Biography

A political scientist specialised in public policy, Claudio Radaelli (BSc in Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi, PhD in political science, University of Florence) joined the Florence School of Transnational Governance as Professor in September 2020. His research interests include the policy process of the European Union, policy learning, the roles and usages of expertise and policy narratives in public policy and administration, regulation and regulatory analysis tools.

Professor Radaelli was awarded two advanced grants by the European Research Council. He co-authored Designing Rulemaking: How Regulatory Policy Instruments Matter for Governance (OUP, 2024) and co-edited with Fabrizio De Francesco The Elgar Companion to the OECD (Elgar, 2023).

He is currently engaged in two Horizon Projects, MORES (on Moral Emotions in Politics) and RADAR (Renewing Administration through Democratic Anchorage Reforms). At the School, he teaches MA and Executive Education Courses on public policy and regulation. He is the Academic Director of the Policy Leader Fellowship (PLF) program. Claudio is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Public Policy Association and chief editor of the International Review of Public Policy.

Claudio is on long-term leave from University College London where he is the Chair of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science. Prior to UCL, he was Director of the Centre for European Governance at the University of Exeter (2004-2018) and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Bradford. In the past, he co-directed at the EUI the RSC Forum on International Regulatory Competition and Cooperation and was Jean Monnet Fellow at the RSC.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Expert Knowledge and Authority in Transformative Times
• Moral emotions in politics
• Renewing administration through democratic anchorage reforms

Completed

• European nonviolence network
• Procedural Tools for Effective Governance

Supervisees

• Lorenzo Mascioli
• Daniela Heimpel
• Marylou Hamm
• Moritz Wassum

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• RADAELLI, Claudio M. (2025), Theories of the policy process : chronicling the past and looking to the future , Article
• ZAKI, Bishoy Louis; RADAELLI, Claudio M. (2024), Measuring policy learning : challenges and good practices , Article
• RADAELLI, Claudio M.; ZAKI, Bishoy Louis (2024), Expanding the horizon of policy learning , Article
• RADAELLI, Claudio M.; ZAKI, Bishoy Louis (2024), Policy learning : across and beyond theories of the policy process , Book
• DRUMMOND, James; RADAELLI, Claudio M. (2024), Behavioural analysis and regulatory impact assessment , Article
• DUNLOP, Claire; KAMKHAJI, Jonathan; RADAELLI, Claudio M.; TAFFONI, Gaia; WAGEMANN, Claudius (2024), Designing rulemaking : how regulatory policy instruments matter for governance , Book

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