Gaia Taffoni

• PhD
• Research Associate at European University Institute

Regulating for Innovation? Insights from the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union - Volume 11 Issue 1 - Gaia TAFFONI

This chapter engages in the presentation and explanation of the dependent variables of this study: judicial independence and judicial efficiency. It presents reasons why judicial independence is considered a fundamental achievement in liberal democracies and what the minimal conditions of judicial independence are, and provides an explanation of th...

Join the authors of this new research monograph based on the ERC project Procedural Tools for Effective Governance. The book will be discussed by Professor Jonathan Wiener of Duke University and Dr. Christiane Arndt-Bascle of the OECD. Follow this link to register: https://www.eui.eu/events?id=576872

The P-Cube game aims to help students learn about how decisions are taken in the public sphere. The challenge posed by P-Cube is to translate the complexity of public decisional arenas into synthetic and realistic cases translated into digital games. The P-Cube cases have been used among university courses during the prototype phase; students and t...

Abstract Over the years the Member States of the EU and the UK have redesigned rulemaking with freedom of information acts, impact assessment of policy proposals, ombudsman and stakeholder consultation. The broad aim of this instrumentation is both to improve substantive regulatory quality and to impact on final governance outcomes. This book expl...

Explanations for collective action focus on both institutions and narratives. On the one hand, institutional approaches emphasize the role of rules that guide human behavior. On the other hand, accounting for the narratives through which policy actors make sense of their actions helps in understanding strategic behavior. However, applying instituti...

Better regulation is an agenda aiming at managing legislation across the different stages of the policy cycle. At the EU level, this agenda for reform has been handled as soft law with communications, reports, principles, and toolboxes. The ambiguity of the concept has created a policy arena where the EU institutions jockey for positions on the con...

Grand challenges are shaping twenty-first-century politics. Threats connected to health, climate, demographics and welfare are increasingly intruding on the lives of citizens. Still, governments are often found off-guard, and policymakers need strategies grounded in longer-term perspectives. Strategic foresight (SF) helps us to design and shape pol...

Innovation permeates the regulatory policy vision of European Union in the framework of the so-called ‘better regulation’ agenda. Even though both the Council and the Commission recognize the nexus between regulation and innovation, they seem to have different strategies. For the Commission, the need to steer innovation towards certain objectives j...

The case follows the activities of a fictional civil society organisation called “Eudigirights” that advocates for a balanced approach to artificial intelligence (AI) and considers citizens’ fundamental rights calling for the need to ban biometric mass surveillance. The organization launched an European Citizen Initiative (ECI) in January 2021 name...

Better regulation is an agenda aiming at managing legislation across the different stages of the policy cycle. At the EU level, this agenda for reform has been handled as soft law with communications, reports, principles, and toolboxes. The ambiguity of the concept has created a policy arena where the EU institutions jockey for positions on the con...

The European Union (EU) is engaged in a complex digital and ecological transition. The policy programmes launched by the EU to support recovery, resiliency and new modes of growth are definitively future-oriented. Foresight is therefore particularly appropriate for the current season of EU policies. The European Commission adopted the first-ever St...

Innovation is a fundamental dimension of the regulatory policy vision of European Union in the framework of the so-called ‘better regulation’ agenda. Even though both the Council and the Commission recognize the nexus between regulation and innovation, they seem to have different strategies. For the Commission, the need to steer innovation towards...

We compare the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) and the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT). Given the focus of this special issue on the NPF, we first theorize how the IGT can contribute to the development of NPF categories, but also how the former gains conceptual leverage from the latter. We argue that it is useful to consider jointly NPF and IGT a...

We draw on the Institutional Grammar Tool’s rule types to empirically analyze the design of four major procedural regulatory instruments in the 27 member states of the European Union and the UK. They are: consultation, regulatory impact assessment (RIA), freedom of information (FOI), and the Ombudsman. By adopting the IGT as conceptual lens to dire...

We draw on the Institutional Grammar Tool's rule types to empirically analyze the design of four major procedural regulatory instruments in the 27 member states of the European Union and the UK. They are: consultation, regulatory impact assessment, freedom of information, and the Ombudsman. By adopting the Institutional Grammar Tool as conceptual l...

The chapter undertakes an analysis of the judicial reforms enacted in Jordan and subsequent EU judicial support. The study of the judicial reforms carried out before and after 2011 by the Ministry of Justice of the Hashemite Kingdom shows that the Minister of Justice, legal experts and civil society organizations acted as change agents calling for...

The chapter engages in a comparative assessment of two judicial reforms and the changes enacted—or not—as a consequence of EU support for reform in Morocco and Jordan. The main hypothesis was that externally promoted judicial models are able to penetrate domestic systems only to a certain extent; the comparative analysis is able to add a further st...

Morocco is the recipient of a number of programmes and micro-projects designed to support both reforms that seek to reinforce the independence of justice and those directed towards the efficiency of the judicial system. Looking at the judicial reforms initiated by the country, it was possible to test in what direction the external support has had a...

This chapter investigates the model of justice that the EU has projected towards the Southern Mediterranean since the Arab turmoils of 2011. The results show that the discourses on rule of law and justice framed the importance of an independent and efficient judicial system. This image does not correspond to the nature or the number of projects and...

This book explores the judicial transformations in the Southern Mediterranean region and the mechanisms that trigger these changes. It analyses judicial reforms in Jordan and Morocco in the context of the EU policies to promote and diffuse democratic principles and practices in the MENA region. Based on original empirical research, the book reports...

Consultation is a policy instrument geared toward stakeholder engagement in the formulation of primary and secondary legislation. It ensures certain categories of actors can access draft proposals, examine the evidence produced by government or regulators, provide comments and receive feedback. Using an original dataset of consultation design acros...

This book explores the judicial transformations in the Southern Mediterranean region and the mechanisms that trigger these changes. It analyses judicial reforms in Jordan and Morocco in the context of the EU policies to promote and diffuse democratic principles and practices in the MENA region. Based on original empirical research, the book reports...

Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, wie das Vertrauen in den Staat und seine Gesetzgebung wiederhergestellt werden kann.

In the Southern Mediterranean region, the European Union (EU) supports the establishment of rule of law, pressuring for both the adoption of institutional guarantees of judicial independence and the enhancement of court administration capabilities. Drawing on a set of interviews with key EU and domestic actors, this study compares Morocco and Jorda...