publications
2025
The use of well-being metrics in national parliaments: an exploratory study of Scotland and Italy
Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 21(1)
Open Access
No research has ever been undertaken to investigate the extent to which well-being metrics have been deployed as part of parliamentary activity. This article fills this gap by examining the parliamentary referencing of a set of well-being metrics in Scotland and Italy. Findings show that the use of well-being metrics has been low overall; that economic crises played a deterrent role; and that composite indices do not seem to have particular communicative strengths.
2024
The Use and Impact of Well-Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy
Social Policy & Administration
Open Access
This article examines the use and impact of well-being metrics according to their own developers and intended users in Scotland and Italy. Despite being at the forefront of the well-being debate, both countries have never been studied before. This article fills this gap, collating views from more than 100 stakeholders, including statisticians, members of interest groups, policymakers and journalists.
From "Listen and Repeat" to "Listen and Revise": How to Transcribe Interviews Offline Quickly and For Free Using Voice Recognition Software
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Open Access
Transcribing interviews is one of the most time-consuming tasks in qualitative research. This article introduces a transcription technique which helps overcome these problems. This technique allows to generate transcripts fully offline, rapidly and at little to no cost which one only needs to revise whilst listening to interview recordings, which is why I call this the “listen and revise” technique.
2023
Build Back Worse:
The Media Coverage of Well-being Metrics Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Crucial Cases of Scotland and Italy
Social Indicators Research
166(3), pp. 521-573 - Open Access
This article explores the media coverage of well-being metrics in the countries of Scotland and Italy. Findings show that well-being metrics are occasional news items that get covered mainly on a passive basis under the stimuli of their producers through the use of press releases and when there seems to be a news vacuum, whereas GDP is an ordinary component of both countries’ public debate that is constantly mentioned proactively.
The multi-dimensional politics of education policy in the knowledge economy: The case of Italy (1996–2008)
Social Policy & Administration
57(2), pp. 144-157 - Open Access
This article explores the politics of education policy by focusing on its multi-dimensionality. It argues that education systems perform three functions: they distribute educational opportunities; they provide skills to the labour market; and they are a source of public sector employment. Policy change in one dimension is likely to trigger spill-over effects onto the others, giving rise to complex political dynamics at the intersection of the parliamentary and corporatist arenas.
2022
This is my PhD!
In this commentary, we call for the urgent need to recognize the health-environment nexus as the core of planetary health and thus evolve from usual cost-benefit analyses to the recognition of ‘co-benefits’ among health, the environment, and the economy.
2021
in (ed.) Laurent, É., The Well-being Transition: Analysis and Policy, pp. 73-93
This book chapter asserts that human health and the environment form a nexus that makes a well-being economy possible. After describing the health-environment nexus, we illustrate examples from five areas that show these interconnections.
2019
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in (ed.) Strachwitz, R. G., Religious Communities and Civil Society in Europe, pp. 247–310
This book chapter examines the availability of data on faith-based organisations, as well as the level of these organisations' engagement with civil society, in twenty-five European countries.
2014
Non c'è la biglietteria
A short essay about "beyond GDP" politics in Italy. Finalist for the Keyword Contest organised by the Italian magazine l'Espresso.
