Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Director of Research Politics
Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Newcastle University.

Qualifications

PhD in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
MA in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
BA in Politics, Catholic University of America

Previous Positions

Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Visiting Fellow, American University

Memberships

Member of the Virtual College, Economic and Social Research Council, 2008 to the present.

American Political Science Association
Political Studies Association
The European Union Studies Association

Languages

Read and speak German, read Dutch.

Research Interests

The European Union (European Community), Domestic Environmental Politics and Policy-making, European Political Economy, European Public Policy and Policy-making, International Environmental Politics and Policy-making, International Political Economy, International Organisations.

Current Work

Awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for February 2007- October 2007 for a project entitled ‘Comparing Environmental Agencies and Governance’. To learn more about this ongoing project see the project website: research.ncl.ac.uk/ceag/

Other Current projects
- Currently writing a monograph which summarises the complete empirical results of the ESRC Future Governance Programme Project entitled ‘Innovation in Environmental Governance: a Comparative Analysis of New Environmental Policy Instruments.’ This is a co-authored monograph with Dr. Rüdiger Wurzel and Dr. Andrew Jordan.

- Currently writing a monograph entitled 'Policy Networks and Communities: Theories and Approaches in Political Science' for Palgrave. This work brings together a wide range of network approaches in the social sciences in order to explicate the concept of political and policy learning

Won a competition to edit special issue of Journal of European Public Policy. Focus of special issue will be the EU and learning theory.

Postgraduate Supervision

European Union politics and policy-making
Environmental politics and policy-making
Regional and international institutions
European state systems

If you wish further information on reading for a research degree in Politics please contact the Politics Postgraduate Research Director and Selector, Dr. Derek Bell, derek.bell@ncl.ac.uk

Funding

2007 Leverhulme Research Fellow. Project Title: ‘Comparing Environmental Agencies and Governance’.

Dr. Anthony Zito and his co-researchers Dr. Andrew Jordan and Dr.
Rudi Wurzel received ESRC funding for their ESRC Future
Governance Programme study of New Environmental Policy Instruments
in Europe. They have presented their findings to the European Union Commission officials as well as the Ministry officials and interested private sector actors in the four case countries: Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. This project received a grading of "outstanding" from the ESRC.

This project has led to the following selected publications (all co-authored):

‘New Modes of Environmental Governance: Are 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs) Supplanting or Supplementing the Traditional Tools of Government? Politische Vierteljahresschrift 39 (2007), 283-298. [Co-authored with Andrew Jordan and Rüdiger Wurzel]

‘The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?’ Political Studies. 53, 3 (2005), pp. 477-496. [Co-authored with Andrew Jordan and Rüdiger Wurzel]

“Das britische Emissions-handelssystem.” Umweltwirtschaftsforum, 7, 3 (2003), pp. 9-14. [In German, Co-authored with Rüdiger Wurzel, Adarsh Varma, and Andrew Jordan]

“‘New’ Policy Instruments in the European Union: Symposium Introduction.” Public Administration. 81, (2003), pp. 509-511. [Co-authored with Claudio M. Radaelli and Andrew Jordan]

“European Governance and the Transfer of ‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments in the European Union.” Public Administration. 81, 3 (2003), pp. 555-574. [Co-authored with Andrew Jordan, Rüdiger Wurzel, and Lars Brückner; also reprinted in A. Jordan, ed.. Environmental Policy in the European Union: Actors, Institutions and Processes, 2nd Edition. Earthscan: London (2005).]

“‘New’ Instruments of Environmental Governance: Patterns and Pathways of Change.” Environmental Politics 12, 1 (2003), pp. 3-24. [Co-authored with Andrew Jordan and Rüdiger Wurzel]

“‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments: an Evolution or a Revolution in Environmental Policy?” Environmental Politics 12, 1 (2003), pp. 201-224. [Co-authored with Andrew Jordan and Rüdiger Wurzel]

“Struggling to Leave Behind a Highly Regulatory Past? ‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments in Austria.” Environmental Politics 12, 1 (2003), pp. 51-72. [Co-authored with Andrew Jordan, Rüdiger Wurzel, and Lars Brückner]

“Instrument Innovation in an Environmental Lead State: ‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments in the Netherlands.” Environmental Politics 12, 1 (2003), pp. 157-178 [Co-authored with Andrew Jordan, Rüdiger Wurzel, and Lars Brückner]

Projects

• Comparing Environmental Agencies and Governance
  Project Leader(s): Dr Anthony Zito

Undergraduate Teaching

Introduction to European Political Systems
European Union: Decision-Making Simulation

Postgraduate Teaching

Integration in Europe
Public Policy in the European Union

• Wurzel R, Zito AR. 'Green Europe': Differentiation in Environmental Policies. In:Dyson, K;Sepos, A, ed. Which Europe? The Politics of Differentiated Integration.Houndmills, Basingstoke:Palgrave,2010, pp. 265-278.
• Zito AR, Schout A. Learning theory reconsidered: EU integration theories and learning. Journal of European Public Policy 2009, 16(8), 1103-1123.
• Zito AR, Jacobs J. NGOs, the European Union and the case of the environment. In: Jutta Joachim and Birgit Locher, ed. Transnational activism in the UN and EU. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, pp. 105-120.
• Zito AR. European agencies as agents of governance and EU learning. Journal of European Public Policy 2009, 16(8), 1224-1243.
• Zito A. European Union: Shifting environmental governance to the supranational level. In: Breton, A; Brosio, G; Dalmazzone, S; Garrone, G, ed. Environmental Governance and Decentralisation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007, pp. 140-172.
• Zito AR. Meeting the European Union's environmental challenge. In: Ruzza, C. and Della Sela, V., ed. Governance and civil society in the European Union volume 2: Exploring policy issues. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. 72-92.
• Jordan A, Wurzel R, Zito AR. New modes of environmental governance: are 'new' environmental instruments (NEPIs) supplanting or supplementing traditional tools of government?. Politische Vierteljahresschift 2007, (Suppl. 39), 283-298+545+555.
• Jordan A, Wurzel R, Zito AR. Policy instrument innovation in the European Union: a realistic model for international environmental governance. In: Gerd Winter, ed. Multilevel governance of global environmental change: perspectives from science, sociology and the law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 470-492.
• Jordan A, Wurzel RKW, Zito AR. The rise of 'new' policy instruments in comparative perspective: has governance eclipsed government?. Political Studies 2005, 53(3), 477-496.
• Jordan A, Wurzel R, Zito AR. Environmental governance … or government? The international politics of environmental instruments. In: Peter Dauvergne, ed. Handbook of global environmental politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005, pp. 202-217.
• Zito AR. The European Union as an environmental leader in a global environment. Globalizations 2005, 2(3), 363-375.
• Jordan A, Schout A, Zito A. Coordinating European union environmental policy: Shifting from passive to active coordination?. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment 2004,1 1-36.
• Jordan A, Wurzel R, Zito AR, Brückner L. Responsibility-taking and national eco-labelling schemes in Europe. In: Micheletti, M., Follesdal, A. and Stolle, D., ed. Politics, products, and markets: exploring political consumerism past and present. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2004, pp. 161-180.
• Jordan A, Wurzel RKW, Zito AR. Comparative conclusions - 'New' environmental policy instruments: An evolution or a revolution in environmental policy?. Environmental Politics 2003, 12(1), 201-224.
• Jordan A, Wurzel RKW, Zito AR, Brückner L. European governance and the transfer of 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs) in the European Union. Public Administration 2003, 81(3), 555-574.
• Jordan A, Wurzel RKW, Zito AR. 'New' instruments of environmental governance: Patterns and pathways of change. Environmental Politics 2003, 12(1), 1-24.
• Jordan A, Wurzel RKW, Zito AR, Brückner L. Policy innovation or 'muddling through'? 'New' environmental policy instruments in the United Kingdom. Environmental Politics 2003, 12(1), 179-200.
• Wurzel RKW, Jordan AR, Zito A, Brückner L. From high regulatory state to social and ecological market economy? 'New' environmental policy instruments in Germany. Environmental Politics 2003, 12(1), 115-136.
• Zito AR, Radaelli CM, Jordan A. Introduction to the symposium on 'new' policy instruments in the European Union. Public Administration 2003, 81(3), 509-511.
• Zito AR, Brückner L, Jordan A, Wurzel RKW. Instrument innovation in an environmental lead state: 'New' environmental policy instruments in the Netherlands. Environmental Politics 2003, 12(1), 157-178.
• Wurzel RKW, Brückner L, Jordan A, Zito AR. Struggling to leave behind a highly regulatory past? 'New' environmental policy instruments in Austria. Environmental Politics 2003, 12(1), 51-72.
• Jordan A, Wurzel RKW, Zito AR. Has governance eclipsed government? Patterns of environmental instrument selection and use in eight states and the EU. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment 2003,1 1-30.
• Zito AR, Kellow A. Steering through complexity: EU environmental regulation in the international context. Political Studies 2002, 50(1), 43-60.
• Jordan A, Wurzel R, Zito AR, Brückner L. The Innovation and Diffusion of ‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs) in the European Union and Its Member States. In: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change and the Nation State: Proceedings of the 2001 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. 2002, Berlin: Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
• Zito AR. Epistemic communities, collective entrepreneurship and European integration. Journal of European Public Policy 2001, 8(4), 585-603.
• Zito AR. Epistemic communities, European Union governance and the public voice. Science and Public Policy 2001, 28(6), 465-476.
• Zito AR. Creating environmental policy in the European Union. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.
• Zito AR. Policy Framing. In: Badie B; Berg-Schlosser D; Morlino L, ed. International Encyclopedia of Political Science. London: Sage, 2011.