Politics, bureaucracy, and good administration

Abstract

The paper takes advance of the analysis carried out in a previous work in this journal (Politica e amministrazione). Under that theoretical background, the author proposes two remedies, such as separate executive’s bodies organs serving political representative form the rest of public administration and appoint the office only by merit and measure the performances of bureaucracy. In spite of this, Italian legislation issued a mechanism torpedoing KPI (Key Performance Indicators), by political omissions and recently reduced officials’ responsibilities.