Joan Miró
Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Biography
Joan Miró is a postdoctoral researcher in the Beatriu de Pinós programme (AGAUR) at IBEI, where he is carrying out a research project focused on the implementation of the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility in Italy and Spain.
He had previously worked at Milan University as a postdoctoral researcher within the ERC-funded project SOLID. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests lie in European integration, particularly the socioeconomic governance of the EMU, social policy, and international political economy.
He has published in international journals, such as Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, Global Society, Review of International Political Economy, Policy Studies or Journal of European Integration. His forthcoming book, written with Maurizio Ferrera and Stefano Ronchi, is titled Social Reformism 2.0. Work, Welfare and Progressive Politics in the 21h Century (Edward Elgar).
Background and education
- (2019) PhD in Politics and International Relations, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- (2015) MA Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex
Professional memberships & affiliations
- Council of European Studies
Research
Research interests
- EU integration
- Comparative Political Economy
- Social policy
- International Political Economy
- Public policy analysis
Research projects
Policy shifts and institutional transformations in the post-pandemic EU's socioeconomic governance architecture. Beatriu De Pinós funded project.
Policy crisis and crisis politics. Sovereignty, solidarity and identity in EU post 2008.
Selected publications
- 2022.Debating fiscal solidarity in the EU: identities, values and interests in the legitimation of the NGEU programme.Journal of European Integration,44(3):307-325Link
- 2022.Towards a socially fair green transition in the EU: an analysis of the Just Transition Fund using the Multiple Streams Framework.Comparative European Politics,21:112–132Link
- 2022.Responding to the global disorder: the EU’s quest for open strategic autonomy.Global Society,37:3:315-335Link
- 2021.Abolishing politics in the shadow of austerity? Assessing the (de)politicisation of budgetary policy in crisis-ridden Spain (2008-2015).Policy Studies,42(1):6-23
- 2021.In the name of competitiveness: a discursive institutionalist analysis of the EU’s approach to labour market structural reform, 2007-2016.Socio-Economic Review,19(2):711-733
- 2021.Policy change and partisan politics: understanding family policy differentiation in two similar countries.Social Politics,28(2):451-576
- 2021.The tensions of populism in power: a discursive-theoretical analysis of the Catalan secessionist push (2006-2017).Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory,22(1):1-22Link
- 2021.Austerity’s failures and policy learning: mapping European Commission officials’ beliefs on fiscal governance in the post-crisis EU.Review of International Political Economy,28(5):1224-1248
- 2021.Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the COVID-19 crisis.West European Politics,44:5-6:1329-1352Link
- 2019.Beyond populism and institutionalism: anti-populism and the management of austerity in Spain.Constellations,26(1):116-131