Dr Bernardo Rangoni
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

Bernardo Rangoni (PhD, LSE) is a tenured Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Politics at the University of York, where he leads the Postgraduate Programs in Public Policy and convenes the Public Policy Research Cluster. 

A former Fellow in Political Economy at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), his work has also been supported by a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship awarded by the European Union and visiting fellowships at institutions such as Yale Law School.

Research

Overview

Bernardo Rangoni researches on governance and regulation, with a focus on markets and firms. He is the sole author of the book, Experimentalist Governance: From Architectures to Outcomes, published by Oxford University Press (2023).

His work is regularly published in leading academic journals, including:

• Journal of European Public Policy
• Journal of Common Market Studies
• European Union Politics
• Regulation & Governance
• Governance

He has also co-edited special issues for Regulation & Governance and Governance.

Bernardo’s current projects include exploring regulatory metrics and the complex relationships between regulation and trust, building on work previously supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. He is also developing a new comparative project that uses Big Tech as a case of giant firms dominating fast-changing markets, to critically examine “dynamic governance”—a promising, unconventional regulatory model that is dialectic and iterative by design.

Available PhD research projects

Bernardo works in the fields of governance and regulation, public policy, and political economy, and is happy to supervise PhD students in these areas.

Teaching

Other teaching

Bernardo teaches and convenes modules at the University of York, with a focus on interdisciplinary research, critical thinking, and practical applications. At the postgraduate level, he created the “Regulation and Governance” module and re-designed “Theories of the Policy Process,” which he also convenes. He also contributes to the “Public Management and Delivery” module. At the undergraduate level, he teaches “York Policy Lab” and has helped teach “Research Design.”

His teaching experience extends beyond York, with guest lectures delivered at Harvard University and Yale Law School. His commitment to teaching excellence was recognized with a departmental excellence nomination at the LSE in 2021.

External activities

Overview

Bernardo’s work is informed by policy-relevant experience, including time as an analyst at Oxford Economic Research Associates and as an advisor for the Union of the European Electricity Industry.

He continues to engage with policymakers and business leaders, both as interviewees for his research and as potential beneficiaries of his findings.

A key highlight of his activity is the organization of high-impact workshops that have culminated in special issues in top-tier journals. These include the workshops Regulation and (Dis)Trust and Reversing Delegation? Politicization, De-Delegation, and Non-Majoritarian Institutions, both held at the EUI.

He is an active contributor to international research networks such as the International Public Policy Association (IPPA) and the International Association on Regulation & Governance (IARG). He regularly serves as a reviewer for a number of leading journals and for major publishers such as Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.