Manuele Citi

Manuele Citi graduated with honors in Political Science from the University of Pisa, and obtained a Master of Research in Political Science from the European University Institute. In June 2009 he earned a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute.

In his Ph.D. Dissertation, “Patterns of Policy Evolution in the EU: The Case of Research and Technology Development Policy,” he studied the way in which policies evolve in the EU, and in particular the conditions under which long chains of incremental changes are interrupted (or “punctuated”) by discontinuous policy changes, with a focus on research and technology development policy.

While writing his doctoral dissertation Manuele spent a period of training and research at the European Commission (in 2006), and at the University of Manchester (in 2007), for which he was awarded a grant by the EU-funded PRIME network of excellence.

Manuele’s research interests include: public policy and the analysis of policy change, the politics and policies of the European Union, science and technology policy, the political economy of institutional change, and the new modes of governance. Among his publications are two co-authored articles on the Open Method of Coordination and the New Modes of Governance in the EU, and one co-authored article on the emergence of a European defence R&D and procurement space (forthcomig in 2009).