Maurizio Ferrera

Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science and President of the Graduate School in Social and Political Studies of the University of Milan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione Luigi Einaudi, in Turin, and has been Visiting Professor in several foreign universities, including the European University Institute, UC-Berkeley, McGill and the LSE. He has served on various national and EU-level advisory commissions as well as several editorial boards of academic journals and publishers.

maurizio.ferrera@unimi.it

17 August 2019

Conclusion: a boost to ESU building

By Maurizio Ferrera

In his conclusion to the ESU debate, Maurizio Ferrera distills a brief summary of the discussion, and adds further remarks on “how to piece the ESU together”, as well as his hopes of advancement for the post-election new legislature.

3 December 2018

Crafting the ESU – Towards a roadmap for delivery

By Maurizio Ferrera

We have an Economic and Monetary Union. We must pronounce the birth of a fully-fledged institutional counterpart: a European Social Union (ESU). The year 2017 sealed the adoption of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), an important and valuable step forward, but not enough.

9 September 2018

Racism and integration – A dialogue between Maurizio Ferrera and Daniel Little

By Maurizio Ferrera and Daniel Little

Can we say that racism is not only a mental construct but a real property of the US economic, social and political structure?

9 July 2018

Order in the Eurozone – A dialogue between Claus Offe and Maurizio Ferrera

By Maurizio Ferrera and Claus Offe

The German framing of the problem of the EMU and the EU is often described and criticized as an obsession with "order".

16 June 2018

Re-solidarizing Europe and defusing the crisis

By Maurizio Ferrera and Carlo Burelli

As famously argued by Max Weber, world images and visions can sometimes operate as switchmen, channelling historical developments towards new directions.

28 May 2018

The European Union as a project of ‘recognition’

By Giulia Bistagnino and Maurizio Ferrera

Effectively responding to the existing negative emotions (fear, resentment, etc.) directed towards European institutions and essential to the rise of the populist movements requires a new commitment on new premises, a renewed regime of equal respect, equal dignity and political equality.

5 March 2018

Snubbed and impoverished by the élites? Why voters back populists in France and Italy

By Maurizio Ferrera

EuVisions’ Director, Maurizio Ferrera, and Marc Lazar, professor at Sciences Po and LUISS University in Rome, met in Milan on the occasion of a meeting organised by the Foundation Corriere della Sera Milano, to discuss populism in Europe.

1 February 2018

Welfare states and the “liberal paradox” – An interview with Thomas Faist

By Maurizio Ferrera and Thomas Faist

We should not forget that right-wing populism at first sight appear as a corrective to the current market liberalizing regimes in Europe. Yet such a view is deceiving. In reality, right-wing populists are the beneficiaries of market radical, neo-liberal policies of many member state governments.

6 November 2017

Social Summit 2017: restoring the legitimacy of the EU

By Maurizio Ferrera and Alexander Damiano Ricci

The official proclamation of the Pillar of Social Rights on the occasion of the next Social Summit in Gothenburg serves a specific objective: correcting the negative spillovers caused by the rigid application of EU principles, such as fiscal discipline and freedom of movement.

26 October 2017

With Kurz and Rutte, Merkel won allies in reshaping the EU

By Maurizio Ferrera and Alexander Damiano Ricci

After the elections of 2017, The Hague and Vienna share similar views on the priorities at the EU governance level. The latter developments could have a direct effect on the power balance between France and Germany over a potential EU reform.

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«Political conditionality has been used to stave off some pressure by allowing stronger control on the policy. This in turn has allowed the policy to grow to be a successful institution. Was this a good deal or there are sunken costs whose consequences are still to unravel?»

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