lines of intervention in response to specific development requirements, taking into account the new opportunities offered by the current processes of administrative decentralisation;
the construction of development scenarios that add value to local endogenous resources also using benchmarking tools.
designing monitoring and assessment systems, including, for example, audit systems based on sets of indicators to monitor activities that use public financing, as well as to assess the efficacy and efficiency of training policies.
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