Main fields of research are: public policies, policy making,
interests groups in Italy and abroad; environmental policy,
agricultural policy; european governance and integration process of
EU integration; along the years, the fields she investigated the
most have been: public policies and policy process, european
governance and the legislative process in the Italian political
system. She also takes part to research projects concerning the EU
governance and recently the Italian interest groups.
Integration theories in the deepening and widening of European
Union (URGE-Unit on governance and policies in the EU,concluded);
agricultural policy making, the CAP reforms and the WTO challenges
(individual research project phased in various steps: Italian
agricultural policy and the PAC; policy change in the PAC reforms
and Europeanization; comparative analysis of domestic agricultural
policy change); law making and legislative processes in the Italian
Parliament in selected areas of policy (PRIN project for 2008-2009,
DSP local unit coordinated by prof. Giliberto Capano;
national group coordinated by prof. Francesco Zucchini, University
of Milan; application submitted in October 2007); Eu governance and
local-metropolitan governance and public policies (research project
commissioned by Department of Funzione Pubblica, Ministero per le
Riforme e Innovazioni della PA). Recently, the study of Italian
interest groups, the lobbies in the EU policy making and the Media
and the Interest Groups Strategies represent the main topics of
research; these activities keep the same approach of policy
studies with reference to publications on Agenda, Policy
change and lobbying by Baumgartner Jones and Others.
