Enrico Borghetto

Curriculum Vitae

Published

March 18, 2024

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8676-3583

WORK ADDRESS

Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via delle Pandette, 21 (Building D5) 2nd floor, Florence, FI 50127

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • 2023-PRESENT Associate professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences (DSPS) University of Florence, Italy (Institutional page).

  • 2020-2023 Tenure-track lecturer, Department of Political and Social Sciences (DSPS) University of Florence, Italy (Institutional page).

  • 2019-2020 Contracted Researcher, contract funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia at IPRI, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2015-2019 FCT investigator, contract funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (IF/00382/2014) at CICS.NOVA, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2013-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher at CESNOVA (now CICS.NOVA), FCSH, with a project entitled “The policy agenda at the time of crisis in Europe’s periphery” (Bolsas de Pós-Doutoramento (BPD) funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, SFRH/BPD/89968/2012) University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2008-2012 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social and Political Studies (SPS) with a project entitled “The europeanisation of executive-legislative relations: national parliaments and Community legislation” University of Milan, Milano, Italy

EDUCATION

  • 2007 Ph.D. in Political Studies at the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences of the University of Milan Dissertation: ‘Non-compliance with the transposition deadlines of EU directives: the Italian case. Explaining transposition of EU directives into Italian legislation’ Supervisor: Prof. Marco Giuliani

  • 2003 Bachelor in International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs (110/110 magna cum laude) University of Bologna (Forlì), Faculty of International and Diplomatic Sciences Dissertation: “The accountability of international organisations: the Principal -Agent model applied to the WTO and the IMF”. Supervisor: Prof. Salvatore Vassallo

ACADEMIC SERVICE

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

  • 2022 Guest speakers in the panel “Moldova: supporting the European path through dialogue and capacity building - including Triangle for Democracy” held at the European Parliament on 30th November. The conference celebrated the 10th anniversary of the European Parliament’s activities to support democracy around the world.

  • 2022 Academic expert participating in the seminar for the Members of the Moldovan Parliament on the 11 November 2022 in the Moldovan Parliament on the topic of “The legislative cycle”. The seminar was organised by the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG) of the European Parliament.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

CURRENT PROJECTS

PAST PROJECTS

  • 2021-2023 Part of the staff for the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “TrustEU: Making visible the added value of the Union in everyday life of citizens”

  • 2020-2022 Principal investigator for “ConstiRep: Constituency Service and policy representation in European Parliaments”. This research project is funded by the Transnational Cooperation Program Pessoa (2020) and involves the FCSH and Lille University

  • 2015-2020 Principal investigator “Portuguese Parliament: Agenda-setting and Law-making” Exploratory Project financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (IF/00382/2014)

  • 2016-2020 Researcher in the project “Democracy in times of crisis: Power and Discourse in a three-level game” Project financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/IVC-CPO/2247/2014, coordinated by Catherine Moury, FCSH) URL:

  • 2016-2020 Researcher in the project “Crisis, Political Representation and Democratic Renewal: The Portuguese case in the Southern European context” Project financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/IVC-CPO/3098/2014, coordinated by André Freire, Marco Lisi and Emmanouil Tsatsanis, FCSH and ISCTE-IUL) URL:

  • 2013-2015 Researcher in the project “Public preferences and Policy decision-making: a comparative analysis” Project financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/IVC-CPO/3921/2012, coordinated by Ana Belchior, ISCTE-IUL)

  • 2014-2018 Principal investigator in the Portuguese team participating in the European project “Political Leaders in European Cities” (Coordinated by the University of Florence) This project deals with the role of Mayors and the transformation of political representation and careers at the local level.

  • 2010-2012 Co-manager of the ILMA (Italian-Law Making Database) ILMA originated from an idea of a group of scholars affiliated with the Department of Social and Political Studies at the Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, and it is one of the scientific products of the Center for the Observation of Legislatures (COoL). It is a relational database that combines information on Italian legislation, roll calls and political elites. It currently covers six Italian legislatures (1987-2008).

  • 2010-2012 Member of the research unit of the University of Milan in the project -Institutional agenda setting: Actors, time, information.- co-financed by the Italian Ministry for Research and Higher Education (PRIN 2009, Protocol 2009TPW4NL_002, Principal Investigator: prof. Marco Giuliani).

  • 2008-2012 Researcher in the Italian team participating in the European project “Delors’ Myth: The scope and impact of Europeanization on law production”. The project aims are: 1) developing new methods to quantitatively measure the Europeanization of national public policies (i.e. the scope and extent national policies are shaped by EU law and policy); 2) analysing the impact of EU policy-making on the relationship between government and parliament in each of the nine countries under study.

  • 2006 Research assistant at the Research Unit on European Governance (URGE) Collegio Carlo Alberto di Moncalieri, Torino, Italy Key areas of responsibility: review of the literature relevant for URGE projects; assistance in the preparation of manuscripts and reports; management of events organized by URGE.

  • Jan/Aug 2005 Research assistant for the project: “Compliance with EU Law: Explaining the Transposition of EU Directives” (Coordinator: Prof. Fabio Franchino) University College London, School of Public Policy, London, UK Key areas of responsibility: data collection and maintenance of the database on national transposition of EU directives; review of the literature on EU Compliance; contribution to joint publications.

  • Oct/Dec 2004 Research assistant for the project “Political representation and legislative process in the regions and the autonomous provinces in Italy” (Coordinator Prof. Salvatore Vassallo) Istituto Carlo Cattaneo and Universita’ di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Key areas of responsibility: assistance in drafting the questionnaire; interviews with over 30 members of the Lombardia Regional Council.

VISITING RESEARCH PERIODS

  • May 2019 Visiting Researcher, IDC Herzliya Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Sept 2017/Jan 2018 Visiting Researcher, Department of Government University of Texas, Austin, USA

  • Feb/Mar 2012 Visiting Fellow Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

  • Jun/Aug 2010 Visiting Fellow, Center for American Politics and Public Policy (CAPPP) University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  • Jan/Aug 2005 Visiting Fellow, School of Public Policy University College London, London, UK

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2023 “An introduction to the R language”, First-level Master’s course in Digital Transformation, University of Florence (12 hours)

  • 2022 “Politics of European integration”, Postgraduate course, University of Florence, 3 ECTS (21 hours)

  • 2021-22 “European Politics and Policy in the contemporary world”, Postgraduate course, University of Florence, 9 ECTS (63 hours)

  • 2021 “The Essentials of Data Analysis in R”, Scuola Superiore di Catania, University of Catania, (12 hours)

  • 2020-21 “Interest Group Politics”, Postgraduate course, University of Florence, 3 ECTS (21 hours)

  • 2020 “Comparative Politics”, Undergraduate course, University of Florence, 6 ECTS (42 hours)

  • 2020 “Analise Politica Comparada”, Undergraduate course, FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, 9 ECTS (64 hours)

  • 2018-20 “Research design”, Lisbon Winter School in Research Skills and Methods, FCSH, NOVA University of Lisbon, 2 ECTS (12 hours)

  • 2019 “The Maestri of Political Science”, Course for PhD students, FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, 2 ECTS (20 hours)

  • 2019 “Parliamentary Studies”, Master Course, FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, 6 ECTS (44 hours)

  • 2017-2019 Tutorial for undergraduate students “Portuguese Parliament: Agenda-setting and Law-making”, FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, 3 ECTS (20 hours)

  • 2014-18 “The Essentials of Data Analysis in R”, Lisbon Summer School, FCSH, NOVA University of Lisbon, 2 ECTS (25 hours)

  • 2018 “Politics in challenging times. Populism, protests and the crisis of representation after the Great Recession”, Master Course, FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, 6 ECTS (44 hours)

  • 2016 “The political and social consequences of the Great Recession in Southern Europe”, Master Course, FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, 6 ECTS (44 hours)

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS

  • Borghetto, E. (2023). The debate about a virtual Parliament during the pandemic emergency. Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 9(1), 5–19. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20398573v9n1p5

  • Bevan, S., Borghetto, E., & Seeberg, H. (2023). Do different parties respond to different problems? A comparative study of parliamentary questions across multiple countries. Journal of European Public Policy, 0(0), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2193583.

  • Tsatsanis, Emmanouil, Enrico Borghetto, André Freire, and José Ramón Montero (2022). ‘Generational and Ideological Gaps in Democratic Support: Seeds of Deconsolidation in Post-Crisis Southern Europe?’, South European Society and Politics, 26:2, 133-151

  • Pedersen, HB, and Borghetto E (2021). ‘Fighting COVID-19 on Democratic Terms. Parliamentary Functioning in Italy and Denmark during the Pandemic’, Representation 57(4): 401-418. DOI:10.1080/00344893.2021.1973546

  • Borghetto, E (2021) ‘L’intervento Parlamentare Nel Processo Di Conversione Dei Decreti-Legge “Pandemici”’. Il Filangieri Quaderno 2020: 13-27.

  • Epp DA and Borghetto E (2021) Legislative Agendas during Periods of Inequality: Evidence from Europe and the United States. Journal of European Public Policy 28(4): 532-550. DOI:10.1080/13501763.2020.1734060

  • Borghetto E, Sevenans J and Grossman E (2020) Parliament’s (lack of) agenda-setting power over the executive decision agenda: evidence from Belgium, France and Portugal. Brazilian Journal of Public Administration 54(6): 1588-1612.

  • Borghetto E, Santana‐Pereira J and Freire A (2020) Parliamentary Questions as an Instrument for Geographic Representation: The Hard Case of Portugal. Swiss Political Science Review 26(1): 10-30. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12387.

  • Borghetto E and Belchior AM (2020) Party Manifestos, Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda. Political Studies 68(1): 37-53. DOI: 10.1177/0032321718820738.

  • Borghetto E (2019) Challenger parties in Parliament: the case of the Italian Five Star Movement. Italian Political Science 13(3): 19-32.

  • Lisi M and Borghetto E (2018) Populism, Blame Shifting and the Crisis: Discourse Strategies in Portuguese Political Parties. South European Society and Politics 23(4): 405-427. DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1558606

  • Borghetto E, Carammia M and Russo F (2018) Policy agendas in Italy: introduction to the special issue. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 48(3): 265-274. DOI: 10.1017/ipo.2018.17

  • Carammia M, Borghetto E and Bevan S (2018) Changing the transmission belt: the programme-to-policy link in Italy between the First and Second Republic. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 48(3): 275-288. DOI: 10.1017/ipo.2018.13

  • Borghetto E and Lisi M (2018) Productivity and Reselection in a Party-based Environment: Evidence from the Portuguese Case. Parliamentary Affairs 71(4): 868-887. DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsx051

  • Borghetto E (2018) Delegated decree authority in a parliamentary system: the exercise of legislative delegation in Italy (1987-2013). The Journal of Legislative Studies 24(2): 179-196. DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2018.1439441

  • Borghetto E and Russo F (2018) From agenda setters to agenda takers? The determinants of party issue attention in times of crisis. Party Politics 24(1): 65-77. DOI: 10.1177/1354068817740757

  • Borghetto E, Visconti F and Michieli M (2017) Government Agenda-Setting in Italian Coalitions. Testing the «Partisan Hypothesis» Using Italian Investiture Speeches 1979- 2014. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche (2/2017): 193-220. DOI: 10.1483/87214

  • Borghetto E (2015) Challenging Italian centralism through the vertical shift of competences to the subnational and supranational levels. Contemporary Italian Politics 7(1): 58-75. DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2014.1002260.

  • Borghetto E (2014) Legislative processes as sequences: Exploring temporal trajectories of Italian law-making by means of sequence analysis. International Review of Administrative Sciences 80(3): 553-76.

  • Borghetto E and Mäder L (2014) EU law revisions and legislative drift. European Union Politics 15(2): 171-191. DOI: 10.1177/1465116513513345

  • Borghetto E and Giuliani M (2012) A Long Way to Tipperary: Time in the Italian Legislative Process 1987-2008. South European Society and Politics 17(1): 23-44. DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.654619.

  • Borghetto E, Curini L, Giuliani M, et al. (2012) Italian Law-Making Archive: A new tool for the analysis of the Italian legislative process. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 2012(3): 481-502.

  • Borghetto E and Carammia M (2010) L’analisi comparata delle agende politiche: il Comparative Agendas Project. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 2(Agosto 2010): 301-315.

  • Borghetto E and Franchino F (2010) The Role of Subnational Authorities in the Implementation of EU Directives. Journal Of European Public Policy 17(6): 759-780.

  • Borghetto E, Giuliani M and Zucchini F (2009) Quanta Bruxelles c’è a Roma? L’europeizzazione della produzione normativa italiana. Rivista italiana di Politiche Pubbliche 2009(1): 135-162.

  • Borghetto E, Franchino F and Giannetti D (2006) Complying with the transposition deadlines of EU directives: Evidence from Italy. Rivista italiana di Politiche Pubbliche 1(2006): 7-38.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

  • Borghetto, E., & Marangoni, F. (2022). “La capacità del governo in Italia: Un rafforzamento incompiuto”. In G. Baldini & A. Pritoni (eds.), Il sistema politico Italiano: Cittadini, attori e istituzioni. Milano: Mondadori, pp. 231–156.

  • Bevan, Shaun, Enrico Borghetto, and Henrik Seeberg (2021). ‘The politics of parliamentary agenda-setting styles’, in Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles. Routledge. pp. 244-256.

  • Borghetto E and Lisi M (2020) Legislative Activities before and after the Great Recession: An Analysis of Unemployment and Social Welfare Issues. In: Lisi M, Freire A, and Tsatsanis E (eds) Political Representation and Citizenship in Portugal. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, pp. 173-191.

  • Carammia M, Borghetto E and Sousa Galito M (2019) A Agenda do Conselho Europeu face às Crises. In: Camisão I and Brandão AP (eds) O Estado Da União Europeia: Da(s) Crise(s) à Mudança? Petrony, pp. 23-42.

  • Belchior AM and Borghetto E (2019) The Portuguese Policy Agendas Project. In: Baumgartner FR, Breunig C, and Grossman E (eds) Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 145-151

  • Borghetto E and Chaques-Bonafont L (2019) Parliamentary Questions. In: Baumgartner FR, Breunig C, and Grossman E (eds) Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 282-299

  • Borghetto E, Carammia M and Russo F (2019) The Italian Agendas Project. In: Baumgartner FR, Breunig C, and Grossman E (eds) Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 120-128

  • Koprić I, Hlynsdóttir EM, Džinić J, et al. (2018) Institutional environments and mayors’ role perceptions. In: Heinelt H, Magnier A, Cabria M, et al. (eds) Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy: The European Mayor. 1st ed. 2018 edition. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-173

  • Borghetto E (2015) Questioning the Government in Time of Crisis. An Analysis of Question Time in Spain. In: Preunkert, J, Baptista L, and Vobruba G (eds) Aftermath. Political and Urban Consequences of the Euro Crisis. Lisbon: Edições Colibri, pp. 91-116.

  • Borghetto E and Carammia M (2015) Party Priorities, Government Formation, and the Making of the Executive Agenda. In: Conti N and Marangoni F (eds) The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian Case. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 36-57.

  • Borghetto E and Visconti F (2015) Governing by revising. A study on post-enactment policy change in Italy. In: Conti N and Marangoni F (eds) The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian Case. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 106-127.

  • Borghetto E, Carammia M and Zucchini F (2014) The Impact of Party Policy Priorities on Italian Law-Making from the First to the Second Republic (1983-2006). In: Walgrave S and Green-Pedersen C (eds) Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems. Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 164-182.

  • Borghetto E, Giuliani M and Zucchini F (2012) Leading governments and unwilling legislators. The European Union and the Italian Law making (1987-2006). In: Brouard S, Costa O, and König T (eds) The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures. New York: Springer, pp. 109-130.

BOOKS

  • Borghetto E (2013) Keeping the Pace with Europe: Non-Compliance with the Transposition Deadline of EU Directives in the Italian Case. Novi Ligure: Epoke Edizioni.

TRANSLATION

  • Il Mulino Publishing House, Bologna Translation from English to Italian of the book “The government and politics of the European Union” by N.Nugent, London: MacMillan (2006, 6° ed.)

OTHER RESEARCH OUTPUTS

  • Borghetto E (2018) “Anti-populism”, in F.José Eduardo (Ed) Dicionário dos Antis. A Cultura Portuguesa em Negativo, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda

  • Borghetto E (2016) Review ‘Crise Económica, Políticas de Austeridade e Representação Política, Lisboa, Assembleia da República - Divisão de edições, 2015’. Analise Social 219: 462-466

  • Borghetto E, De Giorgi E and Lisi M (2014) Government failure, opposition success? Parties electoral performance in Portugal and Italy at the time of the crisis.Jean Monnet Occasional Paper, No.05/2014, Institute for European Studies (Malta).

  • Borghetto E (2007) The respect of transposition deadlines in Italy: do political priorities matter? URGE Working paper 7/2007

GRANTS AND AWARDS

  • 2022 Jean Monnet Module “REPLAN-EU: Implementing Resilience and Recovery Plans in Italy and beyond” supported by the Erasmus + Programme of the EU

  • 2022 Project “Legitech: representative assemblies and technological innovation after the pandemics”, funded by the European Union (NextGenerationEU) and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze after been selected in a competitive announcement “Finanziamento di progetti competitivi per Ricercatori a Tempo Determinato (RTD) dell’Università di Firenze 2021-23”

  • 2019 “Carlo Maria Santoro” Award for best paper presented in the 2018 Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association

  • 2015-20 “Portuguese Parliament: Agenda-setting and Law-making” FCT Investigator Contract and Exploratory Project financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (IF/00382/2014)

  • 2018 Selected for the International Credit Mobility project, under the Erasmus+ programme for a research period at IDC - Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), application CM18AC0249

  • 2016 Contrato Erasmum + - Açâo Chave I - Mobilidade Individual para fins de aprendizagem - Contrato 29191/007/2016/STT

  • Part of the research team located in Milan university awarded the PRIN funding in both 2007 (prot. scrwt4) and 2009 (prot. 2009TPW4NL_002). PRIN= Research Programs of National Relevance awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research

  • Research Unit on European Governance (URGE) - 1-year research grant

  • PhD scholarship (2003-2007) by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research

  • 6-month scholarship in 2002 to conduct undergraduate thesis research in the UK (awarded by the University of Bologna-Forlì)

TRAINING

  • Jul 2022 ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques, online, One-week course in ‘Panel Data Analysis’.

  • Mar 2017 ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Bamberg, Germany One-week course in ‘Time-series Analysis’.

  • Feb 2012 ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Vienna, Austria One-week course in ‘Sequence Analysis’.

  • Jun 2010 Five day workshop on sequence analysis for political scientists Tools for text workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, US Two-day workshop covering a range of content analysis approaches: Manual Annotation; Unsupervised Learning; Supervised Learning; Dimensional Scaling.

  • Mar 2010 Oxford Spring School, Oxford, UK One-week course in “Modern Regression”.

  • Jun 2009 Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, Mannheim, Germany The two-week summer school focused on modelling techniques and methods of empirical testing theoretical models in the social science.

  • Jul 2005 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, UK The two-week summer school focused on Maths for Social Scientists, Survival Analysis, Mixing Methods

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • Proficient user in both written and spoken English (ESOL Certificate in Advanced English) and Portuguese.
  • School knowledge of Spanish, French and German.

OTHER SKILLS

  • R, Rmarkdown, quarto

  • SPARQL

  • Python (beginner)