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 convenes the Public Policy Research Cluster. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

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 been supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship awarded by the European Union and by visiting fellowships at institutions including Yale Law School.

Bernardo works on governance and regulation, public policy and political economy, and is happy to supervise PhD students in these fields. His current research examines whether, and how, states can steer powerful tech firms.

Research

Overview

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

His work is published in leading journals, including the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Union Politics, Regulation & Governance and Governance, and he has co-edited special issues of Regulation & Governance and Governance.

His current research asks whether, and how, states can steer powerful tech firms that have deeper pockets, move faster and know far more about their own technologies than the authorities overseeing them, while the goals of tech governance can conflict and shift. Comparing governance episodes across advanced democracies, it examines whether and how the balance of influence between public authorities, firms and other actors varies and changes.

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 application. At the postgraduate level, he created the module "Regulation and Governance", re-designed "Theories of the Policy Process", and convenes "Public Management and Delivery". At the undergraduate level, he teaches "York Policy Lab" and has contributed to "Research Design". He previously led the Department's postgraduate programmes in Public Administration and Public Policy.

He has given guest lectures at institutions including Harvard University and Yale Law School, and his teaching was recognised with a departmental excellence nomination at the LSE.

External activities

Overview

Bernardo's work is informed by policy experience as an analyst at Oxford Economic Research Associates and as an advisor to the Union of the European Electricity Industry. He engages regularly with policymakers, regulators and business leaders, both in his research and as audiences for its findings.

He has organised international workshops leading to special issues in leading journals, including "Regulation and (Dis)Trust" and "Reversing Delegation? Politicization, De-Delegation, and Non-Majoritarian Institutions", both held at the EUI.

He is active in international networks such as the International Public Policy Association (IPPA) and the International Association on Regulation & Governance (IARG). He reviews for leading journals, including Governance, the Journal of European Public Policy, Regulation & Governance, the Journal of Public Policy, and New Political Economy, for Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, and for research funding bodies such as the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).