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Overview

Jacint Jordana is a researcher affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. Within these broader areas, Jordana's research focuses notably on Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management, Development, Finance, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research topics include diverse aspects of governance and regulatory studies. Key themes explored in their publications cover Regulation and Compliance Studies, International Development and Aid, Global Financial Regulation and Crises, Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, European Union Policy and Governance, Public Policy and Administration Research, and Evaluation and Performance Assessment.

Jordana has contributed to several recent papers, addressing topics of public health, European Union policy, and quality assurance in higher education. Some of their recent works include:

  • The Planetary Wellbeing Initiative: Pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education (2021), published in Sustainability
  • Where are the ECDC and the EU-wide responses in the COVID-19 pandemic? (2020), published in The Lancet
  • EU agencies' involvement in transboundary crisis response: Supporting efforts or leading coordination? (2020), published in Public Administration
  • Independence, accountability and responsibilities of quality assurance agencies in higher education: European and Latin American countries compared (2020), published in European Journal of Higher Education
  • The politics of unilateral secession in the European Union: the case of Catalonia (2021), published in Territory Politics Governance

Jordana frequently publishes in journals such as Regulation & Governance, International Review of Public Policy, Sustainability, The Lancet, and Public Administration. Their publications in Regulation & Governance stand out with four contributions, followed by two in International Review of Public Policy.

Regarding collaboration, Jordana has co-authored multiple works with several scholars, including Adam Holesch, Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar, David Levi-Faur, Marie Vandendriessche, and Lewin Schmitt. These collaborations have contributed to their research output in various public policy and governance topics.

Best Publications

  • The politics of regulation : institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance

    Jacint Jordana;David Levi-Faur

  • The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Agencies: Channels of Transfer and Stages of Diffusion

    Jacint Jordana;Jacint Jordana;David Levi-Faur;Xavier Fernández i Marín

  • The Politics of Regulation in the Age of Governance

    Jacint Jordana;David Levi-Faur

  • The Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism in Latin America: Sectoral and National Channels in the Making of a New Order

    Jacint Jordana;David Levi-Faur

  • The rise of regulatory capitalism : the global diffusion of a new order

    David Levi-Faur;Jacint Jordana

  • El análisis de los poticy networks: ¿una nueva perspectiva sobre la relación entre políticas públicas y Estado?

    Jacint Jordana

  • Toward a Latin American Regulatory State? The Diffusion of Autonomous Regulatory Agencies Across Countries and Sectors

    Jacint Jordana;David Levi-Faur

  • Reconsidering union membership in Spain, 1977‐1994: halting decline in a context of democratic consolidation

    Jacint Jordana

  • Instituciones y capital social: ¿qué explica qué?

    Jacint Jordana

  • The Limits of Europeanization: Regulatory Reforms in the Spanish and Portuguese Telecommunications and Electricity Sectors

    Jacint Jordana;Jacint Jordana;David Levi-Faur;Imma Puig

  • Globalizing Regulatory Capitalism

    David Levi-Faur;Jacint Jordana

  • The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Agencies: Channels of Transfer and Stages of Diffusion

    Jacint Jordana;David Levi‐Faur;Xavier Fernández-i-Marín

  • Agency proliferation and the globalization of the regulatory state: Introducing a data set on the institutional features of regulatory agencies

    Jacint Jordana;Jacint Jordana;Xavier Fernández-i-Marín;Andrea C. Bianculli

  • The Planetary Wellbeing Initiative: Pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education

    Josep M. Antó;José Luis Martí;Jaume Casals;Paul Bou-Habib

  • How to achieve full electrification: Lessons from Latin America

    Albert Banal-Estañol;Albert Banal-Estañol;Joan Calzada;Jacint Jordana;Jacint Jordana

  • Governing telecommunications and the new information society in Europe

    Jacint Jordana

  • Delegation, Presidential Regimes, and Latin American Regulatory Agencies

    Jacint Jordana;Carles Ramió

  • Where are the ECDC and the EU-wide responses in the COVID-19 pandemic?

    Jacint Jordana;Jacint Jordana;Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar

  • The Making of a New Regulatory Order

    David Levi-Faur;Jacint Jordana

  • Which Internet Policy? Assessing Regional Initiatives in Spain

    Jacint Jordana;Xavier Fernández;David Sancho;Yanina Welp

  • Transgovernmental networks as regulatory intermediaries: horizontal collaboration and the realities of soft power

    Jacint Jordana

  • Regulatory Capitalism: Policy Irritants and Convergent Divergence

    David Levi-Faur;Jacint Jordana

  • Austerity or welfare state transformation? Examining the impact of economic crises on social regulation in Europe

    Yves Steinebach;Christoph Knill;Jacint Jordana

  • Regulatory Designs, Institutional Constellations and the Study of Regulatory State

    Jacint Jordana;David Sancho

  • When Accountability Meets Regulation

    Jacint Jordana;Andrea C. Bianculli;Xavier Fernández-i-Marín

  • The Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism in Latin America Sectoral and National Channels in the Making of New Order

    Jacint Jordana;David Levi‐Faur

Frequent Co-Authors

David Levi-Faur
David Levi-Faur Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jan Wouters
Jan Wouters KU Leuven
Susana Borrás
Susana Borrás Copenhagen Business School
Carles Boix
Carles Boix Princeton University
Marc Fleurbaey
Marc Fleurbaey Paris School of Economics
Anthony J. Venables
Anthony J. Venables University of Manchester
Alan M. Taylor
Alan M. Taylor University of California, Davis
Simon J. Evenett
Simon J. Evenett IMD Business School
Ricard V. Solé
Ricard V. Solé Pompeu Fabra University
Howard Frumkin
Howard Frumkin University of Washington

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