Marta Migliorati
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Migliorati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Migliorati |
| SIGNATURE | MIGLIORATI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hertie School |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5091-8010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
When Compromise Becomes Standoff: Joint Implementation and the Case of the European Public Prosecutor's Office
This article explores endogenous problems of joint implementation in multi‐level systems. Focusing on the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), we theorize a causal mechanism of conflict deferral, whereby contentious negotiations are resolved through deliberately ambiguous legislation that postpones conflict to the implementation stage. Under conditions of joint implementation, where multiple authorities exercise interdependent enforcement …
Still second order? The 2024 European Parliament election in Malta
This article examines the fifth European Parliament election since Malta joined the European Union through the lens of second-order election (SOE) theory. Drawing on party manifestoes, media, citizens’ priorities, electoral results, and preference transfers under single transferable vote system, we assess the extent to which the campaign and outcomes were shaped by domestic rather than European political dynamics. Campaign debates and media cover…
Identifying delegation and constraints in legislative texts: A computational method applied to the European Union
We introduce a computational method for identifying delegating and constraining provisions in European Union (EU) laws. Leveraging the syntactic structures employed by legislators, we developed a set of extraction rules applied through a custom-built computational linguistics pipeline. We run through the pipeline more than 600,000 legal sentences that we extracted from 9319 laws adopted between 1958 and 2019. The application performs very well vi…
Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union
Although parliamentary questions are an essential tool of legislative oversight, there is limited research on their variation in holding governments accountable. In this article, we analyse a new dataset of 1393 oral questions posed by Members of the European Parliament during the 8 th parliamentary term. After distinguishing between questions asking for information, justification, or rectification of conduct, we explain their variation in connec…
Differentiated participation, uniform procedures: EU agencies in direct policy implementation
European Union (EU) institutions have become increasingly involved in direct policy implementation in the member states, creating a new domain of differentiation in EU governance. What brings about such differentiation, and how does it vary across policy fields? Drawing on theories of differentiated integration, this article argues that differentiated implementation occurs at the intersection of postfunctional obstacles (politicisation) and funct…
New Nordic pathways? Explaining Nordic countries’ defence policy choices in the wake of the Ukrainian war
In May 2022 Finland and Sweden took the historical decision to apply for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). One month later, after a three-decade long opt-out, Denmark voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to join the European Union (EU) common defence policy (CSDP). Combining organised hypocrisy with post-functionalism, the article focuses on the normative and pragmatic concerns underlying states' interaction with intern…
Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning
Scholars employ two main measures of the executive constraints embedded in European Union laws: one is based on the variation in the use of different types of restrictions, and the second is based on the frequency of such use. They reflect two alternative conceptualizations of bureaucratic control. We label them, respectively, as the “toolbox perspective” and the “design perspective”. We illustrate that the constraint frequency measure poses fewe…
Between Ideology and Nationality: Drivers of Legislative Oversight in the European Parliament's Economic Dialogues
What drives the behaviour of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in legislative oversight? In this article, we explore the interplay between the ideology and nationality of MEPs in policy fields where the two dimensions are likely to come into conflict. Focusing on EU socio‐economic governance, we collect an original dataset of parliamentary questions asked during the Economic Dialogues with the European Commission (2012–2019). By means of …
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers
What are the policy consequences of constitutional differentiation in core state powers? We argue that the most important consequence is not necessarily the exclusion of the constitutional outs from the policies of the ins, but their reintegration by different means. The outs often have strong functional and political incentives to re-join the policies they opted out from, and the ins have good reasons to help them back in. We develop a theoretic…
When politicization meets ideology: The European Parliament and free trade agreements
Since the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament (EP) has considerably increased its competencies in European Union (EU) trade policy. At the same time, a ‘new generation’ of free trade agreements (FTAs), including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the United States, Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada, and the agreement with Japan, have been negotiated by the European Commission. Although ex…
Postfunctional differentiation, functional reintegration: The Danish case in Justice and Home Affairs
Previous research shows that Differentiated Integration (DI) in areas of core state powers works according to a postfunctional logic, in response to concerns about national autonomy and sovereignty. Against this backdrop, scholars usually expect that the policies and practices ensuing from formal DI are equally differentiated. This article presents theoretical and empirical evidence to suggest otherwise. It argues that, while postfunctionalism ex…
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks
This article problematises the proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies with operational tasks as a new phenomenon capturing the exercise of joint sovereignty in European integration. While joint decision-making has been a feature of EU politics for decades, joint sovereignty is a broader category that additionally involves the creation of EU bodies able to intervene ‘on the ground’ alongside national public actors. We argue that the choice …
Where does implementation lie? Assessing the determinants of delegation and discretion in post-Maastricht European Union
Drawing on a principal–agent framework the article analyses the European Union (EU) politics of delegation in the post-Maastricht era. By means of statistical analysis, it tests the impact of several variables upon the selection of national and supranational agents, as well as on the discretion they enjoy, on the basis of a recently collected data set of EU laws. Findings reveal that pooling and policy complexity favour the involvement of suprana…
Expertise, politics and public opinion at the crossroads of the European Commission’s decision-making: The case of Glyphosate
With the growing politicisation of European Union (EU) integration, the European Commission is increasingly facing a tension between technocratic and responsive decision-making. How does this tension play out in the process of supranational implementation under comitology rules? We argue that the tension between the Commission ́s role as a technocrat and as a responsive bureaucrat takes place during the implementation process when the issue at st…
The Post‐agencification Stage between Reforms and Crises. A Comparative Assessment of EU agencies' Budgetary Development
The proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies, known as ‘agencification’, has been widely studied by scholars of EU governance. In spite of the success in explaining the roots of agencies' establishment, evidence is lacking about their development over time: have they been empowered through new resources, or have their capabilities remained the same? Which EU agencies grew the most, and why? Ultimately, how much do policymakers value these bo…
Relying on agencies in major European Union legislative measures
Over the past 30 years European Union legislators have established 34 agencies invested with a wide array of executive tasks. How significant are these new institutions in the implementation of major EU measures? This article extends our understanding of delegation dynamics in the EU by offering original empirical evidence about the reliance of EU legislators upon EU-level bureaucratic agents beyond the Commission. After introducing a new longitu…
Postfunctional differentiation, functional reintegration: The Danish case in Justice and Home Affairs
Previous research shows that Differentiated Integration (DI) in areas of core state powers works according to a postfunctional logic, in response to concerns about national autonomy and sovereignty. Against this backdrop, scholars usually expect that the policies and practices ensuing from formal DI are equally differentiated. This article presents theoretical and empirical evidence to suggest otherwise. It argues that, while postfunctionalism ex…
New Nordic pathways? Explaining Nordic countries’ defence policy choices in the wake of the Ukrainian war
In May 2022 Finland and Sweden took the historical decision to apply for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). One month later, after a three-decade long opt-out, Denmark voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to join the European Union (EU) common defence policy (CSDP). Combining organised hypocrisy with post-functionalism, the article focuses on the normative and pragmatic concerns underlying states' interaction with intern…
Where does implementation lie? Assessing the determinants of delegation and discretion in post-Maastricht European Union
Drawing on a principal–agent framework the article analyses the European Union (EU) politics of delegation in the post-Maastricht era. By means of statistical analysis, it tests the impact of several variables upon the selection of national and supranational agents, as well as on the discretion they enjoy, on the basis of a recently collected data set of EU laws. Findings reveal that pooling and policy complexity favour the involvement of suprana…
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers
What are the policy consequences of constitutional differentiation in core state powers? We argue that the most important consequence is not necessarily the exclusion of the constitutional outs from the policies of the ins, but their reintegration by different means. The outs often have strong functional and political incentives to re-join the policies they opted out from, and the ins have good reasons to help them back in. We develop a theoretic…
The Post‐agencification Stage between Reforms and Crises. A Comparative Assessment of EU agencies' Budgetary Development
The proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies, known as ‘agencification’, has been widely studied by scholars of EU governance. In spite of the success in explaining the roots of agencies' establishment, evidence is lacking about their development over time: have they been empowered through new resources, or have their capabilities remained the same? Which EU agencies grew the most, and why? Ultimately, how much do policymakers value these bo…
Relying on agencies in major European Union legislative measures
Over the past 30 years European Union legislators have established 34 agencies invested with a wide array of executive tasks. How significant are these new institutions in the implementation of major EU measures? This article extends our understanding of delegation dynamics in the EU by offering original empirical evidence about the reliance of EU legislators upon EU-level bureaucratic agents beyond the Commission. After introducing a new longitu…
When politicization meets ideology: The European Parliament and free trade agreements
Since the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament (EP) has considerably increased its competencies in European Union (EU) trade policy. At the same time, a ‘new generation’ of free trade agreements (FTAs), including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the United States, Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada, and the agreement with Japan, have been negotiated by the European Commission. Although ex…
Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union
Although parliamentary questions are an essential tool of legislative oversight, there is limited research on their variation in holding governments accountable. In this article, we analyse a new dataset of 1393 oral questions posed by Members of the European Parliament during the 8 th parliamentary term. After distinguishing between questions asking for information, justification, or rectification of conduct, we explain their variation in connec…
Between Ideology and Nationality: Drivers of Legislative Oversight in the European Parliament's Economic Dialogues
What drives the behaviour of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in legislative oversight? In this article, we explore the interplay between the ideology and nationality of MEPs in policy fields where the two dimensions are likely to come into conflict. Focusing on EU socio‐economic governance, we collect an original dataset of parliamentary questions asked during the Economic Dialogues with the European Commission (2012–2019). By means of …
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks
This article problematises the proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies with operational tasks as a new phenomenon capturing the exercise of joint sovereignty in European integration. While joint decision-making has been a feature of EU politics for decades, joint sovereignty is a broader category that additionally involves the creation of EU bodies able to intervene ‘on the ground’ alongside national public actors. We argue that the choice …
Expertise, politics and public opinion at the crossroads of the European Commission’s decision-making: The case of Glyphosate
With the growing politicisation of European Union (EU) integration, the European Commission is increasingly facing a tension between technocratic and responsive decision-making. How does this tension play out in the process of supranational implementation under comitology rules? We argue that the tension between the Commission ́s role as a technocrat and as a responsive bureaucrat takes place during the implementation process when the issue at st…
Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning
Scholars employ two main measures of the executive constraints embedded in European Union laws: one is based on the variation in the use of different types of restrictions, and the second is based on the frequency of such use. They reflect two alternative conceptualizations of bureaucratic control. We label them, respectively, as the “toolbox perspective” and the “design perspective”. We illustrate that the constraint frequency measure poses fewe…
Differentiated participation, uniform procedures: EU agencies in direct policy implementation
European Union (EU) institutions have become increasingly involved in direct policy implementation in the member states, creating a new domain of differentiation in EU governance. What brings about such differentiation, and how does it vary across policy fields? Drawing on theories of differentiated integration, this article argues that differentiated implementation occurs at the intersection of postfunctional obstacles (politicisation) and funct…
Relying on agencies in major European Union legislative measures
Over the past 30 years European Union legislators have established 34 agencies invested with a wide array of executive tasks. How significant are these new institutions in the implementation of major EU measures? This article extends our understanding of delegation dynamics in the EU by offering original empirical evidence about the reliance of EU legislators upon EU-level bureaucratic agents beyond the Commission. After introducing a new longitu…
Expertise, politics and public opinion at the crossroads of the European Commission’s decision-making: The case of Glyphosate
With the growing politicisation of European Union (EU) integration, the European Commission is increasingly facing a tension between technocratic and responsive decision-making. How does this tension play out in the process of supranational implementation under comitology rules? We argue that the tension between the Commission ́s role as a technocrat and as a responsive bureaucrat takes place during the implementation process when the issue at st…
The Post‐agencification Stage between Reforms and Crises. A Comparative Assessment of EU agencies' Budgetary Development
The proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies, known as ‘agencification’, has been widely studied by scholars of EU governance. In spite of the success in explaining the roots of agencies' establishment, evidence is lacking about their development over time: have they been empowered through new resources, or have their capabilities remained the same? Which EU agencies grew the most, and why? Ultimately, how much do policymakers value these bo…
Where does implementation lie? Assessing the determinants of delegation and discretion in post-Maastricht European Union
Drawing on a principal–agent framework the article analyses the European Union (EU) politics of delegation in the post-Maastricht era. By means of statistical analysis, it tests the impact of several variables upon the selection of national and supranational agents, as well as on the discretion they enjoy, on the basis of a recently collected data set of EU laws. Findings reveal that pooling and policy complexity favour the involvement of suprana…
When politicization meets ideology: The European Parliament and free trade agreements
Since the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament (EP) has considerably increased its competencies in European Union (EU) trade policy. At the same time, a ‘new generation’ of free trade agreements (FTAs), including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the United States, Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada, and the agreement with Japan, have been negotiated by the European Commission. Although ex…
Postfunctional differentiation, functional reintegration: The Danish case in Justice and Home Affairs
Previous research shows that Differentiated Integration (DI) in areas of core state powers works according to a postfunctional logic, in response to concerns about national autonomy and sovereignty. Against this backdrop, scholars usually expect that the policies and practices ensuing from formal DI are equally differentiated. This article presents theoretical and empirical evidence to suggest otherwise. It argues that, while postfunctionalism ex…
Opening Pandora’s Box? Joint Sovereignty and the Rise of EU Agencies with Operational Tasks
This article problematises the proliferation of European Union (EU) agencies with operational tasks as a new phenomenon capturing the exercise of joint sovereignty in European integration. While joint decision-making has been a feature of EU politics for decades, joint sovereignty is a broader category that additionally involves the creation of EU bodies able to intervene ‘on the ground’ alongside national public actors. We argue that the choice …
Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning
Scholars employ two main measures of the executive constraints embedded in European Union laws: one is based on the variation in the use of different types of restrictions, and the second is based on the frequency of such use. They reflect two alternative conceptualizations of bureaucratic control. We label them, respectively, as the “toolbox perspective” and the “design perspective”. We illustrate that the constraint frequency measure poses fewe…
Between Ideology and Nationality: Drivers of Legislative Oversight in the European Parliament's Economic Dialogues
What drives the behaviour of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in legislative oversight? In this article, we explore the interplay between the ideology and nationality of MEPs in policy fields where the two dimensions are likely to come into conflict. Focusing on EU socio‐economic governance, we collect an original dataset of parliamentary questions asked during the Economic Dialogues with the European Commission (2012–2019). By means of …
Differentiated integration as symbolic politics? Constitutional differentiation and policy reintegration in core state powers
What are the policy consequences of constitutional differentiation in core state powers? We argue that the most important consequence is not necessarily the exclusion of the constitutional outs from the policies of the ins, but their reintegration by different means. The outs often have strong functional and political incentives to re-join the policies they opted out from, and the ins have good reasons to help them back in. We develop a theoretic…
Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union
Although parliamentary questions are an essential tool of legislative oversight, there is limited research on their variation in holding governments accountable. In this article, we analyse a new dataset of 1393 oral questions posed by Members of the European Parliament during the 8 th parliamentary term. After distinguishing between questions asking for information, justification, or rectification of conduct, we explain their variation in connec…
Differentiated participation, uniform procedures: EU agencies in direct policy implementation
European Union (EU) institutions have become increasingly involved in direct policy implementation in the member states, creating a new domain of differentiation in EU governance. What brings about such differentiation, and how does it vary across policy fields? Drawing on theories of differentiated integration, this article argues that differentiated implementation occurs at the intersection of postfunctional obstacles (politicisation) and funct…
New Nordic pathways? Explaining Nordic countries’ defence policy choices in the wake of the Ukrainian war
In May 2022 Finland and Sweden took the historical decision to apply for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). One month later, after a three-decade long opt-out, Denmark voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to join the European Union (EU) common defence policy (CSDP). Combining organised hypocrisy with post-functionalism, the article focuses on the normative and pragmatic concerns underlying states' interaction with intern…
When Compromise Becomes Standoff: Joint Implementation and the Case of the European Public Prosecutor's Office
This article explores endogenous problems of joint implementation in multi‐level systems. Focusing on the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), we theorize a causal mechanism of conflict deferral, whereby contentious negotiations are resolved through deliberately ambiguous legislation that postpones conflict to the implementation stage. Under conditions of joint implementation, where multiple authorities exercise interdependent enforcement …
Still second order? The 2024 European Parliament election in Malta
This article examines the fifth European Parliament election since Malta joined the European Union through the lens of second-order election (SOE) theory. Drawing on party manifestoes, media, citizens’ priorities, electoral results, and preference transfers under single transferable vote system, we assess the extent to which the campaign and outcomes were shaped by domestic rather than European political dynamics. Campaign debates and media cover…
Identifying delegation and constraints in legislative texts: A computational method applied to the European Union
We introduce a computational method for identifying delegating and constraining provisions in European Union (EU) laws. Leveraging the syntactic structures employed by legislators, we developed a set of extraction rules applied through a custom-built computational linguistics pipeline. We run through the pipeline more than 600,000 legal sentences that we extracted from 9319 laws adopted between 1958 and 2019. The application performs very well vi…
Economics (13 works) · European union (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Public Administration (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works)