Director

Fabio Franchino
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Professor of Political Science
Franchino (Ph.D., LSE) has published several articles in top-ranking journals. His book The Powers of the Union won a EUSA best book award. He is associate editor of European Union Politics. He has been the editor of the Italian Political Science Review and president of the European Political Science Association.
Main research interests:
Politics and policy of the European Union; Legislative politics in the European Union; Implementation – transposition of EU law and compliance; Policy mechanism design and policy analysis; Comparative legislative, executive and bureaucratic politics; Rational choice and formal modelling; Europeanisation and domestic politics; Policy implications of electoral rules; Conjoint analysis; valence voting; policy design.
Personal web page: https://sites.unimi.it/fabiofranchino
Deputy-Director

Guido Legnante
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Associate Professor of Political Science
He teaches on public opinion, elections and media analysis. Member of the Itanes (Italian National Election Studies) research group. He has carried research and published on public opinion, elections, populism, election campaigns and the media.
Main research interests:
How citizens are exposed to old and new media; The quality of information and its consumption; The effects on public opinion; The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on public opinion.
Personal web page: https://scienzepolitiche.unipv.it/persone/prof-guido-legnante/
Personal web page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guido-Legnante
Main tasks: Contact point for any information about NASP Ph.D. programmes; Management of the NASP school's teaching and training activities.NASP Administrative Staff

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University of Milan
University of Milan
BISTAGNINO Giulia

Giulia Bistagnino
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Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy
Giulia Bistagnino holds a Ph.D. in Political Studies from the University of Milan and a M.Litt. in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She was junior visiting scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford and at the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Main research interests:
Normative political philosophy; the relation between normative theories and metaethics; political justification and public reason; compromise; epistemology of disagreement; democratic theory; experts and democracy; normative theories of partisanship; truth and politics; science and society.
Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/giulia-bistagnino
https://unimi.academia.edu/GiuliaBistagnino
CARATI Andrea
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Andrea Carati This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of International Relations & Foreign Policy Analysis He teaches International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis and International Political Thought at the University of Milan; he is ISPI associate research fellow for the program in Security and Strategic Studies. Main research interests: Humanitarian intervention & Responsibility to Protect; NATO and transatlantic relations; Italian foreign policy; IR Theory. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/andrea-carati1 |
CASSANI Andrea
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Andrea Cassani This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Assistant Professor of Political Science He holds a PhD in Political Science (2014, Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences, Milan). Between 2010 and 2020 he spent several visiting and training periods abroad in academic institutions, such as University of Essex, University of Michigan, University of Oslo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the Varieties of Democracy Institute of Gothenburg. He is founder and coordinator of the Standing Group "Political Regimes" of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP). Main research interests: Democracy and autocracy; Processes of regime change (e.g. democratization, autocratization) and their implications for development, from a comparative perspective. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/andrea-cassani Personal web page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Cassani-3 |
CARBONE Giovanni
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Giovanni Carbone This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Science Giovanni Carbone is Head of the Africa Programme at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). He recently published Political Leadership in Africa. Leaders and Development South of the Sahara (co-authored with A. Pellegata, Cambridge University Press, 2020). Main research interests: Comparative study of politics; Geopolitics and economic development in sub-Saharan African countries. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/g-carbone Personal web page: https://sites.unimi.it/carbone/ |
CERON Andrea
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Andrea Ceron This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science He was Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (Institute for Quantitative Social Science), co-founder and board member of a social media analytics company. As of 2020, he published 6 books and 44 papers. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Main research interests: Intra-party politics; Quantitative text analysis; Social media; Political parties; Coalition governments; Political trust; Party competition; Electoral campaigns; Mass media. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/andrea-ceron Personal web page: https://andreaceron.com |
COLOMBO Alessandro
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Alessandro Colombo This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of International Relations Degree in Law (1985) and Political Science (1989). Ph.D. in International Relations (1995). Among his most recent publications: Guerra civile e ordine politico (Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2021); Tempi decisivi. Natura e retorica delle crisi internazionali (Milano: Feltrinelli, 2014); La disunità del mondo. Dopo il secolo globale (Milano: Feltrinelli, 2010). Main research interests: Security studies; theory of alliances; Transatlantic relations; the European tradition of International Relations Theory. His recent interests focus on the geopolitical changes of the international context, the crisis of liberal international order, the US Grand Strategy, the transformation of war, civil wars. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/alessandro-colombo |
CURINI Luigi
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Luigi Curini This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Science Chair of the SISP standing group: "Metodi della ricerca per la scienza politica" (Methods of Political Science Research) Member of the Institute of Social Media Data / ソーシャルメディアデータ研究所 (IoSMD), Waseda University, Tokyo Fellow at IREF (Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues). Main research interests: Comparative politics; Text analytics; Computational political science; Spatial theory of voting. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/luigi-curini |
DAMONTE Alessia
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Alessia Damonte This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Public Governance A founding member of the SISP Standing Groups "Political Science and Public Policy" and "Research Methods for Political Science." In the Advisory Board of compasss.org. Experience in research for regional and national bodies, and national and European projects. Her articles are in Sociological Methods & Research, Quality & Quantity, Italian Political Science Review, Environmental Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Italian Review of Public Policy. Main research interests: Methodological interest in models, techniques, gauges, and designs to establish causation. Evidence of the policy effectiveness of governance and instrument designs, as in her analyses on policy tools for green growth, infrastructure policies, administrative accountability, corruption. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/alessia-damonte |
FACCHI Alessandra
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Alessandra Facchi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Legal Philosophy Member of the Boards of: Rivista di filosofia del diritto; Sociologia del diritto; Jura Gentium: Journal of Philosophy of International Law and Global Politics; AG. About Gender; BDL. Biblioteca della Libertà; Ratio Juris. An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law. Coordinator of the Italian team of NoVaMigra H2020-CULT-COOP-12-2017. Main research interests: History of Philosophy and Legal Theory; Human Rights and Women's Rights; Legal Pluralism; Feminist Legal Theory. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/alessandra-facchi |
FASANO Luciano
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Luciano Fasano This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science Founder and Coordinator for the Party Leadership Project of Candidates and Leaders Selection (CALS), SISP Standing Group on Primary Elections In Italy. Coordinator of the "Political and Interest Representation" Project and member of the Scientific Committee of OpenLab for Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation. Member of the Scientific Committee of POLITEIA, Center for Research and Training in Politics and Ethics, University of Milan. Main research interests: Parties and Party Systems; Representation of Interest; Business Associations; Public Administration Methodology and Social Theory. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/luciano-fasano |
FERRERA Maurizio
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Maurizio Ferrera This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Science Maurizio Ferrera is President of the NASP. Main research interests: Comparative welfare states and social citizenship; Italian and South European politics; European Integration; Public opinion; Political theory. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/maurizio-ferrera Personal web page: https://maurizioferrera.wordpress.com/ |
GALANTI Maria Tullia
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Maria Tullia Galanti This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science and Public policy Maria Tullia Galanti teaches public policy in BA and MA courses; she is Ph.D. in Political Science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane - SUM (Florence); former post-doc researcher at the Universities of Florence and Milan; currently managing editor of the Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche. Main research interests: Public policy; Theories of the policy process; Policy entrepreneurship; Policy leadership; Policy advice; Policy advisory systems; Policy capacity; Administrative capacity; Local policies; Education policies; Policy evaluation; Quality of democracy. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/maria-galanti |
GIULIANI Marco
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Marco Giuliani This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Science PhD in Political science at the University of Florence. Former Head of department and coordinator of the Bachelor's programme in Political sciences (SPO), teaches Comparative politics and Comparative Political systems. Member of the editorial board of the Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche. Main research interests: Electoral behaviour; Democratic performance; Comparative political systems. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/marco-giuliani Personal web page: https://sites.unimi.it/marcogiuliani/ |
JESSOULA Matteo
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Matteo Jessoula This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Milan |
| Professor of Political Science Matteo Jessoula is Coordinator of the Italian team of ESPN-European Social Policy Network; Co-Director of OCIS-International Observatory on Social Cohesion and Inclusion; member of the boards of Espanet and Espanet-Italia; member of both the Scientific committee of La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali and the Editorial Board of Politiche Sociali. Main research interests: Comparative welfare states; pensions; Social assistance and labour market policies; European social governance; Eco-social welfare states. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/matteo-jessoula Personal web pageshttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matteo-Jessoula |
MADAMA Ilaria
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Ilaria Madama This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science Ilaria Madama teaches International political economy and the welfare state (MA), EU politics and Work-family balance policies (BA). She coordinates the academic minor program in “Diritti, Lavoro e Pari Opportunità – DiLPO” (Rights, work and equal opportunities) and the EuVisions Observatory (www.euvisions.eu). Main research interests: EU social governance and comparative social policy; Political and institutional dynamics behind the development and reform of benefits and services across European countries, especially in the fields of minimum income protection, social inclusion and work-life balance. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/ilaria-madama |
MAGNI Beatrice
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Beatrice Magni This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Philosophy Deputy-Director of "Bdl-Biblioteca della Libertà", the on line peer-reviewed journal of the Centro di Ricerca L. Einaudi (Turin). Bdl is included within the top-rate journals for the research area of Political Philosophy in Italy. Director of the La.B. (Laboratorio di Bioetica) at Centro Einaudi. Main research interests: Normative Political Theory; Theories, Problems, and Practices of Pluralism; Theories of Conflict and Compromise; Gender Studies, Ethics and Bioethics. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/beatrice-magni |
MAINO Franca
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Franca Maino This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Director of the Observatory on “Percorsi di secondo welfare”. Member of the Editorial Board of “Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche” and “Stato e Mercato”. My most recent book is “Fare rete per fare welfare. Dalle aziende ai territori: strumenti, attori, processi”, Giappichelli, 2019 (with F. Razetti). Main research interests: Health policy and politics; LTC and social innovation; Second welfare; Occupational and company-based welfare; Public for-profit sector; the third sector and multilevel governance. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/franca-maino Personal web page: https://www.secondowelfare.it/ |
MATTEI Paola
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Paola Mattei This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Global Public Policy She published Restructuring Welfare Organisations in Europe? (Palgrave 2009); University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times (Oxford University Press, 2014); and Secular Institutions, Islam and Education Policy (Palgrave, 2016); Handbook on Globalization and Education (OUP, forthcoming). Main research interests: Global public policy; Environmental politics and policy; Knowledge and education policy; Comparative public administration and management; Qualitative Research Methods; Elite Interviewing. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/paola-mattei |
NATILI Marcello
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Marcello Natili This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Assistant Professor of Political Science Marcello Natili is member of the European Social Policy Network (ESPN), and senior researcher in the ERC project 'SOLID'. His publications include the book 'The Politics of Minimum Income' and articles in several international journals. Main research interests: Comparative politics; Comparative welfare states; Minimum income protection; Federalism; European social governance. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/marcello-natili |
PASINI Nicola
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Nicola Pasini This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science Coordinator of Welfare and Health and Migration and the future of Europe Sections of Ismu Foundation (www.ismu.org), Milano. Coordinator of Ethics and Public Administration Unit of Centro Studi Politeia, Milano (www.politeia-centrostudi.org). Main research interests: Analysis of public administration and local government; Transformation of the relationship between politicians and civil servant in Italy and in Western Europe (spoils and merit system); Rethinking the welfare state and citizenship (i.e. health policy and migration) in the liberal and democratic societies (i.e. politics and migration); Ethical frontiers in public and private management with an interdisciplinary approach; Transformation of parties and party systems in Italy in comparative perspective. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/nicola-pasini Personal web page: https://www.nicolapasini.it/ |
PASQUALI Francesca
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Francesca Pasquali This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Milan |
| Associate Professor of Political Philosophy
After graduating in philosophy, Francesca Pasquali received a PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan, where she now teaches political philosophy as Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences. She is also the head of the Master’s Programme in Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. Main research interests: Methodological issues in political philosophy, among which realism-utopianism, facts and principles, the relationship between normative and empirical approaches; Political realism; Theories of justice; Politics and truth; Public philosophy; Normative theories of democracy and processes of democratization and autocratization; Authoritarian and hybrid regimes; Democracy promotion. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/francesca-pasquali |
PEDRAZZANI Andrea
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Andrea Pedrazzani This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Sociology Andrea Pedrazzani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. He completed a Ph.D. in Political Studies at the University of Milan (2011) and was visiting scholar at the University of Mannheim (2009) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2012). Main research interests: Comparative politics; political institutions; party competition, legislative behaviour; democratic representation; quantitative methods. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/andrea-pedrazzani |
PELLEGATA Alessandro
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Alessandro Pellegata This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences, where he teaches Political and Administrative Systems (BA MAPS) and EU Social Model (MA MOL). Involved in the SOLID project and in the editorial board of EuVisions (euvisions.eu). Main research interests: The interplay between comparative institutional analysis and comparative public opinion; electoral competition and government alternation; political representation; EU public support and attitudes toward European solidarity; political corruption. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/alessandro-pellegata Personal web page: http://alessandropellegata.weebly.com/ |
RIVA Nicola
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Nicola Riva This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law After graduating in Philosophy at the University of Bologna Nicola Riva was visiting researcher at the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics (2006-2007) and received a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Law at the University of Milan (2007), where he was later a Post-doctoral researcher (2007-2015). Main research interests: Equality and egalitarianism; liberalism social justice; bioethics; legal theory; rights of sexual and gender minorities and LGBT studies. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/nicola-riva/ |
RUGGERI Andrea
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Andrea Ruggeri This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Science and International Relations Before joining Milan, Andrea Ruggeri (PhD Essex, 2011) was Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Oxford for ten years. Before he was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He is Research Fellow at Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation. Main research interests: He is a scholar of international and comparative politics. His research focuses on conflict, civil wars, political violence, and peace operations. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/andrea-ruggeri Personal web page: www.aruggeri.eu |
VEZZONI Cristiano
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Cristiano Vezzoni This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Sociology Cristiano Vezzoni coordinates the SPS-TREND Lab on survey research at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Unimi. Since 2018, he is Deputy-President of the Italian National Election Study (ITANES). He is affiliated with the University of Leuven (KUL) where he teaches in the Master of Statistics and Data Science. Main research interests: Electoral behaviour; public opinion; survey research methods; measurement; religious change. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/cristiano-vezzoni |
ZUCCHINI Francesco
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Francesco Zucchini This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Science Editor of "Naspread.eu", webmagazine of dissemination in Social and Political Sciences. Member of the steering comittee of Italian Political Science Association and former director of the Ph.D. program in Political Studies, (University of Milan). Main research interests: Electoral behaviour; law making; representation; courts; rational choice theory. Personal web page: https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/francesco-zucchini Personal web page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kdFX_8EAAAAJ&hl=it/ |
University of Pavia
BATTEGAZZORRE Francesco
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Francesco Battegazzorre This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Science Director (2021-23) of the Centro Interuniversitario di Analisi dei Simboli e delle Istituzioni Politiche (Casip), and Editor of the journal "Quaderni di scienza politica". Main research interests: Political Theory; Political Institutions; Political Language and Symbolism. Personal web page: https://scienzepolitiche.unipv.it/persone/prof-francesco-battegazzorre/ |
BERKOFSKY Axel
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Axel Berkofsky This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of History & Politics Asia Co-Head of the Asia Center at the Milan-based Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) and Research Affiliate at the European Institute of Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics. He is also Executive Committee Board Member at the Stockholm-based European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN). Previously, Dr. Berkofsky was Senior Policy Analyst and Associate Policy Analyst at the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC), Research Fellow at the Brussels-based European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS). Main research interests: Japanese and Chinese foreign and security policies; Chinese history; Asian security and EU-Asia relations. Personal web page: https://scienzepolitiche.unipv.it/persone/prof-axel-berkofsky/ |
CLEMENTI Marco
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Marco Clementi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of International Relations Marco Clementi got a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Florence. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Lugano (USI, Switzerland). Main research interests: Power and Hegemony, Conflict and Cooperation, Food Security. Personal web page: https://scienzepolitiche.unipv.it/persone/prof-marco-clementi/ |
PANSARDI Pamela
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Pamela Pansardi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science She obtained her PhD in Political Science from the University of Pavia in 2011. During her PhD studies, she has been Visiting Scholar at New York University and Australian National University. She has been Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Milan; Centro Einaudi, Turin; University of Pavia and Adam Smith Guest Professor at the University of Bayreuth. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Research Committee on Political Power, IPSA and founding co-chair of the Standing Group on Gender and Politics, SISP. Main research interests: EU politics; Gender and politics; Political theory; Text analysis. Personal web page: https://scienzepolitiche.unipv.it/persone/prof-ssa-pamela-pansardi/ |
University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano
LOCATELLI Andrea
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Andrea Locatelli This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science and Strategic Studies PhD in Political Science, University of Florence, Italy. Prior to joining the Catholic University, he has been scholar-in-residence at Carleton University and post-doc fellow at the University of Bologna. His works appeared on European Security, Contemporary Security Policy, International Peacekeeping, Political Science Quarterly, Global Policy, Journal of European Integration. Main research interests: International Relations Theory; Italian Foreign Policy; Military technology. Personal web page: https://docenti.unicatt.it/ppd2/it/docenti/14926/andrea-locatelli/profilo |
PARSI Vittorio Emanuele
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Vittorio Emanuele Parsi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of International Relations Director of ASERI (Graduate School of Economics and International Relations) until 2024. Board member of Italian Political Science Association. Member of the Standing group of International Relations. Member of the LSE IDEAS Advisory Board (Centre for Diplomacy and Strategy at the London School of Economics). Main research interests: Structural changes in the international political system; Relationship between democracy and market; Transatlantic relations, Middle East security. Personal web page: https://docenti.unicatt.it/ppd2/en/docenti/03565/vittorio-emanuele-parsi/profilo |
University of Turin
BOBBA Giuliano
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Giuliano Bobba This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science Collegio Carlo Alberto Fellow. Previously he was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Fondation Maison Sciences de l'Homme in Paris and visiting scholar at the Institute of Etude Politique in Aix-en-Provence and at the CESSP-Paris 1 Sorbonne. Main research interests: Political communication and election campaigns; Public opinion; Populism. Personal web page: https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?giuliano.bobba#tab-profilo |
CAPONIO Tiziana
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Tiziana Caponio This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science Ph.D. in Political Science, Collegio Carlo Alberto Fellow. She is co-chair of the Imiscoe SC "Migration Politics and Governance" (www.imiscoe.org). She edited (with Peter Scholten and Ricard Zapata-Barrero) The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities, Routledge, Abington, 2019. Main research interests: Migration policy and policymaking processes in a multilevel governance perspective, with specific attention to the role of municipalities and their interactions with supra-national and national governments on the one hand, and with NGOs and civil society organizations on the other. Personal web page: https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?tiziana.caponio#tab-profilo Personal web page: https://www.carloalberto.org/person/tiziana-caponio/ |
Other Italian Universities
CAPANO Giliberto (University of Bologna)
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Giliberto Capano This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Public Policy He is co-editor of Policy & Society. Former member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association. Co-founder of the International Public Policy Association. Member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium of Political Research. Main research interests: Comparative public policy; Policy Design and Policy instruments; Theories of policy change. Comparative higher education; Policy advise systems; Public policy and crisis management. Personal web page: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/giliberto.capano/cv-en/ |
DOMORENOK Ekaterina (University of Padua)
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Ekaterina Domorenok This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Political Science She holds a PhD in European and Comparative Politics from the University of Siena. She is Director of the Master's Programme in European policies, projects and funding and Co-director of the Observatory on sustainability, equality and social justice (OSES) at the University of Padua. Main research interests: Policy design, implementation, learning and capacity building in multilevel settings, with particular regard to EU policies for climate, regional and urban development, sustainability and ecosocial transitions. Personal web page: http://tiny.cc/rvssuz |
NEGRI Fedra (University of Milan-Bicocca)
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Fedra Negri This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Assistant Professor of Political Science Negri holds a Ph.D. from the University of Milan (2016). She was Visiting Fellow at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) before joining the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her publications include articles in Public Choice, Electoral Studies, European Union Politics, West European Politics, Party Politics, and Quality & Quantity. Main research interests: Comparative politics, comparative social policies, party politics, populism and populist parties, responsiveness, and quantitative methods for political research. Personal web page: https://www.unimib.it/fedra-negri |
NICOLI Francesco (Polytechnic University of Turin)
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Francesco Nicoli This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Assistant Professor of European Political Economy Besides his position at the Politecnico of Turin Francesco Nicoli serves as Adjunct Professor of Political Economy at Gent University, and affiliate fellow at the University of Amsterdam and the think-tank Bruegel. He obtained his PhD at Trento University, and worked as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Main research interests His research focuses on the three-way interactions between crises, European institutions, and public opinion. His core research interests include all topics related to European integration at times of crisis, especially on economic matters as well as security, with a focus on either institutions, or public opinion, using primarily but not exclusively quantitative methods. As ancillary interest, he is also interested in the political economy of the new space race, with a particular attention paid to the role played by the EU and the European Space Agency. Personal web page: https://www.polito.it/personale?p=098538 |
SACCHI Stefano (Polytechnic University of Turin)
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Stefano Sacchi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Political Science Department of Management and Production Engineering, Polytechnic University of Turin. Research Affiliate, AISSR Political Economy and Transnational Governance programme (PETGOV), University of Amsterdam; Senior Policy Fellow, School of European Political Economy, LUISS. Member of the Scientific committee of ESPAnet-Italia; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Randstad Research Institute. Main research interests: Comparative political economy; Comparative social and labour policy; Political economy of structural reforms; Socio-economic and political impact of technological change. Personal web page: https://www.digep.polito.it/personale/scheda/(nominativo)/stefano.sacchi Personal web page: linkedin.com/in/stefano-sacchi-60502a29 |
VESAN Patrik (University of Val d'Aosta)
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Patrik Vesan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Associate Professor of Employment and social policies Editor of "Politiche sociali/Social policies", the leading journal of Espanet-Italia, secretary-general of the Community Foundation of Aosta Valley and member of the national board of Assifero. Main research interests: Employment policy Social policy; EU social policy; Local development policy; Public administration. Personal web page: https://www.univda.it/docenti/vesan-patrick/ |
International Universities
BOGAARDS Matthijs (Central European University)

Matthijs Bogaards
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Associate Professor of Political Science
He holds two MA degrees from Leiden University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the EUI. He has been on the faculty of universities in the UK, Germany, Hungary, and most recently Austria.
Main research interests:
Democratization; De-democratization; Political institutions; Democracy in divided societies; Terrorism, African politics.
Personal web page: https://people.ceu.edu/matthijs_bogaards
BONOLI Giuliano (University of Lausanne)
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Giuliano Bonoli This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of social policy Giuliano Bonoli has been involved in several national and international research project. His work has focused on pension reform, labour market and family polices. He has published some forty articles in journals such as Politics & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, European sociological review, Journal of European Social Policy. Main research interests: Social policy; Old age pensions; Active labour market policies; Unemployment; Welfare deservingness. Personal web page: https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=27567&LanCode=37&menu=coord |
KREPPEL Amie (University of Florida)
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Amie Kreppel This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of International Relations Amie Kreppel is Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam), the Director of the University of Florida's Center for European Studies and Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. She has written extensively on the political institutions of Europe, the European Union and Italy. Main research interests: Political Institutions; European Union; Interinstitutional relations. Personal web page: https://people.clas.ufl.edu/kreppel/ Personal web page: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8657-7326 |
RADAELLI Claudio (University College London)
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Claudio Radaelli This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Professor of Public Policy Personal web page: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/people/professor-claudio-radaelli |







































































