Fabrizio Gilardi is professor of public policy in the Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich, Switzerland and an editor of the Journal of Public Policy. His work on regulatory institutions, policy diffusion, and women's representation has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of European Public Policy, among others. His latest book, co-authored with Martino Maggetti and Claudio M. Radaelli, is Designing Research in the Social Sciences (SAGE Publications, 2013).