Alberta M. Sbragia

University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, 2010-present

Inaugural Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair, 2006-2010 Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, 2005-present UCIS Research Professor Director, European Union Center of Excellence European Studies Center, 1984-2010 Professor, Department of Political Science, 1974-present

Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, MA Visiting Associate Professor, 1983-1984

EDUCATION

Graduate

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1969-1974 MA 1971; PhD 1974 Fulbright Fellow, Italy, 1972-1973

Undergraduate Holy Names College, Oakland, CA, 1965-1967, 1968-1969 BA 1969 Université de Paris (Sorbonne), Paris, 1967-1968 PUBLICATIONS Books Under Contract: The Rise of Regions: The EU, NAFTA, and the Developing World (tentative title), CQ Press. Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, US Federalism, and Economic Development, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Nominated as one of the best books of 1996 APSA's Urban Politics Section 1996 Best Book Committee. Sections reprinted in

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Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr., ed., American Intergovernmental Relations: Foundations, Perspectives, and Issues, 3rd edition, Washington: CQ Press, 2000, pp. 217-228. Euro-Politics: Politics and Policymaking in the ‘New’ European Community, edited book, Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1992.

Two chapters therein: “Introduction,” pp. 1-22. “Thinking about the European Future: The Uses of Comparison,” pp. 257-291 The Municipal Money Chase: The Politics of Local Government Finance, edited book, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983.

Two chapters therein: “The 1970s: A Decade of Change in Local Government Finance,” pp. 9-35. “Politics, Local Government, and the Municipal Bond Market,” pp. 67-111.

Chapters and Articles “The Treaty of Nice,” The Oxford Handbook of the European Union, Anand Menon, Erik Jones, and Stephen Weatherill, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012. “Key Policies” (with Francesco Stolfi), Elizabeth Bomberg, John Peterson, and Richard Corbett, eds., The European Union: How Does It Work? 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2012. “The European Union: A New Form of Governance,” in The Ashgate Research Companion to Regionalisms, Timothy M. Shaw, J. Andrew Grant, and Scarlett Cornelissen, eds., London: Ashgate, 2011. “An EU External Education Policy: An EU Necessity,” in 20 Years of Support for European Integration Studies, European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, 2011. “EU Studies and the ‘New Regionalism’: What Can be Gained from Dialogue?” (co-authored with Fredrik Soderbaum), Journal of European Integration, 2010, 32 (6): 563-582. “Multi-Level Governance and Comparative Regionalism,” in Handbook on Multi-Level Governance, Henrik Enderlein, Sonja Wälti, and Michael Zürn, eds., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010: 267-278. “Intergovernmental Relations or Multi-Level Governance? Transatlantic Comparisons and Reflections,” Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the European Union and the United States: Theoretical Perspectives, Edoardo Ongaro, Andrew Massey, Marc Holzer, and Ellen Wayenberg, eds., Edward Elgar, 2010: 14-28.

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“The EU, the US, and Trade Policy: Competitive Interdependence in the Management of Globalization,” Journal of European Public Policy, 17(3) (April 2010): 368-382. “Change and Reform in the European Union,” in Public Sector Administrative Reform and The Challenges of Effective Change, Jon Pierre and Patricia Ingraham, eds., McGill-Queens University Press, 2010: 233-255. “Forward,” in National Politics and European Integration: From the Constitution to the Lisbon Treaty, Maurizio Carbone, ed., Edward Elgar, 2010: x-xi. “The European Union” (co-authored with Francesco Stolfi) in European Politics Today, 4th edition, Gabriel A. Almond, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., Russell J. Dalton, and Kaare Strom, eds., Longman, 2009: 417-462.

“The American Research Area and Beyond: A Transatlantic Perspective,” in

Responding to Global Challenges: The Roles of Europe and of International Science and Technology Cooperation, European Commission Publication, 2008: 181-190.

“Comparative Regionalism: What Might it Be?” Journal of Common Market Studies,

Annual Review, Vol. 46, September 2008, 29-49. “Distributed Governance: The Changing Ecology of the European Union” in

Efficient and Democratic Governance in the European Union, Beate Kohler-Koch and Fabrice Larat, eds., CONNEX Report Series No. 09 (August 2008), 339-355.

“Key Policies” (co-authored with Francesco Stolfi), The European Union: How Does

It Work? Elizabeth Bomberg, John Peterson, and Alexander Stubb, eds., 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2008: 115-137.

“Preface” in Sergio Fabbrini and Simona Piattoni, eds., Italy in the European Union:

Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008: vii-viii.

“European Union and NAFTA” in Mario Telo, ed., European Union and New

Regionalism: Regional Actors and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era, 2nd ed., Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 97-109 (first edition published in 2001).

“The Future of Federalism in the European Union” in Nanette Neuwahl and Stefan

Haack, eds., Unresolved Issues of the Constitution for Europe: Rethinking the Crisis, Montreal: Les Editions Thémis, 2007: 133-142 “The EU in Comparative Perspective: The US as Referent?” EUSA Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 2007, 7-9. “An American Perspective on the EU’s Constitutional Treaty,” POLITICS, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2007, 2-7.

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“American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations,” in R.A.W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder, and Bert A. Rockman et al., eds., The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 239-260. “The United States and the European Union: Overcoming the Challenge of Comparing two ‘Sui Generis’ Systems,” in Anand Menon and Martin Schain, eds., Comparative Federalism: The United States and the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 15-34. “Forward” in Attilio Stajano, Research, Quality, Competitiveness: European Union Technology Policy for the Information Society, Springer, 2006, pp. xiii-xv. “Introduction—The EU and Its ‘Constitution’: Public Opinion, Political Elites, and Their International Context,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 39, No. 2, April 2006, 237-241. “Seeing the European Union through American Eyes: The EU as a Reflection of the American Experience,” European Political Science, June 2005, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 179-187. “Federalism, Supranationality, European Politics, and Confederalism in the European Union,” European Politics and Society Newsletter (American Political Science Association), Winter 2005, Vol. 4, No. 2. “Territory, Electorates, and Markets In the United States: The Construction of Democratic Federalism and Its Implications for the European Union,” in Sergio Fabbrini, ed., Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States: Exploring Post-national Governance, Abingdon: Routledge, 2005, 93-103. “Post-National Democracy as Post-National Democratization,” in Sergio Fabbrini, ed., Democracy and Federalism in the European Union and the United States: Exploring Post-national Governance, Abingdon: Routledge, 2005, pp.167-182. “The Future of Federalism in the European Union,” European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-C) Newsletter, November 2004. “Shaping a Polity in an Economic and Monetary Union: The EU in Comparative Perspective,” in Euros and Europeans, George Ross and Andrew Martin, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 51-75. “Territory, Representation, and Policy Outcome: The United States and the European Union Compared,” in Christopher Ansell and Giuseppe Di Palma, eds., Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and North America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004: 205-224.

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“La Democrazia Post-Nazionale: Una Sfida Per La Scienza Politica,” Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Vol. XXXIV, No.1, April 2004, 43-68. “The New Framework in Transatlantic Economic Governance: Strategic Trade Management and Regulatory Conflict in a Multilateral Global Economy” (co-authored with Chad Damro), in Miriam Campanella and Sylvester Eijffinger, eds., EU Economic Governance and Globalization, Gloucestershire: Edward Elgar, 2003, 105-141. “Crisis, Schizophrenia, and Cooperation in the Transatlantic Relationship,” in Ryszard Stemplowski, ed., Prospects for the EU-US Relationship, Warsaw: The Polish Institute of International Affairs, 2003, 67-74. “Key Policies,” Elizabeth Bomberg and Alexander Stubb, eds., The European Union: How Does It Work? Oxford: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 111-135. “Reform, Institutions, and Governance,” in J.H.H. Weiler, Iain Begg, and John Peterson, eds., Integration in an Expanding European Union: Reassessing the Fundamentals, Blackwell, 2003, 73-77. Co-editor with Laura Cram, special issue of Governance on The Institutional Balance and the Future of EU Governance, Vol. 15, No. 3, July 2002. “The Treaty of Nice, Institutional Balance, and Uncertainty,” conclusion to special issue of Governance, Vol. 15, No. 3, July 2002, 393-412. “Matthew Holden, Jr.,” in Glenn H. Utter and Charles Lockhart, eds., American Political Scientists: A Dictionary, 2nd ed., Westport, CN: Greenwood, December 2002, 128-130 (1st edition published in 1993). “Building Markets and Comparative Regionalism: Governance Beyond the Nation-State,” in Markus Jachtenfuchs and Michele Knodt (Hrsg.), eds, Regieren in internationalen Institutionen, Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2002, 235-254. “Territory, Electorates, and Markets: the Construction of Democratic Federalism,” in Sergio Fabbrini, ed., Nation, Federalism, and Demccracy: The EU, Italy and the American Federal Experience, Bologna: Editrice Compositori, 2001, 75-80. “Politics in the European Union,” in Gabriel A. Almond, Russell J. Dalton, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., and Kaare Strom, eds., European Politics Today, 3rd ed., Longman, 2005, 457-509 (2nd edition, 2002, 455-502; 1st edition, 1999, 469-520). “The EU-US Relationship: Regulatory Cooperation, Environment, and Security,” in Ryszard Stemplowski, ed., Prospects for the EU-US Relationship, Warsaw: The Polish Institute of International Affairs, 2001, 37-41.

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“Italy Pays for Europe: Political Leadership, Political Choice and Institutional Adaptation,” in Maria Green Cowles, James Caporaso, and Thomas Risse, eds., Transforming Europe: Europeanization and Domestic Change, Cornell University Press, 2001, 79-96. “Preface,” in Eric Philippart and Pascaline Winand, eds., Ever Closer Partnership: Policy-Making in US-EU Relations, New York: Peter Lang, 2001, 13-15. “Trade-Offs Rather Than Bargains in Europe?” in Johan P. Olsen, Alberta Sbragia, and Fritz W. Scharpf, “Symposium: Governing in Europe: Effective and Democratic?” Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2000, 316-321. “Governance, the State, and the Market: What is Going On?” Governance, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 2000, 243-250. “The European Union as Coxswain: Governance by Steering,” in Jon Pierre, ed., Debating Governance: Authority, Democracy and Steering, Oxford University Press, 2000, 219-240. “Environmental Policy: Economic Constraints and External Pressures,” in Helen Wallace and William Wallace, eds., Policy-making in the European Union,” 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 2000, 293-316. “The Changing Role of the EU in International Environmental Policy,” with Chad Damro, Government and Policy, theme issue on European Union Environmental Policy at 25, London, Vol. 17, February 1999, 53-68. “Environmental Policy” in Encyclopedia of the European Union, Desmond Dinan, ed., Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998, 170-174. “The Transatlantic Relationship: A Case of Deepening and Broadening,” in Carolyn Rhodes, ed., The European Union in the World Community, Boulder: Lynn Rienner, 1998, 147-164. “Institution-Building from Below and from Above: The European Union in Global Environmental Politics,” in Alec Stone and Wayne Sandholtz, eds., European Integration and Supranational Governance, Oxford University Press, September 1998 (Reprinted in Andrew Jordan, ed., Environmental Policy in the European Union, London: Earthscan, 2002, 275-298). “The European Union and Compliance: A Story in the Making” (with Philipp Hildebrand), in Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson, eds., Engaging Countries: Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, 215-252.

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“The Push-Pull of Environmental Policy-Making” in Policy-Making in the European Union, Helen Wallace, William Wallace, eds., 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, March 1996, 235-256.

“The European Community and the Process of Integration: Lessons to be Drawn” in EC Integration and EC-ROC Relations, Proceedings of the Conference by the same name, sponsored by the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, held April 8-9, 1994, in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, September 1995.

“From ‘Nation-State’ to ‘Member-State’: The Evolution of the European

Community,” Paul Michael Lützeler, ed., Europe After Maastricht: American and European Perspectives, Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1994, 69-87.

“The European Community: A Balancing Act,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Summer 1993, Vol. 23, No. 3, 23-38.

“Maastricht, Enlargement, and the Future of Institutional Change,” Ridgway Viewpoints, Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies Working Paper Series, No. 93-3, Pittsburgh: Ridgway Center for International Security Studies; University of Pittsburgh, 1993. “EC Environmental Policy: Atypical Ambition and Typical Problems?” The State of the European Community, Alan W. Cafruny and Glenda G. Rosenthal, eds., Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993, 337-352.

“Asymmetrical Integration in the European Community: The Single European Act

and Institutional Development,” The 1992 Project and the Future of Integration in America, Dale L. Smith and James Lee Ray, eds., Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1993, 92-109. “Italia/CEE: Un partner sottovalutato,” Relazioni Internazionali, Vol. LVI, June 1992, 78-87.

“Environmental Policy in the European Community: The Problem of Implementation in Comparative Perspective,” Towards a Transatlantic Environmental Policy: Conclusions from an International Round Table Seminar, Washington: The European Institute, January 1992, 47-95.

“Pittsburgh’s ‘Third Way’: The Nonprofit Sector as A Key to Urban Regeneration,”

in Leadership and Urban Regeneration: Cities in North America and Europe, Dennis Judd and Michael Parkinson, eds., Urban Affairs Annual Review, Vol. 37, London: Sage Publications, 1990, 51-68.

“L'Etat investisseur,” L'Etat en Amérique, Marie-France Toinet, ed., Paris: Presses de

la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1989, 121-135.

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“The Pittsburgh Model of Economic Development: Partnership, Responsiveness and Indifference,” Unequal Partnerships: The Political Economy of Urban Economic Redevelopment in Post War America, Gregory D. Squires, ed., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989, 103-120.

“Public Sector Politics, Capital Markets, and Economic Development: Public Investment in Great Britain and the United States,” Subnational Politics in the 1980s: Organization, Reorganization, and Economic Development, Louis A. Picard and Raphael Zariski, eds., New York: Praeger, 1986, 161-177.

“Capital Markets and Central-local Politics in Britain,” British Journal of Political

Science, Vol. 16, July 1986, 311-33.

“Finance Capital and the City,” Cities in Stress: A Look at the Urban Crisis, Mark Gottdiener, ed., Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Vol. 30, London: Sage Publications, 1986, 199-220.

“The Politics of Public Investment: An Anglo-American Comparison,” Studies in Public Policy, No. 139, Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1985.

“Monetary Policy and Monetary Theory: The Poverty of Choice” in The President and Economic Policy, James Pfiffner, ed., Philadelphia: ISHI, 1986, 219-239. “Capital Markets and Central-Local Politics in Britain: The Double Game,” Studies in Public Policy, No. 109, Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1983.

“Broncos and Bureaucrats: The Bureau of Land Management in Nevada Planning,” Nevada Public Affairs Review (University of Nevada-Reno, Bureau of Governmental Research), No. 3, 1982, 44-49.

“Cities, Capital and Banks: The Politics of Debt in the United States, Great Britain

and France,” Urban Political Economy, Kenneth Newton, ed., London: Frances Pinter, 1981, 200-220.

“Not All Roads Lead to Rome: Local Housing Policy in the Unitary Italian State,” British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 19, July 1979, 315-339.

“The Politics of Local Borrowing: A Comparative Analysis,” Studies in Public Policy, No. 37, Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, July 1979.

“Borrowing to Build: Private Money and Public Welfare,” International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 9, No. 2, May 1979, 207-226.

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“Milan and Public Housing Policy: A Case of Municipal Initiative,” The Western European City in Crisis, Michael C. Romanos, ed., Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath/Lexington Books, 1979, 135-153. ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INTERESTS

Ongoing work related to the European Union focuses on (1) the impact of the EU on the organization of the international economy. More specifically, it examines how the creation of the EEC as a customs union shaped the subsequent emergence of regionalism, NAFTA, MERCOSUR, ASEAN (AFTA), and APEC in particular (2) analyzing the EU in comparative terms with particular reference to the literature on American federalism, policymaking, state formation, and development. ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES

Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2010-present. Director, European Studies Center (Title VI Comprehensive National Resource

Center) in the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh 1984-2010. (The Center coordinates university-wide activities related to Western Europe and offers an undergraduate and a graduate certificate program in West European Studies.)

Director, European Union Center of Excellence (funded by the European

Commission), University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1998-2010.

Nordenberg Chair, an institution-building chair designed to strengthen the European

Studies Center and the European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh, 2006-2010.

GUEST TEACHING “The EU in Comparative Perspective,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, May 17-21, 2010. “Comparative Regionalism,” Monash European and EU Centre, MA program in European and International Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, August 13-15, 2008.

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PAPERS AND KEYNOTES DELIVERED Global Europe Conference, MERCURY (Multilateralism and the EU in the Contemporary Global Order), EU4Seas and EU-GRASP, Brussels, October 7, 2011. “The EU and Global Regionalism in Comparative Perspective: Assumptions, Fallacies, and Possibilities,” public lecture delivered at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, May 19, 2010. “Comparative Regionalism: From a World of States to a World of Regions?” International Studies Association Conferences, New Orleans, February 7, 2010. “The Ambiguities of ‘Comparative Regionalism’: External and Internal Dynamic in Asia and Latin America,” memo prepared for the workshop “The US, the EU and the New Regionalism,” Colorado European Union Center for Excellence, August 17-19, 2009. “The EU, the US and Trade Policy: Competitive Interdependence in the Management of Globalization,” paper delivered at the 2009 Biennial Meeting of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Los Angeles, April 2009. “Comparative Regionalism and the EU: An Assessment,” keynote address delivered at the 38th UACES Annual Conference on “Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2008: Rethinking the European Union,” The Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, September 1-3, 2008. “The European Union and Trade Agreements: Development and Competition in a Post-WTO/Post-NAFTA World,” paper delivered as part of workshop “Europe and the Management of Globalization,” Stein Eriksen Lodge, Park City, UT, May 24, 2008. “Distributed Governance: The Changing Ecology of the European Union,” keynote address delivered at CONNEX Final Conference, University of Mannheim, Germany, March 6-8, 2008. “The Future of European Integration,” keynote address delivered at an International Symposium on “Imagining Europe: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent,” Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, November 1-4, 2007. “Intergovernmental Relations or Multi-level Governance? Transatlantic Comparisons and Reflections,” keynote address delivered at the meeting of the Permanent Study Group on Intergovernmental Relations, European Group of Public Administration, Madrid, September 19-22, 2007. “The European Union and Trade Agreements: Development and Competition in a Post-WTO/Post-NAFTA World,” paper delivered at the Panel on Europe and the

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Management of Globalization, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007. “The European Union in an Era of (North) American Regionalism: Transatlantic Competitors and Globalization,” paper delivered at the panel “Europeanization and Globalization,” at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Montreal, Canada, May 17-19, 2007. “EU Trade Policy and Globalization: Following the American Leader?” Paper delivered at the “Europe and the Management of Globalization” workshop, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 23, 2007. Keynote Address, “The ‘Spaghetti Bowl’ of Governance: Intellectual Challenges and Political Dilemmas” at “Multilevel Governance—Performance and Accountability,” Second International Symposium, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, November 24-25, 2006. “Constitutional Crisis or Constitutional Compromise in the European Union,” roundtable participant, 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 3, 2006. “Does the EU Really Need a Constitution?” Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence conference on the “EU Constitution: Where Are We Now?” at Florida International University, Miami, FL, April 7-8, 2006. “The EU’s Constitutional Future: An American Perspective,” MacCormick Lecture in the series “Does the European Union have a Constitutional Future?” Edinburgh Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh, March 8, 2006. “US-EU Relations and Climate Change: The Need for Institutionalization,” Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank summit on “The Future of US-EU-NATO Relations: After the Cold War and Beyond the War in Iraq,” April 15-17, 2005. “Seeing the European Union through American Eyes: The EU as a Reflection of the American Experience,” paper delivered at the “The United States of Europe? American and European Models of the EU?” 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2-5, 2004. “The Future of Federalism in the European Union,” keynote paper delivered at the European Community Studies Association—Canada (ECSA-C), 2004 Biennial Conference, “A Constitution for Europe? Governance and Policy-Making in the European Union,” May 27-29, 2004, Montreal, Canada. (A slightly different version was delivered as “Constitutions, Confederations, and Federalism: The EU Faces its Paradoxes,” conference on “A New European Union? Enlargement, the Constitution, and the Future of Europe,” Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 27, 2004.)

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“Hierarchy, Interdependence, and Matrix Relationships: The European Union Through the Lens of Federalism,” New York University, Center for European Studies conference, The US and the EU in Comparative Perspective, May 3-5, 2004. (Also delivered at the Hauser Colloquium, Theorising the New Europe, New York University Law School, March 3, 2004.) “Shaping a Polity in an Economic and Monetary Union: The EU in Comparative Perspective,” delivered at the Conference of Europeanists, March 11-13, 2004, Chicago, (on a panel that presented some of the forthcoming chapters in the book Europeans and the Euro). “Competitive Regionalism, Trade Liberalization, and Globalization: The EU and the Americas,” delivered at the Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 11-13, 2004. “Post-National Democracy: A Challenge to Political Science?” Keynote paper to the Societa Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), University of Trento, Trento, Italy, September 15, 2003 (delivered in Italian; Italian version was translated from English). “Crisis, Schizophrenia, and Cooperation in the Transatlantic Relationship,” Transatlantic Dialogue—3rd Conference, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Poland, May 30-June 1, 2003. “Shaping a Polity in Economic and Monetary Union: The EU in Comparative Perspective,” The European Union Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, March 6, 2003. “The European Union, Federations, and Sovereignty: The EU as a ‘Mirror Image’ of Traditional Federations?” Paper delivered at the panel “State Formation and European Integration: A Useful Comparison? Meaningful Comparisons?” 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 28-September 1, 2002. “Federal-State Relations,” roundtable participant, 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 28-September 1, 2002. “Short-Course Panel: United Europe—New Approaches to Research and Teaching,” panel participant, 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 28-September 1, 2002. “The Dilemma of Governance with Government,” paper delivered at the Council for European Studies at the 13th Biennial Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 14, 2002 (published as a Jean Monnet Working Paper, No. 3/02).

“Territory, Electorates, and Markets: The Construction of Democratic Federalism,”

paper delivered at the conference on Nation, Federalism, and Democracy: The EU, Italy

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and the American Federal Experience, University of Trento and the US Mission in Italy, Trento, Italy, October 4-5, 2001.

“The Treaty of Nice: Where do Researchers Go Now?” keynote paper at the

International Conference on New Trends and Perspectives in European Studies, sponsored by the EU-CHINA Higher Education Cooperation Programme Initiative, Beijing, July 1-13, 2001.

“Strengthening the Center? Center-Periphery Politics and Political Economy in the

European Union and the United States,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 12, 2001.

“The EU-US Relationship: Regulatory Cooperation, Environment, and Security,” Paper Delivered at the conference on Prospects for the EU-US Relationship, The Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw, December 2000.

“Territory, Representation, and Policy Outcome: The United States and the European

Union Compared,” workshop Beyond Center/Periphery: Boundaries, Territory, and the State, Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, December 10-11, 1999.

“Hard Currency and Hard Choices: Italy and EMU,” prepared for the conference on

The Impact of Increased Economic Integration on Italy and the Rest of Europe, Georgetown University, Washington, April 30-May 2, 1999.

“Italy Pays for Europe: Political Leadership, Political Choice, and Institutional

Adaptation,” delivered for the Conference on Europeanization and Domestic Political Change, 3rd Project Workshop, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 19-20, 1998.

“The Impact of Enlargement on EU Institutions,” paper delivered at international

workshop on Property Rights and Institutions in Transition: East and West, co-sponsored by the Center for West European Studies and the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, March 27-28, 1998.

“The European Union and NAFTA in a Post-Cold War Global Economy: An

Overview,” paper delivered at conference on Globalization and Regionalization, at the Institute of Sociology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, March 7-8, 1998.

“Globalization and Institutional Design: An Exploration,” paper delivered at the

conference Amsterdam and Beyond: The European Union on its Way into the 21st Century, organized by the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on European Unification, Brussels, February 20-21, 1998.

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“Italy Pays for Europe: Political Leadership, Political Choice, and Public Debate,” paper delivered at Workshop on Europeanization and Domestic Political Change, hosted by the Center for West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, November 7-8, 1997.

“American Federalism, Public Investment, and Economic Development: The Search

for Local Autonomy,” paper delivered at Structure and Organization of Government Conference, Taking the Measure of Government, University of Pittsburgh, October 30-November 1, 1997.

“The European Union as Coxswain: Governance by Steering,” paper delivered at

Seminar on Theories of Governance, Ross Priory, Gartocharn, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK, October 9-11, 1997.

“Shaping the Institutional Architecture of the EU: The Influence of Global Politics,”

paper delivered at the International Political Science Association XVII World Congress, Seoul, 17-21 August, 1997.

“The ‘High Politics’ of Exclusion and Inclusion: The American Role in European

Integration,” paper delivered at the international symposium on Forms and Dynamics of Exclusion in Contemporary Societies: Injustice and Discrimination, Palais de l’UNESCO, Paris, June 23-26, 1997.

“Governance, Credibility, and Federalism: The European Union in Comparative

Perspective,” paper delivered at ECPR-APSA workshop on Regional Integration and Multi-Level Governance, Bern, Switzerland, February 27-March 4, 1997.

“Competition and Autonomy: Markets, Technology, and Territorial Politics,” paper

delivered at the Territorial Politics in Europe: A Positive Sum-Game? international conference sponsored by the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April, 21-22, 1997.

“Institution-Building from Below and from Above: The European Community in

Global Environmental Politics,” delivered at the Conference on the European Union (Laguna III), University of California, Irvine, CA, June 7-9, 1996. (Revised version given at the Supranational Governance: The Institutionalization of the European Union conference, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, November 1-3, 1996).

“Transatlantic Relations: An Evolving Mosaic,” paper delivered at the international

conference Policy-Making and Decision-Making in Transatlantic Relations, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, May 3-4, 1996 (co-sponsored by the US Embassy, the European Commission, the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the Belgian National Bank with the collaboration of the Center for West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh).

“The European Community and the Process of Integration: Lessons to be Drawn?”

Paper prepared for delivery at the Conference on EC Integration and EC-ROC (Taiwan)

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Relations sponsored by the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, April 8-9, 1994.

“The European Community: The Paradox of Weakness,” paper delivered at the

National Implementation of International Environmental Accords project meeting in conjunction with SSRC-sponsored and Ford-funded project of the same name, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, February 2-5, 1994.

“The European Community After Maastricht,” paper delivered at the Legitimation

und Handlungsfähigkeit der EG nach Maastricht conference, University of Mannheim, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, Mannheim, Germany, November 26-27, 1993.

“New Trends in Research on the European Community,” paper delivered at The

European Community After Maastricht seminar, International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on European Unification in cooperation with the general secretariat of the European Parliament, Luxembourg, November 24-26, 1993.

“The Political Dimension: The Political Sources and Consequences of Bargained

Administration,” paper delivered at the Lustrum Conference, Towards a European Consensus Economy: Social Partners as Co-Decisionmakers in Brussels? Conference organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 11, 1993.

“The Politics in the EC: A Comparative American Perspective,” paper delivered at

the Towards a European Consensus Economy: Social Partners as Co-Decisionmakers in Brussels? Conference to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 9-11, 1993.

“From ‘Nation-State’ to ‘Member-State’: The Evolution of the European

Community,” paper delivered at the Europe After Maastricht symposium, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, October 1-3, 1993.

“Maastricht, Enlargement, and the Future of Institutional Change,” paper delivered at

the conference on The European Community: Moving Toward Union or Falling Back? Office of Research (INR/RES) and the Office of Analysis for Western Europe and Canada (INR/WECA) of the US Department of State, Meridian International Center, Washington, February 1, 1993.

“European Integration: Background and Perspectives,” paper presented at the

European Security Network Regional Briefing Program, Myths and Realities of European Integration at the University of New Orleans and co-sponsored by the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media, New York University, December 10, 1992.

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“Environmental Policy in the Political Economy of the European Community,” paper delivered at workshop of “The Consortium for 1992” held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, May 22-25, 1992.

“The European Community and Implementation: Environmental Policy in

Comparative Perspective,” paper delivered at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29-September 1, 1991.

“Italy in the European Community: The Overlooked Power,” paper delivered at the

1991 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 18-21, 1991.

“The ‘Implementation Deficit’ and Environmental Policy,” paper delivered at

workshop of “The Inter-University Consortium on 1992,” Duke University, March 23-24, 1991.

“The European Community and Institutional Development: Politics, Money, and

Law,” paper delivered at Brookings Institution conference on “European Political Institutions and Policymaking After 1992,” March 29-30, 1990.

“Pittsburgh's ‘Third Way’: The Nonprofit Sector as the Key to Urban Regeneration,”

paper delivered at Centre for Urban Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, November 12-14, 1989.

“The American ‘Investment State’: Entrepreneurship, Restriction, and

Circumvention,” paper presented at conference on L’Etat aux Etats-Unis, Chantilly, France, January 6-9, 1988.

“Intergovernmental Relations, Lenders, and Public Investment: An Anglo-American

Comparison,” paper presented at the Hendricks Symposium on Subnational Politics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, November 15-16, 1984.

“The Politics of Local Debt Management: A Preliminary Report on the United States,

Great Britain, and France,” paper presented to the Research Committee on Community Research, 9th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Uppsala, Sweden, August 14-19, 1978.

“Washington as Landlord: Federalism, Land-Use, and State Politics,” 1978 Annual

Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, 1978. “The Logic of Economic Discrimination: Private Property, Land-Use, and Public

Housing,” 1978 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, 1978. “Public Housing and Private Profit: Some Inferences for Comparative Policy Studies

from an Italian Case,” 1976 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1976.

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“Center-Periphery Dynamics in the Unitary State: The Case of Italy,” 1975 Annual

Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1975. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Presentation, “Can European Studies Guide Comparative Regionalism?” Comparing the European Union with other Regional Organisations, Jean Monnet Workshop at UNU-CRIS, Bruges, Belgium, January 11-12, 2010. Interview of Dr. Horst Freitag, Consul General of Germany in New York on transatlantic relations and the Lisbon Treaty at KQV Radio Studio, Pittsburgh, February 22, 2010. Interview, “The EU After Lisbon” by Dr. Shuyler Foerster, KQV Radio, Pittsburgh, November 30, 2009. Lecturer, “Europe at a Crossroads: Which Way Forward?” as the part of the 39th Annual World Affairs Institute, “Europe at a Crossroads,” World Affairs Council, Pittsburgh, November 18, 2009. Lecturer, “Implications for the EU,” on the panel “Reflections of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Twenty Years Later,” University of Pittsburgh, November 5, 2009. Lecturer, “Regionalism in Many Guises,” in the Jean Monnet Symposium of “Regionalism, Innovation and Economic Crises: Challenges for Asia, NAFTA, and the EU,” University of Pittsburgh, October 7, 2009. Participant, Global Jean Monnet Conference 2009, “20 Years of Support for European Integration Studies: From the Jean Monnet Action to the Jean Monnet Programme,” Brussels, September 7-8, 2009. Evaluator, University of Wisconsin Title VI Center for West European Studies, May 2009. Lecturer, “The Comparative Health Care Systems in Europe,” for the Executive Education Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), April-May 2009. Presentation, “Author Meets the Critics,” panel, Euro-Clash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe, (Oxford University Press), Neil Fligstein, 2009 European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Biennial Conference, Los Angeles, April 2009. Presentation, “United Nations and the European Union: A New and Ever Stronger Partnership,” delivered at the conference launching MERCURY (Multilateralism and the

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EU in the Contemporary Global Order), a roughly €2 million research project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program, March 2009. Evaluator, University of Washington-Seattle, Title VI Center for West European Studies, January 2009. “Think Piece,” presentation, “Innovation in the US and the EU: A Comparative Institutional Perspective” at “The 2nd Workshop of the Research Network on Transatlantic Comparison of Continental Innovation Models,” Volterra, Italy, September 12-13, 2008. Lecture, “Asian Regionalism: Is the EU an Appropriate Model?” for The EU Roundtable Research Seminar at the National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 19-23, 2008. Lecture, “An Asia-Pacific Union? Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and the Model of the European Union,” The Monash European and EU Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, August 14, 2008. Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Monash European and EU Centre, Monash University, teaching “Comparative Regionalism” for the MA program in European and International Studies, Melbourne, Australia, August 13-15, 2008. Discussant and Panelist/Member, Research Assessment Exercise 2008, Panel L, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, July17, 2008. Lecture, “The European Union: A New Power on the World Stage?” University of Pittsburgh’s Governor’s School of International Studies, June 30, 2008. Phone interview for “The American Entrepreneur,” radio talk program with Ron Morris, WPTT, Pittsburgh, June 27, 2008. Discussant, “The EU and the UN” at “The EU in International Affairs Conference,” The Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, April 24-26, 2008. Guest speaker, “The European Union at 50,” World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, March 26, 2008. Guest speaker, “The EU: An Overview,” International Resource Course (IRC08), Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, January 11, 2008. Evaluator, Five-Year Review, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, University of California-Los Angeles, February 1, 2008. Participant, Global Jean Monnet Conference 2007, “The European Union and World Sustainable Development,” Belgium, November 4-7, 2007.

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Presentation, “Transatlantic Research and Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities” at workshop “Responding to Global Challenges: The Role of Europe and of International Science and Technology Cooperation,” European Commission, Brussels, October 4-5, 2007. Presentation, “Institutions and Integration: A Help or Hindrance?” Conference on “Rethinking Integration: Reconciling the Needs of Immigrant Populations and the Security of Transatlantic Societies,” a Transatlantic Collaborative Project, underwritten by the Ford Foundation, University of Pittsburgh, and the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, September 7, 2007. Chair and discussant on panel “Non-Hierarchical Policy-Coordination in Federal and Supranational Settings,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007. Lecture, “The European Union: A New Power on the World Stage?” University of Pittsburgh’s Governor’s School of International Studies, July 18, 2007. Discussant and Panelist/Member, Research Assessment Exercise 2008, Panel L, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, June 27, 2007. Discussant on “The State of EU Studies: Disciplinarity, Theory, and Political Science” at the 10th Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, May 17-19, 2007. Member, Jean Monnet Selection Committee for Assessment of Jean Monnet proposals for 2007, Brussels, May 8-11, 2007. Presentation, “Does Europe need a Constitution? Asking the Question Once Again” delivered at the panel “EU Enlargement: The Next Phase?” from the conference on “Assessing the New EU: Enlargement, Governance, and Institutions,” Florida International University, Miami, FL, March 30-31, 2007. Lecture, “The European Union at 50: Perspectives on the Past and the Future,” at the 34th Annual Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literatures, “Literature and Politics: The 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome,” Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, March 30, 2007. Participant, “Europe in the World: Framework Programme VII Theme 8.4—An Exploratory Workshop,” Europa House, Brussels, January 11-12, 2007. Member, selection committee for the Transatlantic Studies Chair at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2006-2007.

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Discussant, “Towards a European Administrative Space,” CONNEX Thematic Conference, London, November 16-18, 2006. Discussant, DAAD panel on “Whither European Integration,” German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, September 28-October 1, 2006. Participant in roundtable on “Constitutional Crisis or Constitutional Compromise in the European Union?” at 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 31-September 3, 2006. Presentation, “The Many Faces of the EU: A Guide,” EUCE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 26, 2006. Member, J. David Greenstone Book Award Committee (APSA History and Politics Section) for the best book in politics and history, 2005-2006. Participant, “Regional Integration Conference,” Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies, November 17-19, 2005. Presentation on Pittsburgh’s development strategies to benchmarking group from Turin sponsored by the German Marshall Fund, Pittsburgh, October 26, 2005. Member, University of Pittsburgh selection committee for the 2006 undergraduate Fulbright scholarships. Panel chair, “New Directions in Europeanization Research,” Conference of the American Political Science Association, Washington, September 1-4, 2005. Presentation, “Seminar on the European Union for Ambassador-Designate C. Boyden Gray,” Washington, August 30, 2005. Discussant at conference, “Multilevel Governance in Europe—Structural Funds, Regional and Environment Policy,” organized by CONNEX (EU Network of Excellence: Connecting Excellence on European Governance), Athens, May 5-7, 2005. Session moderator on “The Euro, the Yen, the Renminbi, and the Dollar: Portfolio Shifts and Capital Account Balances,” RAND Corporation conference on “Doing Business with the Euro,” Pittsburgh, May 4, 2005. Discussant and presentation, “US-EU Relations and Climate Change: The Need for Institutionalization,” Center for Strategic and International Studies Think Tank Summit on “The Future of US-EU-NATO Relations: After the Cold War and Beyond the War in Iraq,” April 15-17, 2005. Participant, “Love of Country: Making Nations in Italy’s Diasporic Private Sphere” with the University Center for International Studies (Global Academic Partnerships),

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University of Pittsburgh Arts and Sciences Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, the Department of French and Italian Studies, and the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, April 7-9, 2005. Session chair, “University of Pittsburgh International Workshop on Global Terror and the Imagination,” Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh, March 24-27, 2005. Presentation, “Judicial Construction of Europe,” Alec Stone Sweet Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 15, 2004. Presentation at roundtable, “Requiem for Federalism?” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2-5, 2004. Chair, selection committee for APSA European Politics and Society Section Prize for Best Dissertation, 2004. Commentator, Altneuland: The Constitution of Europe in an American Perspective, joint conference organized by the Hauser Global Law School Program, the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, New York University School of Law, The Program in Law and Public Affairs, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, April 28-30, 2004. Presentation, “Italy, Globalization, and Structural Reforms: Implications for an Enlarged European Union,” workshop, Robert Schumann Centre, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, December 8, 2003. Participant, “Italy and the United States: Partners in the Transatlantic Relationship,” organized by the President of the Italian Senate and the American Embassy to Italy, held in Rome and Lucca, Italy, December 5-6, 2003. Commentator, “Italy,” Conference on The Big Four in Europe, Washington, November 10, 2003. Presentation, “International Trade Negotiations: Where Do We Stand?” Transatlantic Business Conference hosted by the British-American Business Council (Pittsburgh Chapter) and the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, Pittsburgh, October 26, 2003. Participant, “The United States and the European Union: Transatlantic Cooperation and Competition: A Pre-Summit Symposium,” German Marshall Fund of the United States in cooperation with the European Commission, Washington, June 24, 2003. Presentation, “The Paradox of Regional Stability and Power in Europe,” Symposium on Globalization, Regionalism, and Political Stability, organized by Daniel Berkowitz and Alberta Sbragia, University of Pittsburgh, April 10, 2003.

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Presentation, “An Integrating Europe: Facing Old and New Dilemmas,” McGill University, Montreal, April 4, 2003. Series of lectures, “Europeanization and International Relations,” University of Trento, March 2003. Keynote speaker, “Promoting Mutual Understanding,” opening ceremony of the Graduate School for Comparative Public Policy and its Advanced Master Programme IMPALLA by Luxembourg, Leuven and Associate Institutes, Soleuvre, Luxembourg, December 18, 2002. Interview, “Anti-US Tone in Germany Puts Schroeder on Defensive,” published in Investor’s Business Daily, (national issue), September 30, 2002. Presentation, “Global Environment and Sustainable Development,” Team Europe, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington, September 20-21, 2002. Presentation, “Contemporary Economic Trends,” United States Department of State, Foreign Service Institute, Washington, July 23, 2002. Presentation, “Berlusconi: Rhetoric or Reality,” roundtable on Italy, Washington, May 1, 2002. Presentation, “Italy and the European Union,” roundtable on Italy, Washington, May 1, 2002. Chair of panel, Reassessing the Fundamentals: Integration in an Expanding EU, Journal of Common Market Studies, 40th Anniversary Conference, European University Institute, Villa La Fonte, Fiesole, Italy, 11-13 April 2002. Panel chair, “Types of Multi-level Governance,” workshop on Federalism and Multi-Level Governance, Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, March 22-23, 2002. Participant, Network of European Union Centers, annual meeting of center directors and staff, Miami, FL, February 22-23, 2002. Presentation, “The European Central Bank, the Euro, and National Politics: The Implications for the Governance of Europe’s Political Economy,” conference on Challenges to Governance in North America and the European Union, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, February 8-10, 2002. Presentation, “Cultural Norms and the Challenges of Cross-National Comparison of Corruption,” Conference on Ethics, Accountability, and Social Responsibility: A Transatlantic Perspective, co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Public and

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International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, and the Transatlantic Policy Consortium, September 20-22, 2001. Presentation, “EU-US Relations,” Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, July 8, 2001. Presentation, “Italy and the Euro: The Politics of Austerity,” Associazione Cinese di Studi sull’ Italia (Chinese Association for Italian Studies), Beijing, July 9, 2001. Co-chair, panel on “Teaching the EU: A Core Curriculum on European Integration Studies,” European Community Studies Association, 7th Biennial International Conference, Madison, WI, May31- June 2, 2001. Remarks, presentation of Award for Lifetime Contribution to EU Studies to Leon Lindberg, European Community Studies Association, 7th Biennial International Conference, Madison, WI, May 31-June 2, 2001. Discussant, panel on “US-EU Relations and Transatlantic Governance: The State of the Field,” European Community Studies Association, 7th Biennial International Conference, Madison, WI, May31- June 2, 2001. Discussant, panel on “The Europeanisaton of National Environmental Policy in Europe,” European Community Studies Association, 7th Biennial International Conference, Madison, WI, May 31-June 2, 2001. Presentation, “An Evolving European Union: Constant Change,” National Security Agency, Washington, May 22, 2001. Presentation, “Institution-Building in the United States and European Union: A Comparison,” Conference on The Future of Transatlantic Relations: The US and Europe—Still Partners in the 21st Century? BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, April 6-8, 2001. Interview for program on democracy and the European Union, televised by Mentor Barraclough Carey (Channel 4, UK), Philadelphia, PA, February 28, 2001. Presentation, “The Re-Shaping of Europe: National Transformations, Evolving Institutions, and the Challenge of Enlargement,” Washington University, St. Louis, MO, February 26, 2001. Participant, Network of European Union Centers, annual meeting of center directors and staff, Los Angeles, February 2-3, 2001. Presentation, “The Euro and the Challenges of European Integration,” United States Department of State, Foreign Service Institute Center, National Affairs Training, Arlington, VA, January 30, 2001.

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Panelist, “Resurgent Europe: The Origins of the European Integration Movement, 1945-60,” conference at 115th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 4-7, 2001. Presentation, “Why the United States Cannot Ignore the European Union,” at conference on Prospects of the EU-US Relationship, Polish Institute of International Affairs in collaboration with the Centre for Study of Democracy (Oxford-Bologne) and the University of Texas-Austin, December 14-17, 2000. Presentation, “The European Union as a Partial Polity: A Comparison with NAFTA,” conference on The European Union and the Americas: Trade, Politics, and Culture, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, November 9-11, 2000. Presentation, “United States Municipal Finance in Historical Perspective,” conference of Finance Officer’s Association, Chicago, May 2000. Lecturer (on multiple occasions) on “Comparing Spain, Portugal, and Italy: The Impact of the European Union,” Semester at Sea, July 2000. Roundtable discussant, “Theory and Methodology in Moravcsik’s ‘The Choice for Europe,’” 12th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 30-April 1, 2000. Presentation, “The European Union and Integration,” symposium on Europe Between Integration and Disintegration: Assessing Europe’s Future, International and Area Studies Program of the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, February 17-19, 2000. Presentation, Practitioners and Scholars in the European Union Speakers Series, Tulane University, February 20-21, 2000. Discussant at conference on Does Federalism Matter? Political Institutions and the Management of Territorial Cleavages, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 25-26, 2000. Presentation, “The European Union and Enlargement: Institutional Imperatives, Cultural Dilemmas, and Territorial Interests,” in the Speakers Series on Europe at the Threshold of a New Millennium, Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University, January 24, 2000. Co-program chair (with John A. Garcia) of the 1999 American Political Science Association Conference, “Political Science and the World of Politics and Policy,” 95th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 2-5, 1999.

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Participant, “Globalization: New Challenges for Higher Education,” conference for DAAD Alumni of the Western United States at the Center for German and European Studies, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, May 1-3, 1998. Participant, “Transitions within the Two European Powers,” international workshop on Property Rights and Institutions in Transition: East and West, co-sponsored by the Center for West European Studies and the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, March 27-28, 1998. Participant, EU, NAFTA—Mercosur and Asean,” Comparison of Regional Organization and Trends of International Relations Workshop, organized by the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Institut de Sociologie, Brussels, March 13-14, 1998. Discussant, “Telecommunications Liberalization in Europe: Too Good to Be True?” conference organized by the Center for European and Asian Studies, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway, March 11-13, 1998. Discussant, “Contention and the European Union: Voice, Dissent, and the Process of Integration,” 11th International Conference of Europeanists, sponsored by The Delegation of the European Commission, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, and Columbia University, Baltimore, MD, February 26-28, 1998.

Participant, “Intellectual Fit: How To Embed an Interdisciplinary Program in a Traditional University,” on panel “Promoting Programs in European Studies,” 11th International Conference of Europeanists sponsored by The Delegation of the European Commission, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, and Columbia University, Baltimore, MD, February 26-28, 1998.

Discussant, “European Integration, Monetary Union and Regionalization,” CASPIC MacArthur Scholars’ Conference, “The Social Construction of Peace in the Post-Colonial and Post-Cold War World,” University of Chicago, January 17-18, 1998.

Participant, “Federalism and Constitutionalism in the US, Germany, and the EU,”

Comparative Federalism Roundtable, University of California, Berkeley, CA, November 11, 1997.

Discussant, “European Integration: A Transformation of Domestic Politics,” 1997

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, August 1997.

Discussant, “(Re) distribution of Authority and Multi-Level Governance: A Cross-

Regional Perspective,” 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, August 1997.

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Participant, “Forms and Dynamics of Exclusion in Contemporary Societies: Injustice and Discrimination,” sponsored by UNESCO (Co-sponsored by the Center for West European Studies), Paris, June 23-26, 1997.

Participant, “Territorial Politics in Europe: A Positive Sum Game?” European

University Institute conference sponsored by Robert Schuman Centre, Florence, Italy, April 21-22, 1997.

Participant, TEPSA-ECSA/USA workshop, Regulatory Cooperation between the EU

and the US,” held at the Fondation Universitaire, Brussels, March 10, 1997. Commentator, “Research in Progress on European Governance,” workshop by

Lehrtstuhl für Politische Wissenschaft II, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, March 5, 1997.

Co-Chair (with William Wallace), “Regional Integration and Multi-Level

Governance,” Bern Joint Sessions of Workshops sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research, Bern, Switzerland, February 27-March 4, 1997.

Participant, Harvard University’s Program for the Study of Germany and Europe

Review Committee of Current and Future Activities, Cambridge, MA, December 6, 1996. Participant, “Welfare States in Transition: East and West,” workshop sponsored by

the Volkswagen Foundation, Berlin, November 15-16, 1996. Co-Organizer (with Albrecht Funk), “Europeanization in International Perspective,”

workshop sponsored by the Center for West European Studies and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Pittsburgh, September 16-17, 1996.

Chair and Discussant, “Economic and Monetary Union and the International

Monetary System,” 92nd Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 29-September 1, 1996.

Discussant, “Redesigning Europe: Models for Institutional Change,” at the European

Community Studies Association-Canada conference, “Redesigning Europe: Canadian Perspectives on the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference of the European Union,” Brock University, St. Catherine’s, ON May 31-June 2, 1996.

Discussant, 1996 European Community Studies Association Workshop, “The Role of

the European Union in the World Community,” co-sponsored by the Delegation of the European Community in the United States and Utah State University, Jackson Hole, WY, May 16-19, 1996.

Participant, International Expert Workshop on Compliance with International

Environmental Accords, co-sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme and Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, May 20-21, 1996.

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Evaluator, Centers for German and European Studies at the University of California

at Berkeley, Georgetown University, and Harvard University, an evaluation undertaken for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), January 1996.

Commentator, “New Approaches to European Union Studies: The European Union

and the Transformation of European Politics: A Graduate Student Workshop,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, December 8-10, 1995.

Organizer, “Global Security Beyond 2000: Global Population Growth, Environmental

Degradation, Migration, and Transnational Organized Crime,” a policy seminar funded by the Commission of the European Communities (DG I), the US Mission to the European Union, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States and co-sponsored by the European Community Studies Association, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh November 2-3, 1995.

Presentation, Understanding Cultural Diversity: Western Europe—A Microcosm of

Cultural Diversity,” delivered at the Pittsburgh Global Alliance for Leadership Workshop hosted by the Center for Executive Education, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, October 25, 1995.

Participant, Transatlantic Relationship Working Group sponsored by the European

Commission, The Brookings Institution, and the Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Politik (Ebenhausen, Germany) held at The Brookings Institution, Washington, October 16-17, 1995.

Participant, “Roundtable on the Building of Institutions for the European Union,”

91st Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago August 31-September 3, 1995.

Chair, Urban Politics Section, Dissertation Award Committee, an award presented at

the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, on August 31-September 3, 1995.

Presentation, “The European Experience: Lessons from Abroad,” Heinz Endowments

Symposium on “Global Trends/Local Impacts,” December 13, 1994. Participant, European Community’s Visitors Programme, guest of the European

Parliament and the EC Commission for a 14-day visit to Brussels, Germany, and Spain, June 1994.

Chair, Nominating Committee, Comparative Politics Section, American Political

Science Association, 1992. Section Chair, “Politics and Society in Western Europe,” 1992 Annual Meeting of

American Political Science Association, 1992.

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Presentation, “Environmental Politics in the European Community,” co-sponsored by

the Institute on Western Europe and the Italian Academy, held at Columbia University, New York, February 12, 1992.

“The Transformation of the EC: Should the US Care?” The Eloise Buskin Rollnick

Lecture, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Council on WNID Affairs, November 5, 1991.

Conference participant, “Italy: Political, Social, and Economic Change Since 1945,”

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, February 1-4, 1987.

Discussant, “State Structures and Public Policy,” Annual Meeting of the Midwest

Political Science Association, April 8-11, 1987. Presentation, “Cities as Investors: Capital Investments, Capital Markets and Law in

Great Britain and the United States,” University Seminar on the Changing Metropolis in America, Columbia University, New York, October 23, 1986.

Participant, “Les Relations Communauté Européenne-Etats-Unis,” Commission pour

l'étude des Communautés Européennes (CEDEC) Aix-en-Provence, France, October 9-10, 1986.

Section chair, “Comparative Politics: Publics, Leaders, and Institutions,” 1986

Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 1986. Conference participant, Urban Affairs Quarterly Conference, St. Louis, MO,

February 21-23, 1986. Discussant, “Institutionalizing Social Choice,” Fifth International Conference on

Europeanists, Washington, October 18-20, 1985. Discussant, “Comparative Policy Studies: The State of the Art,” 13th World Congress

of the International Science Association, Paris, July 1985. Conference participant, “The Thatcher Government and British Political Economy,”

Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 19-20, 1985. Presentation,” Can Western Europe Compete? The Welfare State and the

International Economy,” Seminar on National and International Development, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, November 22, 1984.

Discussant, “The Intersection of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’: Studies in Energy Decision-

Making,” 1984 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

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Presentation, “Borrowed Money and Borrowed Time: Politics, Finance, and Social Services in Great Britain and the United States,” British Politics Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 13, 1984.

Discussant, “Cross-National Studies of Political Executives,” 1983 Annual Meeting

of the American Political Science Association, 1983.. Participant, Seminar on Public-Private Partnerships, Kennedy School, Harvard

University, 1983. Participant, Workshop on Urban Fiscal Problems, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,

October 1981. Presentation, “Governments and Markets: A Comparative Perspective,” Graduate

School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 29, 1981.

Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of

Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, summer 1980. Discussant, The United Kingdom as a Multinational State,” conference, Ross Priory,

UK, June 1980. Discussant, “Urban Growth and Change,” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political

Science Association, 1980. Discussant, “Eurocommunism: Myth and Reality in the Modern World,” Duquesne

University History Forum, 1979. Discussant, “The Welfare State in Comparative Perspective: Performance or

Backlash?” 1979 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1979. Presentation, “Cities, Capital, and Banks: The Private Sector and Urban Finance,”

Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1979. Participant, Round Table Discussion on Resource Allocation and Territorial Politics,

Conference of Europeanists, Washington, March 29-31, 1979. Discussant, “Cross-National Comparative Public Policy,” 1978 Annual Meeting of

the American Political Science Association, 1978. Discussant, “Urban Financial Problems,” Congress of the International Sociological

Association, Uppsala, Sweden, 1978. Discussant, “The Western European City: Problems and Prospects,” Annual Meeting

of the International Association, 1978.

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Discussant, “Continuities and Revisions in Urban Politics,” 1977 Annual Meeting of

the Midwest Political Science Association, 1977. Presentation, “The PCI-Oppositional Government Party?” 1977 Annual Meeting of

the International Studies Association, 1977. Lecture, Workshop on Center-Periphery Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,

February 1975. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND BOARDS

Chair, European Community Studies Association (ECSA), 1993-1995; Member,

Executive Committee, 1995-1997; Executive Committee, Ex Officio Member, 1997-present.

Member, American Political Science Association Investment and Development

Committee (for overseeing the APSA’s endowment), 2009-2011. Member, Advisory Committee of the “New” EGPA Permanent Study Group on

Intergovernmental Relations and EU Administration and Multi-Level Governance, 2010. Member, Steering Group, MERCURY (Multilateralism and the EU in the

Contemporary Global Order), Seventh Framework Research Programme, 2009. Member, Executive Committee of American Political Science Association’s Section

on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations for the Elazar Award, 2007. Member, Executive Committee of American Political Science Association Section on

Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, 2007. Member, European Science Foundation (ESF) Pool of Reviewers, 2006-2007. Member, International Expert for European Studies, UK Research Assessment

Exercise (RAE) (The results of the RAE exercise shaped public funding priorities for university research), 2005-2009.

Member, University of Pittsburgh Special Committee for Honors Convocations and

Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients, October 1, 2005-August 31, 2009.

Member, Selection Board for Joint Chair in Transatlantic Studies, European

University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2005-2007.

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Scientific Advisory Board (one of five scholars), CONNEX (EU Network of Excellence: Connecting Excellence on European Governance) that brings together roughly 170 researchers from 43 European institutions (Director is Prof. Beate Kohler-Koch, University of Mannheim), June 2004-June 2007.

Member, Board of Directors, Instituzioni Mercati Tecnologie, Lucca, Italy, 2004. Advisory Committee Member, University Times, Books and Journals supplement,

University of Pittsburgh, 2002. Selected as Member of the Public Policy Jury for the Heinz Awards, The Heinz

Family Foundation, Pittsburgh, September 2001, 2002, 2003. Selected as Member of the International Academic Advisory Board for the Institute

of European Co-Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 2001. Board Member, International Political Science Association RC-3, 2000-2006. Council for European Studies, Advisory Board, 1999. Member, Research Support Program Selection Committee, German Marshall Fund of

the United States' Research Fellowship Program, 1999.

Member, Advanced Placement (College Board) Government and Politics Committee, Educational Testing Service, 1996-1998.

Vice President, ECSA-World, 1994-1996. President, Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society (CONGRIPS), 1995-

1997; Vice President, Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society (CONGRIPS) 1993-1995; Executive Secretary-Treasurer, 1988-1997.

Permanent member, Research Committee on European Unification, International

Political Science Association, June 1993. Member, Research Support Program Selection Committee, German Marshall Fund of

the United States, Research Fellowship Program, 1991. Member, Agnelli Foundation Committee for Italian Studies, 1989-1992. The Brookings Institution: Project Director and Project Editor, “European Political

Institutions and Policymaking After 1992” (Partially funded by the German Marshall Fund), 1989-1992.

Chair, Committee on Research Planning Groups, Council for European Studies, 1989,

1990.

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Member, Executive Council, Urban Politics and Urban Policy Section, American

Political Science Association, 1988-1990. Member, Discipline Screening Committee for Fulbright Scholar Awards in Political

Science, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 1988-1991; Chair 1990. Executive Committee (elected member), Council for European Studies, 1989-1994,

1985-1989. Elected to Steering Committee of Council of European Studies, 1985-1989. Member, Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Council for European Studies

1974-1976; 1985-1988; Chair of Committee, 1987, 1988. Member, Nominating Committee, Conference Group on Italian Politics, 1985-1986.

EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS

Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin of Italian Politics, 2008-present.

Comparative European Politics, 2002-present.

Journal of Common Market Studies, Editorial Advisory Board, 1998- present.

Journal of European Integration, (Canada) Editorial Advisory Board, 1996-present. The European Union Review, Member, Scientific Board, published by Associazione Universitaria Di Studi Europei (ECSA-Italy), 1996-present.

The Journal of Regional and Federal Studies, 1995-present.

European Journal of Political Research, 2002-2008.

Journal of International Relations and Development, Editorial Board, February 2000-2008. Handbook of European Union Politics, SAGE, Advisory Board, 2004-2006. European Union Politics, International Advisory Board, 1998-2007. Governance, 1996-2006.

Publius, 2005.

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International Insights, PIE-Peter Lang, 2004. European Political Science, 2002-2004.

Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 1995-2000. Encyclopedia of the European Union (D. Dinan, ed.), Lynne Rienner, Advisory Board, 1996-1998. Journal of Public Policy, 1995-2000. American Journal of Political Science, 1991-1993. Urban Affairs Quarterly, Associate Editor, 1986-1989. GRANTS RECEIVED

European Union Center of Excellence grant, European Commission (1998, 2001,

2004, 2005, and 2008). Special joint grant with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh for Outreach,

European Commission (2005). US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant (1994,

1997, 2000, 2003, and 2006). US Department of Education Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship

(FLASF) grant (1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006). National Science Foundation, “Fiscal Crises in Local Government: Comparative

Evidence from Two Federal Systems,” with Mark Hallerberg (2000-2002). Faculty Research Grant from Harvard Business School for project “The Political

Economy of Local Government Borrowing in the United States” (2003). Faculty Research Grant from the University of Pittsburgh and from the Centre for the

Study of Public Policy, Strathclyde University, Scotland, for project “The Political Economy of Local Government Borrowing: Central-Local Relations in Great Britain” (1980).

University of Pittsburgh Faculty Research Grant for project, “The Political Economy

of Banking and Local Government Borrowing in Great Britain: A Look at the Actors” (1978).

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University of Pittsburgh Faculty Research Grant for project “The Political Economy of the Urban Fiscal Crisis: Central-Local Financial Relations in the US, UK, and France” (1977).

University of Pittsburgh Faculty Research Grant for project “Federalism and State

Land-Use Policy: A Case Study of the Bureau of Land Management’s Relationships with the State of Nevada” (1975). RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Interviewing of European Community officials, Brussels, November 1989, July 1993,

June 1994, and numerous times since then. Interviewing of British central government officials, August 1987. Interviewing of Boston officials and New York City investment bankers, September

1983-January 1984. Interviewing of British city treasurers and money brokers, summer 1980 and summer

1978. Preliminary interviewing in England and Scotland relative to urban finance, August

1977. Research in San Francisco concerning urban finance including interviewing

commercial and investment bankers and city finance officials, summer 1977. Field research in Washington, DC, and Nevada concerning the role of the Bureau of

Land Management in Nevadan land-use politics, summer 1975. Dissertation field research in Milan and Rome concerning public housing policy,

October 1972-December 1973. Pre-doctoral dissertation research in Italy, summer 1971. Research concerning “community control of police” projects with field research of a

pilot project in Washington, DC, January-June 1970. Research Assistant for Matthew Holden, Jr., on a project concerning the political

influence of “white ethnics” within urban areas, January-December 1970. Continued this research along my own lines, concentrating on the political influence of Italo-Americans, January-June 1971.

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COURSES TAUGHT University of Pittsburgh

Comparative Federalism (graduate) The Politics of the European Union (graduate and undergraduate) EU and the Developing World (capstone seminar) Technology, Competitiveness, and the Problem of Unemployment (undergraduate) American Public Policy Italian Politics Urban Economic Development in the United States (graduate; co-taught; cross-listed

with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the School of Social Work)

Introduction to Comparative Politics Introduction to American Politics Western European Politics Western European Political Systems (graduate) Cities of the World US Urban Politics Comparative Urban Politics Politics and the Environment (first-year seminar) Government in the Economy (focusing on the United States and Western Europe) Women and Government Pittsburgh, the Nation, and the World (co-taught)

Harvard Business School Business, Government, and the International Economy (required first-year MBA

course)

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TEACHING AWARDS

Faculty Honor Roll, University of Pittsburgh’s Student Government Board, 2000,

spring semester. Apple of the Year, College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh, fall 1984-

1985, winter 1985-1986. Golden Key National Honor Society, Honorary Membership, October 1993.

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS AND HONORS Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair, University of Pittsburgh, 2006-2010. Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, European Commission, 2005-present. Medaglia D’Oro (Gold Medal Award to those of Lucchesi Heritage, Lucca, Italy). Diplôme d’Etudes de Civilisation française, Degré Supérieur, Université de Paris

(Sorbonne), Paris, June 1968. BA, magna cum laude, Holy Names College, May 1969.

Graduate Honors Wisconsin Ford Fellow, January-June 1971 and January-August 1972. Council of Western European Studies pre-doctoral dissertation grant, summer 1971. Wisconsin Ford Teaching Assistantship, September-December 1971. Fulbright Fellow (Italy), October 1972-October 1973. Selected as an Italian Fulbright representative to the 19th Berlin Seminar for

Fulbright grantees in Berlin, April 1973. Grant from the International Institute for the Management of Technology (Milan,

Italy) to attend the Institute’s seminar on “The Management of Technology in Cities: An Integrated Systems Approach,” October 8-12, 1973.

Wisconsin Ford fellow (granted by the Institute for the Comparative Study of Post-Industrial Societies), November 1973-June 1974.

LANGUAGES French and Italian. DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

Member of Faculty Tenure Committee, 2006-2007. Chair, Faculty Tenure Committee, 2005-2006. Chair, Search Committee in European Union Politics, 2005-2007. Chair, Committee on the Future of the Department, 2004.

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Member, Search Committee in Public Law, 2001-2002. Chair, Search Committee for a position in West European Politics, 1998-1999. Chair, Search Committee for the Andrew Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics,

1993-1994. Chair of Awards Committee, 1988-1989. Member of Faculty Advisory Committee, 1985-1987. Member of numerous recruitment committees. Member of Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1984-1985. Member of Committee to select nominees for Falk Chair. Departmental Chair Selection Committee (representing assistant professors), 1976. Member of numerous MA and PhD examination committees. Member of committee that formulated the “Public Policy” concentration at the Master

level. Library Representative, numerous years.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE Member, Promotion Committee to Full Professor for Randall Halle, the Jonas Chair

in the German Department, 2007-2008. Member, Vice Provost for Research Committee on Industry-University Relations,

2006-2007. Member, Promotion Committee to Full Professor for Gerd Gemunden, Department of

Germanic Languages and Literatures. Member, Arts and Sciences Planning and Budget Committee, 2004-2007. Chairman, Ilya Prizel’s Review Committee, 2004. Annual lecture on the European Union to the Governor’s School for International

Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 Presentation, “The EU’s Institutional Reforms,” Alumni College, Graduate School of

Public and International Affairs, March 27, 2004. Judge, Model European Union simulation, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown,

March 20, 2004. Presentation, “The European Union: An Overview,” Executive MBA program,

University of Pittsburgh, February 27, 2004. Presentation, “Is the European Union in Trouble? Reflections on the Current State of

the EU,” European Union Center Roundtable, University of Pittsburgh, January 29, 2004. Member, College of Arts and Sciences Council, 2002-2003 and January-May 2004. Member, Middle States Self-Study Committee, 2001-2002. Member, University of Pittsburgh Senate University Press Committee, 2001-2009. Chair, Search Committee for Director of Russian and East European Studies,

1997-1998. Member of the Faculty Planning Advisory Committee (FPAC) for the Faculty of Arts

and Sciences (FAS), 1997. Member of Advisory Board, International Business Center. Member, Foreign Culture/International Committee, 1994.

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Member, Internal Review Committee, Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, 1995.

Member, University Research Council, 1994-1995 Member, University Library System Space Planning Committee, 1993-1994 Member, International Task Force, College of Arts and Sciences, 1991-1992 Member, Search Committee for Director of University Library System, 1991-1992 Member, FAS Self-Appraisal Committee, 1990-91 Address, “Public Management and Democratic Accountability: The American

Dilemma,” Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, March 2, 1988. Numerous tenure review committees Committee on Foreign Languages and Cultures, 1986-1990, 1990-1994 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Council, 1986-89 Faculty Council (1977-79), School of General Studies (concerning problems of adult

education) Academic Integrity Review Committee Organizer of International Group within the Environmental Studies Seminar Group

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Lecture, “The European Union: An Overview,” Fox Chapel High School, May 18, 2009.

Keynote, “The New Politics of Pipelines and Energy in Europe,” Cum Laude Ceremony, The Ellis School, February 5, 2009.

Member, 2003 Yom Hashoa Organizing Committee for Yom Hashoa Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 29, 2003, Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation, Pittsburgh.

Juror, Selection Committee for the Heinz Award in Public Policy, Heinz Family Foundation, 2001, 2002; 2003 (Chair).

“The Triumph of the Euro,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 30, 2001. Numerous lectures on a variety of topics to community business and professional

groups. Vice Chair, International Business Forum, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh. Lecturer, Board of Public Education, International Studies Seminar, 1986-1988. Member, Housing Task Force, Urban League of Pittsburgh, 1986-1988. Chair, Hearing on “Industrial Competitiveness and the American Economy” for the

Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the US Economy, Pittsburgh, September 10, 1984.

BOOK REVIEWS Conference Group on Italian Politics Newsletter, British Politics Group Newsletter,

Journal of Public Policy, American Political Science Review, Annals.

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DISSERTATION COMMITTEE Matthew Holden, Jr. (Chair) Leon N. Lindberg Austin Ranney

FIELD AND DISSERTATION

Comparative Urban Policy and Administration “Urban Autonomy Within the Unitary State: A Case Study of Public Housing Politics

in Milan, Italy” A case study of public housing policy in Milan, Italy, with emphasis on the local

bureaucracy’s relationships with both the elected city administration and those central agencies (in Rome) relevant to this policy sector. The study is an exploratory attempt at examining a centralized system’s actual operation at the local level within a specific policy sector.

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