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The aim of the Journal is to publish original
articles and monographs of considerable scientific value, aimed at
satisfying two main objectives: a) an interdisciplinary
interpretation of the administration science; b) the recovery of
its origins and of the origins of sociological approaches
intending the administration science as an original branch of the
sociology of law. The scope of the Journal is therefore oriented
to encourage the dialogue between disciplines that, in various
ways and starting from different cognitive paradigms and theories
- legal, social and political - may have as their object the
administration. The Journal also encourages the submission of
articles and monographs on sociological studies on the origins,
the disciplinary changes and the future perspectives of
development of the administration science at national and
international level.
Editors-in-Chief:
Paolo de Nardis, Roberta Iannone
Senior Editor:
Ranieri de Maria
Managing Editors: Romina
Gurashi (coordinator), Tiziano Censi
Assistant Editor: Ilaria
Iannuzzi
Editorial Communication Manager:
Melissa Sessa
Legal Representative Editor: Elisa Tricarico
Scientific
Committee
Editorial Board
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Obituary
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Giorgio Freddi, direttore della RTSA dal 1981
al 1991, ci ha lasciato per sempre all’età di 92 anni.
Professore emerito all’Università Alma Mater di Bologna,
politologo di fama internazionale, è stato uno degli
esponenti più di spicco tra gli studiosi che hanno
interpretato la scienza dell’amministrazione in chiave
politologica secondo una prospettiva di tipo
comparativistico. Dalla sua formazione nordamericana –
Berkeley – ha trattato il fenomeno amministrativo secondo
un’impostazione analitica con profondità d’indagine e
rigore di metodo, all’interno di un robusto e raffinato
quadro epistemologico. Già professore ordinario,
nell’Ateneo bolognese è stato direttore dell’Istituto
politico-amministrativo, quindi del Dipartimento di
organizzazione e sistema politico, poi trasformatosi in
Scienza politica e divenuto uno dei centri più importanti
della disciplina sul piano internazionale. Fautore
dell’istituzionalizzazione della scienza politica in
Italia secondo un metodo logico-empirico, ha fondato la
Rivista italiana di politiche pubbliche. Presidente della
Società italiana di scienza politica e primo presidente
italiano dell’European Consortium of Political Research,
per moltissimi anni è stato docente stabile presso la
Scuola Nazionale dell’Amministrazione e membro del
direttivo della stessa, ha insegnato in numerose
università straniere e ha pubblicato fondamentali lavori
di politica comparata, scienza dell’amministrazione e
policy analysis. Ricordiamo l’intenso decennio della sua
direzione della RTSA soprattutto per l’impulso
all’internalizzazione che ha dato in quegli anni,
aprendola a nuovi orizzonti di studi, prospettive teoriche
e di ricerca nella disamina delle azioni pubbliche e della
strutturazione delle decisioni vincolanti a livello
pubblico. Un’eredità preziosa che la Rivista porterà
sempre con sé, mai dimenticando, anche nel suo cammino
futuro, l’indelebile impronta della direzione di Giorgio
Freddi.
Giorgio Freddi, editor-in-chief of RTSA from 1981 to 1991,
passed away at the age of 92. Emeritus professor at the
Alma Mater University of Bologna and a political scientist
internationally renown, he was one of the most prominent
scholars who interpreted administrative science through a
political science lens from a comparative perspective.
Through the lens of his North American education –
Berkeley – he approached the administrative phenomenon
with a analytical perspective characterized by depth of
inquiry and methodological rigor, within a robust and
refined epistemological context. As a tenured professor at
the University of Bologna, he was the director of the
Political-Administrative Institute, then of the Department
of Organization and Political System, which later
transformed into Political Science and became one of the
most important centers for the discipline internationally.
He also was an advocate of the institutionalization of
political science in Italy according to a
logical-empirical method, and founded the Italian Journal
of Public Policy. He served as President of the Italian
Society of Political Science and was the first Italian
president of the European Consortium of Political
Research. For many years, he was a permanent lecturer at
the National School of Administration and a member of its
executive board. He taught at numerous foreign
universities and published seminal works in comparative
politics, administrative science, and policy analysis. We
particularly renowned for the intense decade of his
leadership at RTSA for the impetus he provided towards
internationalization during those years, opening it up to
new horizons of study, theoretical perspectives, and
research in the examination of public actions and the
structuring of binding public decisions. This precious
legacy is something the Journal will always preserve and,
even in its future path, the indelible mark of Giorgio
Freddi’s direction will not be forget.
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