TY - JOUR A1 - Cingolani, Luciana T1 - Infrastructural state capacity in the digital age: What drives the performance of COVID-19 tracing apps? JF - Governance N2 - In a context where states increasingly complement their physical presence with digital means, the classic idea of infrastructural state power needs reconsideration. The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unparalleled opportunity to that end, given the uniformity of one type of digital infrastructural intervention - the offer of contact tracing apps - and its highly varying performance across geographies. Against this backdrop, the article seeks to expand traditional discussions on state infrastructural power by testing a series of propositions on the explanatory factors behind tracing apps' emergence and adoption rates. The findings stemming from a pool of 150 countries show no straightforward connection between traditional and digital forms of infrastructural power. They also point at the primacy of governmental trust over financial, institutional, and technological factors - including privacy standards - when explaining high adoption, suggesting that the relational aspect of infrastructural power acquires a proportionally greater weight in the digital era. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12666 SP - 1 EP - 23 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cingolani, Luciana T1 - El Estado líquido: discusiones sobre la volatilidad de las políticas públicas y evidencias de Argentina y Brasil (1995-2006) T1 - The liquid State: discussions on policy volatility and evidencesfrom Argentina and Brazil (1995-2006) JF - América Latina Hoy N2 - El artículo se propone ofrecer un análisis integral sobre la manera en que ha sido abordada la cuestión de la inestabilidad de las políticas públicas: su impacto en el desarrollo económico de los países, la heterogeneidad de enfoques teóricos que la estudian, las maneras en que ha sido conceptualizada y las posibles causas que la literatura ha delineado explicando el fenómeno. Ofrece asimismo un diagnóstico sobre los niveles de inestabilidad de las políticas en Argentina y Brasil entre los años 1995 y 2006 y discute brevemente algunas previsiones de la teoría a la luz de los resultados observados. Estos resultados arrojan una serie de conclusiones: a) hay un nivel sustancialmente más alto de inestabilidad de las políticas en Argentina que en Brasil; b) hay una desproporción entre la importancia del concepto como determinante del desarrollo y su sistematización como variable independiente, y c) se produce una serie de contradicciones entre diferentes corrientes neoinstitucionales, y entre algunas de estas teorías y la evidencia empírica. ABSTRACT: The article aims to present a comprehensive analysis of different aspects concerning the concept of policy instability: its impacts on economic development, the multiple and hetereogeneus theoretical approaches that address it, the construction of its definition and the possible causes behind it. It also offers a diagnosis of policy instability levels in Argentina and Brazil between 1995 and 2006, and discusses some of the theoretical previsions in light of the evidence found. The general findings suggest that: a) there is a significantly higher level of policy instability in Argentina than in Brazil, b) there is a mismatch between the importance of policy stability as a determinant of development and its systematization as independent variable, and c) a series of contradictions can be found between different rational choice neoinstitutionalist theories, and between some of these theories and the empirical evidence. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14201/alh.6955 VL - 54 SP - 43 EP - 68 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - McBride, Keegan A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard T1 - Human Centric Smart Cities. Redefining the smart city. N2 - Smart cities have traditionally been studied from a technocentric perspective. However,such technological conceptualizations of smart cities are no longer adequate in today’s society. This policy brief discusses another alternative, human centric smart cities. Human centric smart cities are cities that practice smart governance, are collaborative, focused on user needs, supportive of innovation, and are ultimately oriented towards the development of wellbeing and the creation of public valuefor its citizens. In human centric smart cities, the use, implementation, and development of technology is guided by these foundations. The policy brief draws on insightgenerated from an international symposium organized for the City of Berlin on the future of smart cities. The brief itself is structured around four core aspects: human centricity, inter-sectoral collaboration, data governance, and administrative capacity. The brief ends by providing initial recommendations on how to start thinking about and implementing new human centric smart city strategies. Key Points: • In human centric smart cities, adopting a public valueor happiness orientedapproach to development will be critical. • The notion of innovation and service development inside human centric smartcities is changing, driven primarily by a shift in the structure of smart city ecosystems. • New human centric smart city data governance strategies must be in line withthe creation of public value, data sovereignty, and the maintenance offundamental rights and freedoms such as those related to privacy andfreedom of expression. • The change towards more collaborative, open, and human centric smart citieswill require new governance strategies and new administrative capacities. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-44106 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Fazekas, Mihály T1 - Administrative capacities that matter: organisational drivers of public procurement competitiveness in 32 European countries N2 - In spite of the many efforts in the pursuit of a European single market, many barriers continue to lie ahead, as the field of public procurement illustrates. In 2015, around 40% of all high-value procurement tenders in a large pool of European countries attracted only 2 bidders or less, and only 3% of all winning companies had their offices outside the procuring country. This paper explores a rather unaccounted dimension behind the competitiveness of tenders: the administrative capacities of contracting authorities. For this, we first build a theoretically-informed multidimensional framework of administrative capacities and subsequently test the effect of these capacities on competitiveness, by using a comprehensive and curated database of more than 120.000 procurement contracts in 32 European countries. The findings show that most administrative measures robustly explain a portion of competitiveness, in particular administrative aspects related to the choice of instruments and procedures to conduct the bidding calls, such as electronic procurement. Findings also show that the behaviour of these relationships is counterintiuitive at times, and highly dependent on the national context, suggesting that organizational path-dependency undermines convergence under EU regulation. Y1 - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-44115 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - de Crombrugghe, Denis T1 - Exploring the Panel Components of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) T2 - UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series N2 - The Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) produced by the Agence Fran ̧caisede D ́eveloppement (AFD) has been carried out in 2001, 2006 and 2009, anda new wave is planned for 2012. Although the structure of the surveys variesgreatly between 2006 and 2009, the similarity of a substantial proportionof the questions allows for exploring and exploiting the panel componentsof the database. This paper presents some general patterns of short-terminstitutional change, aided by a conceptual classification of the institutionalvariables. It tests two hypotheses in a preliminary way: a) that institutionstend to score higher over time, and b) that institutions tend to convergeacross countries. Additionally, it explores associations between institutionsand growth for the period 2001-2009. Y1 - 2012 UR - https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=4719 ET - 2012-037 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - de Crombrugghe, Denis T1 - Techniques for dealing with reverse causality between institutions and economic performance T2 - UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series N2 - This article provides a succinct review of the arguments stressing the mutual relationship between institutions and economic performance, and a scholarly account of some of the most popular econometric strategies used to minimize reversed causality problems in impact estimation. Among the techniques revisited we find the instrumental variables (IV) approach, distributed lags and vector autoregressions (VAR), quasi-experiments, and identification by heteroskedasticity (IH). Ultimately, the review is conceived as a methodological aide to researchers seeking to explore causal relationships through the use of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) produced by the Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD). Y1 - 2012 UR - https://ideas.repec.org/p/unm/unumer/2012034.html ET - 2012-034 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Cingolani, Luciana T1 - Partidos politicos y sistemas de partidos T2 - Politica. Cuestiones y Problemas N2 - n/a Y1 - 2010 SP - 217 EP - 256 PB - Ariel editorial CY - Buenos Aires ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cingolani, Luciana T1 - Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries JF - Administration & Society N2 - Representative bureaucracy theory predicts that mirroring social groups in the composition of the bureaucracy will lead to inclusive policies and less overall exclusion of diverse individuals. While supporting evidence on policy outcomes is abundant, findings on subjective perceptions are mixed. This study tests three hypotheses linking representative bureaucracy to perceived same-group discrimination in the general population. It introduces a novel multidimensional index of bureaucratic underrepresentation, and uses mixed effects hierarchical models to approximate answers. Exploratory findings suggest an “awareness” mechanism may explain the counterintuitive relationship between underrepresentation and feelings of exclusion, by which more diverse public sectors develop alongside higher awareness of discrimination. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997221137562 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Cingolani, Luciana ED - Ruth-Lovell, Saskia ED - Spirova, Maria T1 - The Bureaucracy as an Opportunity Structure for Neopatrimonialism: Trends and Determinants in Argentina and Brazil (1990-2010) T2 - Clientelism and Democratic Governance in Comparative Perspective Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781785523007 SP - 221 EP - 244 PB - ECPR Press CY - Colchester ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Fazekas, Mihály T1 - The role of agencification in achieving value-for-money in public spending JF - Governance - An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions N2 - Agencification has been pursued globally under the promise of increasing public administration performance. In spite of ample theoretical arguments, the empirical evidence on the causal link between agencification and performance remains scarce and methodologically contested. We contribute to this debate by empirically testing the impacts of agencification across Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom on value‐for‐money, competitiveness, and timeliness during the period 2006–2016. We use unique administrative datasets, enabling objective and granular measurements of reforms and their effects, employing quasi‐experimental methods. Findings suggest heterogeneous effects both across countries and outcomes. On average, value‐for‐money improves by 2.8% or 1.7 billion EUR over a decade, while outputs and processes change only marginally. Recently agencified organizations barely improve their performance, while older agencies achieve substantial improvements. The three countries' heterogeneous administrative contexts play a critical role as mediating factors, with the biggest changes occurring in higher new public management take‐up countries. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-34674 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12452 SN - 1468-0491 VL - 33 SP - 545 EP - 563 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Hildebrandt, Tim T1 - Incentive Structures for the Adoption of Crowdsourcing in Public Policy: A Bureaucratic Politics Model JF - Sustainability N2 - Collective intelligence paradigms have been increasingly embraced by the public sector as a way to address complex policy challenges. The field is limited, however, by our little, comparative understanding of the political economy factors that create incentives around the adoption of certain types of collective intelligence over others in different organizational settings. This article uses a typology of citizen-sourced open innovation models based on the work of Daren Brabham as well as insights from Elinor Ostrom and Archon Fung, in order to produce a theoretical model of the determinants of crowdsourcing adoption decisions in the public sector. The model derives a political economy analysis that matches various administrative scenarios to different collective intelligence modalities and developments. The insights are illustrated through a number of crowdsourcing initiatives and provide important lessons to practitioners designing such collective challenges. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/su142012982 VL - 14 IS - 20 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Darius, Philipp A1 - Stockmann, Daniela A1 - Bryson, Joanna A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Griffin, Rachel A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Kupi, Maximilian A1 - Mones, Haytham A1 - Munzert, Simon A1 - Riordan, Rónán A1 - Stockreiter, Simona T1 - Implementing Data Access of the Digital Services Act: Collaboration of European Digital Service Coordinators and Researchers in Building Strong Oversight over Social Media Platforms N2 - The EU Digital Service Acts signals a move away from self-regulation towards co-regulation of social media platforms within the European Union. To address online harms and rising platform power the DSA clarifies responsibilities of platforms and outlines a new technology regulatory framework to increase oversight. One key oversight instrument constitutes Article 40 of the DSA, which lays out data access for vetted researchers, who add value to regulators and the broader public as creators of knowledge, educators, advisors, innovators, and watchdogs. Currently, the EU Commission and national governments make important decisions regarding Digital Service Coordinators (DSCs) that play a key role in implementation. Based on expertise on European public administration and political science we lay out key challenges and success factors of DSCs that will play a role in promoting successful cooperation between DSCs and researchers. We provide three recommendations: First, we recommend to strengthen transfer of scientific knowledge into policy-making by processing publicly accessible publications within public administrative bodies. To this end, capacities of DSCs need to be increased. In addition, we also point towards the database of vetted researchers collected by the Board of DSCs as important resource in order to strengthen knowledge transfer. Second, the DSC network requires agile institutions with fast response time in order to enable researchers to play a constructive role in implementation. This also includes institutional procedures between DSCs and the Intermediary Body and Data Protection Agencies. To avoid delay in implementation agile institution-building needs to start now. Finally, institutional safeguards will help to avoid strategic choice of companies of the DSC of establishment. At the same time, the Irish DSC's capacity should be strengthened compared to other national DSCs since most large intermediary services providers have their European headquarters in Ireland. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-49479 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-4947 ER - TY - DATA A1 - Cingolani, Luciana T1 - Diversity in the public administration: a Multidimensional Index of Bureaucratic Underrepresentation N2 - This dataset presents a novel an index for measuring diversity in the public administration in 37 European countries between 2008 and 2018, accounting for gender, age, nationality, ethnicity and disability. (2022-08-24) KW - Public Administration, Diversity Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IEPHLG N1 - Data repository: Harvard Dataverse ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Salazar-Morales, Diego T1 - The role of public workforce diversity and the administrative ecosystem in advancing public sector innovation N2 - Organization studies have long built a ‘business case’ for diversity, which today includes innovation capacity among the benefits of diverse workforces. Diversity’s impact on innovation has been tested in private firms, yet no systematic study exists in public management. We address this challenge using a twostep dynamic panel data analysis via generalised methods of moments estimation in 36 European countries. The findings confirm that higher public workforce diversity leads to higher public sector innovation. This effect, however, is mediated by the administrative ecosystem, where greater uniformity in managerial practices makes diversity more salient, an obstacle to unleash its innovative potential. KW - public sector innovation – diversity management – representative bureaucracies – social categorization Y1 - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-49700 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-4970 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Salazar-Morales, Diego T1 - The role of public workforce diversity and the administrative ecosystem in advancing digital public service innovation JF - Public Management Review N2 - Organizational studies have long built a ‘business case’ for diversity, which today includes innovation capacity among the benefits of diverse workforces. Diversity’s impact on innovation has been tested in private firms, yet few systematic studies exist in public management. We address this challenge using a two-step dynamic panel data analysis via generalized methods of moment estimation in 36 European countries. The findings confirm that higher public workforce diversity leads to higher public service innovation. This effect, however, is mediated by the administrative ecosystem, where greater uniformity in managerial practices makes diversity more salient, an obstacle to unleash its innovative potential. KW - Public sector innovation, digital services, diversity management, representative bureaucracies, social categorization Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2024.2303609 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library ER -