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Giliberto Capano

Giliberto Capano

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Political Science

D-Index
38
Citations
6222
World Ranking
591
National Ranking
19

Overview

Giliberto Capano is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations. Their work spans several subfields including public administration, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

The research topics covered by Capano include:

  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Capano has published numerous papers, some of the recent and notable publications are:

  • "Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses" (2020, Policy and Society)
  • "The Knowns and Unknowns of Policy Instrument Analysis: Policy Tools and the Current Research Agenda on Policy Mixes" (2020, SAGE Open)
  • "Policy design and state capacity in the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: if you are not prepared for the (un)expected, you can be only what you already are" (2020, Policy and Society)
  • "What really happens in higher education governance? Trajectories of adopted policy instruments in higher education over time in 16 European countries" (2020, Higher Education)

Major publication venues for Capano's work include:

  • Policy and Society
  • Policy Sciences
  • Public Administration
  • Policy Design and Practice
  • European Policy Analysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Capano are:

  • Federico Toth
  • Michael Howlett
  • Anthony R. Zito
  • Jeremy Rayner
  • M. Ramesh

In addition to articles, Capano has also published books, including:

  • Elementi di scienza politica (2021, Istituto di Ematologia di Bologna)
  • Trajectories of Governance (2022, Springer International Publishing)

Best Publications

  • Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses

    Giliberto Capano;Michael Howlett;Darryl Stuart Jarvis;M. Ramesh

  • Understanding Policy Change as an Epistemological and Theoretical Problem

    Giliberto Capano

  • Administrative Traditions and Policy Change: When Policy Paradigms Matter. The Case of Italian Administrative Reform During the 1990s

    Giliberto Capano

  • GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO DO ITS JOB. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GOVERNANCE SHIFTS IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR

    Giliberto Capano

  • The Knowns and Unknowns of Policy Instrument Analysis: Policy Tools and the Current Research Agenda on Policy Mixes:

    Giliberto Capano;Michael Howlett

  • Policy design and state capacity in the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: if you are not prepared for the (un)expected, you can be only what you already are

    Giliberto Capano

  • Resilience and robustness in policy design: a critical appraisal

    Giliberto Capano;Jun Jie Woo;Jun Jie Woo

  • Introduction: The Determinants of Policy Change: Advancing the Debate

    Giliberto Capano;Michael Howlett

  • Dizionario di politiche pubbliche

    Giliberto Capano;Marco Giuliani

  • Bringing Governments Back in: Governance and Governing in Comparative Policy Analysis

    Giliberto Capano;Michael Howlett;M Ramesh

  • How policy instruments are chosen: patterns of decision makers’ choices

    Giliberto Capano;Andrea Lippi

  • From Bologna to Lisbon: the political uses of the Lisbon ‘script’ in European higher education policy

    Giliberto Capano;Simona Piattoni

  • Causal logics and mechanisms in policy design: How and why adopting a mechanistic perspective can improve policy design

    Giliberto Capano;Michael Howlett

  • Looking for serendipity: the problematical reform of government within Italy’s Universities

    Giliberto Capano

  • Designing for Policy Effectiveness : Defining and Understanding a Concept

    B. Guy Peters;Giliberto Capano;Michael Howlett;Ishani Mukherjee

  • Governing Without Surviving? An Italian Paradox: Law-Making in Italy, 1987-2001

    Giliberto Capano;Marco Giuliani

  • Anticipating and designing for policy effectiveness

    Azad Singh Bali;Giliberto Capano;M. Ramesh

  • Changing Governance in Universities: Italian Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

    Giliberto Capano;Marino Regini;Matteo Turri

  • Designing for robustness: surprise, agility and improvisation in policy design

    Michael Howlett;Giliberto Capano;M. Ramesh

  • Designing policy robustness: outputs and processes

    Giliberto Capano;Jun Jie Woo

  • Policy instruments at work: A meta-analysis of their applications

    Claudia Acciai;Giliberto Capano

  • Reconceptualizing layering—From mode of institutional change to mode of institutional design: Types and outputs

    Giliberto Capano

  • Elementi di scienza politica

    Giliberto Capano;Simona Piattoni;Francesco Raniolo;Luca Verzichelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Howlett
Michael Howlett Simon Fraser University
M. Ramesh
M. Ramesh National University of Singapore
B. Guy Peters
B. Guy Peters University of Pittsburgh
Jeremy Rayner
Jeremy Rayner University of Saskatchewan
Anthony R. Zito
Anthony R. Zito Newcastle University

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