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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Brigid Laffan is affiliated with the European University Institute in Italy and specializes in social sciences with a strong focus on political science and international relations. Their research spans various subfields including finance, law, education, and public administration, with a particular emphasis on European Union policy and governance.

Their major research topics include:

  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • European and International Law Studies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Political Systems and Governance
  • EU Law and Policy Analysis
  • Global Financial Regulation and Crises
  • European Politics and Security

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brigid Laffan include:

  • Stefan Telle
  • Johannes Lindner
  • Paolo Chiocchetti
  • Alfredo De Feo
  • Jane O'Mahoney

Laffan's recent publications cover a range of topics related to European integration, governance, and political developments. Selected papers are:

  • "Collective Power Europe? (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2022)" (2023, Government and Opposition)
  • "Escaping the politics trap: exercising collective power" (2024, Journal of European Public Policy)
  • "External differentiated integration: between stability and change" (2025, West European Politics)
  • "Brexit: What Role did Process Play?" (2022, Global Policy)
  • "Europe's Union in the 21st Century: From Decision Trap to Politics Trap" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Brigid Laffan has also contributed to book publications including:

  • The EU's Response to Brexit (2023, Springer International Publishing)
  • EU financing for next decade: beyond the MFF 2021-2027 and the next generation EU (2020, European University Institute)

Their work has appeared frequently in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Government and Opposition, Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, and Global Policy.

In recognition of their academic contributions, Brigid Laffan was named a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2005.

Best Publications

  • The Politics of Identity and Political Order in Europe

    Brigid Laffan

  • Europe's Experimental Union: Rethinking Integration

    Brigid Laffan;Rory O' Donnell;Michael Smith

  • From policy entrepreneur to policy manager: the challenge facing the European Commission

    Brigid Laffan

  • The finances of the European Union

    Brigid Laffan

  • Introduction: the European Union beyond the polycrisis? Integration and politicization in an age of shifting cleavages

    Jonathan Zeitlin;Francesco Nicoli;Brigid Laffan

  • Integration and co-operation in Europe

    Brigid Laffan

  • The European Union: A Distinctive Model of Internationalisation?

    Brigid Laffan

  • Ireland and the European Union

    Brigid Laffan;Jane O'Mahony

  • The European Union polity: a union of regulative, normative and cognitive pillars

    Brigid Laffan

  • The transformation of European social democracy

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  • Testing Times: The Growing Primacy of Responsibility in the Euro Area

    Brigid Laffan

  • Auditing and accountability in the European Union

    Brigid Laffan

  • Public finances in Europe: fortifying EU economic governance in the shadow of the crisis

    Brigid Laffan;Pierre Schlosser

  • The big budgetary bargains: from negotiation to authority

    Brigid Laffan

  • Europe's union in crisis : tested and contested

    Brigid Laffan

  • Core-periphery Relations in the European Union: Power and Conflict in a Dualist Political Economy

    José M. Magone;Brigid Laffan;Christian Schweiger

  • Becoming a ‘Living Institution’: The Evolution of the European Court of Auditors

    Brigid Laffan

  • Managing Europe from home in Dublin, Athens and Helsinki: A comparative analysis

    Brigid Laffan

  • The EU's Response to Brexit

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  • How the EU27 Came to Be

    Brigid Laffan

  • The Juncker Presidency: The ‘Political Commission’ in Practice

    Hussein Kassim;Brigid Laffan

  • MANAGING EUROPE FROM AN IRISH PERSPECTIVE: CRITICAL JUNCTURES AND THE INCREASING FORMALIZATION OF THE CORE EXECUTIVE IN IRELAND

    Brigid Laffan;Jane O’Mahony

  • Framing the Crisis, Defining the Problems: Decoding the Euro Area Crisis

    Brigid Laffan

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Marks
Gary Marks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan Zeitlin
Jonathan Zeitlin University of Amsterdam
Hussein Kassim
Hussein Kassim University of East Anglia
Liesbet Hooghe
Liesbet Hooghe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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