Orientism Management Strategy for Training Policy-Makers in Emergency Decision-Making

Introduction

New technology implementation, the welfare state, new generation rights, global policies, and sustainable development goals are just some of the fundamental elements that must inspire the art of good governance. To manage them, a common idea is that a politician today must possess some basic requirements (Pollino Tour, 2017):

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  Holding a basic culture (better a degree)

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  Holding an ability to public speaking, participating in debates

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  Proposing a vision, knowing how to build, having clear ideas, and knowing how to communicate

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  Start small experience, ie always starting from a level of local political experience

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  Being always up-to-date and active locally, participate in debates, events and give speeches and get to know local decision-makers

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  Using social media to promote ideas and knowing how to interact with all the media

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  Having organizational and management skills, decision-makership and management, to organize their staff, the election campaign, fundraising

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  Knowing how to implement growth and development strategies

The politician is asked above all to be able to take decisions appropriate to the problems to be faced: conclude a trade treaty, make a law to combat corruption, introduce or abolish a tax, deal with the problem of immigration, change or not the text of the Constitution, planning an institution or health reform. These all decisions require training in this regard, on both individual problem and identifying the unexpected effects.

It is necessary that every single sector policy is framed in a general political line that has characteristics of coherence and unity. That of the politician is a complex activity, which does not allow arbitrary simplifications, and requires knowledge, decision, creative design of solutions and courage.

The formation of the ruling classes was fundamental in Greece and in Rome. Plato described a long training path and believed that a man could not deal with politics before the age of 35. Cicero speaks of it extensively, as well as in Italy more recently, from the State Unification onwards.

P. Villari, in the “Southern Letters” (1878), writes: “Have you ever known a country where slander is so powerful and so greedy, wherein such a short time an equal number of honorable reputations has been torn apart? Mediocrity is a leveling power, it wants to reduce all men to its measure, it hates the genius that it does not understand, it detests the ingenuity that destroys the harmony of its coveted equality ” (Pernicone, 1993; Sida, n.d.).

In order to have a complete dimension of the educational context of the policy-making, it is necessary to deepen the growth and career path in the various European and extra-European contexts.

For example, France is a witness of excellence in the formation of the politician of the future. The Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, better known as Sciences Po, is one of the best universities in the world in the field of political science, but above all it is the historical institution for the formation of the French political and administrative elite and European Union, has formed four Presidents of the French Republic, eleven prime ministers, numerous foreign heads of state, political and diplomatic personalities.

Instead, in Italy for years there were the party schools, which, however, presented a formative activity dedicated to the political thought and values of the political party to which they belong. Currently, Italy is moving towards a type of training of the political class that looks more at the competence of the person, rather than at his activity within the party of reference.

This research intends to put key questions and related criticalities of Policy-making School, proposing a conceptual interpretation, possible strategies, and tools to manage, which can attempt to explain how policymaking happens which typically adopt company productions or cyclic modes of analysis, reducing policy making to a rational, objective process of steps and stages, especially to govern emergencies.