Crisis and policymaking

 

  • Capano, G., Mastroianni, L., & Profeti, S. (2026). Unpacking the multidimensional relationship between crisis and policy change: A systematic review. Policy & Society, 45(1), 14–32.
  • Capano, G., Zittoun, P., & Profeti, S. (2026). The politics of governing crises: Three types of policymaking under uncertainty, urgency, and threat. Policy & Society, 45(1), 1–13. 
  • D'Angelo, A., & Toth, F. (2026). The Essence of Crisis Decision‐Making: Saving Ravenna During the 2023 Floods. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 17(2), e70057.
  • Rizza, R., Raspanti, D., & Albanese, F. (2026). Subsidising silence: How policy ideas entrench Italy’s use of employment subsidies. Journal of Social Policy. Advance online publication.
  • Capano, G., & Toth, F. (2025). Controversial issues in crisis management: Bridging public policy and crisis management to better understand and address crises. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 16(3), Article e12304.
  • Tassinari, A. (2025). Reassuring the markets: The new politics of social concertation in acute crisis times. Politics & Society, 53(3), 396–446.
  • Capano, G., Casula, M., et al. (2024). A new typology for comparing scientific advisory committees: Evidence from the Italian response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Review of Policy Research, 41, 740–769.
  • Profeti, S., Saracino, B., & Macchioni, E. (2024). The art and craft of vaccination policy against Covid-19 in five EU countries. Stato e Mercato, 2024(2), 293–332.
  • Tassinari, A., Panarello, D., Tassinari, G., Alboni, F., Drudi, I., & Bagnardi, F. (2024). Business, as usual? The impact of organized economic interests on the stringency of COVID-19 containment policies: Insights from the Italian case. Socio-Economic Review, 22(3), 1189–1224.
  • Capano, G., & Toth, F. (2023). Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen. Public Administration, 101(1), 90–105.
  • Casula, M., & Malandrino, A. (2023). Exploring the link between administrative styles and policy output: The case of the Italian Extraordinary Commissioner for the COVID-19 Emergency. European Policy Analysis, 9(2), 119–141.
  • Casula, M., Malandrino, A., & Terlizzi, A. (2023). Scientific committees and COVID-19: Mapping policy advice in Italy. Italian Journal of Public Policy [Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche], 8(3), 379–410.
  • Profeti, S., & Toth, F. (2023). Climbing the ‘ladder of intrusiveness’: The Italian government’s strategy to push the Covid-19 vaccination coverage further. Policy Sciences. Advance online publication.
  • Capano, G., Howlett, M., Jarvis, D., & Ramesh, M. (2022). Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: Normalisation, adaptation and acceleration in the post-COVID state. Policy & Society, 41(1), 1–12.
  • Meardi, G., & Tassinari, A. (2022). Crisis corporatism 2.0? The role of social dialogue in the pandemic crisis in Europe. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 28(1), 83–100.
  • Capano, G., & Lippi, A. (2021). Decentralization, policy capacities, and varieties of first health response to the COVID-19 outbreak: Evidence from three regions in Italy. Journal of European Public Policy, 28(8), 1197–1218.