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Dr Francesco Stolfi

Biography

FRANCESCO STOLFI – CURRICULUM VITAE

Department of Politics

University of Exeter

Amory Building

Rennes Drive

Exeter EX4 4RJ

United Kingdom

E-mail: f.stolfi@exeter.ac.uk

Phone: +44 1392 723164

EMPLOYMENT

Visiting Professor, LUISS, Rome, April 2010

Teaching Fellow, University of Exeter (2009-)

Research Fellow, University College Dublin (2007 – 2009)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Allegheny College (2006-2007)

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Political Science (University of Pittsburgh), 2006

1^st Field: Comparative Politics; Public Policy, European Politics, EU Politics.

2^nd Field: International Relations; International Political Economy

Dissertation: “Reforming Italy’s Budget Process, 1960-1999: Europeanization in Context.”

M.A. in Political Science (University of Pittsburgh), 2001

M.A. in Urban Studies (Portland State University), 1998

Laurea (M.A.) in Business Administration and Economics (University of Rome), 1995

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Full list available on request)

Journal Articles

(with Alessandro Natalini) “Mechanisms and Public Administration Reform: The Italian Cases of Better Regulation and Digitalization” Public Administration (forthcoming)

(with Alessandro Natalini and Fabrizio Di Mascio) “The Ghost of Crises Past: The Legacy of the Past and the Current Fiscal Crisis” Public Administration (forthcoming)

“Testing Structuralist and Interpretative Explanations of Policy Change: The Case of Italy’s Budget Reform” (2010) Governance 23 (1): 109–132

(2008) “The Europeanization of Italy’s Budget Institutions in the 1990s.” Journal of European Public Policy 15 (4): 550–566 (also appearing in a virtual special issue on Europeanization of the Journal of European Public Policy, available on the journal’s website)

Chapters in edited books

(forthcoming 2011) with Alberta Sbragia. “Key Policies.” In The European Union: How Does it Work? Edited by Elizabeth Bomberg and John Peterson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 3^nd edition.

(2010), “The Core Executive in Italy: A More Visible Skipper, But Still Little Steering” In Steering from the Center. Edited by Guy Peters, Jon Pierre and Carl Dahström. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

(with Chiara Goretti and Luca Rizzuto) 2010. “Italy.” In The Aftermath of Reform: the Impact and Consequences of Budget Reform in OECD Nations. Edited by John Wanna, Lotte Jensen and Jouke de Vries. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 260-280.

(2009), with Alberta Sbragia. “Politics in the European Union.” In European Politics Today. Edited by Russell J. Dalton, G. Bingham Powell Jr. and Kaare Strom. New York: Pearson Longman

(2008) with Alberta Sbragia. “Economic and Related Policies.” In The European Union: How Does it Work? Edited by Elizabeth Bomberg and Alexander Stubb. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 115-137

Working Papers

(2008), with Mark Hallerberg. “Partisanship, Social Capital and Fiscal Federalism in the Italian Regions” Hertie School of Governance Working Paper n. 32 (May)

WORK IN PROGRESS

Fiscal Federalism: Beyond Political Institutions (with Mark Hallerberg)

The First-Order Effects of Second-Order Elections: European Elections and the Stability of National Governments

Pre-electoral Coalitions, Political Autonomy and the Institutional Powers of the Prime Minister

Ideas, Institutions and Europe: Reforming Italy’s Budget, 1960-2010

The Political Fallout of Monetary Integration: External Competitiveness and Support for the Northern League (with Georgios Xezonakis)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

(with Mark Hallerberg) “Partisanship, Fiscal Federalism, and Electoral Cycles in the Italian Regions” 1^st General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Dublin, 16 - 18 June 2011

“The Ghost of Crises Past: The Legacy of the Past and the Current Fiscal Crisis” 61 Political Science Association Annual Conferencee, London, 19-21 April 2011

(with Mark Hallerberg) “Partisanship, Fiscal Federalism, and Electoral Cycles in the Italian Regions” 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, 10 - 12 September 2009

“Globalization v. Europeanization: The Reforms of Budget Institutions in France, Italy and Spain” ECPR Joint Sessions, Lisbon, 14-19 April 2009

“The Paradox of the Italian Prime Minister,” Conference “Steering from the Center,” Gothenburg, January 14-16, 2009

(with Chiara Goretti and Luca Rizzuto) “Italy,” Workshop on “The Impact and Consequences of Budget Reform in OECD Nations,” The Hague, June 12-13, 2008

(with Mark Hallerberg) “Explaining Local Government Expenditure Patterns: A Panel Data Approach,” ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Rennes, April 11-16, 2008

“The Impact of Electoral Systems on the Structure of the Executive: How Electoral Reform Strengthened the Italian Prime Minister,” Sixteen International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Chicago, April 6-8, 2008

“Ideas, Institutions, and Political Choice: Explaining Budget Reform in Italy,” 66^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 3-6, 2008

“The Impact of Electoral Systems on the Structure of the Executive: How Electoral Reform Strengthened the Italian Prime Minister,” 66^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 3-6, 2008

“The Impact of Electoral Rules on the Core Executive in Parliamentary Systems: The Case of Italy,” 58th Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Swansea University, April 1 -3, 2008

“Ideas, Institutions, and Political Choice: Explaining Budget Reform in Italy,” GRIP Seminar “Domestic Encounters with EU Politics and Policies” University of Exeter, January 25, 2008

“The Europeanization of Italy’s Budget Institutions, 1990-2001: A Bottom-Up Approach,” EUSA Tenth Biennial International Conference, Montreal, May 17-May 19, 2007

“The Europeanization of Italy’s Budget Institutions, 1990-1999: A Bottom-Up Approach,” 65^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 12-15, 2007

“The Limited Reach of Europe: The Reform of Italy’s Fiscal Governance Institutions,” 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31 – September 4, 2006

“The Europeanization of Italy’s Budget Institutions, 1990-1999: A Bottom-Up Approach,” 7th Biennial Conference of ECSA-C (European Community Studies Association - Canada) Victoria, B.C. Canada, 19-20 May 2006

“The Causal Role of Ideas and Institutions: An Empirical Analysis of the Reforms of Italy’s Budget Institutions, 1990-1999,” 64^th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006.

“Ideas into Policies: The Reform of the Budget Process in Italy, 1990-2001,” Fifteenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Chicago. March 29 - April 2, 2006

“Ideas into Policies: Italy’s Budgetary Reform in the 1990s,” 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 2005

“The Accountability of the European Central Bank: Sketching a Comparative Perspective,” Sixth Biennial International Conference of the European Community Studies Association Pittsburgh, PA June 2 – 5, 1999

“The Local Embeddedness of Financial Capital: Implications for Globalization and Sovereignty,” Conference “Rights to the City,” York University, Toronto, Canada, June 26 – 28, 1998

(with Gerald Sussman) “Telematics, Transnationalism and Social Welfare” Conference “Telecommunications and the City,” Athens, GA, March 21 – 23, 1998

(with Gerald Sussman) “Telecommunications Regulation and Social Welfare,” Twelfth EURICOM Colloquium on Communication and Culture, Boulder, CO, October 2 – 5, 1997

GRANTS AND AWARDS

British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant, 2011

European Commission, Grant for Jean Monnet Module on European Integration, 2010

University College Dublin, SEED Fund, 2007

University of Pittsburgh EUC/CWES Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, 2004

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Political Science Richard W. Cottam Memorial Prize, 2003

University of Pittsburgh EUC/CWES Graduate Student Fellowship, 2001

Nippon Foundation International Trade and Development Graduate Fellowship, 1997

Fulbright Fellowship, 1996

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Elite Interviews for project on budget reform in Italy, Spain and France, March 2009, Rome and Brussels.

Elite Interviews for project on the Italian Prime Minister, October 2008, Rome

Dissertation research (elite interviews and archival research), Rome, Summer 2003, Winter-Spring 2004, February and June 2005

Elite interviews and creation of a regional government fiscal dataset for a study of fiscal federalism in Italy, Winter-Spring 2004

Research assistant for Professor Alberta Sbragia (Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Fall 2005), assisted with research on federalism and regionalism

Field research in Bonn, Germany, for the creation of a local government fiscal dataset as part of a National Science Foundation-funded research project on fiscal federalism in Germany, Summer 2002

Pre-dissertation research in Rome, Summer 2001

Research assistant for Professor Mark Hallerberg (Fall 2003), assisted with research on fiscal governance in Europe

Research assistant for Professor Gerald Sussman (Fall 1997, Spring 1997), assisted with research on information technology and regional development

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Comparative European Politics (MA) Theories of European Integration (MA), European Union Politics (MA), Europeanisation (MA), Dissertation Skills (MA), Politics of European Economic Policy-Making (MA), Economics of Politics, Introduction to International Relations, International Political Economy, European Union Politics, Government and Politics of Western Europe, Comparative Government and Politics, Italian Politics

MA and undergraduate thesis supervision in Comparative Politics, Public Policy, International Relations

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

MA thesis coordinator, University of Exeter (September 2010 – present)

Coordinator of the Master’s in European Economic and Public Affairs, University College Dublin (September 2007 – August 2009)

Academic coordinator of the Junior Year Abroad programme, University College Dublin (September 2007 – August 2009)

EDITORSHIPS

Book Review Editor, Italian Politics and Society (2008 – 2010)

MEMBERSHIPS

American Political Science Association, European Union Studies Association, Council for European Studies, Midwest Political Science Association, Political Studies Association, Structure and Organisation of Government Research Network

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer for European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, Governance, Italian Journal of Public Law and Journal of European Public Policy

Chair (with Lotte Jensen) of panel on “Core executive responses to the financial crisis in a multi level perspective”, ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 2011

Chair, Colloquium on Regulatory Reform, Exeter, University of Exeter, Exeter, 13-14 May, 2010.

Discussant and Chair, panel on “Mechanisms, Instruments and Causality in Europeanization Research”, Political Science Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 29 March – 1 April 2010

Discussant, workshop on “The Future of Europe” University of Exeter, Exeter, 21-22 January, 2010.

Discussant, workshop on “The Europeanization of the Italian Political System: Politics and Policy” Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence 19-20 June, 2003.

METHODS

Qualitative: elite interviews, archival research.

Quantitative: Time-series cross-sectional analysis, survival analysis.

LANGUAGES

Italian (native), English (fluent reading, writing, speaking), French (working knowledge, reading, speaking and reading), German (working knowledge, reading, writing and speaking)