Professor Claudio Radaelli
PhD in Political Science, University of Florence
Extension: 3176
Telephone: 01392 723176
Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy, Director, Centre for European Governance
Welcome to my home-page!
I am the Anniversary Chair in Politics and Director of the Centre for European Governance (http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/ceg/). The Anniversary Chair in Politics was created in 2004 by the University of Exeter to promote international excellence in comparative policy analysis, with an inter-disciplinary orientation. This is a privileged position for someone who thinks that the most exciting problems in the social sciences and public policy have to be addressed by interdisciplinary teams. My idea of "team" covers colleagues in Politics, Law and Economics, as well as my doctoral students and research fellows. Research students should be prepared for their ‘adult’ life – thus they work on their dissertations but also take part in specific policy projects, animate discussion forums, and when appropriate interact with policy-makers.
My main research project is Analysis of Learning in Regulatory Governance funded by the European Research Council for the period 2009-2013. I carry out the project with Dr Claire Dunlop and Dr Oliver Fritsch, and a small team of research associates - currently Jonathan Kamkhaji and Nicola Corkin. But apart from learning and regulation, I also have an interest in research design issues. This April (2012) Theofanis Exadaktlylos and I published a large co-edited volume on Research Design in European Studies, looking at how to establish causality in studies of Europeanization (Palgrave, 2012). Fabrizio Gilardi, Martino Maggetti and I have recently completed a manuscript on Research Design in the Social Sciences (Sage, 2013) which was very well received by the reviewers at Sage. Recently I also worked on the topic of governance architectures, with a special issue on the so-called Lisbon Agenda of the European Union (Journal of European Public Policy, 2011, co-edited with Professor Susana Borras).
An important part of my professional life is the European Journal of Political Research, the flagship journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. The journal is currently coedited by Professor Yannis Papadopolous (Lausanne) and me. The journal's 5-year impact factor is 2.689. The Ejpr office is at Exeter, right opposite my room, where Dr Oliver Frtisch operates as smooth administrator of the journal. Research and editing Ejpr take a large share of my working time (and the weekends), but I also enjoy teaching and supervising my doctoral students' dissertations. In terms of teaching, I currently contribute and convene the Module we offer on European Political Integration (MA) and to our Masters in Public Administration with a Module on Regulatory Analysis (POLM211). I also give an input to the University of Agder's PhD programme in Public Administration directed by Professor Jarle Trondal - this way I benefit from discussion about projects under way at Agder and I comment on the progress made by their doctoral students. In June 2010 I was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science.
My core fields are policy learning, regulatory analysis - I chair the Ecpr Standing Group on Regulation and Governance - and EU public policy. Over the last five years or so, I have carried out several projects on Europeanization, international taxation, discourse and the politics of expertise, and regulatory impact assessment in comparative perspective, with funding from the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the British Academy and the European Commission. I also carried out a few projects on Italian politics - this year I was asked to co-edit (with Professor Aldo Di Virgilio) the volume Politics in Italy 2012, funded by the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo and published a research paper with Samuele Dossi on the Italian Radical Party (EUDO working paper series, European University Institute)
My recent working papers on regulatory reform and learning can be found here:
