Publications

Guardiancich, I. (2012). Book review: Vanhuysse, Pieter and Achim Goerres (eds): Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies in Policies and Politics. Bulletin of Italian Politics, 4(1), 193-197.

Guardiancich, I. (2016). Don’t Fix What Ain’t Broke I, Policy Brief. Options for Kosovo - Reform of Pensions Systems in Transition Countries. Prishtina: Kosovar Stability Initiative.

Guardiancich, I. and Natali, D. (2017). The Changing EU "Pension Programme": Policy Tools and Ideas in the Shadow of the Crisis. In Natali, D. (ed.): The New Pension Mix in Europe. Brussels: PIE Lang, 239-265.  

Bessudnov, A., Guardiancich, I. & Marimon, R. (2015). A Statistical Evaluation of the Effects of a Structured Postdoctoral Programme. Studies in Higher Education, 40(9), 1588-1604.

Guardiancich, I. (2016). Anti-Capitalist, Illiberal, Eurosceptic: Three Puzzles of Post-Socialist Europe – Part I: Anti-capitalism. EUVisions Focus.

Guardiancich, I. (2017). Anti-Capitalist, Illiberal, Eurosceptic: Three Puzzles of Post-Socialist Europe – Part II: Illiberalism. EUVisions Focus.

Guardiancich, I. (2017). Anti-Capitalist, Illiberal, Eurosceptic: Three Puzzles of Post-Socialist Europe – Part III: Euroscepticism. EUVisions Focus.

Meardi, G. & Guardiancich, I. (2021). Back to the Familialist Future: The Rise of Social Policy for Ruling Populist Radical Right Parties in Italy and Poland. West European Politics, 45(1), 129-153. 

Guardiancich, I. (2019). Between Modern Design and Old Political Habits: The Kosovar Pension System under Threat. In An, S., Chubarova, T., Deacon, B. and Stubbs, P. (eds): Social Policy, Poverty, and Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Agency and Institutions in Flux. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 145-166.

Guardiancich, I., Guidi, M. and Terlizzi, A. (2022). Beyond the European Semester: the Supranational Evaluation Cycle for Pensions. Journal of European Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287221101339

Guardiancich, I. (2021). Book review: Capussela, A. L. (1) The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline. (2) Declino. Una storia italiana. (3) Declino Italia. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista italiana di scienza politica, 2022(July), 279-281.

Guardiancich, I. (2022). Book review: Ghodsee, Kristen and Mitchell A. Orenstein: Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions. East European Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2100767.

Guardiancich, I. 2010. Book review: Jessoula, Matteo: La politica pensionistica. Bulletin of Italian Politics, 2(2), 170-172.

Guardiancich, I. 2008. Book review: Vehovec, Maja (ed.): New Perspectives on a Longer Working Life in Croatia and Slovenia. Financial Theory and Practice, 32(4), 543-546.

Molina, O. and Guardiancich, I. (2017). Comparative Overview: National Trajectories and Good Practices in Social Dialogue. In Guardiancich, I. and Molina, O. (eds): Talking through the Crisis: Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations Trends in Selected EU Countries. Geneva: International Labour Organization, 1-57.

Guardiancich, I. (2012). Conclusions. In Guardiancich I. (ed.): Recovering from the Crisis through Social Dialogue in the New EU Member States: The Case of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia. Budapest: International Labour Organization, 133-137.

Guardiancich, I., & Ghellab, Y. (2020). Consigli economici e sociali e futuro del lavoro: Situazione attuale e definizione di un’agenda di ricerca. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 19(1), 101-122.    

Guardiancich, I. 2009/2010. Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom. Current Pension System: First Assessment of Reform Outcomes and Output. Research Project “Assurer un pension adéquat dans un contexte européen”. Supported by the SPF Sécurité Sociale. Brussels, Observatoire social européen.

Guardiancich, I., & Molina, O. (2021). From gradual erosion to revitalization: National Social Dialogue Institutions and policy effectiveness. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 28(1), 85-103.

Guardiancich, I. (2017). Genesi, crisi e strategie di riforma del sistema pensionistico più semplice al mondo: il caso del Kossovo. Menabò n. 56/2017.

Guardiancich, I., & Natali, D. (2021). German and Italian Pensions: Similar Roots, Different Reform Paths, Comparable Trajectories?. German Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2021.1902506

Guardiancich, I. (2008). How not to Implement: Hungarian Pension Reforms in an Institutionalist Perspective (No. 110). TIGER Working Paper Series.

Guardiancich, I. & Guidi, M. (2019). Il Semestre europeo e le pensioni. Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, 16(3), 1-15.

Guardiancich, I., Guidi, M. and Moschella, M. (2022). Il sistema economico fra declino e riforme. In Baldini, G. and Pritoni, A. (eds): Il sistema politico italiano: Cittadini, attori e istituzioni. Milano: Mondadori Università, 61-83.

Guardiancich, I. (2017). Instability Despite Consensus. The Reversal of Private Pensions in Poland. In Natali, D. (ed.): The New Pension Mix in Europe. Brussels: PIE Lang, 125-150.  

Guardiancich, I. (2009). Institutional Survival and Return: Examples from the New Pension Orthodoxy. ETUI Working Paper 2009. 08.

I. Guardiancich and Artale, W. M. (2018). Institutional Underpinnings of the Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery: The Role of Social Dialogue. Geneva: International Labour Organization.

Guidi, M., & Guardiancich, I. (2018). Intergovernmental or supranational integration? A quantitative analysis of pension recommendations in the European Semester. European Union Politics, 19(4), 684–706.

Guardiancich, I. (2012). Introduction. In Guardiancich I. (ed.): Recovering from the Crisis through Social Dialogue in the New EU Member States: The Case of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia. Budapest: International Labour Organization, 1-18.

Guardiancich, I. (2019). La riforma del welfare in Italia a cavallo della crisi: cause, caratteristiche ed esiti. Stato e mercato, 39(2), 249–270.

Natali, D., & Guardiancich, I. (2020). Le politiche pubbliche nell’era digitale. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 19(1), 5-21.  

Guidi, M., Guardiancich, I. & Levi-Faur, D. (2020). Modes of Regulatory Governance: A Political Economy Perspective. Governance, 33(1), 5-19.

Molina, O.  & Guardiancich, I. (2018). Organising and Representing Hard-to-Organise Workers: Implications for Turkey. Ankara: International Labour Organization.

Guardiancich, I. (2011). Pan‐European Pension Funds: Current Situation and Future Prospects. International Social Security Review, 64(1), 15-36.

Guardiancich, I. (2013). Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis. New York, Routledge.

Guardiancich, I. (2010). Pensions and social inclusion in three ex-Yugoslav countries: Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. Acta Oeconomica, 60(2), 161-195.

Guardiancich, I., & Natali, D. (2018). Pensions in Italy: New challenges and old problems. Politiche Sociali, Social Policies, 5(3), 437–442.

Guardiancich, I. (2012). Poland: Between Flexible Labour Markets and Defined Contributions. In Hinrichs, K., and Jessoula, M. (eds): Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms: Flexible Today, Secure Tomorrow? London: Palgrave MacMillan, 93-122.

Guardiancich, I. (2015). Portability of Supplementary Pension Rights in Europe: A Lowest Common Denominator Solution. European Policy Analysis, 1(1), 74-91. 

Guardiancich, I. & Molina, O. (2016). Post-Crisis Social Dialogue Executive Summary. Geneva: International Labour Organization.

Guardiancich, I. (2017). Rebuilding Social Dialogue in Slovenia: A Complex Task for the Post-Crisis Period. In Guardiancich, I. and Molina, O. (eds): Talking through the Crisis: Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations Trends in Selected EU Countries. Geneva: International Labour Organization, 233-256.  

Guardiancich, I. (ed.) (2012). Recovering from the Crisis through Social Dialogue in the New EU Member States: The Case of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia. Budapest: International Labour Organization.

Ghailani, D., Guardiancich, I., Natali, D., & et al. (2011). Scope of the Coordination System in the Pension Field. Tender VT/2010/104. Brussels, Observatoire social européen.

Guardiancich, I. (2016). Slovenia: The End of a Success Story? When a Partial Reform Equilibrium Turns Bad. Europe-Asia Studies, 68(2), 205-231.

Guardiancich, I. (2011). Slovenian Social Policy in a Consensual Political System: The Dilemmas of a Delayed Transition. In Stambolieva, M., and Dehnert, S. (eds): Welfare States in Transition: 20 Years after the Yugoslav Welfare Model. Sofia: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 310-344.

Guardiancich, I. (2022). Slovensko gospodarstvo na Tržaškem in Goriškem: razvoj, stanje, perspektive. Koper, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Annales ZRS.  

Guardiancich, I. (2021). Social Dialogue and the Future of Work in the Adriatic Region. In D. Vaughan-Whitehead, Y. Ghellab & R. M. de Bustillo Lorente (eds): The New World of Work: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Partners and Labour Institutions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 528-578.

Guardiancich, I. (2012). Social Inclusion during Retirement in Three ex-Yugoslav Countries: Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia Compared. ERSTE Working Papers. Vienna: ERSTE Foundation, Fellowship for Social Research.

Guardiancich, I. (2008). Southeast European Pension Systems and Three Types of Reform Unsustainability. Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft, 56(4), 480-502.

Guardiancich, I. (2015). Squaring European Workers’ Mobility with Occupational Pensions? Policy & Politics Journal Blog.

Marimon, R., Guardiancich, I., Mariathasan, M., & Rossi, E. (2011). Survey of Research Funding for the Social Sciences in Europe. Florence: European University Institute, Max Weber Programme, Academic Careers Observatory.

Guardiancich, I. (2012). ILO Survey on Social Dialogue and Pension Reform in Times of Crisis and Beyond: Slovenia. Working Paper No. 39. Geneva: International Labour Organization.

Guardiancich, I. and Molina, O. (eds) (2017). Talking through the Crisis: Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations Trends in Selected EU Countries. Geneva: International Labour Organization.

Guardiancich, I. (2016). The ‘Leap’ from Coordination to Harmonization in Social Policy: Labour Mobility and Occupational Pensions in Europe. Journal of Common Market Studies, 54(6), 1313-1331.

Guardiancich, I., & Pliszkiewicz, M. (2012). The Case of Poland. In Guardiancich I. (ed.): Recovering from the Crisis through Social Dialogue in the New EU Member States: The Case of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia. Budapest: International Labour Organization, 71-93.

Guardiancich, I. (2012). The Case of Slovenia. In Guardiancich I. (ed.): Recovering from the Crisis through Social Dialogue in the New EU Member States: The Case of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia. Budapest: International Labour Organization, 95-131.

Guardiancich, I., & Natali, D. (2012). The Cross-Border Portability of Supplementary Pensions: Lessons from the European Union. Global Social Policy, 12(3), 300-315.

Guardiancich, I. (2013). The Downfall of Slovenia, and Why It Matters for Europe. The Conversation.

I. Guardiancich and Molina, O. (2020). The Effectiveness of National Social Dialogue Institutions: From Theory to Evidence. ILO Wroking Paper 16. Geneva: International Labour Organization.

Guardiancich, I., & Natali, D. (2009). The EU and Supplementary Pensions. Instruments for Integration and the Market for Occupational Pensions in Europe. ETUI Working Paper 2009. 11.

Guardiancich, I. & Guidi, M. (2016). The Formal Independence of Regulatory Agencies and Varieties of Capitalism: A Case of Institutional Complementarity? Regulation & Governance, 10(3), 211-229.

Guardiancich, I. and Natali, D. (2020). The Incomplete Transition of the Italian Welfare State. In Blum, S., Kuhlmann, J. and Schubert, K. (eds): Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems, 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, 291-309.

Domorenok, E. and Guardiancich, I. (2022). The Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Coordination and Conditionality. Contemporary Italian Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2022.2046099

Guardiancich, I. (2018). The Kosovar Basic Old Age Pension as Universalist Exception amidst Clientelist Fragmentation. SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe, 21(2), 237–252. 

Guardiancich, I. (2009). The New Pension Orthodoxy in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe: Lessons for Prospective Reformers. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 8(1), 5-31.

Guardiancich, I. (2007). The Political Economy of Pension Reforms in Croatia 1991-2006. Financial Theory and Practice, 31(2), 96-151.

Guardiancich, I. & Guidi, M. (2022). The Political Economy of Pension Reforms in Europe under Financial Stress. Socio-Economic Review, 20(2), 817-840.

I. Guardiancich, Weaver, R. K., Demarco, G. C. & Dorfman, M. C. (2019). The Politics of NDC Pension Scheme Diffusion: Constraints and Drivers. Social Protection and Jobs Discussion Paper; no. 1927. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. 

Guardiancich, I., Weaver, R. K., Demarco, G. C. & Dorfman, M. C. (2019). The Politics of NDC Pension Scheme Diffusion: Constraints and Drivers. In Holzmann, R., Palmer, E., Palacios, R. and Sacchi, S. (eds): Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Volume 2. Addressing Gender, Administration, and Communication. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 259-286.

Guardiancich, I. (2011). The Survival and Return of Institutions: Examples from Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe. West European Politics, 34(5), 976-996.

Guardiancich, I. (2008). The Sustainability of Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe. SEER South-East Europe Review for Labour and Social Affairs, 11(2), 185-197.

Guardiancich, I. (2016). The Travails and Rebirth of Social Dialogue in the Post-Crisis EU. EUVisions Focus.

Guardiancich, I. (2012). The Uncertain Future of Slovenian Exceptionalism. East European Politics & Societies, 26(2), 380-399.

Guardiancich, I. & Molina, O. (2019). Towards Effective and Functional Social Dialogue in North Macedonia. Skopje: International Labour Organization.

Guardiancich, I., & Natali, D. (2019). Tra disintermediazione e concertazione: la difficile alternanza del policy-making sulle pensioni in Italia. Stato e mercato, 39(2), 271–296.

Guardiancich, I., & Guidi, M. (2020). Vincolo esterno e pensioni in Italia: Il ruolo del Semestre europeo. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 19(2), 207-226.     

Guardiancich, I. (2004). Welfare State Retrenchment in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Pension Reforms in Poland and Slovenia. Managing Global Transitions, 2(1), 41-64.

Guardiancich, I. (2022). When Political Rights Do Not Translate into Economic Power: The Rise and Fall of the Slovenian Minority’s Economy in Italy (1954-2020). Nationalities Papers, https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.88