Alessia Damonte is Assistant Professor (with Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor) in Political Science, Public Policy and Governance at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, and founder of the ReSPoS Summer School. Her current research topics focus on effective governance, accountability, fiscal policies, green growth and set-theoretic methods. Her publications appear on the Journal of European Public Policy, Quality & Quantity, Sociological Methods and Research, Environmental Politics, European Journal of Risk Regulation, World Political Science Review, Italian Political Science Review, and the Italian Review of Public Policies.

Fedra Negri is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Acting Director of the ReSPoS Summer School. Her research focuses on comparative politics, comparative social policies, populism and populist parties, responsiveness, quantitative methods for political research. Her publications include articles in Public Choice, Electoral Studies, European Union Politics, West European Politics, Party Politics, South European Society and Politics, Quality & Quantity, Government and Opposition, Policy & Internet, and Acta Politica.

Francesco Zucchini is Full Professor in Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano. His research focuses on rational choice theory, veto player theory, Italian political system and law making in comparative perspective, constitutional courts, formal modelling and quantitative methods in political studies. He has published in top-tier international journals such as Public Choice, European Journal of Political Research, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Political Science Research and Methods, European Political Science Review, European Union Politics, West European Politics, South European Society & Politics, and Constitutional Political Economy.

Coordinator of the Organizing Committee

Silvia Decadri is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano. She has obtained her Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin with a thesis that employs computational text analytic methods to study the possible causes of legislative particularism. Before joining Università degli Studi di Milano, she has worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include also populism, and political communication. She has recently published a paper in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.