Publications

Our aim is to provide an overview of the debate on the Better Regulation (BR) Agenda presentedin 2015 by the European Commission. In addition to academic literature, we also consider studiesand reports from Think Tanks, international organizations, and EU internal scrutinizing bodies.After presenting the main aspects of the debate on some overarching elements of the BR Agenda,we focus in particular on two highlights: evidence-based policymaking and the integrated policycycle. We structure the discussion around main achievements, remaining critical aspects and sug-gestions about what could be further improved. Findings show that although the Commission re-mains a front-runner when it comes to Better Regulation, more efforts are needed to go the lastmile when it comes to evidence-based policymaking and closing the policy cycle. We find thatthe great majority of arrticles welcome the ambition of th e BR Agenda reform. At the same time,they also make clear that to effectively improve regulation, further methodological guidance andconcrete efforts in implementation are needed. Another interesting finding is that the debate onthe BR Agenda is extremely varied, covering normative as well as very technical aspects. It ap-pears, though, to be confined within certain academic fields (namely political science, public ad-ministration, and law), while other fields that can be, in practice, also deeply linked to BRrelated activities are less represented

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behaviour with the recommendations of epidemiologists and public health experts. Here we discuss evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping. In each section, we note the nature and quality of prior research, including uncertainty and unsettled issues. We identify several insights for effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight important gaps researchers should move quickly to fill in the coming weeks and months.

As algorithmic systems become more critical to decision making across many parts of society, there is increasing interest in how they can be scrutinised and assessed for societal impact, and regulatory and normative compliance. This report is primarily aimed at policymakers, to inform more accurate and focused policy conversations. It may also be helpful to anyone who creates, commissions or interacts with an algorithmic system and wants to know what methods or approaches exist to assess and evaluate that system.

Behavioural Insights Teams (BITs) have gained prominence in government as policy advisors and are increasingly linked to the way policy instruments are designed. Despite the rise of BITs as unique knowledge brokers mediating the use of behavioral insights for policymaking, they remain underexplored in the growing literature on policy advice and advisory systems. The article emphasizes that the visible impact that BITs have on the content of policy instruments, the level of political support they garner and their structural diversity in different political departments, all set them apart from typical policy brokers in policy advisory systems connecting the science–policy divide.

-Introduzione, di Federica Cacciatore e Nicoletta Rangone -La nuova legislatura europea 2019-2024 e l’agenda della better regulation: le prime mosse, di Nadia Marin -Capire la nostra natura politica nell’era della post-verità. Un report dell’Unione Europea, di Edoardo Guaschino -L’intervento regolatorio dell’ART in materia di affidamenti dei servizi di trasporto pubblico locale su strada e per ferrovia: analisi ex ante o ex post dell’impatto?, di Miriam Giorgio -L’Antitrust e la stima dell’impatto economico delle regolazioni anticoncorrenziali, di Gabriele Mazzantini -Quando applicare l’AIR? Il caso delle Linee guida n. 15 dell’ANAC sul conflitto di interessi nei contratti pubblici, di Luca Caianiello -Valorizzare la polivalenza dei dati personali per regolare i mercati digitali: note aggiuntive all’Indagine conoscitiva sui big data di AGCOM, AGCM e Garante privacy, di Matteo Falcone -Recensione. Processo decisionale automatizzato e diritto amministrativo: quali implicazioni per il principio di trasparenza? La riflessione di Michèle Finck, di Ludovica Sacchi

Summary: - Introduzione, di Federica Cacciatore e Nicoletta Rangone - Le nuove indicazioni OCSE in tema di qualità della regolazione: i best practice principles sulla valutazione ex post, di Siriana Salvi - Doing Business 2020. L’importanza della qualità e della trasparenza regolatoria per lo sviluppo economico e imprenditoriale, di Simone Annaratone - Macchine “intelligenti” e discrezionalità delle decisioni pubbliche. Alcuni spunti di riflessione sulla regolazione europea e italiana, di Patrizia Calabrese - La Relazione al Parlamento sullo stato di applicazione di AIR e VIR nel 2018, di Simona Morettini - IAL Annual Conference: analisi della crisi di fiducia nella legge e nella regolazione, di Rossana Amoroso - Recensione. Chi partecipa alle consultazioni delle Agenzie europee? I fattori che influenzano la cattura del regolatore, nella ricerca di Jan Beyers e Sarah Arras, di Carolina Raiola