Tommaso Pavone

Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

105 St George Street

Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8

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Where Have the Guardians Gone? Law Enforcement and the Politics of Supranational Forbearance in the European Union

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Where Have the Guardians Gone? Law Enforcement and the Politics of Supranational Forbearance in the European Union

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 24 Feb 2022
R. Daniel Kelemen and Tommaso Pavone
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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European Union, compliance, institutional change, governance, law enforcement, forbearance

Where Have the Guardians Gone? Law Enforcement and the Politics of Supranational Forbearance in the European Union

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 24 Feb 2022
R. Daniel Kelemen and Tommaso Pavone
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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European Union, compliance, institutional change, governance, law enforcement, forbearance

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The Past and Future Relationship of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights: A Functional Analysis

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 28 May 2012
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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ECJ, ECtHR, European Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Charter of Fundamental Rights, EU, integration, human rights, fundamental rights, forum shopping, division of labor, interpretational convergence

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The Dark Side of European Integration: Franco-German Dominance and the Structural Reproduction of Informal Empire

Air and Space Power Journal - Africa & Francophonie, Vol. 4 (2012): 78-96
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2013
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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European Union, European integration, imperialism, empire, colonialism, Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, Greece, Greek bailout, sovereign debt, International Monetary Fund, IMF, democratic deficit

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The European Court of Justice and the Challenge of Human Rights: A Case of Functional Majoritarian Activism

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 24 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 09 May 2012
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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European Court of Justice, ECJ, human rights, fundamental rights, majoritarian activism, backlash, integration, European Union, EU, European Court of Human Rights, ECtHR, neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism, functional

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Statistics as if Legality Mattered: The Two-Front Politics of Empirical Legal Studies

Forthcoming Marija Bartl, Pola Cebulak & Jessica Lawrence (eds.) Beyond Methods: The Politics of Legal Research , iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 220, PluriCourts Research Paper
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 Dec 2020
Tommaso Pavone and Juan A. Mayoral
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and Carlos III-Juan March Institute of Social Sciences
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Empirical Legal Studies, Methods, Interdisciplinarity, Statistics, Politics of Knowledge

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Selecting Cases for Comparative Sequential Analysis: Novel Uses for Old Methods

Forthcoming, in: The Case for Case Studies, Woolcock, Widner, & Ortega-Nieto, eds. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 15 May 2018
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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case studies, Millian methods, process tracing, case selection, qualitative methods, comparative politics

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The Rhetoric of Inaction: Failing to Fail Forward in the EU’s Rule of Law Crisis

Journal of European Public Policy
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2021
Cassandra Emmons and Tommaso Pavone
Harvard University - Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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Rule of Law, Democratic Backsliding, European Union, Rhetorical Action, Discursive Institutionalism, Failing Forward

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The Shadow Effect of Courts: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform

American Political Science Review
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2021
Tommaso Pavone and Øyvind Stiansen
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and Pluricourts
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Judicial Impact, Judicial Review, Comparative Politics, Compliance, Resistance to Courts, Institutional Change, EFTA Court, Bureaucratic Politics, Welfare Reform

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The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe (Chapter 1)

Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe. Cambridge University Press.
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Nov 2022
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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political development, institutional change, European integration, European Union, judicialization, courts, legal mobilization, ghostwriting, lawyers, Euro-lawyers

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Constructing the European Legal State: The Co-Evolution of the EU and the ECHR from the Perspective of American Political Development

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2014
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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Courts, Constitutions, European Union, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, Constitutional Development, State Formation, American Political Development, European Integration

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Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote its Legitimacy

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 21 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2024
Silje Synnøve Hermansen, Tommaso Pavone and Louisa Boulaziz
University of Oslo, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and University of Oslo - ARENA - Centre for European Studies
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Judicial Politics, European Court of Justice, Litigation, Party Capability, Legitimacy, Institutions, Judicialization of Politics, Law Journals, International Courts, Comparative Law, Legal Mobilization, Judicial Behavior, Inequality

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Constitutional Constraints, Organizational Preferences, and Qualitative Methods: A Replication and Reassessment of North and Weingast

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 22 May 2014
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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constitutions, institutions, economic growth, property rights, contracts, credible commitments, Glorious Revolution, Douglass North, Barry Weingast, new institutionalist economics, qualitative methods, active citation, replication

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Follow the Leader: The European Commission, the European Court of Justice, and the EU's Rule of Law Revolution

Journal of European Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Mar 2024
Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez and Tommaso Pavone
University of Oslo - ARENA - Centre for European Studies and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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rule of law, European Commission, European Court of Justice, agenda-setting, judicial politics, democratic backsliding, EU politics

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Agendas, Decisions, and Autonomy: How Government Lawyers Shape Judicial Behavior

Forthcoming, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behavior, Epstein, Grenstad, Sadl, & Weinshall, eds. Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Feb 2023
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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government lawyers, judicial behavior, executive lawyers, separation of powers, the legal profession, judicial politics, agenda-setting, judicial independence, democratic backsliding, judicialization of politics

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Making the European Court Work: Nicola Catalano and the Origins of European Legal Integration

Forthcoming in “The Italian Influence on European Law: Judges and Advocates General, 1952-2000,” Gallo, Mastroianni, Nicola, and Cecchetti, eds. Edited volume under contract with Hart Publishing.
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Jan 2023
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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Nicola Catalano, European law, Euro-lawyers, European Court of Justice, ECJ, legal mobilization, European integration, institutional change, judicial politics

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The End of History in EU Law and Politics? Challenging Founding Narratives with a New Research Agenda

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 Aug 2023
Sivaram Cheruvu and Tommaso Pavone
University of Texas at Dallas and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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legalization, judicialization, compliance, European Union, EU law, public law, intercurrence, integration, disintegration

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Revisiting Judicial Empowerment in the European Union: Limits of Empowerment, Logics of Resistance

Forthcoming, Journal of Law & Courts (Fall 2018)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 Dec 2017
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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European Union, European Court of Justice, judicialization, courts, path dependence, historical institutionalism

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EU Law Litigation: Who Litigates, who Influences Judges, What Downstream Effects?

Empirical Legal Studies of EU Law, Naurin, Sadl, and Zglinski, eds. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Feb 2025
Silje Synnøve Hermansen and Tommaso Pavone
University of Oslo and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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From Marx to Market: Lawyers, European Law, and the Contentious Transformation of the Port of Genoa

Law & Society Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Oct 2018
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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law and social change, transnational governance, European Union, European law, cause lawyers, strategic litigation

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Law and Political Development in the European Union: What Stanley Hoffmann Missed, and Why His Work Remains Relevant

H-Diplo/ISSF Forum 33 (2022) on the Importance of the Scholarship of Stanley Hoffmann, available at: https://issforum.org/forums/33
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 May 2022
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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political development, law, Euro-lawyers, Stanley Hoffmann, European Union, European integration, EU law, state-building, rule of law backsliding

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Mapping European Law

Journal of European Public Policy, 23:8, 1118-1138, 2016
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2017
R. Daniel Kelemen and Tommaso Pavone
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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diffusion, European integration, European law, GIS, litigation, preliminary reference procedure

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Lawyers, Judges, and the Obstinate State: The French Case and an Agenda for Comparative Politics

2020. “Lawyers, Judges, and the Obstinate State: The French Case and an Agenda for Comparative Politics.” French Politics 18 (4): 416-432., PluriCourts Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Mar 2021
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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Political Development, Governance, Political Liberalism, Judicial Politics, Legal Mobilization, European Integration, Institutional Change, French Politics

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'In This Bureaucratic Silence EU Law Dies:' Fieldwork and the (Non)-Practice of EU Law in National Courts

In: Researching the European Court of Justice: Methodological Shifts and Law’s Embeddedness, Madsen, Nicola, & Vauchez, eds. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, pgs. 27-48.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 May 2022
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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fieldwork, interviews, national courts, judicial practice, judicial labor, legal consciousness, habitus, resistance to EU law, preliminary references, ECJ

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Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality

abridged version forthcoming in Law and Social Inquiry
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Jun 2024
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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cause lawyers, struggle lawyers, rule by law, show trials, authoritarianism, conflict, transitional justice, social movements, contentious politics, legal mobilization

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Overview of the PluriCourts EFTA Court Database

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Mar 2024
Even Espelid, Tommaso Pavone and Øyvind Stiansen
University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and Pluricourts
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Il Diritto Dell'Unione Europea e L'Analisi Sociologica Del Rinvio Pregiudiziale in Italia (European Union Law and the Sociological Analysis of the Preliminary Reference Procedure in Italy)

Rivista Trimestrale Degli Appalti 14 (2): 431-452
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Dec 2017
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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diritto dell'Unione Europea, rinvio pregiudiziale, diritto Europeo, porto di Genova

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Like Oil Floating on Water: Italy’s Olive Crisis and the Politics of Backlash against Transnational Legal Orders

FIU Law Review, Forthcoming, PluriCourts Research Paper
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Mar 2021
Tommaso Pavone
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
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Transnational Legal Orders, Backlash, International Courts, European Union, European Court of Justice, Legal Mobilization, Contentious Politics, Environmental Governance, Compliance

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The Political Geography of Legal Integration: Visualizing Institutional Change in the European Union

World Politics 70 (3): 358-397, 2018, DOI: 10.1017/S0043887118000011
Posted: 08 Oct 2018
R. Daniel Kelemen and Tommaso Pavone
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

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Legal integration, GIS, political development, European Union, European law, political geography