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
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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.
In the period 2006-2009 I was also Jean Monnet Chair in EU Policy Analysis. With Dr Claire Dunlop and Oliver Fritsch I am currently engaged in a large, four-year project on the Analysis of Learning in Regulatory Governance funded by the European Research Council, a book on Research Design in the Social Sciences (with Professor Fabrizio Gilardi and Dr Martino Maggetti), an edited book project on Establishing Causality in European Studies (with Theofanis Exadaktylos), and a special issue project on the emergence of governance architectures in the European Union, specifically the Lisbon Agenda (this special issue of Journal of European 18-4 will be co-edited with Professor Susana Borras).
Professor Richard Katz and I edit the European Journal of Political Research, the flagship journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. The journal's 5-year impact factor is 2.689. The Ejpr office is at Exeter, right opposite my room, where Theofanis Exadaktylos 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 to the Module we offer on Political Analysis & Research Methods in the MRes Programme 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 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, funded by Nuffield Foundation, and edited a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy on this subject. Overall, I published 11 authored or edited books and more than 60 articles in refereed journals, including Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, and West European Politics. My recent working papers on regulatory reform and learning can be found here:
