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In a retrospective historical view, we register two distinct, if not opposing views about this thorny issue:
• the total reciprocal independence of mathematical and axiological sciences;
• the necessary joint interest of mechanistic and humanistic disciplines.
The total independence theory is grounded on the idea that research, in all its forms and purposes, should not be subject to any ab extra regulations.
The rule of law, in other words, may have obscurantist effects on human progress. This latter being only the result of the advancement of mechanistic disciplines.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
There must be an effort to promote a convergence of the said two visions leading to develop the maximum possible result out of them : the objective and mathematical background data must join the value choices.
Value choices will not be the result of proactively oriented evaluation of objective data, if not based only on rigorous mathematical results: here is the relief of jurimetrics as a solid support to politics.
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| 5. Who implemented the initiative and what is the size of the population affected by this initiative?
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By partnering with the Basilicata Region, la Gazzetta Amministrativa has built applications that have national coverage on the entire population of the Italian territory (about 60 million inhabitants).
The initiative was implemented by researchers and made available to the Basilicata Region. It is directed to the monitoring of any entity of any kind in the national public administration without territorial limits or number of population.
In a nutshell, it is a globalizible platform with a huge application scope and effectiveness, which can have impact on a whole State.
It allows territorial and by nature sectoral studies of entities.
Pitagora is a versatile tool, flexible and adaptable to administrative and legislative progress, while the QPA allows the diffusion of all knowledge produced through the integration of the application, as a widget, on any website.
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| 6. How was the strategy implemented and what resources were mobilized?
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1) Pitagora
Data with double source have been gathered coming both from the administrations concerned by the monitoring and from the central administration of the State, to be certain of the availability of objective and incontrovertible elements.
On the basis of a strict application of schemes of the administration science, a number of clusters has been listed where flowing mathematical data collected for each sector examined in administrative action.
The same sectors were sorted by subject and inserted into the platform in order to generate even charts and diagrams of user-friendly manner.
The instrument resulting from such data collection is easy and streamlined in consultation and updated according to monitoring procedures objective verifiable.
2) QPA
Editorial platform that automatically updates the integrated information in the sites of P.A. through the corresponding application integrated.
The initiative was realized using European Funds by the Basilicata Region.
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| 7. Who were the stakeholders involved in the design of the initiative and in its implementation?
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Basilicata Region and the “Gazzetta Amministrativa della Repubblica italiana” (the Administrative Journal of the Italian Republic), a private organization of free services to public administrations and citizens. For years, it has worked for a legal and administrative literacy of citizenship, through a streamlined and incisive publishing on the main activities of the Italian Public Administration, as for instance the scientific magazine that bears the same name and the newspaper of the e-Government which is among the most widely read in Italy.
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| 8. What were the most successful outputs and why was the initiative effective?
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1. First of all, the Pitagora platform is based on an integrity-based approach which can shield the public system from reputational damages and induces renewed confidence, at all levels of government; it can spawn other advantages as well, like spurring tax loyalty and encouraging democratic participation;
2. Our program is built to promote a culture of public integrity by partnering with the private sector, professionals, academia and civil society.
3. Pitagora wants also to engage young generations also by strengthening civic education on public integrity. The benefits of anti-corruption awareness campaigns include commitment, reduced tolerance of corruption, low levels of integrity violations and youth mobilization to take a stand against corruption.
4. Pitagora enforces the transparency of public sector, strengthening the real chance to have an open accountability and budgetary system related to the employment of public resources.
5. Our platform may play an important role to affirm integrity values and standards in their interactions with the public sector also with simple communication channels.
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| 9. What were the main obstacles encountered and how were they overcome?
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In applying jurimetrics, we have encountered several cultural obstacles; there is a particular reluctance in public administration to be adequately balanced, framed and monitored by the surrounding contexts.
Public sector often receives similar methods and approaches as a land invasion: it is very difficult to win.
The 21st century heralds the promising dawn of an overall revision of the traditional, too much one-sided scheme of the administrative top-down approach.
Certainly the approach characterized as jurimetrics does not offer any social panaceas.
But, essentially, it involves putting a series of questions that are capable of investigating the test of investigation . It does not seek sudden revelations or universal laws, but slow accretion of tested information. Nonetheless, the immediate fallout is an increasing objectification of data and policy framework, not to be confused however with an ingenuous technocratic approach.
As a mediated result, linked to the democratic political process, co-decision schemes are going to spread: hence the active citizenship and values orient characteristics underpinning jurimetrics. Subjective perception indexes and other questionable data, perceived as an expression of substantive manipulation, are going to decrease.
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