Professor Antonia Baraggia
Small Group Project 2020-21
The transformation(s) of public power: the rise of conditionality
With Matteo Bonelli
The monopoly of coercive public power has traditionally distinguished the State from other forms of political organization. Today we are witnessing a radical mutation of the such a paradigm: an increasingly stronger supranational space has come to encapsulate national institutions, challenging the State’s monopoly of coercion and fostering the creation of different tools of governance. The rise of conditionality is one of the most interesting, although still undertheorized, phenomena related to ongoing transformations of the public sphere.
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Biography
Antonia Baraggia is Assistant Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Milan, Department of National and Supranational Public Law. She is Principal Investigator of the project CONFEDERAL on fiscal federalism and social rights, awarded by the Cariplo Foundation. She has been Visiting Fellow at Fordham University School of Law and at the Institute of Federalism (University of Fribourg). She holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Turin. She serves as one of the members of the Executive Board of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC), American Society of Comparative Law. Her research interests include the role of courts, economic and financial crisis, socio-economic rights, fiscal federalism considered in a comparative perspective. She authored three books and several publications in Italian and in English on the effects of the financial crisis on national constitutional systems and on the European Union, on the economic conditionality, on fundamental rights protection in comparative perspective and on the dialogue among Courts.
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