From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies

BG Peters, ML Nagel - Policy and Society, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Few policymakers initiate policies that they know are malign, and are contrary to the public
interest. Well-intentioned policies may, however, have unintended consequences that over …

What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: evidence from the Italian Jobs Act

M Giuliani, I Madama - Policy Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The article assesses the impact of the Jobs Act, the labour market reform passed in Italy
under Matteo Renzi's cabinet in 2014–2015. In doing so, the study has a twofold aim. First, it …

[PDF][PDF] Capturing Causal Claims: A Fine Tuned Text Mining Model for Extracting Causal Sentences from Social Science Papers

R Norouzi, B Kleinberg, J Vermunt - 2024 - osf.io
Understanding causality is crucial for social scientific research to develop strong theories
and inform practice. However, explicit discussion of causality is often lacking in social …

Bringing Political Theory Back In. Politica e istituzioni politiche in Stefano Bartolini

L Lanzalaco - Quaderni di scienza politica, 2024 - rivisteweb.it
The article analyses Stefano Bartolini's two books The Political and Rule-Making Rules and
is subdivided into three parts. The first part highlights the profound civil and professional …