1Assistant Professor, UdA, Pescara, Italy, E-mail: carlei@unich.it
2Assistant Professor, University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy
3Research Fellow, GRIF, LUISS University, Rome, Italy, E-mail: amarra@luiss.it
Online published on 23 January, 2017.
Why do countries all over the world attain different results in implementing regulatory policies? We focus on the water sector management and argue that insufficient organisational capacity of administering the phases of design, implementation and enforcement of regulatory policies is associated to poor environmental performance. While studies on the governance of regulation are often characterised by a descriptive approach or criticised because of its partial regulatory pictures and because of being too reductionist, our purpose is to provide a quantitative, more systemic and sophisticated analysis of the impact that the public governance, meant as an organisation, exerts on water sector performance: this impact is amplified by the socio-economic context in which the public governance is embedded.
Public Governance, Regulatory Policy, Water Sector Performance
