Andrea Noferini
Associate Professor
Political Science
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Spain
Biography
Andrea Noferini is a senior researcher at the University Institute of European Studies of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He holds a PhD in Politics and Economics of Developing Countries from Universitá degli Studi di Firenze and a MA in Political Science from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research areas converge in the study of public policies and institutional reforms in Europe and Latin America. To date the majority of his published researches deal with European integration, decentralization and the impact of EU on member-states and Enlargement countries. His studies deals with mechanisms for participation of regional and local administrations in EU policy-making, the evaluation of public policies, territorial cooperation, cohesion policy, institutional and administrative capacity building and decentralized cooperation. Member of the International and Spanish Associations of Political Science, he teaches in different master programs as expert in multilevel governance and European integration. He has participated in several projects and studies financed by national ministries as well as European and international institutions.
Research Interest
Decentralized Cooperation, Public Policy, European integration and Decentralization
Publications
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Noferini, Andrea2011Morata F., Noferini A., (eds), 2011, The European environmental policy: challenges and opportunities for candidate and potential candidate countries, Institut Universitari d’Estudis Europeus and AECID, Bellaterra, Barcelona
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Noferini, Andrea2012Jordana J., Mota F., Noferini A., 2012, The EU ‘partnership’ principle in practice: evidence from the cohesion policy in Spain, International Review of Administrative Sciences
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Noferini, Andrea2012Noferini, A.,2012, The participation of sub-national governments in the Council of the EU: some evidence from Spain, Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 22, N.4