Teaching Interests

Here is a list of my main teaching interests:

• • European Union: history of integration, integration theories, EU institutions, EU policy-making and policies.

  • Public Policy: policy process and cycle (from agenda setting to implementation); sub-national, national and international policy-making; internal and European diffusion, convergence and compliance processes.

  • Comparative Politics: comparative government, political systems and policy-making, the logic of comparison and comparative methods (Mill’s method of agreement and method of difference, qualitative & quantitative comparative methods).

  • Research Design and Research Methods: designing social and political research, qualitative research methods, basic quantitative research methods, data gathering (élite interviewing, survey data, etc.).

  • Territorial politics: devolution processes and territorial interest definition & aggregation, centre-periphery and domestic inter-governmental relations, party politics, public policy in multi-level settings, governance.

  • Regions, Federalism and the EU legislative process: regionalism in Europe, federalism and the EU, regions and the EU legislative process.