Pier Domenico Tortola
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pier Domenico Tortola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pier Domenico |
| FAMILY NAME | Tortola |
| SIGNATURE | TORTOLA P D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4865-572X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mapping the landscape of transnational municipal networks
Abuses of the past by the Italian far right: A first assessment of the Meloni government
Collective memory plays an important part in the ideational and cultural battlegrounds that characterise current European politics. The mobilisation and manipulation of the memory of Nazi-fascism, in particular, is a growing political and academic concern, related to the rise of far right parties throughout the continent and the mainstreaming of their ideas and positions. Focusing on the case of Italy, this article examines three recent examples …
Taking stock of the multilevel governance research programme: A systematic literature review
Multilevel governance (MLG) is one of the most successful ideas in contemporary political scholarship. Coined in the early 1990s by Gary Marks to examine developments in the European Union's regional policy, MLG has since been adopted and further elaborated in numerous publications, which have expanded the concept well beyond its initial context, and afforded it wide currency in academic and policy-making circles. As the term turns thirty, this a…
Historical legacies and the political mobilization of national nostalgia: Understanding populism’s relationship to the past
The goal of this introduction to the special issue is threefold. First, we map a nascent research field on connections between populism and the past and, in so doing, point to gaps in existing work. Second, we develop the contours of an integrated analytical framework that, addressing these gaps, reconstructs the relationship between populism and the past comparatively and on multiple levels. Our approach pays special attention to the interlinked…
Differentiated Cooperation through Local Authority Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
Transnational networks of sub-national authorities are an established and growing phenomenon in Europe, where they perform a number of (soft) governance functions for their members, often in direct connection with European Union (EU) institutions. Differentiation is an inherent characteristic of sub-national authority networks, which is nonetheless still largely unexplored. Building on original empirical data, we identify three dimensions of diff…
Memory politics of the far right in Europe
In recent years, we have seen a significant increase of memory politics among far-right political actors. In public spheres across Europe, discursive repertoires and historical tropes that mythologize the past have been (re)articulated by far-right actors who construe themselves as the true heirs and bearers of national historical traditions and values. This special issue, comprising six research articles on French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Serb…
A “More Political” Commission? Reassessing EC Politicization through Language
This article contributes to the study of the European Commission's (EC) politicization by examining this phenomenon from the angle of communication. We elaborate a novel approach based on two linguistic indicators – charisma and technicality – which we then apply through a content analysis of 8,947 speeches delivered by Commission members between 1999 and 2019. Contrary to the narrative of an ever more political Commission, we find that the lingu…
The power of expertise: Gauging technocracy in EMU reform negotiations
Is the European Union a technocracy? Observers and practitioners of EU politics have debated this deceptively simple question for decades, without arriving at a clear answer. To a large extent, this is due to the elusive nature of technocracy itself, a phenomenon that is hard to define with precision, and even harder to measure empirically. To tackle this problem, the article presents a novel approach to technocracy in the EU based on the study o…
The Politicization of the European Central Bank: What Is It, and How to Study It
The politicization of the European Central Bank (ECB) is a recurrent theme in debates on the EU after the crisis, yet it is one that still suffers from a considerable degree of vagueness. This is unfortunate as it hinders the development of useful discussions on the place and legitimacy of the ECB within Europe's institutional order. To tackle this problem, this article presents a systematic analysis of the concept of ECB politicization and an ag…
Right-wing populism’s (ab)use of the past in Italy and the Netherlands
Historical analysis is increasingly used as a tool in the study of present-day populism in Europe. The past is often explored as a source of analogies through which to examine today’s populism, and at other times in search of causal mechanisms to explain the current populist wave. In this paper we focus on a third kind of link between populism and the past, namely the ways populist movements and leaders use and abuse history and historical memory…
L’(ab)ús del populisme de dretes del passat a Itàlia i els Països Baixos
L’anàlisi històrica s’utilitza cada vegada més com una eina en l’estudi del populisme actual a Europa. El passat sovint s’explora com una font d’analogies per a examinar el populisme del present i altres vegades en busca de mecanismes causals per a explicar l’onada populista actual. En aquest article ens centrem en un tercer tipus de vincle entre el populisme i el passat, és a dir, les formes en què els moviments i líders populistes usen i abusen…
The charismatic leadership of the ECB presidency: A language‐based analysis
There is little doubt that the European Central Bank (ECB), and in particular its presidency, has taken the lead in tackling the euro crisis. But can this leadership be also characterised as charismatic? This article answers the question by focusing on language – a key component as well as a reliable indicator of charisma. By means of a software‐assisted content analysis of the entire corpus of ECB presidential speeches, it is found that the cris…
Clarifying multilevel governance
Despite its widespread use in European studies and beyond, the concept of multilevel governance (MLG) still suffers from a considerable degree of uncertainty as to its precise meaning, which in turn hinders the cumulative development of this research programme. In an attempt to stimulate a systematic methodological discussion of the idea of MLG, this article presents a critical reconstruction of the concept structured around three ‘axes of ambigu…
The Limits of Normalization: Taking Stock of theEU‐USComparative Literature
This article contributes to the research on the normalization ofEuropeanUnion (EU) studies by presenting an analysis and assessment of theEU‐UScomparative literature. Using an original and comprehensive data set of 104 publications, it shows not only that these comparisons have grown considerably since the early 1990s, but also and more interestingly thatEU‐USscholarship itself has increasingly conformed to mainstream political science by becomin…
Federalism, the State, and the City: Explaining “City Welfare” in the United States and the European Union
This article extends United States–European Union (EU) comparative research to the area of grants-in-aid by comparing the evolution of federally funded "city welfare" in the two political systems in light of an original institutionalist theory. I show that while the United States and the EU adopted similar early programs—Model Cities and URBAN—these schemes' instability and their different politico-constitutional setting led to divergence shortly…
Clarifying multilevel governance
Despite its widespread use in European studies and beyond, the concept of multilevel governance (MLG) still suffers from a considerable degree of uncertainty as to its precise meaning, which in turn hinders the cumulative development of this research programme. In an attempt to stimulate a systematic methodological discussion of the idea of MLG, this article presents a critical reconstruction of the concept structured around three ‘axes of ambigu…
Memory politics of the far right in Europe
In recent years, we have seen a significant increase of memory politics among far-right political actors. In public spheres across Europe, discursive repertoires and historical tropes that mythologize the past have been (re)articulated by far-right actors who construe themselves as the true heirs and bearers of national historical traditions and values. This special issue, comprising six research articles on French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Serb…
The charismatic leadership of the ECB presidency: A language‐based analysis
There is little doubt that the European Central Bank (ECB), and in particular its presidency, has taken the lead in tackling the euro crisis. But can this leadership be also characterised as charismatic? This article answers the question by focusing on language – a key component as well as a reliable indicator of charisma. By means of a software‐assisted content analysis of the entire corpus of ECB presidential speeches, it is found that the cris…
The Politicization of the European Central Bank: What Is It, and How to Study It
The politicization of the European Central Bank (ECB) is a recurrent theme in debates on the EU after the crisis, yet it is one that still suffers from a considerable degree of vagueness. This is unfortunate as it hinders the development of useful discussions on the place and legitimacy of the ECB within Europe's institutional order. To tackle this problem, this article presents a systematic analysis of the concept of ECB politicization and an ag…
The Limits of Normalization: Taking Stock of theEU‐USComparative Literature
This article contributes to the research on the normalization ofEuropeanUnion (EU) studies by presenting an analysis and assessment of theEU‐UScomparative literature. Using an original and comprehensive data set of 104 publications, it shows not only that these comparisons have grown considerably since the early 1990s, but also and more interestingly thatEU‐USscholarship itself has increasingly conformed to mainstream political science by becomin…
Historical legacies and the political mobilization of national nostalgia: Understanding populism’s relationship to the past
The goal of this introduction to the special issue is threefold. First, we map a nascent research field on connections between populism and the past and, in so doing, point to gaps in existing work. Second, we develop the contours of an integrated analytical framework that, addressing these gaps, reconstructs the relationship between populism and the past comparatively and on multiple levels. Our approach pays special attention to the interlinked…
A “More Political” Commission? Reassessing EC Politicization through Language
This article contributes to the study of the European Commission's (EC) politicization by examining this phenomenon from the angle of communication. We elaborate a novel approach based on two linguistic indicators – charisma and technicality – which we then apply through a content analysis of 8,947 speeches delivered by Commission members between 1999 and 2019. Contrary to the narrative of an ever more political Commission, we find that the lingu…
The power of expertise: Gauging technocracy in EMU reform negotiations
Is the European Union a technocracy? Observers and practitioners of EU politics have debated this deceptively simple question for decades, without arriving at a clear answer. To a large extent, this is due to the elusive nature of technocracy itself, a phenomenon that is hard to define with precision, and even harder to measure empirically. To tackle this problem, the article presents a novel approach to technocracy in the EU based on the study o…
Federalism, the State, and the City: Explaining “City Welfare” in the United States and the European Union
This article extends United States–European Union (EU) comparative research to the area of grants-in-aid by comparing the evolution of federally funded "city welfare" in the two political systems in light of an original institutionalist theory. I show that while the United States and the EU adopted similar early programs—Model Cities and URBAN—these schemes' instability and their different politico-constitutional setting led to divergence shortly…
Mapping the landscape of transnational municipal networks
Taking stock of the multilevel governance research programme: A systematic literature review
Multilevel governance (MLG) is one of the most successful ideas in contemporary political scholarship. Coined in the early 1990s by Gary Marks to examine developments in the European Union's regional policy, MLG has since been adopted and further elaborated in numerous publications, which have expanded the concept well beyond its initial context, and afforded it wide currency in academic and policy-making circles. As the term turns thirty, this a…
Federalism, the State, and the City: Explaining “City Welfare” in the United States and the European Union
This article extends United States–European Union (EU) comparative research to the area of grants-in-aid by comparing the evolution of federally funded "city welfare" in the two political systems in light of an original institutionalist theory. I show that while the United States and the EU adopted similar early programs—Model Cities and URBAN—these schemes' instability and their different politico-constitutional setting led to divergence shortly…
The Limits of Normalization: Taking Stock of theEU‐USComparative Literature
This article contributes to the research on the normalization ofEuropeanUnion (EU) studies by presenting an analysis and assessment of theEU‐UScomparative literature. Using an original and comprehensive data set of 104 publications, it shows not only that these comparisons have grown considerably since the early 1990s, but also and more interestingly thatEU‐USscholarship itself has increasingly conformed to mainstream political science by becomin…
Clarifying multilevel governance
Despite its widespread use in European studies and beyond, the concept of multilevel governance (MLG) still suffers from a considerable degree of uncertainty as to its precise meaning, which in turn hinders the cumulative development of this research programme. In an attempt to stimulate a systematic methodological discussion of the idea of MLG, this article presents a critical reconstruction of the concept structured around three ‘axes of ambigu…
Right-wing populism’s (ab)use of the past in Italy and the Netherlands
Historical analysis is increasingly used as a tool in the study of present-day populism in Europe. The past is often explored as a source of analogies through which to examine today’s populism, and at other times in search of causal mechanisms to explain the current populist wave. In this paper we focus on a third kind of link between populism and the past, namely the ways populist movements and leaders use and abuse history and historical memory…
L’(ab)ús del populisme de dretes del passat a Itàlia i els Països Baixos
L’anàlisi històrica s’utilitza cada vegada més com una eina en l’estudi del populisme actual a Europa. El passat sovint s’explora com una font d’analogies per a examinar el populisme del present i altres vegades en busca de mecanismes causals per a explicar l’onada populista actual. En aquest article ens centrem en un tercer tipus de vincle entre el populisme i el passat, és a dir, les formes en què els moviments i líders populistes usen i abusen…
The charismatic leadership of the ECB presidency: A language‐based analysis
There is little doubt that the European Central Bank (ECB), and in particular its presidency, has taken the lead in tackling the euro crisis. But can this leadership be also characterised as charismatic? This article answers the question by focusing on language – a key component as well as a reliable indicator of charisma. By means of a software‐assisted content analysis of the entire corpus of ECB presidential speeches, it is found that the cris…
The Politicization of the European Central Bank: What Is It, and How to Study It
The politicization of the European Central Bank (ECB) is a recurrent theme in debates on the EU after the crisis, yet it is one that still suffers from a considerable degree of vagueness. This is unfortunate as it hinders the development of useful discussions on the place and legitimacy of the ECB within Europe's institutional order. To tackle this problem, this article presents a systematic analysis of the concept of ECB politicization and an ag…
The power of expertise: Gauging technocracy in EMU reform negotiations
Is the European Union a technocracy? Observers and practitioners of EU politics have debated this deceptively simple question for decades, without arriving at a clear answer. To a large extent, this is due to the elusive nature of technocracy itself, a phenomenon that is hard to define with precision, and even harder to measure empirically. To tackle this problem, the article presents a novel approach to technocracy in the EU based on the study o…
Differentiated Cooperation through Local Authority Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
Transnational networks of sub-national authorities are an established and growing phenomenon in Europe, where they perform a number of (soft) governance functions for their members, often in direct connection with European Union (EU) institutions. Differentiation is an inherent characteristic of sub-national authority networks, which is nonetheless still largely unexplored. Building on original empirical data, we identify three dimensions of diff…
Memory politics of the far right in Europe
In recent years, we have seen a significant increase of memory politics among far-right political actors. In public spheres across Europe, discursive repertoires and historical tropes that mythologize the past have been (re)articulated by far-right actors who construe themselves as the true heirs and bearers of national historical traditions and values. This special issue, comprising six research articles on French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Serb…
A “More Political” Commission? Reassessing EC Politicization through Language
This article contributes to the study of the European Commission's (EC) politicization by examining this phenomenon from the angle of communication. We elaborate a novel approach based on two linguistic indicators – charisma and technicality – which we then apply through a content analysis of 8,947 speeches delivered by Commission members between 1999 and 2019. Contrary to the narrative of an ever more political Commission, we find that the lingu…
Historical legacies and the political mobilization of national nostalgia: Understanding populism’s relationship to the past
The goal of this introduction to the special issue is threefold. First, we map a nascent research field on connections between populism and the past and, in so doing, point to gaps in existing work. Second, we develop the contours of an integrated analytical framework that, addressing these gaps, reconstructs the relationship between populism and the past comparatively and on multiple levels. Our approach pays special attention to the interlinked…
Abuses of the past by the Italian far right: A first assessment of the Meloni government
Collective memory plays an important part in the ideational and cultural battlegrounds that characterise current European politics. The mobilisation and manipulation of the memory of Nazi-fascism, in particular, is a growing political and academic concern, related to the rise of far right parties throughout the continent and the mainstreaming of their ideas and positions. Focusing on the case of Italy, this article examines three recent examples …
Taking stock of the multilevel governance research programme: A systematic literature review
Multilevel governance (MLG) is one of the most successful ideas in contemporary political scholarship. Coined in the early 1990s by Gary Marks to examine developments in the European Union's regional policy, MLG has since been adopted and further elaborated in numerous publications, which have expanded the concept well beyond its initial context, and afforded it wide currency in academic and policy-making circles. As the term turns thirty, this a…
Mapping the landscape of transnational municipal networks
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