Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), he is also associate researcher at the Centre of European Studies and Comparative Politics (SciencesPo). Director of the Institut Barelona d'Estudis Interncionals (IBEI). He has been visiting fellow at the Australian National University, Wissenschafts Zentrum Berlin, University of California (San Diego), Copenhagen Business School, and the LM University of Munich. His publications include articles, among others, on regulatory institutions, the comparative development of domestic public policies, and policy making in policy networks. Recently, he has published Linguistic Claims and Political Conflicts (Routledge, 2021, with A. Bianculli and M. Ferrín), and Policy Anaysis in Spain (Policy Press, 2022, edited with L. Chaqués).

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Research interests

My research focus on the analysis of how regulatory governance works in the age of globalization. My primary area of research concentrates on examining the institutional characteristics of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) over different sectors and countries all over the world. Granting political independence to most of these agencies was a significant move in the political economy of many countries during the 1990s and 2000s, and  I am interested to better understand how this institutional model really works in practice. For this reason, I have focused on identifying the historical background of IRAs and the political context as a way to find explanations for agenciesâEURTM successes and failures, as well as their vulnerabilities.

Keywords

public policy, Institutions, governance, regulation, collective action