Fellows 2024

Stefano Merlo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

October 2024–September 2025

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

»Transnational Peoples of Europe: A Demoicratic Reform of the European Economic and Monetary Union«

Project outline:

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Research partner:

Stefano Merlo is a fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at the invitation of research focus »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«

Scholarly profile of Stefano Merlo

Stefano Merlo completed a bachelor's degree at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and two master's programs at University College London. In 2023, he completed his PhD in Political Economy at the John Stuart Mill College of the Free University of Amsterdam. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting scholar at renowned institutions such as the London School of Economics, the European University Institute in Florence and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. He is currently an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at University College London, where he also directs the Master's program »Legal and Political Theory«.

Website:
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Main areas of research:

Political theory, political economy, European economic and monetary union

Selected publications:

»A republican fiscal constitution for the EMU«, in: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2023), p. 1–23.
»A Republican Assessment of Independent Fiscal Institutions«, in: Journal of Politics, vol. 85:2 (2023), p.484-495.
»Self-fulfilling Crises in the Eurozone and the Institutional Preconditions of Republican Sovereignty«, in: Review of Social Economy,vol. 81:1 (2022), p.130-153.
(ed. Merlo, Stefano, Fasone, C.), »Differentiated Fiscal Surveillance and the Democratic Promise of Independent Fiscal Institutions in the Economic and Monetary Union«, in: Swiss Political Science Review, vol. 27:3 (2021), p. 582-600.

Stefano Merlo

Scholarly profile of Stefano Merlo

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