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DR Alberto Asquer's Outputs (24)

What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy (2025)
Book Chapter
Asquer, A. (2025). What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy. In I. Roberge, H. McKeen-Edwards, & M. Campbell-Verduyn (Eds.), Ineffective Policy: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices (46-66). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371564.ch004

This chapter aims to develop a framework for the analysis of arguments about what constitutes ‘bad policies’ during the policy-making stage. The framework provides a way to categorize bad policies, spanning from ideal policies to disastrous policies,... Read More about What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy.

The Impacts of Corporatisation on the Efficiency of Water Utilities: An Analysis of Water Supply in Jordan (2024)
Thesis
Abdel-Hadi, G. The Impacts of Corporatisation on the Efficiency of Water Utilities: An Analysis of Water Supply in Jordan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Jordan is one of the most water stressed countries in the world. Thus, maximizing the efficiency with which the country supplies water is of paramount importance. However, the Jordanian water provision system has rarely been studied from an economic... Read More about The Impacts of Corporatisation on the Efficiency of Water Utilities: An Analysis of Water Supply in Jordan.

Designing public financial management systems: exploring the use of chatbot-assisted case studies (2022)
Journal Article
Asquer, A., & Krachkovskaya, I. (2022). Designing public financial management systems: exploring the use of chatbot-assisted case studies. Public Money & Management, 42(7), 551-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2022.2069412

This article describes the use of a chatbot-assisted case study in teaching accountancy students how to design a public financial management system. A case study on the redesign of invoice payment system at the government of Andalucía in the 1980s wa... Read More about Designing public financial management systems: exploring the use of chatbot-assisted case studies.

The Role of Externalities and Uncertainty in Policy Design: Evidence from the Regulation of Genome Editing (2021)
Journal Article
Asquer, A., & Krachkovskaya, I. (2022). The Role of Externalities and Uncertainty in Policy Design: Evidence from the Regulation of Genome Editing. Policy Design and Practice, 5(2), 140-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2021.1945185

Externalities and uncertainty play an important role in the design of regulatory policies. Regulatory tools must be selected while taking into consideration the side-effects that regulated products or services have on other individuals and on the env... Read More about The Role of Externalities and Uncertainty in Policy Design: Evidence from the Regulation of Genome Editing.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on CRISPR in Social Sciences and Humanities (2021)
Journal Article
Asquer, A., & Krachkovskaya, I. (2021). A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on CRISPR in Social Sciences and Humanities. Re:GEN Open, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1089/regen.2021.0007

The rise of CRISPR not only opens up multiple opportunities for genetic editing but also results in potentially threatening or controversial applications. Research needs to be done in order to appreciate how CRISPR affects the identity and role of in... Read More about A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on CRISPR in Social Sciences and Humanities.

Uncertainty, institutions and regulatory responses to emerging technologies: CRISPR Gene editing in the US and the EU (2012–2019) (2020)
Journal Article
Asquer, A., & Krachkovskaya, I. (2021). Uncertainty, institutions and regulatory responses to emerging technologies: CRISPR Gene editing in the US and the EU (2012–2019). Regulation and Governance, 15(4), 1111-1127. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12335

This study aims to improve theoretical accounts of regulatory responses to emerging technologies by proposing a model of regulatory development, which incorporates a role for types of uncertainty and for existing regulatory institutions. Differently... Read More about Uncertainty, institutions and regulatory responses to emerging technologies: CRISPR Gene editing in the US and the EU (2012–2019).

Public Services Reforms in Neo-Patrimonial Systems: The Commercialization of Healthcare and Education in Saudi Arabia (2019)
Journal Article
Asquer, A., & Ahmed, A.-Z. (2020). Public Services Reforms in Neo-Patrimonial Systems: The Commercialization of Healthcare and Education in Saudi Arabia. Public Management Review, 22(2), 255-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1584232

Reforms of public services have been extensively researched in representative democracies, where they have been especially explained by ideological change, political turnover, financial crises and pressures from international organizations. Meanwhile... Read More about Public Services Reforms in Neo-Patrimonial Systems: The Commercialization of Healthcare and Education in Saudi Arabia.

Policy-Making and Public Management (2018)
Book Chapter
Asquer, A., & Mele, V. (2018). Policy-Making and Public Management. In E. Ongaro, & S. Van Thiel (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe (517-533). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55269-3_27

The conventional division of labor between policy-making and public management has been challenged, more or less explicitly, by scholars working on parallel research trajectories. This chapter attempts a stock-taking exercise by, first, identifying t... Read More about Policy-Making and Public Management.

Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities: Public Policy and Management Issues. (2018)
Book
Asquer, A. (2018). Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities: Public Policy and Management Issues. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67735-4

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities. Drawing from theoretical arguments and several case studies, the book is divided into thr... Read More about Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities: Public Policy and Management Issues..

Public Sector Revenue: Principles, Policies and Management (2017)
Book
Asquer, A. (2017). Public Sector Revenue: Principles, Policies and Management. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315441009

In this time of acute financial pressure on public budgets, there is an increasing interest worldwide in alternative ways for governments to raise money, and how public authorities can develop the capacity to administer revenues efficiently and effec... Read More about Public Sector Revenue: Principles, Policies and Management.

Regulatory Constructivism: Application of Q Methodology in Italy and China (2016)
Journal Article
Araral, E., Asquer, A., & Wang, Y. (2016). Regulatory Constructivism: Application of Q Methodology in Italy and China. Water Resources Management, 31(8), 2497-2521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-016-1496-2

Conventional view holds that beliefs play an important role in the development of regulations but there is little evidence to support this claim. We use Comparative Q Methodology to systematically map out and compare the beliefs of public officers in... Read More about Regulatory Constructivism: Application of Q Methodology in Italy and China.

The Political Economy of Local Regulation: Theoretical Frameworks and International Case Studies. (2016)
Book
Asquer, A., Becchis, F., & Russolillo, D. (Eds.). (2016). The Political Economy of Local Regulation: Theoretical Frameworks and International Case Studies. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58828-9

This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the i... Read More about The Political Economy of Local Regulation: Theoretical Frameworks and International Case Studies..

Understanding Subjectivities in the Regulation of Local Water Services: A Q Methodology Study of Elected Public Officers in Italy (2014)
Journal Article
Asquer, A. (2014). Understanding Subjectivities in the Regulation of Local Water Services: A Q Methodology Study of Elected Public Officers in Italy. Water, 6(3), 670-693. https://doi.org/10.3390/w6030670

In sub-national governments, elected public officers can exercise considerable influence on the regulation of local water services, in such ways as, for example, contributing to the design of local regulatory institutions, to the formulation of tarif... Read More about Understanding Subjectivities in the Regulation of Local Water Services: A Q Methodology Study of Elected Public Officers in Italy.

Explaining Partial Privatization of Public Service Provision: The Emergence of Mixed Ownership Water Firms in Italy (1994-2009) (2014)
Journal Article
Asquer, A. Explaining Partial Privatization of Public Service Provision: The Emergence of Mixed Ownership Water Firms in Italy (1994-2009). Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 85(1), 11-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12027

Within the area of study of privatization, some attention has been placed on the emergence of mixed public-private ownership firms for the provision of public services. Mixed ownership firms pose an important theoretical issue, i.e., why do governmen... Read More about Explaining Partial Privatization of Public Service Provision: The Emergence of Mixed Ownership Water Firms in Italy (1994-2009).

Using Analytic Narratives in Policy Analysis: An Explanation of the Implementation of the Water Reform in Italy (1994-2002) (2014)
Journal Article
Asquer, A. Using Analytic Narratives in Policy Analysis: An Explanation of the Implementation of the Water Reform in Italy (1994-2002). Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 16(1), 79-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2013.859320

Various critiques have been made of the analytic narrative, which is a methodological approach that combines historically oriented research with rational choice models. This paper discusses strengths and limitations of the approach and provides some... Read More about Using Analytic Narratives in Policy Analysis: An Explanation of the Implementation of the Water Reform in Italy (1994-2002).

Managing Challenging Organizational Change: Introducing Active Labor Market Policies in Italian Public Employment Agencies (2013)
Journal Article
Asquer, A. (2015). Managing Challenging Organizational Change: Introducing Active Labor Market Policies in Italian Public Employment Agencies. Public Management Review, 17(6), 901-921. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2013.868506

Managing organizational change in the public sector is extremely challenging when adverse conditions hamper the introduction of novel organizational practices. This study builds on the case of the implementation of active labor market policies in in... Read More about Managing Challenging Organizational Change: Introducing Active Labor Market Policies in Italian Public Employment Agencies.

Managing the Process of Decentralization: Transforming Old Public Entities into New Agencies in the Agricultural Sector (2012)
Journal Article
Asquer, A. (2012). Managing the Process of Decentralization: Transforming Old Public Entities into New Agencies in the Agricultural Sector. International Public Management Journal, 15(2), 207-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2012.702592

In an effort to reconfigure the system for the delivery of agricultural services, the Regional Government of Sardinia in Italy decided, in 2006, to suppress five public entities, and to establish three regional agencies in their place. Based on inter... Read More about Managing the Process of Decentralization: Transforming Old Public Entities into New Agencies in the Agricultural Sector.