Research

Journal articles, book chapters, and other publications by Enrico Borghetto.

This page collects publications by type for easier browsing. Journal articles are listed first, followed by book chapters and other outputs.

Readers interested in current collaborations and funded work may also want to consult the Projects page. A full career overview is available in the CV.

Journal articles

Enrico Borghetto, Luca Manucci, and Derek A. Epp. 2026. “Is the populist Robin Hood a fairy tale? Parliamentary attention to social welfare.” Journal of European Public Policy 33(1): 40–73.

Parliaments
Public Policy
Populism
Democracy
Economic Crisis
2026
10.1080/13501763.2025.2490809

Enrico Borghetto, Lucia Quaglia, and Igor Guardiancich. 2026. “Reform Agendas in National Recovery and Resilience Plans: Partisan Politics and Domestic Usages of Europe.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 64(1): 75–99.

European Union
Italy
Political Parties
Government and Coalitions
Comparative Politics
2026
10.1111/jcms.13738

Eugenio Borgognoni, Igor Guardiancich, Enrico Borghetto, Luca Cabras, and Lucia Quaglia. 2026. “Alignment and asymmetry: European and national crisis governance under the Recovery and Resilience Facility.” Policy and Society 45(1): 71–93.

COVID-19
European Union
Italy
Comparative Politics
2026
10.1093/polsoc/puaf038

Luca Cabras, Enrico Borghetto, Lucia Quaglia, and Igor Guardiancich. 2026. “From criticism to pragmatism? The impact of NGEU funding on party-based Euroscepticism in Italy.” Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 56(2): 79–93.

European Union
Italy
Parliaments
Government and Coalitions
2026
10.1017/ipo.2025.10077

Igor Guardiancich, Mattia Guidi, Enrico Borghetto, and Lucia Quaglia. 2026. “From sanctions to incentives: the impact of NextGenerationEU on the European Semester.” West European Politics 0(0): 1–28.

COVID-19
European Union
2026
10.1080/01402382.2026.2715554

Enrico Borghetto, Marco Improta, and Francesco Marangoni. 2025. “Coalition Politics under Exceptional Exogenous Constraints: The Meloni Government during the EU-Financed Economic Recovery Plan.” South European Society and Politics 30(1): 85–105

Italy
European Union
NGEU
agenda-setting
coalition politics
2025
10.1080/13608746.2024.2413852

Igor Guardiancich, Mattia Guidi, Enrico Borghetto, & Lucia Quaglia (in press). Stronger conditionality for stronger compliance? Analysing the NGEU’s effect on the implementation of European semester recommendations. Journal of European Public Policy

European Union
EU compliance
NGEU
European semester
2025
10.1080/13501763.2025.2502088

Shaun Bevan, Enrico Borghetto, and Henrik Seeberg. 2024. “Do different parties respond to different problems? A comparative study of parliamentary questions across multiple countries.” Journal of European Public Policy 31(7): 1856–1878.

Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Political Representation
Political Parties
Government and Coalitions
2024
10.1080/13501763.2023.2193583

Enrico Borghetto. 2023. “Virtual Parliament in Italy: if not now, when? The debate about a virtual Parliament during the pandemic emergency.” Interdisciplinary Political Studies 9(1): 5–19.

COVID-19
Italy
Parliaments
Digital Politics
2023
10.1285/i20398573v9n1p5

Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Enrico Borghetto, André Freire, and José Ramón Montero. 2022. “Generational and Ideological Gaps in Democratic Support: Seeds of Deconsolidation in Post-Crisis Southern Europe?.” South European Society and Politics 26(2): 133–151.

Italy
Portugal
Government and Coalitions
Democracy
2022
10.1080/13608746.2021.2016245

Derek A. Epp and Enrico Borghetto. 2021. “Legislative agendas during periods of inequality: evidence from Europe and the United States.” Journal of European Public Policy 28(4): 532–550.

Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Government and Coalitions
Public Policy
2021
10.1080/13501763.2020.1734060

Helene Helboe Pedersen and Enrico Borghetto. 2021. “Fighting COVID-19 on Democratic Terms. Parliamentary Functioning in Italy and Denmark during the Pandemic.” Representaiton 57(4): 401–418.

COVID-19
Italy
Parliaments
Government and Coalitions
Democracy
2021
0.1080/00344893.2021.1973546

Enrico Borghetto, José Santana‐Pereira, and André Freire. 2020. “Parliamentary Questions as an Instrument for Geographic Representation: The Hard Case of Portugal.” Swiss Political Science Review 26(1): 10–30.

Portugal
Parliaments
Political Representation
Public Policy
2020
10.1111/spsr.12387

Enrico Borghetto, Julie Sevenans, and Emiliano Grossman. 2020. “Parliament’s (lack of) agenda-setting power over the executive decision agenda: evidence from Belgium, France and Portugal.” Revista de Administração Pública 54: 1588–1612.

Portugal
Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Government and Coalitions
Democracy
2020
10.1590/0034-761220190352x

Enrico Borghetto and Ana Maria Belchior. 2020. “Party Manifestos, Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda.” Political Studies 68(1): 37–53.

Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Government and Coalitions
2020
10.1177/0032321718820738

Enrico Borghetto and Federico Russo. 2018. “From agenda setters to agenda takers? The determinants of party issue attention in times of crisis.” Party Politics 24(1): 65–77.

Italy
Portugal
Parliaments
Political Representation
Democracy
2018
10.1177/1354068817740757

Enrico Borghetto. 2018. “Challenger parties in Parliament: the case of the Italian Five Star Movement.” Italian Political Science 13(3): 19–32.

Italy
Parliaments
Political Representation
2018

Enrico Borghetto. 2018. “Delegated decree authority in a parliamentary system: the exercise of legislative delegation in Italy (1987–2013).” The Journal of Legislative Studies 24(2): 179–196.

Italy
Parliaments
Government and Coalitions
2018
10.1080/13572334.2018.1439441

Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, and Federico Russo. 2018. “Policy agendas in Italy: introduction to the special issue.” Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 48(3): 265–274.

Italy
Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Political Parties
Government and Coalitions
2018
10.1017/ipo.2018.17

Enrico Borghetto and Marco Lisi. 2018. “Productivity and Reselection in a Party-based Environment: Evidence from the Portuguese Case.” Parliamentary Affairs 71(4): 868–887.

Portugal
Parliaments
Political Representation
2018
10.1093/pa/gsx051

Marcello Carammia, Enrico Borghetto, and Shaun Bevan. 2018. “Changing the transmission belt: the programme-to-policy link in Italy between the First and Second Republic.” Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 48(3): 275–288.

Italy
Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Political Representation
Government and Coalitions
2018
10.1017/ipo.2018.13

Marco Lisi and Enrico Borghetto. 2018. “Populism, Blame Shifting and the Crisis: Discourse Strategies in Portuguese Political Parties.” South European Society and Politics 23(4): 405–427.

Portugal
Political Parties
Populism
2018
10.1080/13608746.2018.1558606

Enrico Borghetto, Francesco Visconti, and Marco Michieli. 2017. “Government Agenda-Setting in Italian Coalitions. Testing the «Partisan Hypothesis» Using Italian Investiture Speeches 1979- 2014.” Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche(2/2017): 193–220.

Italy
Agenda-Setting
Political Parties
Government and Coalitions
2017
10.1483/87214

Enrico Borghetto. 2015. “Challenging Italian centralism through the vertical shift of competences to the subnational and supranational levels.” Contemporary Italian Politics 7(1): 58–75.

European Union
Italy
Democracy
2015
10.1080/23248823.2014.1002260

Borghetto, Enrico. 2015. “Challenging Italian Centralism through the Vertical Shift of Competences to the Subnational and Supranational Levels.” Contemporary Italian Politics 7(1): 58–75. doi:10.1080/23248823.2014.1002260.

European Union
subnational politics
Italy
2015
10.1080/23248823.2014.1002260

Enrico Borghetto and Lars Mäder. 2014. “EU law revisions and legislative drift.” European Union Politics 15(2): 171–191.

European Union
Parliaments
2014
10.1177/1465116513513345

Enrico Borghetto. 2014. “Legislative processes as sequences: exploring temporal trajectories of Italian law-making by means of sequence analysis.” International Review of Administrative Sciences 80(3): 553–576.

Italy
Parliaments
2014
10.1177/0020852313517996

Enrico Borghetto and Marco Giuliani. 2012. “A Long Way to Tipperary: Time in the Italian Legislative Process 1987–2008.” South European Society and Politics 17(1): 23–44.

Italy
Parliaments
Comparative Politics
2012
10.1080/13608746.2012.654619

Enrico Borghetto and Marcello Carammia. 2010. “The comparative analysis of policy agendas: the Comparative Agendas Project.” Rivista italiana di scienza politica(2/2010).

Italy
Agenda-Setting
Comparative Politics
2010
10.1426/32331

Enrico Borghetto and Fabio Franchino. 2010. “The role of subnational authorities in the implementation of EU directives.” Journal of European Public Policy 17(6): 759–780.

European Union
Government and Coalitions
Public Policy
2010
10.1080/13501763.2010.486972

Enrico Borghetto & Marcello Carammia (2010). L’analisi comparata delle agende politiche: il Comparative Agendas Project. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2(Agosto 2010), 301–315.

agenda-setting
comparative politics
public policy
Italy
2010

Enrico Borghetto, Marco Giuliani, and Francesco Zucchini. 2009. “Quanta Bruxelles c’è a Roma? L’europeizzazione della produzione normativa italiana.” Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche(1/2009): 135–162.

European Union
Italy
2009
10.1483/29153

Enrico Borghetto, Fabio Franchino, and Daniela Giannetti. 2006. “Complying with the transposition deadlines of EU directives. Evidence from Italy.” Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche(1/2006): 7–38.

European Union
Italy
Parliaments
Government and Coalitions
2006
10.1483/21752
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Book chapters

Enrico Borghetto and Francesco Marangoni. 2022. “La capacità del governo in Italia: un rafforzamento incompiuto.” In Il sistema politico Italiano: cittadini, attori e istituzioni, edited by Gianfranco Baldini and Andrea Pritoni, pp. 231–156. Milano: Mondadori.

Italy
2022

Shaun Bevan, Enrico Borghetto, and Henrik Seeberg. 2021. “The politics of parliamentary agenda-setting styles.” In The Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles, edited by Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun, pp. 244–256. Routledge.

Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Political Parties
Government and Coalitions
Comparative Politics
2021

Enrico Borghetto and Marco Lisi. 2020. “Legislative Activities before and after the Great Recession: An Analysis of Unemployment and Social Welfare Issues.” In Political Representation and Citizenship in Portugal, edited by Marco Lisi, André Freire, and Emmanouil Tsatsanis, pp. 173–191. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

Portugal
Parliaments
Political Representation
Public Policy
Economic Crisis
2020

Enrico Borghetto and Laura Chaques-Bonafont. 2019. “Parliamentary Questions.” In Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman, pp. 282–299. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Public Policy
Comparative Politics
2019

Ana Maria Belchior and Enrico Borghetto. 2019. “The Portuguese Policy Agendas Project.” In Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman, pp. 145–151. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Portugal
Agenda-Setting
Public Policy
Comparative Politics
2019

Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, and Federico Russo. 2019. “The Italian Agendas Project.” In Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, edited by Frank Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman, pp. 120–128. Oxford University Press.

Italy
Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
Government and Coalitions
Populism
2019

Marcello Carammia, Enrico Borghetto, and Maria Sousa Galito. 2019. “A Agenda do Conselho Europeu face às Crises.” In O estado da União Europeia: : Da(s) Crise(s) à Mudança?, edited by Isabel Camisão and Ana Paula Brandão, pp. 23–42. Lisboa: Petrony.

Political Science
2019

Belchior, Ana Maria, and Enrico Borghetto. 2019. “The Portuguese Policy Agendas Project.” In Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data, eds. Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 145–51

Portugal
agenda-setting
party politics
comparative politics
lawmaking
2019

Ivan Koprić, Eva Marin Hlynsdóttir, Jasmina Džinić, and Enrico Borghetto. 2018. “Institutional environments and mayors’ role perceptions.” In Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy: The European Mayor, edited by Hubert Heinelt, Annick Magnier, Marcello Cabria, and Herwig Reynaert, pp. 149–173. Palgrave Macmillan.

Government and Coalitions
Democracy
Comparative Politics
2018

Enrico Borghetto and Francesco Visconti. 2015. “Governing by revising. A study on post-enactment policy change in Italy.” In The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian case, edited by Nicolò Conti and Francesco Marangoni, pp. 106–127. Abingdon: Routledge.

Italy
Government and Coalitions
2015

Enrico Borghetto and Marcello Carammia. 2015. “Party Priorities, Government Formation, and the Making of the Executive Agenda.” In The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian case, edited by Nicolò Conti and Francesco Marangoni, pp. 36–57. Abingdon: Routledge.

Italy
Government and Coalitions
2015

Enrico Borghetto. 2015. “Questioning the Government in Time of Crisis. An Analysis of Question Time in Spain.” In Aftermath. Political and urban consequences of the euro crisis, edited by Jenny Preunkert, Luis Baptista, and Georg Vobruba, pp. 91–116. Lisbon: Edições Colibri.

Government and Coalitions
2015

Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, and Francesco Zucchini. 2014. “The Impact of Party Policy Priorities on Italian Law-Making from the First to the Second Republic (1983-2006).” In Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems, edited by Stefaan Walgrave and Christoffer Green-Pedersen, pp. 164–182. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Italy
Parliaments
Agenda-Setting
2014

Enrico Borghetto, Luigi Curini, Marco Giuliani, Alessandro Pellegata, and Francesco Zucchini. 2012. “Italian Law-Making Archive: A new tool for the analysis of the Italian legislative process.” Rivista italiana di scienza politica(3/2012): 481–502.

Italy
Parliaments
Government and Coalitions
2012

Enrico Borghetto, Marco Giuliani, and Francesco Zucchini. 2012. “Leading governments and unwilling legislators. The European Union and the Italian Law making (1987-2006).” In The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures, edited by Sylvain Brouard, Olivier Costa, and Thomas König, pp. 109–130. New York: Springer.

European Union
Italy
Parliaments
Government and Coalitions
2012
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Other publications

Enrico Borghetto. 2025. “Tra interferenze nei processi democratici e regolamentazione: il costituzionalismo digitale di Balaguer.” In La Constitución del algoritmo. Recensiones, presentaciones y entrevistas, pp. 97–102. Zaragoza: Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad.

Democracy
Digital Politics
2025

Enrico Borghetto. 2023. “EU Talks. Dialoghi sul futuro dell’Europa.” In Una Unione di Cittadini. La costruzione della cittadinanza europea attraverso la partecipazione e la formazione., edited by Adelina Adinolfi and Nicole Lazzerini, pp. 115–118. Giappichelli.

European Union
2023

Enrico Borghetto. 2021. “L’intervento parlamentare nel processo di conversione dei decreti-legge”pandemici.” Il Filangieri Quaderno 2020: 13–27.

COVID-19
2021

Enrico Borghetto. 2019. “Review”Ensaios de Política Comparada de Giovanni Sartori.” Analise Social 233(4): 899–902.

Political Science
2019

Enrico Borghetto. 2018. “Anti-Populismo.” In Dicionário dos Antis: A cultura Portuguesa em negativo, edited by José Eduardo Franco, pp. 1482–1485. Lisbon: INCM – Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda.

Populism
2018

Enrico Borghetto. 2016. “Review”Crise Económica, Políticas de Austeridade e Representação Política”, Lisboa, Assembleia da República – Divisão de edições, 2015.” Analise Social 219: 462–466.

Political Science
2016

Enrico Borghetto. 2013. “Keeping the pace with Europe: Non-compliance with the transposition deadline of EU directives in the Italian case.” Novi Ligure: Epoke Edizioni.

European Union
Italy
2013
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