Nelli Babayan is a PhD candidate at the School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy, and founding co-editor of the graduate journal Interdisciplinary Political Studies (IdPS). In 2010, she was a visiting researcher at the Centre for International and Comparative Studies, ETH Zurich, and at FRIDE in Madrid.
She has an MA in Political Science from the Central European University, Hungary, and an Honours Diploma from Yerevan State Linguistic University, Armenia. Her research focuses on EU and US foreign policies, democracy promotion, politics of post-communist states, and Russia’s foreign policy in the neighbourhood. Some of her publications include “Armenia: The Eastern Partnership’s Unrequited Suitor” (with N. Shapovalova, FRIDE policy brief, September 2011), “Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo? Assessing the Imperialist Ambitions of the European Union, Russian Federation and the United States of America” (with S. Braghiroli, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies 5/2, 2011); ‘Now, Who Answers the Phone in Europe? Cooperation within the CFSP after the Enlargements and the Lisbon Treaty’ (Caucasian Review of International Affairs 4/4, 2010); and Democracy Promotion in South Caucasus: Can We Teach Them? (VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 2010).

CARLO BACCETTI è professore associato di Scienza politica presso la Facoltà di Scienze politiche “Cesare Alfieri” dell’Università di Firenze.
E’ vice-direttore del Dipartimento di Scienza politica e Sociologia (DISPO).
Ha insegnato nell’Università Autonoma di Barcellona; ha svolto attività di ricerca e di insegnamento presso l’Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (ICPS) di Barcellona. E’ stato docente di Governo locale presso la Scuola di specializzazione in Scienze amministrative e dell’organizzazione dell’Università di Catania.
E’ redattore capo dei Quaderni dell’Osservatorio elettorale. E’ socio della Società Italiana di Studi Elettorali (SISE).
Si occupa prevalentemente di partiti, governo locale, cultura politica ed elezioni in Italia. Fa parte di un gruppo di ricerca sulle trasformazioni delle culture politiche in Italia.

Books
I postdemocristiani, Bologna, il Mulino, 2007.
Potere locale e politiche pubbliche, Torino, UTET Libreria, 1999.
Il PDS, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997.

Book Chapters
Il peso dei mezzadri sull’orientamento di voto nelle quattro regioni rosse, in P. Dogliani e M. Ridolfi (a cura di), 1946 – I comuni al voto, Imola, Editrice La Mandragora, 2007.
Il Comune rosso e i movimenti sociali, in AA.VV., I due bienni rossi del Novecento – 1919-20 e 1968-69 – Studi e interpretazioni a confronto, Roma, Ediesse, 2006.
Politici e amministratori regionali negli anni Settanta, in P. L. Ballini, M. Degl’Innocenti e M. G. Rossi (a cura di), Il tempo della regione: la Toscana, Firenze, Giunti, 2005.
After PCI: Post-Communist and Neo-Communist Parties of the Italian Left After 1989, in J. Botella e L. Ramiro (eds.), The – Crisis of Communism and Party Change, Barcellona, ICPS, 2003.
Itàlia. Canvis en el sistema electoral: l’elecció directa de l’alcalde, Barcellona, ICPS, 2001.

BRUNETTA BALDI teaches Comparative Federalism and Local Government in the Faculty of Political Science “Roberto Ruffilli”, University of Bologna, Forlì. She has been Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Departament de Ciència Política i de Dret Públic, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona; Center for the Study of Federalism, Temple University, Philadelphia.
She has published books and journal articles on federalism, local government and intergovernmental relations. Her interests focus on regionalism and federalism in the European Union, centre-periphery relations, local public policy.
She is currently developing a research project on competitive regionalism. She is affiliated with the “Centro di Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche (CAPP)”, a research unit of the Department of Political Science, University of Bologna. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the “Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche (RIPP)”.

Books
Regioni e federalismo. L’Italia e l’Europa, Bologna, Clueb, 2006.
Stato e territorio. Federalismo e decentramento nelle democrazie contemporanee, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003.

Book Chapters
Il rapporto centro-periferia, in Non solo potere: le altre facce della politica, a cura di G. Capano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Spagna, in Da Stato Unitario a Stato federale, a cura di S. Ventura, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Le regioni, in La pubblica amministrazione in Italia, a cura di G. Capano e E. Gualmini, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.

Journal Articles
Legislativi americani: sviluppo, funzioni ed organizzazione, in Le istituzioni del federalismo, No. 1, 2006, 97-119.
Assemblee legislative subnazionali: il caso americano, in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, No. 3, 2004, 93-124.
Lobbying regionale e Unione europea, in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, No. 3, 2002, 59-89.

Gianfranco Baldini (Msc London School of Economics and Political Science, 1996; PhD Florence 1998) is Associate professor of political science at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is Research Director at the Istituto Cattaneo of Bologna (www.cattaneo.org), where he is also Co-director of a Book Series on the politics of advanced democracies ('Elezioni, governi, democrazie') as well as coordinator of the Yearbook on Italian Poltics, published by il Mulino as Politica in Italia and by Berghahn Books as Italian Politics.
He has held Visiting Fellowships at the Cevipof, Paris, and at the Universities of Cardiff and York.
His main interests are on the comparative politics of Electoral and Party Systems, Regional and Local Politics, as well as on the political systems of the main advanced democracies (mainly Italy, France and the United Kingdom) and of the European Union.

Books
with A. Pappalardo, Elections, Electoral Systems and Volatile Voters, Palgrave, December 2008
ed. with M. Lazar, La Francia di Sarkozy, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
(ed.) Quale Europa. L'Unione Europea oltre la crisi, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005.

Book Chapters
La campagna per il referendum elettorale e le prospettive di riforma, in M. Donovan e P. Onofri (eds), Politica in Italia 2008, Bologna, Il Mulino.
I sondaggi politici in Gran Bretagna. Fra innovazione e tradizioni, in P. Corbetta and G. Gasperoni (eds.), I sondaggi politici nelle democrazie contemporanee, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
Partiti, pluralismo e vocazione maggioritaria, in A. Barbera e G. Guzzetta (eds.), Il governo dei cittadini, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
with B. Baldi, Italia: dal centralismo (ereditato) alla federalizzazione (incerta), in S. Ventura (ed.), Da unitario a federale, Bologna, Il Mulino, forthcoming.
with B. Baldi, La riforma dello stato delle autonomie, in A. Bosco e I. Sanchez-Cuenca (eds.), La Spagna di Zapatero, Bologna, Il Mulino, forthcoming.

Journal Articles
Francia, Italia e "salute democratica", il Mulino, n. 4, 2007, 696-705.
Ancora un referendum?, il Mulino, n. 6, 2007, 975-984.
Il referendum elettorale e l'impossibile riforma, in Italian Politics & Society, the Review of The Congrips, N.65, 2007, 9-18.

ELENA BARACANI is researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane in Florence, as winner of a research grant in the framework of the ‘European Foreign and Security Policy Studies’ programme funded by the Compagnia di San Paolo. She has also won a European Union Institute for Security Studies Visiting Fellowship. She is tutor for the PhD program in Political Science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, lecturer in European Union Politics at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, lecturer in Contemporary European Politics at Rutgers University in Florence, and teaching assistant in Politics of European Integration at the University of Florence.
In April 2006 she defended her PhD thesis on ‘The European Union and Democracy Promotion. The Cases of Turkey and Serbia’ at the University of Florence. Since May 2006 she is CIRES (Interuniversity Research Centre on Southern Europe) Deputy Director and Researcher, and coordinator of the SSDD (Italian Society for the Study of the Diffusion of Democracy).
Her research interests focus on democratization studies and EU external relations. Her area studies include Eastern Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Southern Caucasus, and Western Balkan.

Book Chapters
The European Neighbourhood Policy and Political Conditionality: Double Standards in EU Democracy Promotion?, in T. Balzacq, The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008.
EU Democratic Rule of Law Promotion, in A. Magen and L. Morlino, International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law: Anchoring Democracy, London: Routledge, 2008.
Pre-accession and Neighbourhood: The European Union’s democratic conditionality in Turkey and Morocco, in A. Jünemann and M. Knodt, European External Democracy Promotion, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2008.
De la Asociación Euro-mediterránea a la politica europea de vecindad: ¿una nueva presión europea para la democratización en Marruecos?, in A. Fernández-Ardavín and M. Goded, Salto Europa y Marruecos. Diez a_os del Proceso de Barcelona, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2007.

Journal Articles
The European Neighbourhood Policy: A New Anchor for Conflict Settlement?, Global Europe Papers 2008/2.

Cristina Barbieri teaches Italian political system in the 1st cycle degree program in Political science, and Theory of political institutions in the 2nd cycle degree program (Laurea magistrale) in Political theory at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Pavia.
In 1994 she completed a degree in Political sciences at the University of Pavia; in 1998 she obtained a PhD in Political science from the University of Florence. Her research activities have included a Fellowship in Modern Italian Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1998), a Postdoctoral fellowship (1999) and a Research fellowship (2001) at the University of Pavia.
Her current research interests focus on political institutions, in particular government in parliamentary systems. She is associate editor of the journal Quaderni di scienza politica, and a member of staff of the Pavia-based PhD program in Political Science.

Books
con Verzichelli L., a cura di, Il governo e i suoi apparati: l’evoluzione del caso italiano in prospettiva comparata, Genova, Name, 2002.
Il primo ministro in Italia: una ricerca empirica, Milano, Giuffrè, 2001.

Book Chapters
Qualche considerazione in tema di élites politiche e democrazia, in Giorgio Fedel (a cura di), Studi in onore di Mario Stoppino, Milano, Giuffrè, 2005.
L’europeizzazione del gabinetto e il ruolo del presidente del Consiglio, in Sergio Fabbrini (a cura di) L’europeizzazione dell’Italia: l’impatto dell’Unione europea sulle istituzioni politiche italiane, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2003.

Journal Articles
Il capo del governo in Italia. Seconda parte: il caso del Terzo governo Moro, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n. 1, 1999.
Il capo del governo in Italia. Prima parte: questioni di metodo per una ricerca empirica, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n. 3, 1998.
Il ruolo del capo dell’esecutivo nei sistemi parlamentari, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n. 3, 1996.

Luciano Bardi (Ph. D. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pisa. He is also a member of the European Consortium for Political Research and Società Italiana di Scienza Politica Executive Committees.
He is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, at the Istituto di Scienze Umane Doctoral Programme in Florence, and at California State University Florence International Programme. His previous appointments include: Noted Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia; Visiting Professor at Dickinson College. Bologna Center; Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence; Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford University); Senior NATO fellow at the Johns Hopkins University.
He is a member of the Party Politics editorial board. His current research interests include: Institutions and politics of the European Union, Political parties, Elections, Security and foreign policy issues in the Mediterranean.

Books
with Piero Ignazi, Il Parlamento europeo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
Partiti e sistemi di partito. Il ‘cartel party’ e oltre, (ed.) Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
with Piero Ignazi and Oreste Massari (eds.), I partiti italiani. Iscritti, dirigenti, eletti, Milano, EGEA, 2007.
with Federica Bicchi and Serena Giusti (eds.), Evoluzione della sicurezza nel Mediterraneo, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2008.

Book Chapters
Electoral change and its impact on the party system in Italy in Martin Bull and Martin Rhodes (eds.) Italy: a Contested Polity, Special Issue of West European Politics 4:2007, 711-732.
with Peter Mair, The Parameters of Party Systems, in Party Politics, Vol. 14, N 2, 2008, 147-166.

Mauro Barisione is a Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Milan, Italy, where he currently teaches Public Opinion Analysis. Phd in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris and the University of Florence, he also taught Political Communication at the IEP in Paris.
He is a member of the directive committee of the Italian Society of Electoral Studies (SISE), and of the research program Italian National Election Studies (Itanes).
He published several scientific articles, especially in the fields of political communication, public opinion and electoral behaviour. His recent interests focus on symbolic leadership, theories of framing in communication and collective action, transformations of the public sphere. His latest book, ‘L’immagine del leader’, was published by Il Mulino in 2006.

Books
L’immagine del leader, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
with R. Mannheimer, I sondaggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005 (2nd ed.).

Book Chapters
Le “néo-patrimonialisme hybride” du cas Berlusconi : entre charisme médiatique et représentation politique et sociale, in Gazibo, M., Bach, D. (eds.), États et néo-patrimonialismes: la fin de l’exception africaine, Paris : Karthala, 2008, forthcoming.
La campagna presidenziale e l’offerta simbolica dei leader, in G. Baldini, M. Lazar (eds.), La Francia di Sarkozy, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007, 95-114.
L’orientamento al leader: forme, effetti, dinamiche, in M. Maraffi (ed.), Gli italiani e la politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007, 157-186.
I sondaggi politici in Francia. Controversie di una repubblica “sondomane”, in G. Gasperoni, P. Corbetta (eds.), I sondaggi politici nelle democrazie contemporanee, Bologna Il Mulino, 2007, 113-132.
Il richiamo debole del leader di coalizione, In ITANES (a cura di), Dov’è la vittoria? Il voto del 2006 raccontato dagli italiani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, 179-196.

Journal Articles
Valence Image’ and the Standardisation of Democratic Political Leadership, Leadership, 4(3), 2008,forthcoming.

Eugenia Baroncelli is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna, Facoltà ‘R.Ruffilli’ Forlì, where she teaches the IPE course at the MA in Diplomatic and International Studies. In 2007-2008 she has been Visiting Professorial Lecturer in Introduction to Development at the Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center.
She has also taught Theories of International Relations at the MA in International Relations (MRI), University of Bologna (2001). Formerly a Fulbright Fellow (2000-2001) and a consultant at the World Bank on the political economy of trade and tariffs (2001-2006), she holds a Master (Hons.) in IR (SAIS-Johns Hopkins) and a PhD in Political Science (University of Florence). In her past research she has explored the money-security nexus in transatlantic relations, and the political determinants of growth in Europe.
Her current contributions include investigations on the political causes of trade, as well as empirical explorations of the trade-war and trade-democratic transition links, conducted through panel data analyses. Recently, she has widened her research focus to study the foreign economic policymaking of the EU, and the EU-World Bank relations in development policies.

Book Chapters
Preferenze, istituzioni e idee: il “policy making” economico esterno dell’Unione europea, in M. Ferrera e M. Giuliani (eds), Governance e politiche nell’Unione Europea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
The “Peace Dividend”, SAFTA, and Pakistan-India Trade, in Z.F. Naqvi and P.Schuler (eds), The Challenges and Potential of Pakistan-India Trade, Washington, The World Bank, 2007.

Journal Articles
with E. Krivonos and M. Olarreaga, Trade Marks Protection, or Protectionism?, in Review of International Economics”, 15, 1, 2007,126-145.
with C. Fink and B. Smarzynska, The Global Distribution of Trademarks: Some Stylised Facts, in The World Economy, 28, 6, 2005, 765-782.
Democracy and Trade Among the Great Powers, 1980-1998, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 33, 1, 2003, 31-69.
Growth and Trade in Germany and the U.K., Comparative Experiences from 1870 to 1989, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 8, 1, 2001, 165-205.

Marzia Basili è Laureata in Scienze Politiche, indirizzo Internazionale-Comunitario, Università di Roma Luiss Guido Carli di Roma.
PhD in Political Theory (2007), Coordinatore: Prof. Sebastiano Maffettone, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Roma Luiss Guido Carli. Tesi di dottorato: “Citizenship: models and policy-making”. Tutor: Prof. Raffaele De Mucci.
Dal 2007 è titolare del Contributo alla attività didattica e di ricerca presso la cattedra di Scienza Politica, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Luiss Guido Carli.
Nell’anno accademico 2006/2007 ha svolto attività di tutor per i corsi triennali della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche della Luiss.
Dal 2006 collabora con il Consulente del Presidente della Repubblica per i Problemi della Coesione Sociale, Prof.ssa Giovanna Zincone (in materia di: cittadinanza, immigrazione, minori, handicap).
Ha partecipato alla ricerca Generare classi dirigenti (LUISS – Confindustria) (2008 e 2007). Responsabile: Prof. Raffaele De Mucci. Ha collaborato con FIERI (Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull’Immigrazione); il Dipartimento di Scienze Demografiche dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”; la Fondazione CENSIS.

Book Chapters
Sull’integrazione della popolazione immigrata, in Golini A. (a cura di), L’immigrazione straniera: indicatori e misure di integrazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006.

Conference papers
con A. Golini, Report of the Conference, in Genus – Proceedings of the International Conference Trends and problems of the world population in the XXI century, Vol. LXI, NN 3-4, July-December 2005.
Le politiche immigratorie in Europa come casi di politiche pubbliche, working paper Centro di Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali dell’Università Luiss Guido Carli, n. 81, 2001.

MATTEO BASSOLI is research and teaching assistant at the Bocconi University (Milan), for Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy Analysis.
He graduated, at the same university, in Economics and Social Discipline (2003) with a dissertation on “Deliberative arenas and new form of political participation”, thereafter he follow the PhD in Comparative Analysis of Democracies (Pavia) where he discussed his thesis in 2007 “Public-private decision making and local democracy in Italian urban policies”. In 2007 he participated in the Intune Winter School on “Citizenship and Europe-Elite, Experts and Mass Interview”, at the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve.
He worked on participatory and network governance, both as researcher and consultant (Crema Municipality). He has collaborated with URGE – Research Unit on European Governance (www.urge.it), POLEIS – Centre of Comparative Political Research (www.unibocconi.it/poleis).
His recent interests focus on local policies, social exclusion, political participation, unemployment, immigration and social corporate responsibility.
He is currently working with Paolo Graziano at completing “Le politiche locali per la promozione della Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa. Il caso italiano” Milano, Angeli (forthcoming).

Book Chapters
Imola. Il Piano per la salute, and, Cagliari. Contratto di quartiere a Borgo Sant’Elia, in L.Bobbio (ed.), Amministrare i cittadini. Viaggio tra le pratiche di partecipazione in Italia, Catanzaro: Rubettino, 2008.
La Democrazia Partecipata. L’esperienza di Porto Alegre, Laboratori di democrazia diretta a Roma e a Grottammare, Una comunicazione a misura di cittadino, and, E’ anche questione di budget, in S. Amura (ed.), La città che partecipa, Rome, Ediesse, 2003.

Conference Papers:
Private-public concertation for urban policies. Paper presented at the NEWGOV Cross-Cluster Workshop & Practitioner’s Event Berlin, 8-10 May, 2008.
with Graziano, P., Sparano, V. and Vesan, P., Local Partnership Consolidation in Italy. Analytical framework, research strategy and case selection, NEWGOV Research Report, 2007.
Indicazioni per un’economia del paesaggio, proceedings of the conference Il paesaggio nell’era del mutamento, Mantua: Zapparoli, 2007.

Francesco Battegazzorre teaches Comparative politics in the 1st cycle degree program in Political science and General political theory in the 2nd cycle degree program (Laurea magistrale) on Political theory at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Pavia.
His interests are currently focused on political theory and empirical research on political institutions. He is assistant editor of the journal Quaderni di scienza politica, and a member of staff of the Pavia-based PhD program in Political Science.

Books
Il Parlamento nella formazione del sistema degli Stati europei. Un saggio di politologia storica, Milano, Giuffrè, 2007.

Book Chapters
Mario Stoppino e il “caso italiano”, in Fedel G. (a cura di), Studi in onore di Mario Stoppino, Milano, Giuffrè, 2005.

Journal Articles
Il concetto di istituzione politica: l’accostamento di Carl J. Friedrich, in Quaderni di Scienza politica, n.3, 2007.
Partiti e governo nelle democrazie del nord-Europa: i casi della Norvegia e della Svezia, in Quaderni di scienza politica, n. 2/3, 2006.
with Blondel J., Have consociational forms of parliamentary government ceased to exist in Western Europe, but is the majoritarian model on the way to becoming more cooperative?, Working papers – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Institut de Ciencies Politiques i Social, Barcellona, 223, 2003.
with Blondel J., Majoritarian and Consensus parliamentary democracies: a convergence towards Cooperative Majoritarianism?, Quaderni di Scienza politica, n. 2, 2002.
L’istituzionalismo di Giuseppe Maranini, in Il Politico, 67, 1, 2002.
Competizione e Democrazia, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n. 2, 1999.

Paolo Bellucci – Laurea in Sociology (Rome), Master in Political Science (Iowa) – has been a researcher at the European University Institute (1981-1984) and at Censis Foundation (1984-1988), researcher and professor of Political Science at the University of Molise (1988-2004).
Since 2005 he is professor of Comparative Political Behaviour in the doctoral programme of the University of Siena and teaches Research Methods and Political Sociology at the undergraduate level. He has been visiting professor at CIRCAP-University of Siena (2000-2001) and at the Department of Government, University of Essex (2004). He serves in the Board of Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), of ITANES (Italian National Election Study), in the International Advisory Board of the British Election Study (University of Essex) and is chairman of the SISP standing group on Public Opinion and Political Behaviour.
He is co-director of the Itanes (Italian National Election Study) 2006 electoral study and scientific coordinator of the 2006 Cofin-Prin funded research project on the 2006 Italian political election.
He has conducted comparative research on electoral behaviour, and studies on political participation, the relationship between politics and bureaucracy, the politics of defence.

Books
with John Bartle (Eds.), Partisanship: Party identification, social identity and political experience, , Routledge, 2008.
Modelling Electoral Choice in the Twenty-First Century (edited with Paul Whiteley). Special Issue of “Electoral Studies”, Vol. 25, N. 3, 2006: Elsevier, 2006.

Book Chapters
with M. Maraffi and P. Segatti, Intermediation through secondary associations: the organizational context of electoral behaviour, in R. Gunther, J. Montero, H. J. Puhle (Eds.), Democracy, Intermediation and Voting on Four Continents, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
with C. Petrarca, Valori politici e scelte di voto, in M. Maraffi (a cura di), I cambiamenti della cultura civica degli italiani, Bologna, il Mulino, 2007.
con V. Memoli, Insuccessi del governo, paura delle tasse, in Itanes, Dov’è la vittoria? Il voto del 2006 raccontato dagli elettori, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006 .
Il rapporto tra gli italiani e la politica, in S. Setta (a cura di), Italiani contro gli uomini politici: il Qualunquismo, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2005.

Journal Articles
Changing Models of Electoral Choice in Italy. Modern Italy. vol. 12, 2007, 55-72 .
Tracing the cognitive and affective roots of ‘party competence’: Italy and Britain, 2001, Electoral Studies, vol. 25, 2006, 534-568,
All’origine della popolarità del governo in Italia. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. vol. 36, 2006, 479-503.

Federiga Bindi is an tenured aggregate professor and Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she also founding director of the Jean Monnet European Center for Excellence. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS-John Hopkins in Washington DC. Before that, she has been a fellow or teaching at a number of prestigious international institutions such as at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, the Institut d’Études Politiques both in Paris and in Lille, the University of Lisbon, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, the University of Florence, NYU, Cal State, SUNY-FIT etc. Prof. Bindi is also an adjoint professor of European Governance and Politics at the Italian National School of Public Administration (SSPA) where she is in charge of the international training programs. Federiga Bindi got her PhD at the European University Institute after studying at Cesare Alfieri in Florence, Italy; at the Institute d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France; and at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Books
Italy and the EU, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, 2011. Reviewed by “Charlemagne” on The Economist, 31.7.2010
(with I. Angelescu): The Frontiers of Europe. The International Implications of an Enlarged Europe, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, 2011
The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe’s Role in the World, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2010
(with K. Eliassen): Assessing European Studies in Political Science, Il Mulino, Bologna, forthcoming 2011
(with G. Guzzetta): Lo Stato dell’Unione tra Allargamento e Costituzionalizzazione (The State of the Union between Enlargement and Constitutionalization), Giappichelli, 2009
Il Futuro dell’Europa, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2005

Articles and book chapters
One year on: Assessing the European Foreign Policy and the European External Action Service (EEAS), Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring/Summer 201
Italy and the Lisbon Treaty In Laursen, F. (ed.): Negotiating the Lisbon Treaty, Nijhoff/Brill in Leiden, forthcoming 2011
Italy and the 2003 IGC: the Decline of a middle size power? In Laursen, F. (ed.): Negotiating the Constitutional Treaty, Nijhoff/Brill in Leiden, 2008
La negoziazione delle decisioni governative a livello Europeo: il caso italiano, in Baroncelli (a cura di): Il ruolo del governo nella formazione e applicazione del diritto dell’Unione Europea. Le peculiarità del sistema costituzionale multilivello, Giappichelli, Torino, 2008
Il parlamento italiano e l’UE: una relazione a geometria variabile in Italia e Germania in Europa, Universtaet Stuttgart, 2007
(with Grassi, S.): The Italian Parliament: from benevolent observer to active player, in Maurer, A. / Wessels W. (eds): National Parliaments on their ways to Europe: losers or latecomers?, Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft, 2nd ed., 2007
Italy: When individual Actors make the Difference, in F. Laursen (ed.), 2006: The Treaty of Nice. Actor Preferences, Bargaining and Institutional Choice, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden – Boston
(with Cisci, M.): Italy, Spain and the EU: A Tale of Contrasting Effectiveness in the EU, in Bulmer S. and Lequesne C. (eds.), 2005, Member States and the European Union, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Politica europeias do Estado: analise comparada de Itália e Portugal, in Analise Social, 2002, Lisbon
Os grupos de pressão na União Europea, in Analise Social, 2002, Lisboa
Executivos nacionais e assuntos Europeus: uma análise comparada entre Itália e Portugal, in A Reforma do Estado em Portugal. Problemas e Perspectivas. Actas do Encontro Nacional de Ciências Politica, Bisancio, Lisbona, 2002
L’Unione Europea tra riforme ed allargamento: un bilancio dell’anno 2001, La Società, Verona, 1/2002, anno XII
(with Grassi, S.): The Italian Parliament: from benevolent observer to active player, in Maurer, A. / Wessels W. (eds): National Parliaments on their ways to Europe: losers or latecomers?, Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001
Le Riforme: quelle attuate e quelle rinviate; L’Italia e l’attuazione delle politiche europee, I Consigli Europei nel 2000 in Cacace, P., Mammarella, G., (ed): L’Unione Europea nel 2000, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2001
Il Coreg e il Ces. Due tipi di influenza posti a paragone, in Varsori, A. (a cura di): Il Comitato Economico e Sociale nella Costruzione Europea, Marsilio, Venezia, 2000
A influência de Portugal nos processos de decisão da união europeia, in Analise Social, n. 154/155, Lisboa
L'influenza italiana nei processi decisionali UE, in Europa-Europe, Anno VIII, N. 3, Roma
Non European MNC influencing the EU. An analysis of Possibilities, Procedures and Methods in Australasian Journal of European Integration, Vol. I, 1998/1999
L'influenza italiana nei processi decisionali UE, in Affari Internazionali, Aprile 1999, Milano
The Committee of the Regions in Van Schendelen, R. & Pedler, R. (eds.): Do Committees in Pillar I Have Influence on the EU Decisions and Policy Formation?, Dortmouth, London, 1998
The cost of staying out of the EU: Third States and Foreign Multinational lobbying the EU legislative process in Peters, P. & Cafruny A., (eds.): The Union and the World: the international political economy of a Common European Foreign Policy, Kluwer Law, London, 1998.
Italy, in Andersen S. and Eliassen K. (eds.) The European Union: How democratic is it?, Sage, London, 1995
The Eurogroups, the European Union and the EU Legislative Process, NUPI-Report N. 201, 3.1996, Oslo
Italy and the EC, Handelshøyskolen BI Arbeidsnotat 1994-4, Sandvika
ETFA and Norway: EC lobbyists, too, NUPI-Notat N. 500, October 1993, Oslo
Eurogroups and the EC decision-making process Handelshøyskolen BI Arbeidsnotat N.1993-35, Sandvika, 1993
(con L.Bardi) Italy: the Dominance of Domestic Politics, in R.Van Schendelen: National Public and Private EC Lobbying, Dartmouth, 1993

ROBERTO BIORCIO is Associated Professor of Sociology in the Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale at the University of Milano Bicocca.
He has published books, journal articles and newspaper columns in several areas, including political parties, electoral behaviour, political communication, populism, political participation, social movements and political culture.
His recent interests focus on globalization and the transformation of political participation.
He is currently working with other scholars for the ITANES research programme (Italian National Election Study

Books
Sociologia politica. Partiti, movimenti sociali e partecipazione. Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003.
La Padania promessa. La storia, le idee e la logica d’azione della Lega Nord. Milano, Il Saggiatore, 1997.

Book Chapters
The parties of centre right. In J. Newell (ed), The Italian general election of 2006. Romano Prodi’s victory, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2008.
Democrazia e populismo nella Seconda repubblica, in M. Maraffi (ed), Gli Italiani e la politica. Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007
Professione e scelta di voto: una polarizzazione fra lavoro autonomo e lavoro dipendente. In: ITANES. Dov’è la vittoria? Il voto del 2006 raccontato dagli italiani, Bologna, Il Mulino 2006.
The Lega Nord and the Italian Media System, in G. Mazzoleni, J. Stewart e B. Horsfield, (eds). The Media and Neo-populism. A Contemporary Comparative Analysis. Westport, Conn, Praeger, 2003.

Journal Articles
La strana coppia. Le campagne politiche della Lega e i successi di Silvio Berlusconi, Comunicazione Politica, vol. 1, 2004, 37-46.
Orientamenti elettorali ed europeismo degli italiani, Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale, vol. 52, 2004, 7-28
Cultura civica, associazionismo e politica in Italia, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 2001, 359-390,
La Lega Nord e la transizione italiana, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1999, 55-87.

Alberto Bitonti got a PhD at the Doctoral School of Political Sciences, University of Roma Tre, and a Master’s degree in Political, Economic and Institutional Communication, at Luiss Guido Carli University (Rome).
He’s Research Fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in the School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington DC.
His research interests are lobbying, advocacy, public affairs and the liberal political thought; his PhD dissertation focused on the concept of Public Interest in Political Theory.
He teaches Communication & Public Affairs at IED (Rome), and has been Teaching Assistant in Political Science (University of Roma Tre) and Epistemology (Luiss Guido Carli).
Since 2010 he’s General Secretary of the Italian Lobbyists Association Il Chiostro.

LUIGI BOBBIO is Professor of Policy Analysis, University of Turin, and the President of the Master in “Analisi delle politiche pubbliche” (MAPP).
He has been Visiting Professor at the Cepel in Montpellier and at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Aix-en-Provence. His recent interests focus on deliberative democracy, citizens’ participation, local government, multi-level governance and consensual resolution of conflicts.

Books
Amministrare con i cittadini. Viaggio tra le pratiche di partecipazione in Italia, Soveria Mannelli, Rubettino, 2007.
A più voci. Amministrazioni pubbliche, imprese, associazioni e cittadini nei processi decisionali inclusivi, Napoli, ESI, 2004.
I governi locali nelle democrazie contemporanee, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002.

Book Chapters
L’alta velocità in val di Susa. Troppo decisionismo o troppo poco?, in L. Briquet e A. Mastropaolo (eds), Politica in Italia. Edizione 2007, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007, 209-228.
Le politiche contrattualizzate, in C. Donolo (ed), Il futuro delle politiche pubbliche, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2006, 59-79.
Quando la deliberazione ha bisogno di un aiuto: metodi e tecniche per favorire i processi deliberativi, in L. Pellizzoni (ed), La deliberazione pubblica, Roma, Meltemi, 2005, 177-202.
Italy: after the storm, in Denters, B. e Rose, L. (eds), Comparing Local Governance: Trends and Developments, London, Palgrave, 2005, 29-46.

Journal Articles
Tipi di deliberazione, Rivista italiana di scienza politica, n. 3, 359-383, 2007.
As arenas deliberativas, Revista brasileira de estudos constitucionais, vol. 1, n. 1, 2007, 144-170.
Discutibile e indiscussa. L’Alta Velocità alla prova della democrazia, Il Mulino, vo. 55, n. 423, 2006, 124-132.
co-authored by. B. Dente and A. Spada, Government or Governance of Urban Innovation? A Tale of Two Cities, DISP, n. 162, 2005, 41-52.

SILVIA BOLGHERINI is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Naples Federico II, where she teaches Comparative Politics and Public Policy Analysis. PhD in Political Science at the University of Florence, she is editor of the section Elezioni nel mondo for the journal Quaderni dell’Osservatorio elettorale and editorial assistant of the IPSA Web Portal for Electronic Sources.
She has been Research Fellow at the OIP/CDSP, Sciences-Po Paris; Visiting Scholar at the University of Potsdam and the Freie Universität Berlin, and has spent several research periods in Germany, France, Spain, Greece and the US.
She has published articles and chapters in the areas of electoral studies, European studies and regional and local politics.
Her research interests focus on Europeanization and European integration; Elections and electoral phenomena; Local and regional government and administration; Decentralization and devolutions; Comparative Politics.
Currently she is working on the municipal government in Italy and Germany.

Books
with M. Caciagli, La politica comparata. Strategie e ricerche, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2008.
Come le regioni diventano europee. Stile di governo e sfide comunitarie nell’Europa mediterranea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.

Book Chapters
with F. Musella, Voto personale, mobilitazione trasversale e controllo del selectorate. Il caso di Aversa, in G. Pasquino, F. Venturino (eds.) Le primarie comunali, Bologna, Il Mulino, forthcoming.
Les pouvoirs internationaux des Régions italiennes dans une décennie de réformes (1996-2006), in F. Massart-Piérard (ed.), La paradiplomatie régionale: étude comparée, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2008.
with J. Loughlin, Regional elections in Italy: National Tests or Regional Affirmation?, in D. Hough, C. Jeffery (eds.), Devolution and Electoral Politics: A Comparative Exploration, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006.

Journal Articles
Les régions d’Europe et l’enjeu des coopérations, in Pôle Sud, forthcoming.
Os presidentes de Câmara italianos: Uma revolução de compromisso, in Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, (77) 1/2007, 81-100.
The Technology Trap and the Role of Political and Cultural Variables: A Critical Analysis of the E-Government Policies, in Review of Policy Research, (24) 3/2007, 259-275.
with F. Musella, Voto di preferenza e politica personale, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, (14) 3/2007, 275-305.

PAOLA BORDANDINI ricercatrice presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Bologna dal 2006. Si è laureata in Scienze Politiche (indirizzo politico-sociale) all’Università degli Studi di Firenze, dove ha conseguito anche il titolo di dottore di ricerca in Scienza della Politica (ciclo XIII: 1998-2001). Dal 2002 al 2006 è stata assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Organizzazione e Sistema politico dell’Università di Bologna. Ha trascorso periodi di studio e di ricerca presso l’Università di Essex (Colchester – Inghilterra), l’Università del Michigan (Ann Arbor – USA), lo ZA-Eurolab di Colonia (Germania). Collabora con l’Istituto Cattaneo di Bologna.
Principali interessi di ricerca: Cultura politica, capitale sociale, partiti politici, fiducia e legittimità democratica. Si è occupata della struttura delle preferenze degli imprenditori, di capitale sociale e fiducia degli italiani. Attualmente i suoi interessi di ricerca vertono sulla cultura politica, sulla qualità della democrazia e sulle trasformazioni dei partiti italiani.

Books
Cultura politica e piccola impresa nell’Italia plurale, Roma-Acireale, Bonanno, 2006.
con Aldo Di Virgilio, Delegati di partito. I source books delle inchieste svolte ai congressi nazionali di partito dal 2004 al 2006. Collana dell’Osservatorio italiano sulle trasformazioni di partito, Bologna, Clueb, 2007.

Book Chapters
Identità locale e fiducia nelle istituzioni in R. Catanzaro (a cura di), Nodi, Reti, Ponti. La Romagna e il capitale sociale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
I romagnoli allo specchio: elementi di un autoritratto, in R. Catanzaro (a cura di), Nodi, Reti, Ponti. La Romagna e il capitale sociale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.

Journal Articles
con Aldo Di Virgilio, Partito dei comunisti italiani. Ritratto di un partito di nicchia, Rivista italiana di scienza politica, n. 2/2007.
con Aldo Di Virgilio, Tre partiti, tre sinistre, Il Mulino LV, 423, n. 1, 2006.
Fiducia interpersonale e nelle istituzioni: piccoli imprenditori a confronto, Polis XVII, n. 3, 2003.
con Roberto Cartocci, La fiducia dei cittadini nel Presidente della Repubblica, Il Mulino, LII, 406, 2, 2003.
Fare impresa nella Piana. Come gli imprenditori valutano i destini di un’area centrale dello sviluppo toscano, Firenze, CNA, 2001.

Anna Bosco (Ph.D, University of Firenze) is Associate Professor of European Government and Political Parties at the University of Trieste.
She has carried out research on party change in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and East-Central Europe. Has participated in international research projects such as the one on the Organization of the European political parties (1960-1990) directed by Robert Katz and Peter Mair, and that on Democratization in Southern Europe, directed Nikiforos Diamandouros and Richard Gunther.
She has directed, together with Leonardo Morlino, the international research project on Party Change in Southern Europe. She is co-editor (with Susannah Verney and Marina Costa Lobo) of the journal South European Society & Politics. She is currently working at a volume on the Spanish Socialist government.

Books
con Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, La Spagna di Zapatero, Bologna, il Mulino, forthcoming.
con Leonardo Morlino (eds), Party Change in Southern Europe, Milton Park and New York, Routledge, 2007.
editor, Partiti ed elettori nel Sud Europa, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2006.
Da Franco a Zapatero. La Spagna dalla periferia al cuore dell’Europa, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005.
Comunisti. Trasformazioni di partito in Italia, Spagna e Portogallo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2000.

Edoardo Bressanelli is completing his doctoral dissertation, focusing on the impact of the 'Big Bang' enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe upon the Europarties and the EU party system, at the European University Institute (Florence). He collaborates with the chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Pisa. He is also lecturing on EU institutions at James Madison University and on Italian Politics at Elon University (Florence programme).
His specialization concentrates on EU institutions and political parties, but he is also interested in the EU decision-making and, more broadly, on methodological issues in comparative research.

Journal Articles

Reh, C., Heritier, A., Bressanelli, E., Koop C., “The Informal Politics of Legislation. Explaining Secluded Decision-Making in the European Union”, Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming

Bressanelli, E., “National Parties and Group Membership in the European Parliament: Ideology or Pragmatism?”, Journal of European Public Policy, forthcoming (special issue including the best paper presented at the XIIth EUSA Conference, Boston, March 2011)

Bressanelli, E., “Un'Analisi Comparata dei Programmi Elettorali per le Elezioni del Parlamento Europeo”, POLENA, Rivista Italiana di Analisi Elettorale, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 25-46

Book Chapters

Bressanelli, E., “Le Elezioni del Parlamento Europeo: Risultati Elettorali nei Paesi dell'Unione e Nuovi Equilibri nel Parlamento”, in P. Pombeni, Europa di Carta. Stampa e Opinione Pubblica in Europa nel 2009, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010, pp. 45-61

Bressanelli, E., Calderaro, A., Piccio, D., Stamati, F., “Italy”, in W. Gagatek, The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament – Country Reports. Florence: European University Institute, 2010, pp. 113-118

Working Papers

Bressanelli, E., “The Organization of the EU Parliamentary Parties: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement”, SPP 483, Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Aberdeen, 2011

L. Bardi, E. Bressanelli, E. Calossi, W. Gagatek, P. Mair, E. Pizzimenti, “How to Create a Transnational Party System?”, EUDO Report No. 2, RSCAS, Florence, 2010 (published also by the European Parliament, Policy Department C, 2010)

Book Reviews

Bressanelli, E., “Voyage to the Heart of Europe 1953-2009”, by P. Fontaine, Brussels, Racine, in West European Politics, Vol. 33, no. 4, 2010, pp. 913 – 914

Bressanelli, E., “Giuseppe Pella. Un Liberista Cristiano”, by Gabriella Fanello Marcucci, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, in Modern Italy, Vol. 14, no. 2, 2009, pp. 246 – 248

MARCO BRUNAZZO is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Trento, where he teaches European Politics and Local Government.
He is Assistant Editor of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. His recent interests focus on European policy-making, Cohesion Policy and local government reforms.

Books
Le regioni italiane e l’Unione Europea. Accessi istituzionali e di politica pubblica, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2005.

Book Chapters
Territorial Choice in Italy, in H. Baldersheim and L.E. Rose (eds), Territorial choice: The politics of boundaries and borders, London, Palgrave, forthcoming.
con S. Piattoni, Italy and Regional Policy, in S. Fabbrini e S. Piattoni (eds), Italy in the European Union: Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Articles:
with Mark Gilbert, The right sweeps the board, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2008.
with Ekaterina Domorenok, New Members in Old Institutions? The Impact of Enlargement on the Committee of the Regions, in Regional and Federal Studies, 2008.
with Ch. Roux, Les provinces italiennes: entre subsidiarité et remise en cause, in Pouvoirs Locaux, 75, 2007.
Da policy-taker a policy-shaper: l’europeizzazione della politica di coesione dell’Italia, per Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XXXVII, 2, 2007.