Public Administration in Italy

This book is one of three volumes that jointly provide a systematic overview of public administration, public management and public governance in Italy. This second volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and introduces the reader to how public administration in Italy has been studied by such disciplines as historiography, administrative law, management, economics, social psychology, political science and public policy, epistemology and others, thereby providing an interdisciplinary appreciation of how public administration has been investigated by the Italian scholarly community over the century and a half of the existence of Italy as a state. The book also assesses crucial traits of the training, recruitment and regulation of public employment in Italy, as well as the role of oversight and judiciary bodies in the practice of public servants' work. Contributors comprise some of the leading historians, political scientists, lawyers, social scientists and public management scholars from Italy, some of whom have also held key posts in the Italian public sector. It will appeal to students and scholars of public administration, public management and public governance, as well as practitioners with an interest in Italy.