Joan Miró
Biographic Data
| ID | 334955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Miró |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Miró |
| SIGNATURE | MIRÓ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9958-2343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Strong Regulator? The EU’s Uneven Regulatory Capacity in Green Industrial Policy
The European Union (EU) has recently re-embraced industrial policy as a central instrument of economic governance, driven in particular by the challenges of climate change and intensifying geopolitical competition. This article examines regulation as a key instrument through which the EU seeks to promote industrial transformation. We conceptualize regulatory industrial policy as operating through three channels—structuring markets, shaping produc…
Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility
This article examines the flexibility of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It asks under what conditions modifications to the original National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) have been accepted by the European Commission and the Council. In theoretical terms, the article revisits the nature of NRRPs as tools of EU economic governance. By drawing on applications of contracting theory to multi-level governance, it argues that NRRPs…
Buffering national welfare states in hard times: The politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain
The EU has traditionally influenced the social and employment policies of Member States through regulation, leaving redistribution to national welfare states. The latter have, however, been gradually weakened by global socioeconomic change and by the expansion of EU market integration. A series of crises over the last 15 years made a bad situation worse: the longue durée erosion of the capacity of European welfare states has morphed into acute so…
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic pushed the European Union (EU) to centralize several public health functions. With the European Health Union (EHU) initiative, four reforms have been adopted to strengthen the EU’s health security framework: the extension of the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s mandates, the creation of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, a…
The middle-class base of European integration? New class divides and attitudes towards market integration in ten EU countries
Highly educated 'new' middle classes have been identified as a fundamental constituency that, by supporting technological innovation and liberalisation, bolsters the stability of advanced capitalism. By contrast, less educated production workers are usually described as opponents of such policies. This article investigates the extent to which these class divides translate into different positions on support for EU integration, a key process in th…
Back from the Cold? Progressive Politics and Social Policy Paradigms in Southern Europe after the Great Recession
This article examines the programmatic evolution of social democratic parties in Italy, Portugal, and Spain, three countries in which the center-left has governed in the last decade. To do so, the article develops an analytical framework for mapping social and labor market policy reforms and assessing their liberalizing, regularizing, or recalibrating character. In explanatory terms, the article studies the coalitional politics behind social demo…
Money Makes the World Go Round: How Much Difference Do Recovery and Resilience Plans Make to EU Reform Governance
The Next Generation EU (NGEU) package transformed European economic governance. This article examines the implications of this change in terms of EU polity formation and in terms of social policy content. It asks whether the temporary availability of large funds increases the leverage of the Commission in the European Semester and how this innovation affects sensitive policies. In the tradition of Stein Rokkan, the article advances a conception o…
Quiet unity: Salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position
A surprising feature of Brexit has been the united front the EU-27 presented during post-referendum negotiations. This membership crisis arrived when the EU had been facing multiple overlapping political and economic crises revealing deep cleavages both between and within member states. How did negotiations prevent a widening politicisation of European integration? In this article a novel dataset is used, containing national and European newspape…
The short-lived hope for contagion: Brexit in social media communication of the populist right
Brexit was perceived as a Pandora’s box moment by both Eurosceptic and pro-integration parties in the EU, as they expected it would embolden Euroscepticism by providing a paradigm to be followed. This article explores the initial reactions of nine Populist Radical Right parties to Brexit and how they evolved in tandem with the unfolding of negotiations. It also discusses possible reasons for the differentiation in the responses of those parties, …
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework
The Just Transition Fund was introduced in 2021 as part of the European Union’s Green New Deal and aims to assuage some of the painful social consequences of the green transition. Relying on the Multiple Streams Framework, this article reconstructs the JTF’s institution. It identifies 2018–2019 as a key conjuncture in the European Union when various social, ideational and political preconditions enabling policy innovation converged. Subsequently,…
Responding to the global disorder: The EU's quest for open strategic autonomy
This article traces the emergence of a novel interpretive platform in EU politics, one that understands that an array of post-Great Recession changes in the global political economy are calling for a reassessment of the EU's long-established approach to globalisation. The article argues that this rethinking is organised around the concept of “open strategic autonomy”, by which is meant an endeavour to reduce the EU's external dependencies in a ra…
Debating fiscal solidarity in the EU: Interests, values and identities in the legitimation of the Next Generation EU plan
The article departs from the assumption that issues of member state solidarity, particularly in crisis moments, undergird the stability of the EU by holding the key to its legitimation. Against this background, the article employs the tools of discourse analysis to study how European executives deliberated over the institution of new mechanisms of fiscal solidarity in response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as how they later legi…
Abolishing politics in the shadow of austerity? Assessing the (De)politicization of budgetary policy in crisis-ridden Spain (2008–2015)
Depoliticization has emerged as a key concept for explaining the legitimation of austerity during the euro crisis: in the face of growing social unrest over their austerity-based crisis management, EU and national policy elites would attempt to remove the political character of economic policy-making, thus insulating budgetary issues from public deliberation and party competition. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the actual success…
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the Covid-19 crisis
This article investigates the ‘conflict parabola’ of the negotiations between EU member states during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis reopened the foundational controversy over cross-national solidarity under economic adversities. After a peak of conflict in March–April 2020, the political climate gradually shifted from antagonism to appeasement, creating the conditions necessary for the adoption of the Next Generation EU plan. Building on the …
In the name of competitiveness: A discursive institutionalist analysis of the EU's approach to labour market structural reform, 2007-2016
This article explores the evolving interplay between different discourses on competitiveness, on the one hand, and different approaches to labour market reform on the other, all in the context of the European Union policymaking during the last decade (2007-2016). It asks how the idea of competitiveness has been used in EU policymaking in order to legitimize reforms in labour markets. Theoretically, the article builds on the discursive turn in ins…
The tensions of populism in power: A discursive-theoretical analysis of the Catalan secessionist push (2006–2017)
The article explores one of the most under-researched aspects surrounding populism, namely the political logics followed by governing populisms, and more specifically, the transitions of populisms from ‘protest to power’. It does so from a theoretical perspective rooted in the work of Ernesto Laclau. This implies conceiving the relationships between populism and state institutions as governed by distinct types of discursive logics: as different w…
Austerity’s failures and policy learning: Mapping European Commission officials’ beliefs on fiscal governance in the post-crisis EU
After an initial phase of firefighting against the euro crisis that began in 2010, one that was characterized by policies that focused on strict austerity, from 2014 onwards the European Commission gradually began to ease its recommendations about fiscal consolidation. Between 2015 and 2016, this policy turn was reflected in series of procedural changes in the European Semester. These gave the Commission a certain degree of discretion in applying…
Policy Change and Partisan Politics: Understanding Family Policy Differentiation in Two Similar Countries
This article looks at how different electoral competition dynamics can result in differentiated party positioning on childcare and family policy. Italy and Spain are compared using a most similar case design. The presence of women in politics, the socioeconomic profiles of the voters of the two main left-wing and right-wing Italian and Spanish parties, and opinions on traditional norms of motherhood explain different policy trajectories and highe…
Beyond populism and institutionalism: Anti‐populism and the management of austerity in Spain
European integration, social democratic Europeanism and the competitiveness discourse: A neo-Poulantzian approach to discursive policy analysis
This article addresses the so-called institutional deficit in poststructuralist discourse theory by articulating a recent development of such a theory, the so-called discursive policy analysis as mainly elaborated by David Howarth and Jason Glynos, with neo-Poulantzian state theory, especially as re-worked by Bob Jessop. It then employs the resulting framework for analysing the internal socio-political logic of the European integration process, a…
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the Covid-19 crisis
This article investigates the ‘conflict parabola’ of the negotiations between EU member states during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis reopened the foundational controversy over cross-national solidarity under economic adversities. After a peak of conflict in March–April 2020, the political climate gradually shifted from antagonism to appeasement, creating the conditions necessary for the adoption of the Next Generation EU plan. Building on the …
Austerity’s failures and policy learning: Mapping European Commission officials’ beliefs on fiscal governance in the post-crisis EU
After an initial phase of firefighting against the euro crisis that began in 2010, one that was characterized by policies that focused on strict austerity, from 2014 onwards the European Commission gradually began to ease its recommendations about fiscal consolidation. Between 2015 and 2016, this policy turn was reflected in series of procedural changes in the European Semester. These gave the Commission a certain degree of discretion in applying…
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework
The Just Transition Fund was introduced in 2021 as part of the European Union’s Green New Deal and aims to assuage some of the painful social consequences of the green transition. Relying on the Multiple Streams Framework, this article reconstructs the JTF’s institution. It identifies 2018–2019 as a key conjuncture in the European Union when various social, ideational and political preconditions enabling policy innovation converged. Subsequently,…
Debating fiscal solidarity in the EU: Interests, values and identities in the legitimation of the Next Generation EU plan
The article departs from the assumption that issues of member state solidarity, particularly in crisis moments, undergird the stability of the EU by holding the key to its legitimation. Against this background, the article employs the tools of discourse analysis to study how European executives deliberated over the institution of new mechanisms of fiscal solidarity in response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as how they later legi…
Policy Change and Partisan Politics: Understanding Family Policy Differentiation in Two Similar Countries
This article looks at how different electoral competition dynamics can result in differentiated party positioning on childcare and family policy. Italy and Spain are compared using a most similar case design. The presence of women in politics, the socioeconomic profiles of the voters of the two main left-wing and right-wing Italian and Spanish parties, and opinions on traditional norms of motherhood explain different policy trajectories and highe…
Money Makes the World Go Round: How Much Difference Do Recovery and Resilience Plans Make to EU Reform Governance
The Next Generation EU (NGEU) package transformed European economic governance. This article examines the implications of this change in terms of EU polity formation and in terms of social policy content. It asks whether the temporary availability of large funds increases the leverage of the Commission in the European Semester and how this innovation affects sensitive policies. In the tradition of Stein Rokkan, the article advances a conception o…
Beyond populism and institutionalism: Anti‐populism and the management of austerity in Spain
Responding to the global disorder: The EU's quest for open strategic autonomy
This article traces the emergence of a novel interpretive platform in EU politics, one that understands that an array of post-Great Recession changes in the global political economy are calling for a reassessment of the EU's long-established approach to globalisation. The article argues that this rethinking is organised around the concept of “open strategic autonomy”, by which is meant an endeavour to reduce the EU's external dependencies in a ra…
Back from the Cold? Progressive Politics and Social Policy Paradigms in Southern Europe after the Great Recession
This article examines the programmatic evolution of social democratic parties in Italy, Portugal, and Spain, three countries in which the center-left has governed in the last decade. To do so, the article develops an analytical framework for mapping social and labor market policy reforms and assessing their liberalizing, regularizing, or recalibrating character. In explanatory terms, the article studies the coalitional politics behind social demo…
The short-lived hope for contagion: Brexit in social media communication of the populist right
Brexit was perceived as a Pandora’s box moment by both Eurosceptic and pro-integration parties in the EU, as they expected it would embolden Euroscepticism by providing a paradigm to be followed. This article explores the initial reactions of nine Populist Radical Right parties to Brexit and how they evolved in tandem with the unfolding of negotiations. It also discusses possible reasons for the differentiation in the responses of those parties, …
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic pushed the European Union (EU) to centralize several public health functions. With the European Health Union (EHU) initiative, four reforms have been adopted to strengthen the EU’s health security framework: the extension of the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s mandates, the creation of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, a…
Quiet unity: Salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position
A surprising feature of Brexit has been the united front the EU-27 presented during post-referendum negotiations. This membership crisis arrived when the EU had been facing multiple overlapping political and economic crises revealing deep cleavages both between and within member states. How did negotiations prevent a widening politicisation of European integration? In this article a novel dataset is used, containing national and European newspape…
The tensions of populism in power: A discursive-theoretical analysis of the Catalan secessionist push (2006–2017)
The article explores one of the most under-researched aspects surrounding populism, namely the political logics followed by governing populisms, and more specifically, the transitions of populisms from ‘protest to power’. It does so from a theoretical perspective rooted in the work of Ernesto Laclau. This implies conceiving the relationships between populism and state institutions as governed by distinct types of discursive logics: as different w…
Buffering national welfare states in hard times: The politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain
The EU has traditionally influenced the social and employment policies of Member States through regulation, leaving redistribution to national welfare states. The latter have, however, been gradually weakened by global socioeconomic change and by the expansion of EU market integration. A series of crises over the last 15 years made a bad situation worse: the longue durée erosion of the capacity of European welfare states has morphed into acute so…
In the name of competitiveness: A discursive institutionalist analysis of the EU's approach to labour market structural reform, 2007-2016
This article explores the evolving interplay between different discourses on competitiveness, on the one hand, and different approaches to labour market reform on the other, all in the context of the European Union policymaking during the last decade (2007-2016). It asks how the idea of competitiveness has been used in EU policymaking in order to legitimize reforms in labour markets. Theoretically, the article builds on the discursive turn in ins…
Abolishing politics in the shadow of austerity? Assessing the (De)politicization of budgetary policy in crisis-ridden Spain (2008–2015)
Depoliticization has emerged as a key concept for explaining the legitimation of austerity during the euro crisis: in the face of growing social unrest over their austerity-based crisis management, EU and national policy elites would attempt to remove the political character of economic policy-making, thus insulating budgetary issues from public deliberation and party competition. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the actual success…
European integration, social democratic Europeanism and the competitiveness discourse: A neo-Poulantzian approach to discursive policy analysis
This article addresses the so-called institutional deficit in poststructuralist discourse theory by articulating a recent development of such a theory, the so-called discursive policy analysis as mainly elaborated by David Howarth and Jason Glynos, with neo-Poulantzian state theory, especially as re-worked by Bob Jessop. It then employs the resulting framework for analysing the internal socio-political logic of the European integration process, a…
Policy Change and Partisan Politics: Understanding Family Policy Differentiation in Two Similar Countries
This article looks at how different electoral competition dynamics can result in differentiated party positioning on childcare and family policy. Italy and Spain are compared using a most similar case design. The presence of women in politics, the socioeconomic profiles of the voters of the two main left-wing and right-wing Italian and Spanish parties, and opinions on traditional norms of motherhood explain different policy trajectories and highe…
Beyond populism and institutionalism: Anti‐populism and the management of austerity in Spain
The tensions of populism in power: A discursive-theoretical analysis of the Catalan secessionist push (2006–2017)
The article explores one of the most under-researched aspects surrounding populism, namely the political logics followed by governing populisms, and more specifically, the transitions of populisms from ‘protest to power’. It does so from a theoretical perspective rooted in the work of Ernesto Laclau. This implies conceiving the relationships between populism and state institutions as governed by distinct types of discursive logics: as different w…
Austerity’s failures and policy learning: Mapping European Commission officials’ beliefs on fiscal governance in the post-crisis EU
After an initial phase of firefighting against the euro crisis that began in 2010, one that was characterized by policies that focused on strict austerity, from 2014 onwards the European Commission gradually began to ease its recommendations about fiscal consolidation. Between 2015 and 2016, this policy turn was reflected in series of procedural changes in the European Semester. These gave the Commission a certain degree of discretion in applying…
Debating fiscal solidarity in the EU: Interests, values and identities in the legitimation of the Next Generation EU plan
The article departs from the assumption that issues of member state solidarity, particularly in crisis moments, undergird the stability of the EU by holding the key to its legitimation. Against this background, the article employs the tools of discourse analysis to study how European executives deliberated over the institution of new mechanisms of fiscal solidarity in response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as how they later legi…
Abolishing politics in the shadow of austerity? Assessing the (De)politicization of budgetary policy in crisis-ridden Spain (2008–2015)
Depoliticization has emerged as a key concept for explaining the legitimation of austerity during the euro crisis: in the face of growing social unrest over their austerity-based crisis management, EU and national policy elites would attempt to remove the political character of economic policy-making, thus insulating budgetary issues from public deliberation and party competition. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the actual success…
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the Covid-19 crisis
This article investigates the ‘conflict parabola’ of the negotiations between EU member states during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis reopened the foundational controversy over cross-national solidarity under economic adversities. After a peak of conflict in March–April 2020, the political climate gradually shifted from antagonism to appeasement, creating the conditions necessary for the adoption of the Next Generation EU plan. Building on the …
In the name of competitiveness: A discursive institutionalist analysis of the EU's approach to labour market structural reform, 2007-2016
This article explores the evolving interplay between different discourses on competitiveness, on the one hand, and different approaches to labour market reform on the other, all in the context of the European Union policymaking during the last decade (2007-2016). It asks how the idea of competitiveness has been used in EU policymaking in order to legitimize reforms in labour markets. Theoretically, the article builds on the discursive turn in ins…
Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU? An analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework
The Just Transition Fund was introduced in 2021 as part of the European Union’s Green New Deal and aims to assuage some of the painful social consequences of the green transition. Relying on the Multiple Streams Framework, this article reconstructs the JTF’s institution. It identifies 2018–2019 as a key conjuncture in the European Union when various social, ideational and political preconditions enabling policy innovation converged. Subsequently,…
Responding to the global disorder: The EU's quest for open strategic autonomy
This article traces the emergence of a novel interpretive platform in EU politics, one that understands that an array of post-Great Recession changes in the global political economy are calling for a reassessment of the EU's long-established approach to globalisation. The article argues that this rethinking is organised around the concept of “open strategic autonomy”, by which is meant an endeavour to reduce the EU's external dependencies in a ra…
Buffering national welfare states in hard times: The politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain
The EU has traditionally influenced the social and employment policies of Member States through regulation, leaving redistribution to national welfare states. The latter have, however, been gradually weakened by global socioeconomic change and by the expansion of EU market integration. A series of crises over the last 15 years made a bad situation worse: the longue durée erosion of the capacity of European welfare states has morphed into acute so…
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic pushed the European Union (EU) to centralize several public health functions. With the European Health Union (EHU) initiative, four reforms have been adopted to strengthen the EU’s health security framework: the extension of the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s mandates, the creation of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, a…
The middle-class base of European integration? New class divides and attitudes towards market integration in ten EU countries
Highly educated 'new' middle classes have been identified as a fundamental constituency that, by supporting technological innovation and liberalisation, bolsters the stability of advanced capitalism. By contrast, less educated production workers are usually described as opponents of such policies. This article investigates the extent to which these class divides translate into different positions on support for EU integration, a key process in th…
Back from the Cold? Progressive Politics and Social Policy Paradigms in Southern Europe after the Great Recession
This article examines the programmatic evolution of social democratic parties in Italy, Portugal, and Spain, three countries in which the center-left has governed in the last decade. To do so, the article develops an analytical framework for mapping social and labor market policy reforms and assessing their liberalizing, regularizing, or recalibrating character. In explanatory terms, the article studies the coalitional politics behind social demo…
Money Makes the World Go Round: How Much Difference Do Recovery and Resilience Plans Make to EU Reform Governance
The Next Generation EU (NGEU) package transformed European economic governance. This article examines the implications of this change in terms of EU polity formation and in terms of social policy content. It asks whether the temporary availability of large funds increases the leverage of the Commission in the European Semester and how this innovation affects sensitive policies. In the tradition of Stein Rokkan, the article advances a conception o…
Quiet unity: Salience, politicisation and togetherness in the EU’s Brexit negotiating position
A surprising feature of Brexit has been the united front the EU-27 presented during post-referendum negotiations. This membership crisis arrived when the EU had been facing multiple overlapping political and economic crises revealing deep cleavages both between and within member states. How did negotiations prevent a widening politicisation of European integration? In this article a novel dataset is used, containing national and European newspape…
The short-lived hope for contagion: Brexit in social media communication of the populist right
Brexit was perceived as a Pandora’s box moment by both Eurosceptic and pro-integration parties in the EU, as they expected it would embolden Euroscepticism by providing a paradigm to be followed. This article explores the initial reactions of nine Populist Radical Right parties to Brexit and how they evolved in tandem with the unfolding of negotiations. It also discusses possible reasons for the differentiation in the responses of those parties, …
A Strong Regulator? The EU’s Uneven Regulatory Capacity in Green Industrial Policy
The European Union (EU) has recently re-embraced industrial policy as a central instrument of economic governance, driven in particular by the challenges of climate change and intensifying geopolitical competition. This article examines regulation as a key instrument through which the EU seeks to promote industrial transformation. We conceptualize regulatory industrial policy as operating through three channels—structuring markets, shaping produc…
Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility
This article examines the flexibility of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It asks under what conditions modifications to the original National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) have been accepted by the European Commission and the Council. In theoretical terms, the article revisits the nature of NRRPs as tools of EU economic governance. By drawing on applications of contracting theory to multi-level governance, it argues that NRRPs…
Political science (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · European union (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 works)