Enrico Guarini

Accounting information that builds local communities

• Accounting History Review
• May 2018

• The amalgamation of local governments may prove difficult because of contrasting political interests. This article explains the process that the municipality of Milan has gone through in 1873-1876 ...

Political uses of accounting information

• Public Money & Management
• September 2016

• In this study, I show how accounting information can be used by newly-elected politicians for achieving political goals through the accusation of predecessors for causing financial failures. I expl...

Italian Municipalities and the Fiscal Crisis: Four Strategies for Muddling Through

• Financial Accountability and Management
• July 2016

Public services management and co-production in multi-level governance settings

• International Review of Administrative Sciences
• June 2015

Understanding the domestic implications of EU's deficit-control targets

• International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management
• January 2016

• This paper shows the impact of EU's deficit-control targets at the local level in Italy. Achieving a budget target at the central level, while neglecting internal rules and how these affect local g...

Facilitating co-production in public services

• Public Money & Management
• April 2019

• Drawing on a systematic literature review of empirical studies, the paper provides managers and policy-makers with several recommendations to successfully initiate and implement coproduction of pub...