Prof. Bob Deacon
Sheffield University (UK). Professor of International Social Policy, Director of the Globalism and Social Policy Programme (www.gaspp.org), Founding Editor of the Journal Global Social Policy: An international journal of social development and public policy. He published (2007) “Global Social Policy and Governance”, London: Sage.
Prof. Valeria Fargion
University of Florence (IT). Professor of Political Science (Organizational Theory and Compared Analysis of Public Policies), she is an ESPAnet board member. She published: “From the Southern to the Northern Question: Territorial and Social Politics in Italy”, in N. McEwen and L. Moreno (eds.) The Territorial Politics of Welfare, London, Routledge (2005). Europeizzazione e Rappresentanza territoriale. Il caso Italiano, Il Mulino (2006) (with Morlino L. Profeti S., eds.).
Prof. Yuri Kazepov
University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” (IT). Professor of Compared Welfare Systems and Urban Sociology, Director of the European Masters in Comparative Urban Studies (www.e-urbs.net) and of the Masters in Welfare Policies Management, he is an ESPAnet board member. He published (2005), Cities of Europe. Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion, Oxford: Blackwell.
Prof. Michael Keating
He joined the European University Institute (IT) in 2000 and is now the head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences. He is co-director of Regional and Federal Studies editor of the book series Regionalism and Federalism (Presses interuniversitaires européennes). He published (with J. McGarry), European Integration and the Nationalities Question (Routledge, 2006) (with N. McEwen, eds.), Devolution and Public Policy. A Comparative Perspective (Routledge, in press).
Prof. Rianne Mahon
Carlton University (CAN). Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, 1996-1999; currently Director of the Institute of Political Economy (http://www.carleton.ca/polecon/). An active member of the international advisory board for Economic and Industrial Democracy. She published (with S. Michel): Child care policy at the crossroads : gender and welfare state restructuring (Routledge, 2002) and is working onon two co-edited books - Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale (with Roger Keil) and The OECD and Transnational Governance (with Stephen McBride). Both with the University of British Columbia Press.
Prof. Steffen Mau
University of Bremen (DE). He teaches Political Sociology and Comparative Social Research and is Director of the Graduate School of Social Science (GSSS) at the University of Bremen. He is author of The Moral Economy of Welfare States. Britain and Germany Compared (Routledge, 2003) and is editing together with Stephan Leibfried the three volume reference collection Challenges to the Welfare State (Edward Elgar, 2007). He is member of the ESPAnet board.
Prof. Costanzo Ranci
Politechnic University of Milan (IT). He teaches Sociology and Social Policy and is Director of the “Social Policy Lab”. He is a board member of the Italian Journal of Social Policy and Director of the Masters in Social Planning. He published (with U. Ascoli), The New Welfare-Mix in Europe, Kluwer, New York (2002).
Prof. Saskia Sassen
Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago (US) and Centennial professor at LSE (UK) Her recent books include: Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006); Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects, Routledge, 2007.
Supervising and organization staff
Eduardo Barberis, PhD
edubar@uniurb.it
Angela Genova, PhD
a.genova@uniurb.it
Marco Arlotti, MA
marco.arlotti@uniurb.it
