Edoardo Ongaro is Professor of Public Management at The Open University, UK.Carla Barbati was Professor of Administrative Law at IULM, and Councillor of State of Italy.Fabrizio Di Mascio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin, Italy.Francesco Longo is Associate Professor of Public and Health Care Management at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, and Senior Professor at the SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy.Alessandro Natalini is Professor of Political Science at LUMSA, Italy.

• Chapter 1: The Craft of the Italian State: Public Administration features and trajectories in Italy in its Political and Historical Context.- Section 1: Public Administration in its societal, institutional and political context.- Chapter 2: The Italian political parties system (outline of features and changes over time ‘via’ multiple crises: from mass parties to leaderistic parties: implications for the elaboration of PA reform policy proposals.- Chapter 3: Populism in Italy and its implications for PA (non-)reforms and the politics-administration dynamics.- Chapter 4: The third sector in Italy and its role in public services: contracting out, co-production; co-creation – and subsidiarity.- Section 2: Key features of public management and administration and the administrative reform trajectory of Italy (1861 to present).- Chapter 5: The administrative reform trajectory in Italy: pre-unitarian and 1861 – 1993.- Chapter 6: The administrative reform trajectory in Italy: 1993- 2020.- Chapter 7: Strategic Planning in central and local governments in Italy.- Chapter 8: Controlling Public Expenditure.- Chapter 9: Budgeting and accounting and their reform in Italy.- Chapter 10: Performance management, accountability and transparency in Italy.- Section 3: Trajectories of reforms in key public services.- Chapter 11: The Italian Healthcare system reform trajectory.- Chapter 12: Social care system.- Chapter 13: The Italian educational system.

Edoardo Ongaro is Professor of Public Management at The Open University, UK.Carla Barbati was Professor of Administrative Law at IULM, and Councillor of State of Italy.Fabrizio Di Mascio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin, Italy.Francesco Longo is Associate Professor of Public and Health Care Management at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, and Senior Professor at the SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy.Alessandro Natalini is Professor of Political Science at LUMSA, Italy.

• Chapter 1: The Craft of the Italian State: Public Administration features and trajectories in Italy in its Political and Historical Context.- Section 1: Public Administration in its societal, institutional and political context.- Chapter 2: The Italian political parties system (outline of features and changes over time ‘via’ multiple crises: from mass parties to leaderistic parties: implications for the elaboration of PA reform policy proposals.- Chapter 3: Populism in Italy and its implications for PA (non-)reforms and the politics-administration dynamics.- Chapter 4: The third sector in Italy and its role in public services: contracting out, co-production; co-creation – and subsidiarity.- Section 2: Key features of public management and administration and the administrative reform trajectory of Italy (1861 to present).- Chapter 5: The administrative reform trajectory in Italy: pre-unitarian and 1861 – 1993.- Chapter 6: The administrative reform trajectory in Italy: 1993- 2020.- Chapter 7: Strategic Planning in central and local governments in Italy.- Chapter 8: Controlling Public Expenditure.- Chapter 9: Budgeting and accounting and their reform in Italy.- Chapter 10: Performance management, accountability and transparency in Italy.- Section 3: Trajectories of reforms in key public services.- Chapter 11: The Italian Healthcare system reform trajectory.- Chapter 12: Social care system.- Chapter 13: The Italian educational system.