Does Policy Capacity Truly Matter for Governmental Effectiveness? A Conjunctural Analysis of the Quality of Governance in Italian Regions

IF 2.6 3区管理学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI:10.1111/gove.70027

Giliberto Capano, Andrea Pritoni, Stefania Profeti

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This article explores the role of policy capacity in influencing (regional) government effectiveness. Drawing on various research streams (public administration, public policy, economics, and political science), we assess whether and under what conditions policy capacity affects public policy outcomes. Our proposal is that government effectiveness (operationalized by a novel composite index) results from a combination of factors: socioeconomic context, social capital, political strength, organizational policy capacity, and individual policy analytical capacity, inspired by the Policy Capacity Framework. Based on this theoretical assumption, we conducted a configurational analysis using the fuzzy-set QCA method to examine the drivers of government effectiveness in 13 Italian regions. The findings highlight the significant conjunctural role that (mainly organizational, but also individual) policy capacity can play in influencing (regional) government effectiveness.

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政策能力对政府效能真的重要吗？意大利地方政府治理质量的行情分析

本文探讨了政策能力在影响（区域）政府效能中的作用。利用各种研究流（公共管理、公共政策、经济学和政治学），我们评估政策能力是否以及在什么条件下影响公共政策结果。我们的建议是，政府有效性（通过一个新的综合指数来运作）是由一系列因素综合而成的：社会经济背景、社会资本、政治实力、组织政策能力和个人政策分析能力，这些因素受到政策能力框架的启发。基于这一理论假设，我们使用模糊集QCA方法对意大利13个地区的政府有效性驱动因素进行了配置分析。研究结果强调了政策能力（主要是组织的，但也有个人的）在影响（区域）政府效率方面可以发挥重要的协同作用。

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期刊介绍： Governance provides a forum for the theoretical and practical discussion of executive politics, public policy, administration, and the organization of the state. Published in association with International Political Science Association''s Research Committee on the Structure & Organization of Government (SOG), it emphasizes peer-reviewed articles that take an international or comparative approach to public policy and administration. All papers, regardless of empirical focus, should have wider theoretical, comparative, or practical significance.