Enrico Borghetto

Curriculum Vitae

Published

August 24, 2025

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

PUBLICATIONS

Borghetto, E. (2025). Tra interferenze nei processi democratici e regolamentazione: Il costituzionalismo digitale di Balaguer. La Constitución del algoritmo. Recensiones, presentaciones y entrevistas, 97–102
Borghetto, E., M. Improta, and F. 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2024.2413852
Borghetto, E., L. Manucci, and D. A. Epp. (2025). Is the populist Robin Hood a fairy tale? Parliamentary attention to social welfare. Journal of European Public Policy. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13501763.2025.2490809
Borghetto, E., L. Quaglia, and I. Guardiancich. (2025). Reform Agendas in National Recovery and Resilience Plans: Partisan Politics and Domestic Usages of Europe. Journal of Common Market Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13738. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcms.13738
Guardiancich, I., M. Guidi, E. Borghetto, et al. (2025). Stronger conditionality for stronger compliance? Analysing the NGEU’s effect on the implementation of European semester recommendations. Journal of European Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2502088. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2502088
Bevan, S., E. Borghetto, and H. 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), 1856–1878. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2193583
Borghetto, E. (2023). EU Talks. Dialoghi sul futuro dell’Europa. Una Unione di Cittadini. La costruzione della cittadinanza europea attraverso la partecipazione e la formazione., 115–118
Borghetto, E. (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. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20398573v9n1p5
Borghetto, E. and F. Marangoni. (2022). La capacità del governo in Italia: Un rafforzamento incompiuto. Il sistema politico Italiano: Cittadini, attori e istituzioni, 231–156
Tsatsanis, E., E. Borghetto, A. Freire, et al. (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. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2021.2016245
Bevan, S., E. Borghetto, and H. Seeberg. (2021). The politics of parliamentary agenda-setting styles. The Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles, 244–256
Borghetto, E. (2021). L’intervento parlamentare nel processo di conversione dei decreti-legge "pandemici". Il Filangieri, Quaderno 2020, 13–27
Epp, D. A. and E. Borghetto. (2021). Legislative agendas during periods of inequality: Evidence from Europe and the United States. Journal of European Public Policy, 28 (4), 532–550. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2020.1734060. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2020.1734060
Pedersen, H. H. and E. Borghetto. (2021). Fighting COVID-19 on Democratic Terms. Parliamentary Functioning in Italy and Denmark during the Pandemic. Representaiton, 57 (4), 401–418. https://doi.org/0.1080/00344893.2021.1973546
Borghetto, E. and A. M. Belchior. (2020). Party Manifestos, Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda. Political Studies, 68 (1), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321718820738
Borghetto, E. and M. Lisi. (2020). Legislative Activities before and after the Great Recession: An Analysis of Unemployment and Social Welfare Issues. Political Representation and Citizenship in Portugal, 173–191
Borghetto, E., J. Santana‐Pereira, and A. Freire. (2020). Parliamentary Questions as an Instrument for Geographic Representation: The Hard Case of Portugal. Swiss Political Science Review, 26 (1), 10–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12387
Borghetto, E., J. Sevenans, and E. Grossman. (2020). Parliament’s (lack of) agenda-setting power over the executive decision agenda: Evidence from Belgium, France and Portugal. Revista de Administração Pública, 54, 1588–1612. https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220190352x
Belchior, A. M. and E. Borghetto. (2019). The Portuguese Policy Agendas Project. Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, 145–151. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835332.003.0016
Borghetto, E. (2019). Review "Ensaios de Política Comparada de Giovanni Sartori". Analise Social, 233 (4), 899–902. https://doi.org/31447/as00032573.2019233.13
Borghetto, E., M. Carammia, and F. Russo. (2019). The Italian Agendas Project. Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, 120–128. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835332.003.0013
Borghetto, E. and L. Chaques-Bonafont. (2019). Parliamentary Questions. Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, 282–299. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835332.003.0029
Carammia, M., E. Borghetto, and M. Sousa Galito. (2019). A Agenda do Conselho Europeu face às Crises. O estado da União Europeia: : Da(s) Crise(s) à Mudança?, 23–42
Borghetto, E. (2018). Anti-Populismo. Dicionário dos Antis: A cultura Portuguesa em negativo, 2, 1482–1485. https://www.wook.pt/livro/dicionario-dos-antis-jose-eduardo-franco/22693210
Borghetto, E. (2018). Challenger parties in Parliament: The case of the Italian Five Star Movement. Italian Political Science, 13 (3), 19–32. http://italianpoliticalscience.com/index.php/ips/article/view/85
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2018.1439441
Borghetto, E., M. Carammia, and F. Russo. (2018). Policy agendas in Italy: Introduction to the special issue. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 48 (3), 265–274. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2018.17
Borghetto, E. and M. Lisi. (2018). Productivity and Reselection in a Party-based Environment: Evidence from the Portuguese Case. Parliamentary Affairs, 71 (4), 868–887. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsx051. https://academic.oup.com/pa/article/71/4/868/4831466
Borghetto, E. and F. Russo. (2018). From agenda setters to agenda takers? The determinants of party issue attention in times of crisis. Party Politics, 24 (1), 65–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068817740757
Carammia, M., E. Borghetto, and S. 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2018.13
Koprić, I., E. M. Hlynsdóttir, J. Džinić, et al. (2018). Institutional environments and mayors’ role perceptions. Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy: The European Mayor, 149–173. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67410-0_5
Lisi, M. and E. Borghetto. (2018). Populism, Blame Shifting and the Crisis: Discourse Strategies in Portuguese Political Parties. South European Society and Politics, 23 (4), 405–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1558606. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1558606
Borghetto, E., F. Visconti, and M. Michieli. (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. https://doi.org/10.1483/87214
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. (2015). Challenging Italian centralism through the vertical shift of competences to the subnational and supranational levels. Contemporary Italian Politics, 7 (1), 58–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2014.1002260
Borghetto, E. (2015). Questioning the Government in Time of Crisis. An Analysis of Question Time in Spain. Aftermath. Political and urban consequences of the euro crisis, 91–116
Borghetto, E. and M. Carammia. (2015). Party Priorities, Government Formation, and the Making of the Executive Agenda. The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian case, 36–57
Borghetto, E. and F. Visconti. (2015). Governing by revising. A study on post-enactment policy change in Italy. The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian case, 106–127. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746937
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), 553–576. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852313517996
Borghetto, E., M. Carammia, and F. Zucchini. (2014). The Impact of Party Policy Priorities on Italian Law-Making from the First to the Second Republic (1983-2006). Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems, 164–182. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226128443.001.0001
Borghetto, E. and L. Mäder. (2014). EU law revisions and legislative drift. European Union Politics, 15 (2), 171–191. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116513513345
Borghetto, E. (2013). Keeping the pace with Europe: Non-compliance with the transposition deadline of EU directives in the Italian case
Borghetto, E., L. Curini, M. Giuliani, et al. (2012). Italian Law-Making Archive: A new tool for the analysis of the Italian legislative process. Rivista italiana di scienza politica, (3/2012), 481–502. https://doi.org/10.1426/38618
Borghetto, E. and M. Giuliani. (2012). A Long Way to Tipperary: Time in the Italian Legislative Process 1987–2008. South European Society and Politics, 17 (1), 23–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2012.654619
Borghetto, E., M. Giuliani, and F. Zucchini. (2012). Leading governments and unwilling legislators. The European Union and the Italian Law making (1987-2006). The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures, 109–130
Borghetto, E. and F. Franchino. (2010). The role of subnational authorities in the implementation of EU directives. Journal of European Public Policy, 17 (6), 759–780. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2010.486972
Borghetto, E., M. Giuliani, and F. Zucchini. (2009). Quanta Bruxelles c’è a Roma? L’europeizzazione della produzione normativa italiana. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, (1/2009), 135–162. https://doi.org/10.1483/29153
Borghetto, E., F. Franchino, and D. Giannetti. (2006). Complying with the transposition deadlines of EU directives. Evidence from Italy. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, (1/2006), 7–38. https://doi.org/10.1483/21752

ACADEMIC SERVICE

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

CURRENT PROJECTS

PAST PROJECTS

  • 2022-2023 One of the Principal investigators for the Project “Legitech: representative assemblies and technological innovation after the pandemics”
  • 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

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