Jacint Jordana
Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Political and Social Sciences, Faculty Member
Global governance has been widely embraced as an object of analysis and as a way of “seeing” world politics. Yet we still know little about how publishing has evolved. This article presents the first systematic exploration of these... more
Global governance has been widely embraced as an object of analysis and as a way of “seeing” world politics. Yet we still know little about how publishing has evolved. This article presents the first systematic exploration of these patterns. It uses an original dataset of global governance research to answer three first-order questions: How has publishing varied over time? What issues have scholars focused on? And who has been publishing in the field? The authors found that research has grown and become increasingly diverse—but selectively so. Some marginalized issues feature more prominently than in the rest of international relations, but there are blind spots too. Further, while research is less American and women have been comparatively more active relative to other areas, geographical diversity remains extremely limited. Scholars based in the Global South have been the first authors of less than 14 percent of all publications. To conclude, the article reflects on implications for the field.
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Jordana and Rosas explore the different institutional models for the regulation of banks and financial services that exist worldwide. They find, on the one hand, many countries in which central banks have significant responsibilities for... more
Jordana and Rosas explore the different institutional models for the regulation of banks and financial services that exist worldwide. They find, on the one hand, many countries in which central banks have significant responsibilities for the regulation of the banking system, but also, on the other hand, countries where banking regulation is completely separated from the central bank, remaining in the hands of the executive or being delegated to an independent agency without subordination to the central bank. The chapter identifies the distribution of institutional regulatory models around the world, the possibility of path dependence in the choice of these models, and the relationship between these institutional models and the objectives of price stability and bank stability in different economies.
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The principle of making certain bodies independent from government, such as regulatory agencies or central banks, has become popular in a number of contexts over recent decades. As Jacint Jordana and Guillermo Rosas write, the basic... more
The principle of making certain bodies independent from government, such as regulatory agencies or central banks, has become popular in a number of contexts over recent decades. As Jacint Jordana and Guillermo Rosas write, the basic assumption underpinning the principle is that electoral pressures can have a negative effect on decision-making in certain policy areas. However, using evidence from a study of banking regulatory agencies across 81 countries, they illustrate that the benefits of independence depend largely on the political context within a given state. This suggests that while independence can be beneficial in some cases, greater attention should be paid to the individual circumstances within particular countries.
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Zwei Faktoren komplizieren eine Stellungnahme zur von Otto Sundt vorgelegten Kritik am Aufsatz »Fordismus in Spanien«. Erstens erschwert der polemische Ton seines Beitrags eine sachliche Auseinandersetzung. zweitens entbehrt die... more
Zwei Faktoren komplizieren eine Stellungnahme zur von Otto Sundt vorgelegten Kritik am Aufsatz »Fordismus in Spanien«. Erstens erschwert der polemische Ton seines Beitrags eine sachliche Auseinandersetzung. zweitens entbehrt die Argumentation Sundts jeder logischen Stringenz. Die Identifizierung seiner Prämissen und Schlußfolgerungen ist fast unmöglich. Da Sundts Ausführungen eine zentrale konstruktive These sowie innere Konsistenz vermissen lassen, bleibt uns wenig anderes übrig, als nacheinander auf einige der von ihm recht unverbunden thematisierten Probleme einzugehen. Vorher aber erscheint es uns notwendig, einige seiner sachlichen Fehler zu korrigieren. Im Laufe unserer Argumentation werden wir des Öfteren Gelegenheit haben, uns gegen seine wichtigsten Mißdeutungen des kritisierten Aufsatzes zu verwahren.
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... España / coord. por Jacint Jordana Casajuana, David Sancho, 1999, ISBN 84-309-3303-4 , págs. 15-32. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario. Contraseña. Entrar. Mi Dialnet. ...
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Les polítiques de promoció i difusió de la societat de la informació són, en totes les nacions industrials avança-des, un motor de la competitivitat econòmica, com també un incentiu per a la generació d'innovacions adreça-des a... more
Les polítiques de promoció i difusió de la societat de la informació són, en totes les nacions industrials avança-des, un motor de la competitivitat econòmica, com també un incentiu per a la generació d'innovacions adreça-des a millorar l'eficiència administrativa i la qualitat de vida. Per ...
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We live in a time of pressing planetary challenges, many of which threaten catastrophic change to the natural environment and require massive and novel coordinated scientific and societal efforts on an unprecedented scale. Universities... more
We live in a time of pressing planetary challenges, many of which threaten catastrophic change to the natural environment and require massive and novel coordinated scientific and societal efforts on an unprecedented scale. Universities and other academic institutions have the opportunity and responsibility to assume a leading role in an era when the destiny of the planet is precisely in the hands of human beings. Drawing on the Planetary Health project promoted by the Rockefeller Foundation and The Lancet, Pompeu Fabra University launched in 2018 the Planetary Wellbeing Initiative, a long-term institutional strategy also animated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Planetary Wellbeing might be defined as the highest attainable standard of wellbeing for human and non-human beings and their social and natural systems. Developing the potential of these new concepts involves a substantial theoretical and empirical effort in many different fields, all of them inte...
Research Interests: Climate Change, Interdisciplinarity, Higher Education, Political Science, Sustainable Development, and 10 moreGlobal Health, Environmental Ethics, Complexity, Environmental Sustainability, Higher Education Management, Engineering Ethics, Urgency, University Transformation, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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ABSTRACT This contribution examines recent transformation in the institutionalization of a new mode of governance in the field of Higher Education. We identify three characteristics of the institutional design of public Quality Assurance... more
ABSTRACT This contribution examines recent transformation in the institutionalization of a new mode of governance in the field of Higher Education. We identify three characteristics of the institutional design of public Quality Assurance Agencies (QAAs) that operate at the national level in the field of higher education. In order to do so, we examine three de jure dimensions to explore the capabilities of regulatory agencies, based on their legal frameworks: (1) the agency’s capacity to act independently from political principals, specifically, its relationship with the executive; (2) the agency’s accountability towards society and stakeholders ; and, (3) the scope of policy and regulatory responsibilities the agency is granted. In addition, we also explore the role of representativeness and expertise in QAAs decision-making bodies, something particularly relevant in quality assurance. Our empirical analysis is based on formal agencies’ constitutive norms and regulations for more than 40 countries in Europe and Latin America. The analysis introduced allows us to compare the characteristics of these agencies in different higher education policy regimes across Latin America and Europe, and to discuss their variations.
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We analyse the politics of unilateral secession in the European Union (EU), focusing on the Catalan secessionist conflict. Building on a triangulation strategy, within which primary data are cross-...
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This article provides an encompassing analysis of how economic crises affect social regulation. The analysis is based on an innovative dataset that covers policy output changes in 13 European countries over a period of 34 years... more
This article provides an encompassing analysis of how economic crises affect social regulation. The analysis is based on an innovative dataset that covers policy output changes in 13 European countries over a period of 34 years (1980–2013) in the areas of pensions, unemployment, and child benefits. By performing a negative binomial regression analysis, we show that economic crises do matter for social policymaking. Our main empirical finding is that crises impinge on social regulation by opening a window of opportunity that facilitates the dismantling of social policy standards. Yet crisis-induced policy dismantling is restricted to adjustments based on existing policy instruments. We do not find significant variation in policymaking patterns across different macroeconomic conditions for the more structural elements of social policy portfolios, such as the envisaged social policy targets or the policy instruments applied. This suggests that economic crises do not lead to a profound transformation of the welfare state but to austerity.
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El artículo analiza la fase de programación de la política europea de cohesión centrándose en el nivel autonómico de gobierno. Sostiene que los Fondos Estructurales han afectado de manera esencial la configuración de las políticas de... more
El artículo analiza la fase de programación de la política europea de cohesión centrándose en el nivel autonómico de gobierno. Sostiene que los Fondos Estructurales han afectado de manera esencial la configuración de las políticas de desarrollo regional. En particular, la europeización de la política regional en España ha implicado un papel creciente de los gobiernos autonómicos, que han ido adoptando un conjunto de prácticas y procedimientos homogéneos en los procesos de programación e implementación de la política de cohesión. No obstante, la evidencia empírica recogida en las comunidades autónomas de Galicia y de Murcia, en relación con la programación del período financiero 2007-2013 (PORs), prueba la existencia de diferentes configuraciones de la red de política regional que lleva a cabo las tareas de programación. Al mismo tiempo, también las características de capital social de los actores implicados en cada red de política regional presentan diferencias significativas. Estos...
Research Interests: Political Science, Social Capital, Regional development, Policy Networks, Structural Funds, and 9 moreAnalisis Y Gestion De Politicas Publicas, Desarrollo Regional, Capital social, ANALISIS Y GESTION DE LAS POLITICAS PUBLICAS, Fondos Estructurales, Comunidades Autónomas, cohesion policies, gobernanza europea multinivel, and políticas de cohesión
This article explores and elucidates the activities of transnational networks as regulatory intermediaries. Specifically, I examine their role in the regulation of banks, as far as they facilitate exchanges between global regulators... more
This article explores and elucidates the activities of transnational networks as regulatory intermediaries. Specifically, I examine their role in the regulation of banks, as far as they facilitate exchanges between global regulators (GRs)—such as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision or the Financial Stability Board—and local regulators (LRs), such as national regulatory agencies or legislatures. I find that transgovernmental network intermediaries produce benefits both for GRs, which employ them to disseminate their rules; and for LRs, which use them to obtain influence, advice, and information. Networks promote collaborative intermediation horizontally, without compromising sovereignty, and require only soft organizational structures with low operational costs. Network intermediation is a key ingredient in facilitating local regulatory activities and in providing tools and cognitive resources to LRs. Network intermediaries blur the global-local boundary, however, as some of t...
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Within the Southern European social model, Spain stands out because of the absence of a coherent child benefit policy. Spain not only constitutes a remarkable case of policy deactivation in the 1970s and 1980s, but also of a continuous... more
Within the Southern European social model, Spain stands out because of the absence of a coherent child benefit policy. Spain not only constitutes a remarkable case of policy deactivation in the 1970s and 1980s, but also of a continuous series of instable decisions for more than three decades up until the present time. To account for the erratic child benefit policy in Spain since the country’s transition to democracy, this article goes beyond functionalist and institutional explanations. Our main contention is that intra-party configurations, namely different power resources and conflicting preferences about redistributive issues, prevented political parties from holding consistent and stable stances over this policy sector, even when in office. In turn, this triggered a non-decision-making dynamic in the public arena, setting the path for the non-development of child benefit policies in Spain. The argument relies on quantitative data on regulatory changes in child benefits in Spain...
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This article focuses on the policy process stemming from European cohesion policy at the regional level and at its programming stage (which precedes the implementation phase). It aims to explain how the formally introduced EU... more
This article focuses on the policy process stemming from European cohesion policy at the regional level and at its programming stage (which precedes the implementation phase). It aims to explain how the formally introduced EU ‘partnership’ principles and rules work in practice in different political environments. The article argues that externally introduced procedural decision rules have different impacts on effective policymaking processes. In particular, we suggest that the patterns of social capital linkages carried by the actors involved produce different regional policy networks, even though the existing formal rules are similar. Relying on social network analysis as its main methodological tool, the article presents empirical evidence drawn from two similar Spanish regions, identifies the characteristics of the actors’ social capital and compares the structures of the policy networks dealing with the programming tasks in the two regions. Our findings suggest that the structur...
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Tomando como punto de partida la reciente difusión, en numerosos países, de las autoridades reguladoras autónomas o independientes, en este articulo se discute hasta qué punto tales cambios institucionales sugieren la emergencia de un... more
Tomando como punto de partida la reciente difusión, en numerosos países, de las autoridades reguladoras autónomas o independientes, en este articulo se discute hasta qué punto tales cambios institucionales sugieren la emergencia de un nuevo modelo de Estado, de ...
... Autores: Jacint Jordana Casajuana; Localización: Sociología del trabajo, ISSN 0210-8364, Nº 8, 1989-1990 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Regiones industriales en declive) , págs. 31-58. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
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Revista Española de Ciencia Política. Vol. 1. Num. 2, Abril 2000, pp. 187-210 Instituciones y capital social: ¿qué explica qué? Jacint Jordana Existen distintas interpretaciones sobre la relación entre el capital social y las... more
Revista Española de Ciencia Política. Vol. 1. Num. 2, Abril 2000, pp. 187-210 Instituciones y capital social: ¿qué explica qué? Jacint Jordana Existen distintas interpretaciones sobre la relación entre el capital social y las instituciones. En algunos casos, los argumentos defienden ...
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In this working paper, we present the results of a survey completed by 1,004 staff members of 30 international organizations (IO) across six key areas of governance: trade, climate change, development, migration, finance, and security.... more
In this working paper, we present the results of a survey completed by 1,004 staff members of 30 international organizations (IO) across six key areas of governance: trade, climate change, development, migration, finance, and security. The selected organizations also include United Nations (UN) agencies as well as three Directorates-General (DG) of the European Union. Respondents were asked to share their opinions on the main trends shaping the future of global governance. Looking specifically at the 2020–30 decade, we focused our questions on perceptions about the role of IOs in the increasingly complex global governance environments they are involved in. We were also interested in staff members’ perceptions of their own organizations’ internal dynamics and performances, as well as in their perceptions of the main difficulties and problems their organizations face. Overall, the survey reveals that IO staff are sensitive to global trends and challenges, notably climate change, globa...
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We analyse the politics of unilateral secession in the European Union (EU), focusing on the Catalan secessionist conflict. Building on a triangulation strategy, within which primary data are cross-checked through semi-structured expert... more
We analyse the politics of unilateral secession in the European Union (EU), focusing on the Catalan
secessionist conflict. Building on a triangulation strategy, within which primary data are cross-checked
through semi-structured expert interviews, we examine how the involved central state and secessionist
sub-state actor fought for the support of the supranational party within the EU’s multilevel framework.
We make two entrenched contributions. We find that the Spanish government succeeded in securing
the status quo, not only because of its relations within the bigger European party groups and the
benevolent support of EU member states, but also because of the secessionist-restraining nature of the
EU. The EU switched from the position of non-intervention towards one of open support for the central
state government, and as a result it has developed an informal framework which could deter future
unilateral secession intentions.
secessionist conflict. Building on a triangulation strategy, within which primary data are cross-checked
through semi-structured expert interviews, we examine how the involved central state and secessionist
sub-state actor fought for the support of the supranational party within the EU’s multilevel framework.
We make two entrenched contributions. We find that the Spanish government succeeded in securing
the status quo, not only because of its relations within the bigger European party groups and the
benevolent support of EU member states, but also because of the secessionist-restraining nature of the
EU. The EU switched from the position of non-intervention towards one of open support for the central
state government, and as a result it has developed an informal framework which could deter future
unilateral secession intentions.
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Citation: Antó, J.M.; Martí, J.L.; Casals, J.; Bou-Habib, P.; Casal, P.; Fleurbaey, M.; Frumkin, H.; Jiménez-Morales, M.; Jordana, J.; Lancelotti, C.; et al. The Planetary