Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy

• PhD at the European University Institute (Florence)
• Professor (Full) at Pablo de Olavide University

As part of a broader research programme on the federal governance of COVID‐19 in Spain, this systematic literature review centers on the nexus between territorial politics and the coronavirus crisis. It analyses 300 publications in the Web of Science Core Collection from 2018 to 2023 through the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and...

Despite devolution, the United Kingdom possesses no mechanism to represent its four nations at the state level. Consequently, some peripheral actors use their state representative positions to ‘stand up’ for Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. This paper explores this paradox by focussing on the descriptive and substantive representation of Wales...

Though the territorial dimension of ministerial recruitment has been explored in several countries, it remains a blind spot in France. Nevertheless, the geography of political elites matters, since it tends to channel debates and national policies around specific areas. Therefore, this research note aims to fill this gap by investigating the region...

The presence and influence of peripheral elites in national political institutions is frequently handled by the press. But, oddly enough, the lack of a comprehensive vision of this issue tends to feed flashy titles alerting about the influence of some territorial groups in central institutions such as the “Scottish Raj,” the “Tartan mafia,” or the...

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En 2019 se celebró el cuadragésimo aniversario de las primeras elecciones municipales de la Transición organizadas el 3 de abril de 1979. Esta ocasión constituye una buena oportunidad para examinar la democracia española desde la perspectiva de la gobernanza local. En efecto, la Transición permitió la transformación de las administraciones locales...

RESUMEN: Con el paso de los años, el análisis de políticas públicas ha entrado a formar parte del núcleo duro de las enseñanzas universitarias en ciencias sociales y políticas. Sin embargo, La vertiente pedagógica de las políticas públicas ha sido poco debatida en la literatura especializada. Este artículo cuestiona esta situación de vacío de tres...

El uso de nuevas tecnologías en la universidad es hoy en día una competencia instrumental básica para los estudiantes. Sin embargo, es poco frecuente que se oriente a los docentes en el mundo de las aplicaciones informáticas. Esta propuesta pedagógica se basa en una selección de aplicaciones que pueden ser de interés para el análisis de políticas p...

A pesar del éxito creciente de la gamificación en la universidad, resulta sorprendente que todavía no existan estudios sobre esta innovación docente en el campo de las políticas públicas. Este artículo pretende colmar este vacío. Después de recordar los fundamentos del concepto de gamificación, sus beneficios y sus limitaciones, este artículo pone...

Are Scottish politicians regional ambassadors for Scotland in British institutions? This study explores the presence and influence of Scottish cabinet ministers and members of parliament (MPs) in British politics from 1945 to 2020. The paper shows that the traditional overrepresentation of Scots in Westminster ended in 2005. Scottish MPs have reach...

This article aims to explain why some central governments accept to hold independence referendums while others refuse to do so. For this purpose, this investigation assesses a series of seven hypotheses on 131 international cases of secession consultations from 1944 to 2021 extracted from an updated version of the Contested sovereignty dataset. The...

This report is linked to the paper entitled "Comparing Independence Referendums: Why do Some States Accept Them While Others do not?"

This report is linked to the paper entitled "Comparing Independence Referendums: Why do Some States Accept Them While Others do not?"

This dataset is linked to the paper entitled: "Comparing Independence Referendums: Why do Some States Accept Them While Others do not?"

This study focuses on Catalan cabinet ministers in democratic Spain with a view to understanding what function they perform in the central government: regional ambassador or state agent? To this end, this analysis draws on a sub-dataset comprised of 22 Catalan cabinet ministers taken from a general pool of 220 cabinet ministers and 371 ministerial...

Although frequently depicted as a purely majoritarian system, the recruitment of executive elites in Spain is said to incorporate unofficial ‘quotas’ allowing the representation of territorial minorities. But does the selection of cabinet ministers in Spain produce consociational-like effects? This study aims to answer this question through a stati...

This study consisted in undertaking a bibliographical search within the Web of Science Core Collection from January 1900 to December 2020. A total of 637 publications were identified and divided into 9 sections tackling successively the relevance of independence referendums, the biased authorship, the definition of the phenomenon, the technical fea...

Este artículo investiga la dimensión territorial del reclutamiento de las élites parlamentarias en el Reino Unido. En concreto, se centra en los diputados nacidos fuera de su distrito —los llamados «cuneros»— durante el período 2001-2019. Pese a la demanda social de candidatos locales, el parachutage está lejos de desaparecer. Esta contradicción es...

Spanish citizens have traditionally supported the European Union (EU) in times of economic growth. However, this support declined since the imposition of the austerity measures intended to address the 2008 economic crisis. In their investigation on the nature of Euroscepticism, Hooghe, Marks and Wilson demonstrated that far-left and far-right polit...

Why do central states accept holding independence referendums if they could lose a part of their territory during this process? Several variables have been proposed to explain this contradiction, but the most robust one has proved to be the competition-proximity model formulated by Qvortrup (2014). This paper challenges this theory by stressing the...

Much has been said about recurrent conflicts between the government of Spain and the executives of autonomous communities. Drawing on mixed methods, this research explores some of the deterrents of the centre–periphery quarrels in Spain. This investigation operationalizes intergovernmental tensions through a quantitative data set based on several l...

El análisis de políticas públicas es hoy en día una asignatura consolidada en España. Sin embargo, todavía faltaba un manual que recogiese la información disponible de forma didáctica y atractiva. Éste es el reto de la presente obra, pensada por y para la docencia y la investigación básica. En "Análisis de Políticas Públicas" el lector encontrará u...

C’est à juste titre que les élections autonomiques andalouses du 2 décembre 2018 ont été extrêmement commentées en Espagne et dans le reste de l’Europe. En confirmant la perte de voix du Parti socialiste andalou (Partido Socialista Obrero Español - Andalucía, PSOE-A), ces élections régionales ont permis l’accès au pouvoir du Parti populaire d’Andal...

This article centres on the variety of indexes of decentralization. The first section reviews and compares a dataset consisting of 25 decentralization indexes according to a series of items, namely: the definition of territorial autonomy, the kind of units of analysis, the number of cases, the nature of variables, the timescale, the measurement fre...

This study focuses on the role of the Spanish Constitutional Court in the state of autonomies between 1980 and 2014. It questions the evolution of the court in two fields. First, it demonstrates that the court profoundly shaped the contours of the devolution process through a dynamic of ‘judicialization’. Second, this research analyzes the politici...

This article proposes a framework for studying the territorial political capacity of regions in Europe. The proposed framework identifies three main dimensions of territorial political capacity. Mainly material indicators include institutions and institutional resources. Mixed material and constructed indicators centre on causal mechanisms of party...

As in other federal-like countries, intergovernmental relations in Spain are characterised by a series of conflicts between central and regional governments. But, which factors explain this dynamic of contention? This investigation operationalises intergovernmental conflicts through a specific dataset constituted by the volume of contestations betw...

This chapter investigates the relationship Spanish members of national and regional parliaments have with the European Union (EU). Initially the main hypothesis relied on the “ever-closer union” approach. As Spain is one of the European countries that benefits most from European financial transfers, one would expect the Spanish parliamentary to be...

This article focuses on the concept of the ‘social-democratic’ dliemma through the study of the Spanish region of Andalusia. Led by social democrats since the democratic Transition, the Andalusian government has developed a specific territorial model that has been challenged by the austerity measures adopted by the conservative cabinet ruling the c...

This article focuses on the concept of the 'social-democratic' dliemma through the study of the Spanish region of Andalusia. Led by social democrats since the democratic Transition, the Andalusian government has developed a specific territorial model that has been challenged by the austerity measures adopted by the conservative cabinet ruling the c...

Este artículo se centra en las tensiones entre los Gobiernos de Cataluña y de España, usando como proxy el número de impugnaciones anuales entre estos dos entes ante el Tribunal Constitucional entre 1984 y 2014. Por una parte, las estadísticas descriptivas demuestran que Cataluña es la región más conflictiva del Estado. Por otra parte, las estadíst...

As in other countries, the Spanish upper chamber is facing harsh criticisms. It has failed to fulfil its constitutional task as a chamber of territorial representation. Notwithstanding a number of proposed reforms, the Senado has remained almost unchanged since its creation in 1978. So why is it so difficult to restructure this chamber? This resear...

This paper focuses on the institutionalization of policy analysis in Spain from 1975 to 2010 from a historical-bibliometric perspective. This study is based on a database of 209 articles (out of 3 098) published in five of the main Spanish scientific journals of sociology and political science. This process of diffusion was not homogeneous in terms...

This paper aims to quantify and compare the 177 European cross-border regions (CBR) according to their policy activity between 1959 and 2012. Different variables (number of cross-border regional partners, legal status, physical border effect, cross-border regional growth, domestic product per capita, level of territorial autonomy, integrated govern...

Despite harsh criticisms, Spanish provincial governments (diputaciones) have survived for 200 years and have remained practically unchanged since the Transition. The survival of diputaciones in a proto-regional state is clearly a paradox that requires consideration of a range of potential explanations. Drawing upon extensive empirical investigation...

La crise de 2008 a eu des conséquences politiques importantes sur la décentralisation en Espagne. La hausse du déficit et de la dette publique a conduit le Gouvernement espagnol à imposer un programme d’austérité aux régions. Ce programme a eu pour effet de recentraliser considérablement la politique territoriale. Sans remettre en cause l’hypothèse...

El análisis de políticas públicas es hoy en día una asignatura consolidada en España. Sin embargo, todavía faltaba un manual que recogiese la información disponible de forma didáctica y atractiva. Éste es el reto de la presente obra, pensada por y para la docencia y la investigación básica. En "Análisis de Políticas Públicas" el lector encontrará...

Spanish Territorial Governance and the Challenge of Economic Crisis: Towards Recentralization? Has the economic crisis modified the political equilibria of Spanish territorial governance? Everything seems to suggest that this system is experiencing two forms of stress: centripetal and centrifugal. The centripetal dynamic is driven by the public deb...

This article engages questions of policy convergence and divergence in four social-democratic European regions (Andalucía, Brittany, Wales, and Wallonia) in a period of economic crisis and ongoing political decentralization. It develops an analytical framework, the “States of Convergence,” as a useful heuristic for understanding the interplay betwe...

In the space of just 20 years, internal cross-border co-operation (CBC) has transformed from a marginal issue for European integration into an important strand of the third objective of European Union's (EU's) regional policy. How might this process of transformation be explained? This study intends to reconstruct the chronology of its development...

France is usually considered as the symbol of cultural unification and homogeneity. It is commonly (and, in part, correctly) assumed that the process of political centralization in France profoundly shaped the language preferences of citizens. Nevertheless, sociological surveys reveal a tension between the Jacobin Republican drive for uniformity an...

This paper focuses on the progressive institutionalization of the Basque language policy (also called Euskera) in the French Basque Country (Iparralde) since the Second World War. In view of this, it questions how such a policy programme emerged in such a centralized country as France. According to this study, this policy shift was favoured not onl...

Cognitive approaches have become very fashionable in the field of policy analysis. Nevertheless, despite a common label, cognitive policy analyses vary greatly from one author to the next. So, are policy analysts talking about the same thing? Drawing on the dichotomy established by Sperber between soft cognition and hard cognition, we guess that no...

Assuming that structural funds are the catalyst for new forms of governing within the member states, this paper focuses on the process of Europeanization through the comparison of three cases of implementation of the INTERREG programme for cross-border co-operation. It questions the capacities of the European Commission to encourage the regional an...

Multiculturalism and linguistic policy. The republic against regional languages ? France is often considered as a culturally homogeneous state-nation. However, although French remains the main used language, several minority languages are still spoken within the state borders. This paper focuses on political claims for regional languages since Worl...

In this paper we investigate the impact of the implementation of EU programmes on substate actors, and more specifically regional ones. We focus on the case of the INTERREG cross-border initiative in France and Spain between 2000 and 2003, and whether INTERREG succeeded in empowering regional governments and local authorities as it initially claime...

This article questions the so-called ‘crisis’ in French policy analysis, a sub-field that supposedly suffers from its closedness with respect to the international mainstream. Through a bibliometric analysis, we confirm that policy analysis has established itself as an important research area in French political science. Then, we demonstrate that th...

Since the 1980s, cognitive analysis of public policies has become increasingly fashionable. This paper examines this current in public policy and its relationship to other cognitive sciences such as neurosurgery, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. We ask what kinds of theoretical transfer have taken place between these to date. After...

Depuis les années 1980 les approches cognitives des politiques publiques rencontrent un grand succès. Nous nous interrogeons ici sur leur contenu en le confrontant à la cognition telle que la pensent les sciences du même nom (principalement ici la psychologie cognitive) qualifiée de cognition forte. Après avoir défini trois types d'intégration des...

It is well known that increased European integration has encouraged new forms of governing within the member states. This paper focuses on the process of Europeanization by comparing the implementation of the cross-border co-operation programme INTERREG in three separate cases. This article questions the capacity of the European Commission to encou...

Since the 1980s, cognitive approaches to public policies have been fashionable. in this paper we ask for the cognitive of such approaches content by confronting them to cognition as it is conceptualised by the cognitive sciences (principally cognitive psychology) that we call strong cognition. Having defined three cases of integration of these cogn...

In this article, we examine the existence of a public media space in the frontier area of the towns of Hendaye (in France), and Irun and Hondarribia (in Spain), located on the Atlantic coast around the bay of Txingudi in the Basque Country. Since 1988, these three towns are linked together by a cross-frontier agreement called Consorcio Bidasoa-Txin...

Alors que le monde universitaire débat sur l’opportunité d’imposer un noyau dur aux études européennes, une analyse des pratiques au sein de l’Institut Universitaire Européen de Florence est susceptible d’apporter quelques éléments de réflexion. Si dans un premier temps, l’Institut retenait une conception large de l'Europe tandis que le Robert Schu...

Résumé Depuis l’entrée en vigueur de l’Acte Unique, les accords de coopération transfrontalière se multiplient en Europe. À partir de la comparaison des principales structures de coopération transfrontalière pyrénéennes nous cherchons à déterminer quels sont les facteurs favorisant cette configuration. Il apparaît ainsi que les institutions réalisa...

Résumé Depuis les années 1980, les accords de coopération transfrontalière se multiplient en Europe. Dans cet article nous avançons l’hypothèse selon laquelle la coopération transfrontalière affecte non seulement les structures politico-administratives mais favorise aussi les recompositions identitaires. Les zones frontalières représentent ainsi de...

Since the 1980s, cross-frontier cooperation agreements in Europe have been multiplying. In this article, we argue that the regional modifications brought about by cross-frontier cooperation not only affect political administrative structures but also favour changes in notions of identity amongst local inhabitants. Frontier areas serve as "laborator...

Since the mid-1980s, ecodistricts have caught the attention of the academic world. By concentrating many of the features promoted by sustainable-development advocates, ecodistricts represent an interesting attempt to go beyond the modernist – and unsustainable – vision of the city. In recent years we have witnessed an impressive growth of ecodistri...

According to the Convention of Rio (1992) and the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997), the notion of sustainable development has become one of the driving concepts in European Union policy-making. In this paper, I focus on the case of the INTERREG III-A community initiative for specific to France and Spain, launched in 2000 by the European Commission to dev...

Though specialists of Basque language have produced a considerable amount of political, historical, anthropological and sociolinguistic studies, few scholars have analysed the evolution of ethnolinguistic mobilisations in the Basque Country. This paper aims to fulfil this academic gap by comparing the way in which ethnolinguistic movements emerged...

RESUMEN El principio de gobernanza multi-nivel rige los fondos estructurales. Este trabajo examina la "traducción" de este concepto en los casos español y francés a través del programa INTERREG que fomenta el desarrollo en las zonas fronterizas de Europa. Mientras los gobiernos autonómicos españoles han ido consolidando su posición, las autoridad...

The concept of new institutionalism has been very fashionable since the mid-1980s. This has been true in continental Europe as elsewhere. However, some authors criticise this trend arguing that many of the results of new institutionalist studies merely re-discover political aspects already revealed by continental European political scientists. By f...

In just 20 years, territorial co-operation (TC) has transformed from a marginal issue into the number three objective of European Union regional policy. How to explain this specta- cular evolution? Th e dramatic rise of TC is the result of a series of factors originating at the signing of the Single European Act in 1986. Th e dissolution of interna...

Since the mid-1980s, ecodistricts have caught the attention of the academic world. By concentrating many of the features promoted by sustainable development advocates, ecodistricts represent an interesting attempt to go beyond the modernist - and unsustainable - vision of the city. In recent years we assisted to an impressive growth of ecodistricts...