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This paper focuses on the relationship between accountability and inclusion in the Italian school system. It argues that this relationship constitutes an actual contradiction that threatens the effectiveness of inclusive processes.

Negli attuali contesti in cui si enfatizza la funzione di accountability della valutazione, comunicare gli esiti della ricerca valutativa è prioritario, affinché tutti gli stakeholder possano comprenderne processi e risultati. Anche in termini di rendicontazione sociale, la digitalizzazione apre nuovi scenari verso metodi, strumenti e linguaggi comunicativi in grado di ottimizzare le opportunità comunicative offerte dalle tecnologie.

The Article deals with the complex legitimacy problem that arose in the aftermath of the Eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis. This crisis has triggered a “twin legitimacy deficit”, with output legit-imacy undermined, in terms of the EU’s capacity to react through European-wide redistributive poli-cies, and the input legitimacy of national representative institutions severely limited under the strict conditionality put in place by the new governance system and by the “command-and-control relation-ship” imposed.

European welfare states are characterized by a different amount of resources devoted to social policies,
despite an ongoing convergence of national policies. The Public Choice literature and some empirical analysis on the
efficiency of the public sector point out that higher levels of government spending are often related to greater
inefficiencies. Can this relationship be considered general? What does it emerge from the empirical analysis of social

Based on the construction of two indicators to assess the relative
effectiveness and efficiency of European welfare policies, we show that the
variability of efficiency cannot be explained only by the amount of resources
devoted to social policies but also by the institutional environment. The OLS
regression shows that institutional variables- such as accountability and
honesty of public officials- have high significant effects on the efficiency.

Gli studiosi da più parti hanno tentato di sistematizzare ed interpretare il complesso, e talvolta tortuoso, percorso di riforma che ha interessato la pubblica amministrazione italiana da oltre un ventennio, ricorrendo a paradigmi teorici già applicati in contesti internazionali. Tra questi, quello dell’accountability, nei suoi diversi profili e nell’ambito della teoria dell’agenzia, ha senz’altro rivestito uno dei più impiegati (Grey & Jenkins, 1993).

The work wants to address the methodological and procedural aspects of recent exercise of VQR 2011-2014 from a critical and constructive point of view. After a brief introduction, the longstanding issue of an universally applicable quality research definition, which is functional for organisation of research-outputs evaluation form and for formulation of referee evaluation, is deal with. Subsequently, the procedure for the composition of GEVs, the selection of referee and the different phases of peer review are examined in depth.