• When regional innovation policies meet policy rationales and evidence: a plea for policy analysis

  Borrás, Susana; Jordana, Jacint (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

  In spite of recent advancements regarding regional innovation policy rationales and evidence, there are few analyses about the actual features of existing regional innovation policies. Nevertheless, a policy analysis ...
• How to achieve full electrification: lessons from Latin America

  Banal Estañol, Albert; Calzada, Joan; Jordana, Jacint (Elsevier, 2017)

  Electricity coverage in Latin America has increased substantially in recent decades, rising from 50% of the population in 1970 to more than 95% in 2015. Growth, however, slowed in the 1990s as many countries experienced ...
• Administrative innovations and accountability failures: the termination of the Spanish telecommunications agency

  García Juanatey, Ana; Jordana, Jacint; Sancho, David, 1964- (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  We discuss how far accountability practices may be relevant to the success of independent regulators in countries without a tradition of administrative autonomy. We develop a conceptualisation of agency accountability ...
• Transgovernmental networks as regulatory intermediaries: horizontal collaboration and the realities of soft power

  Jordana, Jacint (SAGE Publications, 2017)

  This article explores and elucidates the activities of transnational networks as regulatory intermediaries. Specifically, I examine their role in the regulation of banks, as far as they facilitate exchanges between global ...
• Accountability from the perspective of the forum: citizens’ attitudes towards accountability in Europe

  Pérez Durán, Ixchel (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

  The aim of this article is to analyse citizens’ attitudes towards governmental accountability in 24 European countries and to examine the influence of contextual and individual factors on perceptions of accountability. ...
• Interest group representation in the formal design of EU agencies

  Pérez Durán, Ixchel (Wiley, 2018)

  This article examines the decision to include interest group representation (IGR) in the most important decisionmaking bodies of European Union agencies (EAs). The study shows that there is considerable variation among ...
• Measuring multi-level regulatory governance: organizational proliferation, coordination and concentration

  Mathieu, Emmanuelle; Verhoest, Koen; Matthys, Joery (Wiley, 2017)

  As regulation increasingly results from the interplay of a wide array of different actors operating at different levels, it has become crucial to focus on how these constellations of regulatory actors operate. Although ...
• Political and stakeholder’s ties in European Union agencies

  Pérez Durán, Ixchel (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  Some scholars consider that European Union agencies (EAs) were created as independent bodies in order to enhance the credibility of the European Union decision-making process. Scholars have typically focused on analysing ...
• Representative bureaucracy in European Union agencies

  Pérez Durán, Ixchel; Bravo Laguna, Carlos David (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  This article provides, through the lens of the theory of representative bureaucracy, a detailed and systematic assessment of diversity regarding gender, nationality, educational qualifications and professional background ...
• The conspicuous absence of class and privilege in the study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts

  Íñiguez de Heredia, Marta (Taylor & Francis, 2018)

  Attention to everyday forms of resistance in the liberal peace debates has provided a more sophisticated critique of peacebuilding but the concept of resistance remains limited. The paper argues that this is because leading ...
• Regulating islamic banks in authoritarian settings: Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates in comparative perspective

  Apaydin vom Hau, Fulya (Wiley, 2018)

  This article provides, through the lens of the theory of representative bureaucracy, a detailed and systematic assessment of diversity regarding gender, nationality, educational qualifications and professional background ...
• Europa en el mundo: ¿de potencia normativa a una verdadera unión de la defensa?

  Mestres Camps, Laia (Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo. Secretaría de Estado de Comercio, 2018)

  En la primera década del Siglo XXI la identidad internacional de la Unión Europea se había configurado en torno a la externalización de valores internos de la UE como la solidaridad, el humanismo o la justicia, que actualmente ...
• The decentralization of Poland 1989-2018: from partisan disagreement to a vehicle for successful absorption of EU cohesion funding

  Holesch, Adam, 1977- (Generalitat de Catalunya. Institut d'Estudis de l'Autogovern, 2018)

  This article draws the main lines of development of the territoriality of the Polish state, taking into account the divergent dynamics of its regional evolution. Building on a historical account, it describes how the ...
• Transforming the nation? The bolivarian education reform in Venezuela

  Abbott, Jared; Soifer, Hillel David; Vom Hau, Matthias (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

  The Chávez government introduced a ‘Bolivarian’ national curriculum to promote radically different understandings of Venezuelan history and identity. We place the fate of this reform initiative within the broader study of ...
• Ethnicity in time: politics, history, and the relationship between ethnic diversity and public goods provision

  Singh, Prerna; Vom Hau, Matthias (SAGE Publications, 2016)

  This article revisits and seeks to challenge one of the most powerful hypotheses in the political economy scholarship: the supposedly negative relationship between ethnic diversity and public goods provision. We suggest ...
• Globalization, transnational human capital, and employment in the European Union

  Díez Medrano, Juan (SAGE Publications, 2016)

  The literature claims that the returns to transnational human capital (THC) are considerable and extend beyond firms that use it. This article critically appraises this claim and for the first time compares the employment ...
• Beliefs and trade union support for trade liberalisation in the US and the UK: the AFL-CIO and the TUC compared

  Díez Medrano, Juan (Springer, 2018)

  This article applies an interpretive approach to behaviour to explain why the United States’ American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) has opposed free trade agreements whereas the British ...
• What do respondents mean when they report to be "citizens of the world"? Using probing questions to elucidate international differences in cosmopolitanism

  Braun, Michael; Behr, Dorothée; Díez Medrano, Juan (Springer, 2018)

  The measurement of cosmopolitanism, i.e. the feeling of being a citizen of the world and the corresponding openness towards other cultures and peoples, has proved to be challenging and several scholars have questioned its ...
• Multilingualism and European identification

  Díez Medrano, Juan (Wiley, 2018)

  The literature on ethnicity and nationalism notes the centrality of language in group formation. Developments connected to globalization have simultaneously propitiated learning more than one language and the emergence of ...
• Rhetorical entrapment and normative enticement: how the UK turned from spoiler into champion of the cluster munition ban

  Petrova, Margarita (Oxford University Press, 2016)

  In 2006, Norway launched a stand-alone process to negotiate a ban on cluster munitions. The United Kingdom (UK) reluc- tantly joined the process to keep it within acceptable bounds. The UK acted as a spoiler in the ...

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