Master Politics & Society in Europe
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PhD Program in Political Science
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Address: Via Mattioli 10
53100 - SIENA
Tel: +39 0577 235299
Fax: +39 0577 235292
E-mail: circap[at]unisi.it
15 May: New on the shelves: "The Europe of Elites" and "The Europeanization of National Polities?"
14 May: May 15: Seminar on "Turkey between institutional constraints and geopolitical changes"
03 May: Seminar on "Patrimony and participation"
27 Apr: Prof. Luca Verzichelli elected in the Executive Committee of the ECPR
17 Apr: April 17: Seminar on "Assessing the quality of deliberation"
Assistant Professor
Department of History, Law, Political and Social Science
Faculty of Political Science – University of Siena
Via Mattioli, 10 – 53100 SIENA (Italy)
Phone: +39 0577 235429
Fax: +39 0577 235292
E-mail: cavatorto@unisi.it
SHORT CV
Current Position:
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Siena, she teaches EU Political System and Social Policy. She is also a member of the teaching staff of the Master Programme in European Politics (MpIE – Siena) and of the PhD in Political Science – Comparative and European Politics. She is lecturer in the following courses: Institutions of the European Union; Regulation and Cohesion in the EU.
Previous Experiences:
Graduated in Sociology at the University of Rome in 1993.
PhD in Social Theory and Research (University of Rome, 1998).
Research assistant at POLITY – Observatory on Public Policies, Department of Sociology – University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Since 2000, researcher in the pilot project promoted by the Italian Department of Public Administration on the Regulatory reform and the Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA).
Current Interests:
Public policy analysis and European governance. She has worked on the Europeanisation of policy making in Italy, with special emphasis on the following fields: Common fisheries policy, Cohesion policy and structural funds, Environmental policy. Her current projects deal with regulatory reform, participatory law making and impact assessment in the European Union.
Main Publications:
(2008) Le Autorità indipendenti (with La Spina A.) (il Mulino).
(2008) “Dalla sovranità contesa alla governance multilivello”, in Ferrera M. e M. Giuliani (a cura di), Governance e politiche nell’Unione europea (il Mulino).
(2007) “Italy and the Strategy of Political Appointment to the European Union” (con Verzichelli L.), in S. Fabbrini S. e S. Piattoni (Eds.), Italy in the EU. Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity (Rowman & Littlefield).
(2005) Le elites politiche italiane nelle grandi scelte comunitarie (with Fois G.A.), in Cotta M., P. Isernia, L. Verzichelli (Eds), L’Europa in Italia (il Mulino).
(2005) Attuare Maastricht e la politica delle “rigidità flessibili”, in Cotta M., P. Isernia, L. Verzichelli (Eds), L’Europa in Italia (il Mulino).
(2003) The Europeanization of Public Policies: the Case of the Common Fisheries Policy, in Leonardi R. and M. Fedele (Eds), Italy: Politics and Policies (Ashgate).
(2001) La consultazione nell’analisi di impatto della regolazione (co-edited with Antonio La Spina) (Rubbettino)
(2001) L’Unione Europea: molto rumore per nulla?, in Radaelli C.M., L’Analisi di impatto della regolazione in prospettiva comparata (Rubbettino)