Responsabilizzazione della dirigenza pubblica e nuove logiche sanzionatorie nell’amministrazione di risultato

Within the new polycentric organization structured on the separation between politics and administration, the real responsibility of the public management constitutes a fundamental passage for the full realization of the ‘result administration’ model. In front of the lack of effectiveness of the principles such as valuation and responsibility, the system has recently registered the emersion of a new approach which ‘penalizes’ the public management, inspired not by logics of correction but, on the contrary, by ones based on sanctions. The objective of the dissertation is to comprehend if the new punitive approach is effectively able to offer a real contribution to the problem of the lack of effectiveness of accountability, to then evaluate if its function within the system has changed. To do this the starting point is the analysis of the evolution of the relationship between politics and administration, in order to understand which is the current role of public management inside the system. On the basis of this premise, the theme of the forms adopted from the accountability of the ‘result administration’ model has been confronted: first through the observation of what should have been its contribution, and then, with the highlight of the critiques emerged on the grounds of the concrete implementation and the responses elaborated by the system. Furthermore, an in-depth study has been carried out on the computerization process of the public administrations: in this area of interest, in fact, an important example of acceptance of the new sanctionbased logic has been registered, used as leverage to force the public management into implementing the law provisions contained in the CAD (the italian ‘Digital Administration Code’). The analysis carried out has, on one side, brought out the tough operational issues in the utilization of the new sanction mechanisms, on the other, has revealed certain intrinsic and extrinsic limits. This has therefore prevented the achievement of the scope of covering the lack of effectiveness of accountability, and has contributed to generate an alteration of its structure that seems to be capable to affect its peculiar function, to them traditionally attributed within the scope of the ‘result administration’ model.