Research

Journal articles

Enrico Borghetto, Lucia Quaglia, & Igor Guardiancich (2026). Reform Agendas in National Recovery and Resilience Plans: Partisan Politics and Domestic Usages of Europe. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 64(1): 75-99.

Italy
European Union
agenda-setting
party politics
comparative politics
2026

Luca Cabras, Enrico Borghetto, Lucia Quaglia, & Igor Guardiancich (in press). From criticism to pragmatism? The impact of NGEU funding on party-based Euroscepticism in Italy. Italian Political Science Review

discourse analysis
Euroscepticism
national recovery and resilience plan
next-generation EU
parliament
political parties
2026

Enrico Borghetto, Marco Improta, and Francesco Marangoni. 2025. “Coalition Politics under Exceptional Exogenous Constraints: The Meloni Government during the EU-Financed Economic Recovery Plan.” South European Society and Politics 30(1): 85–105

Italy
European Union
NGEU
agenda-setting
coalition politics
2025

Enrico Borghetto, Luca Manucci, & Derek A. Epp (in press). Is the populist Robin Hood a fairy tale? Parliamentary attention to social welfare. Journal of European Public Policy.

populism
legislatures
agenda-setting
comparative politics
welfare issues
2025

Igor Guardiancich, Mattia Guidi, Enrico Borghetto, & Lucia Quaglia (in press). Stronger conditionality for stronger compliance? Analysing the NGEU’s effect on the implementation of European semester recommendations. Journal of European Public Policy

European Union
EU compliance
NGEU
European semester
2025

Bevan, Shaun, Enrico Borghetto, and Henrik Seeberg. 2024. “Do Different Parties Respond to Different Problems? A Comparative Study of Parliamentary Questions across Multiple Countries.” Journal of European Public Policy 31(7): 1856–78.

representation
legislatures
parliamentary questions
agenda-setting
2024

Enrico Borghetto (2023). Virtual Parliament in Italy: if not now, when? The debate about a virtual Parliament during the pandemic emergency. Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 9(1), 5–19.

Italy
lawmaking
legislatures
COVID-19
digital politics
2023

Derek A. Epp & Enrico Borghetto (2021). Legislative agendas during periods of inequality: evidence from Europe and the United States. Journal of European Public Policy, 28(4), 532–550.

agenda-setting
lawmaking
legislatures
2021

Helene Helboe Pedersen & Enrico Borghetto (2021). Fighting COVID-19 on Democratic Terms. Parliamentary Functioning in Italy and Denmark during the Pandemic. Representaiton, 57(4), 401–418.

Italy
Denmark
lawmaking
legislatures
COVID-19
2021

Enrico Borghetto, José Santana‐Pereira, & André Freire (2020). Parliamentary Questions as an Instrument for Geographic Representation: The Hard Case of Portugal. Swiss Political Science Review, 26(1), 10–30.

legislatures
parliamentary questions
representation
Portugal
2020

Enrico Borghetto, Julie Sevenans, & Emiliano Grossman (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.

agenda-setting
legislatures
governments
2020

Enrico Borghetto & Ana Maria Belchior (2020). Party Manifestos, Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda. Political Studies, 68(1), 37–53.

agenda-setting
Portugal
lawmaking
party politics
governments
2020

Enrico Borghetto & Federico Russo (2018). From agenda setters to agenda takers? The determinants of party issue attention in times of crisis. Party Politics, 24(1), 65–77.

agenda-setting
party politics
legislatures
parliamentary questions
2018

Enrico Borghetto (2018). Challenger parties in Parliament: the case of the Italian Five Star Movement. Italian Political Science, 13(3), 19–32.

Italy
party politics
legislatures
parliamentary questions
2018

Enrico Borghetto (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.

Italy
lawmaking
legislatures
governments
2018

Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, & Federico Russo (2018). Policy agendas in Italy: introduction to the special issue. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 48(3), 265–274.

Italy
agenda-setting
party politics
comparative politics
2018

Enrico Borghetto & Marco Lisi (2018). Productivity and Reselection in a Party-based Environment: Evidence from the Portuguese Case. Parliamentary Affairs, 71(4), 868–887.

party politics
representation
parliamentary questions
Portugal
2018

Marcello Carammia, Enrico Borghetto, & Shaun Bevan (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.

Italy
agenda-setting
party politics
lawmaking
legislatures
2018

Marco Lisi & Enrico Borghetto (2018). Populism, Blame Shifting and the Crisis: Discourse Strategies in Portuguese Political Parties. South European Society and Politics, 23(4), 405–427.

party politics
populism
Portugal
2018

Enrico Borghetto, Francesco Visconti, & Marco Michieli (2017). Government Agenda-Setting in Italian Coalitions. Testing the «Partisan Hypothesis» Using Italian Investiture Speeches 1979- 2014. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 193–220.

Italy
agenda-setting
coalition politics
governments
2017

Borghetto, Enrico. 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.

European Union
subnational politics
Italy
2015

Enrico Borghetto & Lars Mäder (2014). EU law revisions and legislative drift. European Union Politics, 15(2), 171–191.

European Union
lawmaking
legislatures
2014

Enrico Borghetto (2014). Legislative processes as sequences: exploring temporal trajectories of Italian law-making by means of sequence analysis. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 80(3), 553–576.

Italy
lawmaking
methods
2014

Enrico Borghetto & Marco Giuliani (2012). A Long Way to Tipperary: Time in the Italian Legislative Process 1987–2008. South European Society and Politics, 17(1), 23–44.

Italy
lawmaking
legislatures
2012

Enrico Borghetto & Marcello Carammia (2010). L’analisi comparata delle agende politiche: il Comparative Agendas Project. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2(Agosto 2010), 301–315.

agenda-setting
comparative politics
public policy
Italy
2010

Enrico Borghetto & Fabio Franchino (2010). The role of subnational authorities in the implementation of EU directives. Journal of European Public Policy, 17(6), 759–780.

European Union
EU compliance
public policy
subnational politics
2010

Enrico Borghetto, Marco Giuliani, & Francesco Zucchini (2009). Quanta Bruxelles c’è a Roma? L’europeizzazione della produzione normativa italiana. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 135–162.

Italy
lawmaking
europeanization
2009

Enrico Borghetto, Fabio Franchino, & Daniela Giannetti (2006). Complying with the transposition deadlines of EU directives. Evidence from Italy. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 7–38.

Italy
European Union
EU compliance
2006
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Book chapters

Enrico Borghetto & Francesco Marangoni (2022). La capacità del governo in Italia: un rafforzamento incompiuto. In Gianfranco Baldini, Andrea Pritoni (eds.), Il sistema politico Italiano: cittadini, attori e istituzioni pp. 231–156 Mondadori.

governments
Italy
legislatures
lawmaking
2022

Shaun Bevan, Enrico Borghetto, & Henrik Seeberg (2021). The politics of parliamentary agenda-setting styles. In Michael Howlett, Jale Tosun (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles pp. 244–256 Routledge.

agenda-setting
party politics
legislatures
parliamentary questions
2021

Enrico Borghetto & Marco Lisi (2020). Legislative Activities before and after the Great Recession: An Analysis of Unemployment and Social Welfare Issues. In Marco Lisi, André Freire, Emmanouil Tsatsanis (eds.), Political Representation and Citizenship in Portugal pp. 173–191 Lexington Books.

lawmaking
welfare issues
parliamentary questions
agenda-setting
2020

Enrico Borghetto & Laura Chaques-Bonafont (2019). Parliamentary Questions. In Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, Emiliano Grossman (eds.), Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data pp. 282–299 Oxford University Press.

agenda-setting
legislatures
parliamentary questions
public policy
comparative politics
2019

Ana Maria Belchior & Enrico Borghetto (2019). The Portuguese Policy Agendas Project. In Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, Emiliano Grossman (eds.), Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data pp. 145–151 Oxford University Press.

agenda-setting
Portugal
comparative politics
legislatures
governments
2019

Belchior, Ana Maria, and Enrico Borghetto. 2019. “The Portuguese Policy Agendas Project.” In Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, eds. Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 145–51

Portugal
agenda-setting
party politics
comparative politics
lawmaking
2019

Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, & Federico Russo (2019). The Italian Agendas Project. In Frank Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, Emiliano Grossman (eds.), Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data pp. 120–128 Oxford University Press.

Italy
agenda-setting
party politics
comparative politics
lawmaking
2019

Marcello Carammia, Enrico Borghetto, & Maria Sousa Galito (2019). A Agenda do Conselho Europeu face às Crises. In Isabel Camisão, Ana Paula Brandão (eds.), O estado da União Europeia: : Da(s) Crise(s) à Mudança? pp. 23–42 Petrony.

agenda-setting
European Union
2019

Ivan Koprić, Eva Marin Hlynsdóttir, Jasmina Džinić, & Enrico Borghetto (2018). Institutional environments and mayors’ role perceptions. In Hubert Heinelt, Annick Magnier, Marcello Cabria, Herwig Reynaert (eds.), Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy: The European Mayor pp. 149–173 Palgrave Macmillan.

party politics
comparative politics
subnational politics
2018

Enrico Borghetto & Francesco Visconti (2015). Governing by revising. A study on post-enactment policy change in Italy. In Nicolò Conti, Francesco Marangoni (eds.), The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian case pp. 106–127 Routledge.

Italy
legislatures
lawmaking
2015

Enrico Borghetto & Marcello Carammia (2015). Party Priorities, Government Formation, and the Making of the Executive Agenda. In Nicolò Conti, Francesco Marangoni (eds.), The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian case pp. 36–57 Routledge.

agenda-setting
Italy
governments
party politics
2015

Enrico Borghetto (2015). Questioning the Government in Time of Crisis. An Analysis of Question Time in Spain. In , Jenny Preunkert, Luis Baptista, Georg Vobruba (eds.), Aftermath. Political and urban consequences of the euro crisis pp. 91–116 Edições Colibri.

parliamentary questions
Spain
legislatures
2015

Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, & Francesco Zucchini (2014). The Impact of Party Policy Priorities on Italian Law-Making from the First to the Second Republic (1983-2006). In Stefaan Walgrave, Christoffer Green-Pedersen (eds.), Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems pp. 164–182 Chicago University Press.

Italy
party politics
lawmaking
2014

Enrico Borghetto, Luigi Curini, Marco Giuliani, Alessandro Pellegata, & Francesco Zucchini (2012). Italian Law-Making Archive: A new tool for the analysis of the Italian legislative process. Rivista italiana di scienza politica.

Italy
lawmaking
legislatures
2012

Enrico Borghetto, Marco Giuliani, & Francesco Zucchini (2012). Leading governments and unwilling legislators. The European Union and the Italian Law making (1987-2006). In Sylvain Brouard, Olivier Costa, Thomas König (eds.), The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures pp. 109–130 Springer.

Italy
European Union
lawmaking
2012
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Other publications

Borghetto, Enrico. 2025. “Tra Interferenze Nei Processi Democratici e Regolamentazione: Il Costituzionalismo Digitale Di Balaguer.” In La Constitución Del Algoritmo. Recensiones, Presentaciones y Entrevistas, Zaragoza: Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad, 97–102.

digital politics
Spain
legislatures
review
2025

Enrico Borghetto (2023). EU Talks. Dialoghi sul futuro dell’Europa. In Adelina Adinolfi, Nicole Lazzerini (eds.), Una Unione di Cittadini. La costruzione della cittadinanza europea attraverso la partecipazione e la formazione. pp. 115–118 Giappichelli.

European Union
2023

Enrico Borghetto (2021). L’intervento parlamentare nel processo di conversione dei decreti-legge “pandemici”. Il Filangieri, Quaderno 2020, 13–27.

COVID-19
Italy
lawmaking
2021

Enrico Borghetto (2019). Review “Ensaios de Política Comparada de Giovanni Sartori”. Analise Social, 233(4), 899–902.

review
comparative politics
2019

Enrico Borghetto (2018). Anti-Populismo. In José Eduardo Franco (ed.), Dicionário dos Antis: A cultura Portuguesa em negativo pp. 1482–1485 INCM – Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda.

populism
dictionary entry
2018

Enrico Borghetto (2016). Review “Crise Económica, Políticas de Austeridade e Representação Política”, Lisboa, Assembleia da República – Divisão de edições, 2015”. Analise Social, 219, 462–466.

public policy
comparative politics
legislatures
review
European Union
2016

Enrico Borghetto (2013). Keeping the pace with Europe: Non-compliance with the transposition deadline of EU directives in the Italian case. Epoke Edizioni.

Italy
European Union
EU compliance
2013
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