MARIO CACIAGLI is professor of Political Science at the University of Florence. He was before professor at the Universities of Padua and Catania and has been visiting professor in some European Universities (Heidelberg, Bonn, Jena, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, IEP of Paris, Innsbruck).
He was one of the founders of the Italian Society for Elections Studies (SISE), being its President between 1983 and 1985 and honorary President since 2006. Since 1981 he’s editor of the Quaderni dell’Osservatorio elettorale, a half-yearly review on electoral studies.
He wrote many articles about elections in Italy, Spain and Germany and he is editor of seven readers about electoral history, electoral behaviour or electoral systems. Articles on parties and party systems, local politics, and political culture have been published in Rivista italiana di scienza política, Polis, Il Mulino, Revue française de science politique, Pôle Sud, West European Politics, Österreichische Zeitschrift für politische Wissenschaft, Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Revista española de investigación sociológicas.

Books
with Silvia Bolgherini, La politica comparata. Strategie e ricerche, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2008.
Regioni d’Europa. Devoluzioni, regionalismi, integrazione europea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
Spanish: Regiones de Europa. Autogobierno, regionalismo, integración europea, Valencia, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2006.
ed. with Aldo Di Virgilio, Eleggere il sindaco. La nuova democrazia locale in Italia e in Europa, Torino, UTET Libreria, 2005.

Book Chapters
Germania: partiti e sistema partitico prima e dopo l’unificazione, in P. Grilli di Cortona e G. Pasquino (eds.), Partiti e sistemi di partito nelle democrazie europee, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
The Long Life of Clientelism in Southern Italy, in J. Kawata (ed.), Comparing Political Corruption and Clientelism, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006.
La importancia de las elecciones para la democracia desde un punto de vista comparado”, in J. Molins e P. Oñate (eds.), Elecciones y comportamiento electoral en la España multinivel, CIS, Madrid, 2006.
Germania: una “democrazia del cancelliere”?, in G. Pasquino (ed.), Capi di governo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.

Journal Articles
Down to the Last Ballot! The Italian Elections of 9-10 April 2006, in BCN Political Science Debate, n. 5, 2007.
Due sistemi elettorali a confronto: il tedesco e lo spagnolo, in Quaderno n. 17, Associazione per gli studi e le ricerche parlamentari, Torino, Giappichelli, 2007.

Anna Caffarena is Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Turin. Steering Committee member of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) and of the Standing Group on International Relations of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR-SGIR), she was the Local organizer of the Sixth Pan-European Conference of International Relations (Turin, September 2007).
She has written on regime theory, cooperation, multilateralism and international organizations. Her present research interest include the current transformations of international order, the evolution of multilateralism, trust and trust-building strategies in world politics.

Books
A mali estremi. La guerra al terrorismo e la riconfigurazione dell’ordine internazionale, Guerini, Milano 2004.
Le organizzazioni internazionali, Il Mulino, Bologna 2001 (second revised edition 2008).

Book Chapters
La guerra israelo-libanese e il rilancio di un multilateralismo efficace, in J-L. Briquet e A. Mastropaolo (a cura di), Politica in Italia. I fatti dell’anno e le interpretazioni. Edizione 2007, Istituto Cattaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2007. English edition forthcoming.
con G.B. Andornino, L’ordine internazionale parlerà cinese? Il valore del multilateralismo nel mondo che cambia, in M. Deaglio, G.S. Frankel, P.G. Monateri, A. Caffarena, A cavallo della tigre, Guerini, Milano 2007.
Il multilateralismo e la sfida del cambiamento, in F. Armao, A Caffarena (a cura di), Introduzione al mondo nuovo. Scenari, attori e strategie della politica internazionale, Guerini, Milano 2006. English edition: World Political Forum, 1985-2005 Twenty Years that Changed the World, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
Il costruttivismo, in G. J. Ikenberry, V. E. Parsi (a cura di), Teorie e metodi delle Relazioni internazionali, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2001.

Journal Articles
Trust in the age of fear. Multilateralism after 9/11, La Comunità Internazionale, LXI, n. 4, 2006.
Considerazioni sulla politica interna del mondo, Teoria Politica, XVIII, n. 2, 2002.

MAURO CALISE is Professor of Political Science, University of Naples Federico II, and the President of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (2008-10). He is the Editor and Director of the International Political Science Association Web Portal for Electronic Sources.
He has taught and lectured throughout Italy, Europe, and the U.S. His international activities include the International Political Science Association (Vice-President, 2000-2003); Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris; Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, Cornell University; Research Fellow, Harvard Center for European Studies.
He has published books, journal articles and newspaper columns in several areas, including state theory, political parties, executive elites, political communication and concept analysis. His recent interests focus on Internet epistemology and culture. He has developed and directed several web projects: from e-government portals (www.egov.it) to library gateways (www.ipsaportal.net). His latest web project is Federica, an innovative e-learning platform (www.federica.unina.it).
He is the author, with Theodore J. Lowi, of Hyperpolitics. An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

Books
La Terza Repubblica. Partiti contro Presidenti, Roma e Bari, Laterza, 2006.
Il partito personale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000, 2007 4th. ed.
La costituzione silenziosa. Geografia dei nuovi poteri, Roma e Bari, Laterza, 1998.

Book Chapters
Presidentialization, Italian Style, in T. Poguntke, P. D. Webb, The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Il governo, in Storia dell’Italia repubblicana, II Tomo, III Vol., a cura di Franco Barbagallo, Torino, Einaudi, 1997.

Journal Articles
with Rosanna De Rosa, E-Research: An Introduction to On-line Political Science Sources For Beginners (And Skeptics), International Political Science Review, 4, 2008,
Corporate Authority in a long-term Comparative Perspective. Differences in Institutional Change between Europe and the United States, in Beihefte zur Rechtstheorie, Supplements to Legal Theory, Duncker & Humblot, 2002.
with Theodore J. Lowi, Hyperpolitics: Hypertext, Concepts and Theory-making, International Political Science Review, 2, 2000, 283-310.

GIAMPIERO CAMA si é laureato con lode presso l’Universitá degli Studi di Genova nell’anno accademico 1984-1985 discutendo una dissertazione di laurea dal titolo: “Il concetto di identità nella Prospettiva Sociologica”, relatore Giorgio Sola. Ha conseguito il titolo di Dottore di Ricerca in Scienza della Politica presso l’Università di Firenze nel Luglio 1992 discutendo una tesi intitolata: “Istituzioni Politiche e crisi di partecipazione: il caso tedesco e quello britannico” sotto l’attività tutoria di Mario Stoppino.
Ricercatore nel 1995, presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Genova e vincitore, nel 2005, del concorso per professore associato in Scienza Politica presso la stessa Facoltà. Attualmente lavora presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali di quella stessa facoltà. Tra i suoi principali interessi di ricerca: Teoria democratica e modelli di democrazia; Potere ed élite politiche; Approcci economici alla politica; il neoistituzionalismo

Books
La Banca d’Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, forthcoming.
con G. B. Pittaluga, Banche centrali e democrazia. Istituzioni, moneta e competizione politica, Milano, Hoepli, 2004.
Istituzioni e democratizzazione. L’avvento della politica di massa in Gran Bretagna e Germania, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2000.

Book Chapters
I rapporti politici con lo Stato, in G. Felloni (a cura di), La casa di San Giorgio: il potere del credito, Genova, Brigati, 2006.
Governo e Banche centrali. Dall’indipendenza all’autonomia, in C. Barbieri e L. Verzichelli (a cura di), Il Governo e i suoi apparati, con postfazione di J. Blondel, Genova, Name, 2003.
Sopra alcune implicazioni della teoria politica di Mario Stoppino in tema di politica monetaria, in G. Fedel (a cura di) Scritti in onore di Mario Stoppino, Milano, Giuffrè, 2003.
con G. Giraudi, Le politiche macroeconomiche, in S. Fabbrini e F. Morata (a cura di), L’Unione Europea. Le politiche pubbliche, Bari, Laterza, 2002.

Journal Articles
Il Banco di San Giorgio e sistema politico genovese: un’analisi teorica, in Storia Politica Società, 2006.
Politica monetaria e competizione politica: le teorie del ciclo politico-economico, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 2005.

FRANCESCA CAMPOMORI has a Phd in Political Science.
Her research interests focus on immigrants’ integration policies and on welfare policy at the local level. She is recently interested in regionalism effect on welfare policy in Italy.

Book Chapters
Integrare l’immigrato: modelli locali di intervento a Prato, Vicenza e Caserta, in Stranieri in Italia Migrazioni Globali, Integrazioni Locali, edited by T. Caponio e A. Colombo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005, 235-266.

Journal Articles
Frames cognitivi, organizzazione e apprendimento nelle politiche locali per gli immigrati, in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, n.1/2005, 33-63.
Le politiche locali dell’immigrazione, in Amministrare n.3/2005, 421-451.
with Federico Toth, Politiche per gli immigrati ed organizzazioni del terzo settore, in Impresa Sociale, n.2/2006, 95-114
L’amministrazione a rete: retorica o realtà? L’esperienza delle agenzie ambientali, in Stato e Mercato, n.1/2007, 107-137.
Il ruolo di policymaking svolto dagli operatori dei servizi per gli immigrati, in Mondi Migranti, 3/2007, 83-106.

Donatella Campus graduated at Bocconi University in Milan in Economic and Social Sciences and received her Ph.D in Political and Social Sciences from the European Institute University in Florence. She is currently Associate professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna (Forlì campus), where she teaches Theory of Organization and American Political System. She has been Visiting fellow in the department of Government of the University of Essex; Fellow at the Italian Academy at the Columbia University, New York; Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University.
Her research interests are comparative politics, in particular public opinion and electoral behaviour, party leadership with special interest in Italian and American politics; political communication, electoral propaganda and political language; gender politics with special interest in women’s leadership, rational choice and decision theory.

Books
L’antipolitica al governo. De Gaulle, Reagan, Berlusconi, Bologna.
con G. Pasquino (a cura di), Maestri della scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
con G. Pasquino, USA: Elezioni e sistema politico, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2003 (nuova edizione 2005).
L’elettore pigro. Informazione politica e scelte di voto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000.

Journal Articles
con G. Pasquino, C. Vaccari, Social Networks, Political Discussion and Voting in Italy, A Study of 2006 Elections, Political Communication, forthcoming.
The 2006 election: more than ever, a Berlusconi-centred campaign, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol.11, n.4, 2006, 516-531.
Leaders, dreams and journeys: Italy’s new political communication, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 7, n.2, 2002.

Giliberto CAPANO is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy University of Bologna at Forlì, and the Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences “Roberto Ruffilli”. He has been the editor of the Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, and he is the co-editor of Policy & Society.
His main research interests are: theories of public policy, higher education policy, legislative behaviour and public administration. He has published five monographical studies and edited seven books in Italian, while his work in English has been published in several books and in journals such as: Higher Education, Journal of Legislative Studies, Public Administration, Southern European Society and Politics, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.

Books
co-editor with con Elisabetta Gualmini, La Pubblica amministrazione, Bologna, Il Mulino 2006.
co-editor with Salvatore Vassallo, Customer satisfaction: a che punto siamo?, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
editor, Non solo potere. Le altre facce della politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
co-editor with Beppe Tognon, La crisi del potere accademico in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino.

Journal Articles
Looking for serendipity: the problematical reform of government within Italy’s Universities, Higher Education, vol. 55 n.4, 481-504, 2008.
with R. Vignati, Casting light on the black hole of the amendatory process in Italy, South European Society & Politics, vol.13, n.1, 35-59, 2008.
Understanding policy change as an epistemological and theoretical problem, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, n.2, 2009, forthcoming.

TIZIANA CAPONIO, Dottore di ricerca in Scienza della Politica, è attualmente ricercatrice presso il dipartimento di Studi Politici dell’Università di Torino. Insegna Sociologia politica e politiche dell’immigrazione. Dal 2005 è membro del comitato di redazione della rivista “Polis”.
Nel 2003 ha conseguito il dottorato in Scienza della politica Università Cesare Alfieri di Firenze, con una tesi dal titolo Immigrazione, politica e politiche. Governo locale e accesso ai servizi nei casi di Milano, Bologna e Napoli; supervisore: prof.ssa G. Zincone. Nel biennio 1998-2000 è stata visiting student presso European University Institute di Fiesole, il Départment de science politique, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales (SES), Université de Genève. Attività didattiche e di ricerca svolte sotto la supervisione del prof. Jan-Erik Lane, direttore del dipartimento di scienza politica, e con il supporto della Borsa di Perfezionamento all’Estero dell’Università di Torino. Dal 2003 ad oggi è ricercatrice presso il Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull’Immigrazione (FIERI). Tra i principali temi di ricerca: politiche di immigrazione e per gli immigrati in chiave comparata; partecipazione politica e organizzazione delle minoranze etniche di Europa e oltreoceano; processi di integrazione; città e migrazioni transnazionali.

Books
Città italiane e immigrazione. Discorso pubblico e politiche a Milano, Bologna e Napoli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
a cura di, con A. Colombo, Stranieri in Italia. Migrazioni globali, integrazioni locali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.

Book Chapters
con Giovanna Zincone, The Multilevel Governance of Migration, in R. Penninx, M. Berger e K. Kral (a cura di), The Dynamics of Migration and Settlement in Europe. A State of the Art, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, serie IMISCOE Joint Studies, 2006.
Policy networks e immigrazione. Il caso delle politiche sociali a Milano e a Napoli, in A. Colombo e G. Sciortino (a cura di), Stranieri in Italia. Assimilati ed esclusi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002, 253-282.

Journal Articles
con Emanuele Pavolini, Introduzione. La dimensione locale delle politiche migratorie, in Mondi Migranti, n. 3/2007, forthcoming.
Dal governo alla governance dell’immigrazione. I protocolli di intesa tra Questure, enti locali e terzo settore in Piemonte, in Mondi Migranti, n. 3/2007,
(Im)migration research in Italy. A European comparative perspective, in Sociological Quarterly, 2007.
Dai modelli alle pratiche di integrazione degli immigrati. Convergenza o divergenza?, in Meridiana, 2007.
Policy networks and immigrants’ associations in Italy. The cases of Milan, Bologna and Naples, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 31, n. 5, 2005, 931-950.

OTTORINO CAPPELLI teaches Political Science and Comparative Politics at the University of Naples L’Orientale, where he has been vice-Rector for e-learning (2006-2008).
He has received his doctorate in Political Science from the Univeristy of Florence (1986), and his PhD in Political Science and Russian Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK (1998). His international activities include visiting and research fellowships at Columbia University, Harvard University, Moscow State Univeristy, and the University of Cambridge, UK.
He has published monographs, journal articles, and edited books in several areas, including post-communist transition politics, local government, election studies, and the Internet as a research tool for social scientists.
His recent theoretical interests focus on comparative state-building processes; on a more empirical ground, he is working on political elites in the United States, with special regard to the Italian-American ethnic group.
He is currently Project Coordinator of the “Italian/American Digital Project” at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, City University of New York (www.i-Italy.org).

Books
Demokratizatsiya. La transizione fallita, Napoli, Guida, 2005.
with S. White and R. Hill eds., Russia ‘After’ Putin, Routledge, London, 2008, forthcoming.
editor, Oltre la democratizzazione: Il problema della ricostruzione dello stato nello spazio politico post-comunista, special issue of Meridione. Sud e nord nel mondo, IV, 4, 2005.
with G. Gervasio and A. Teti eds., Oltre la democratizzazione II: Elezioni, politica e potere nel “Grande Medio Oriente”, special issue of Meridione. Sud e nord nel mondo, V, 3, 2006.
editor, Mezzo mondo in Rete. Internet per gli area studies, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003.

Book Chapters
Italian American Political Elites: Preliminary Explorations, in AA.VV., Italians in the Americas, New York:, Calandra Institute, 2008, forthcoming.

MARCELLO CARAMMIA is a PhD candidate in Comparative and European Politics at the Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP) of the University of Siena. He is completing a thesis on the Common Immigration Policy of the European Union. Drawing on the toolbox of comparative public policy analysis, the study seeks to unclose the factors driving immigration policy-making in the EU. This goal is pursued by devising a comprehensive framework for the analysis of institutional and actor dynamics, with a special focus on institutional agendas on the one side and micro-level dynamics within the policy network on the other.
His main interests are comparative public policy analysis, immigration policy, and European Union politics and policy. He is part of the Italian team of the Policy Agendas Project (http://www.policyagendas.org).

GIOVANNI M. CARBONE is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Università degli Studi di Milano. He is also a Visiting Fellow of the Development Research Centre, London School of Economics; a Research Associate of the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (Ispi, Milan); and an Associate Fellow of the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict, University of Pennsylvania.
He has a PhD from the London School of Economics and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD programme in Political studies (Institutions and public policies) of the Università degli Studi di Milano.
His research interests are in the field of democratisation, comparative politics, political parties, political institutions, electoral systems, ethnic politics and civil wars. He conducted field research in Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, Mozambique and South Africa. He is currently National Coordinator of the PRIN research programme on “The political, economic and social consequences of democratization”, co-funded by the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca and by the Università degli Studi di Milano.

Books
No-party democracy? Ugandan politics in comparative perspective, Boulder (Co), Lynne Rienner, 2008, forthcoming.
L’Africa. Gli stati, la politica, i conflitti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.

Journal Articles
Tra pace e giustizia: negoziare la fine della guerra in nord Uganda, Afriche e Orienti, 9 (3-4), 2007.
Political parties and party systems in Africa: themes and research perspectives, World Political Science Review, 3 (3), 2007, 1-29.
Comprendre les partis et les systèmes de partis africains: entre modèles et recherches empiriques, Politique Africaine, 104, 2006, 18-37.
La nuova generazione dei partiti politici africani, Afriche e Orienti, 8 (3-4), 2006, 124-135.
Partiti politici e sistemi di partito in Africa. Temi e prospettive di ricerca, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 36 (1), 2006, 57-86.
Continuidade na renovação? Ten years of multiparty politics in Mozambique: roots, evolution and stabilisation of the Frelimo-Renamo party system, Journal of Modern African Studies, 43 (3), 2005, 417-442.
Africa sub-sahariana, in Atlante geopolitico mondiale, Milano, Touring Club Italiano – Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 2004.
Political parties in a ‘no-party democracy’. Hegemony and opposition under ‘Movement democracy’ in Uganda, Party Politics, 9 (4), 2003, 485-502.

NADIA CARBONI is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna.
She currently teaches “Administrative Science” at the Faculty of Political Science “Roberto Ruffilli”. She has taught and lectured at the Italian Institute of Administrative Studies “SPISA” (Scuola di Specializzazione in Studi Amministrativi) and at MA in “Public Administration”.
Her international activities include the EPAN (European Public Administration Network) and ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) membership; the ECPR Standing Group on Analytical Politics and Public Choice affiliation; Visiting Scholar at the University of Emory, Atlanta (USA); Teaching Assistant at the ECPR Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex (UK).
She has got many grants and scholarship funds to participate in ECPR- EPAN organised or sponsored activities/ summer schools throughout Europe.
Her research interests focus on Comparative Politics, Comparative Public Administration, Political-Administrative relationships, Public Policy Analysis.
She has published on the processes of public administration reform and the relationship between politics and administration in Italy and in comparative perspective.

Books
Il Circolo Virtuoso del Controllo Politico: concetti, variabili e modelli della relazione tra politica e amministrazione in Italia e in prospettiva comparata, Rubbettino, Soveria-Mannelli, 2008.

Book Chapters
La qualità dei servizi pubblici: da utente a cliente? Dodici esperienze di rilevazione della customer satisfaction nelle amministrazioni pubbliche” in Capano, G. e S. Vassallo (a cura di ) Customer satisfaction: a che punto siamo. Indagine sullo stato di attuazione della direttiva del Ministro per la Funzione Pubblica del 24 marzo 2004 sulle rilevazioni della qualità dei servizi percepita dagli utenti, Collana Analisi e Strumenti per l’innovazione, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 21-54, 2007.

Journal Articles
Atteggiamenti e percezioni della dirigenza ministeriale dopo le riforme: i circoli viziosi e l’innovazione difficile, in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, n.1/ 2007, 71-101.

Concetta Carrà è assegnista di ricerca presso l’Università di Messina, dove sta svolgendo un programma dal titolo “L’attività politica delle donne dell’Assemblea Costituente” e professore a contratto, nella stessa università, di Sistemi di welfare comparati. Dal 2005 è dottore di ricerca in Analisi e Teoria dei Mutamenti delle Istituzioni Sociali, Politiche e Comunicative, titolo conseguito con la discussione della tesi “L’Assemblea Costituente e i diritti femminili. Parità, famiglia e lavoro nell’attività delle donne elette”.
In passato ha partecipato al Progetto Interuniversitario dal titolo “Il fascismo e le comunità italiane nelle Americhe: uno studio su nazionalismo e identità nazionale” (2001) e successivamente ai PRIN Miur-cofin 2002-2004 “Democrazia deliberativa e questione migratoria” e 2004-2006 “Mafia e politica: reti sociali e cultura civica in Sicilia. Rivisitando la questione siciliana alla luce dell’approccio di rete”.

Book Chapters
Strutturazione del linguaggio politico: il ‘codice’ Berlusconi”, in Domenico Carzo, a cura di, Tra interpretazione e comunicazione. Nascita e declino dei codici: un approccio transdisciplinare, II volume, working paper n. 12, 2002, 8-20.

Journal Articles
La riforma dell’articolo cinquantuno, in Segno, XXIX, n. 246, giugno 2003, 19-24.
2 GIUGNO 1946-2 GIUGNO 2006: i 60 anni del diritto di voto delle donne italiane, I Quaderni di Sociologia, working paper 3, marzo 2006.
Nadia Spano: una comunista alla Costituente, in Segno, XXXII, n. 275-276, maggio-giugno 2006, 35-41.
Le deputate dell’Assemblea costituente, I Quaderni di Sociologia, working paper 4, ottobre 2006.

ROBERTO CARTOCCI ha conseguito la laurea in Scienze politiche a Firenze nel 1974. Ricercatore dal 1981 (Università di Trieste). Alla Facoltà di Scienze politiche di Bologna dal 1983, dove è diventato associato in scienza politica nel 1993 e ordinario nel 2002. Redattore della “Rivista italiana di scienza politica” dal 1985 al 1994 (dal 1990 caporedattore). Direttore dell’Istituto Carlo Cattaneo dal 1994 al 1996.
Dal 2003 è Presidente del Corso di laurea in Scienze dell’Organizzazione (SORG) e del Corso di laurea specialistica in Scienze dell’organizzazione e del governo (SGOV).
Nel corso della carriera i suoi interessi di ricerca si sono concentrati sulle tecniche di rilevazione e analisi degli atteggiamenti, sulla cultura politica degli italiani, sul comportamento elettorale, sulla geografia elettorale e sulla nozione di capitale sociale.

Books
Mappe del tesoro. Atlante del capitale sociale in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.

Book Chapters
I romagnoli e il chiaroscuro dell’orgoglio nazionale, in R. Catanzaro (a cura di), Nodi, reti, ponti. La Romagna e il capitale sociale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2004, 17-131.

Journal Articles
L’unificazione fallita: il Sud e il capitale sociale, in Vita e pensiero, 2006, LXXXIX, n. 6, 105-113.
Community: from Object to Ideal Type, in Lab-Quaderni del Barilla Laboratori, 2006, n.2, 15-20.
con E. Berselli, Due Italie, forse. A proposito delle elezioni del 9-10 aprile, in Il Mulino, 2006, LV, n.424, 243-252.
La banalità dei valori: la riflessione di Tullio-Altan e lo studio della cultura politica, in Metodi e ricerche, 2005, XXIV, n.2, luglio-dicembre, 3-23.
L’arte di arrangiarsi: le due facce del Belpaese, in Vita e pensiero, 2004, LXXXVII, n. 2, 105-111.
Bipolarismo reale, in Il Mulino, 2004, LIII, n. 411, 57-66.

ANTONINO CASTALDO has recently concluded a Ph. D. program at the University of Florence (4 April 2008), with a dissertation on the distribution of power within political parties (”Il potere nei partiti. La sinistra riformista in Italia e Francia”). He his member of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP) and of the Youth Europeanisation Network (YEN).
He presented papers at the 7th annual Graduate student retreat of the Society for Social Research (SSR), 3/4 July 2005, Budapest; at the annual conference of Italian Society of Political Science, 21/23 September 2005, Cagliari; at the Graduate conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), 7/9 September 2006, Essex; at the 16th Annual ECPR Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, coordinated by Peter Mair, 10-21 September 2007, European University Institute (EUI), Florence.
He has been visiting student at the University of Science-Po, Paris, May-August 2007.
His interests focus are on internal party democracy, primary elections and party leadership and candidate selection.

Sabrina Cavatorto, graduated in Sociology at the University of Rome (1993), PhD in Social Theory and Research (University of Rome, 1998). She was research assistant at “Polity”, Observatory on Public Policies, Department of Sociology (University of Rome), directed by Prof. Marcello Fedele; since 2000, researcher at the Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), University of Siena, directed by Prof. Maurizio Cotta.
She is now Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Siena, where she teaches European Political Organization and Social Policy. She is also a member of the teaching staff of the Master Programme in European Politics (directed by Prof. Luca Verzichelli), with the following two courses: Institutions of the European Union; Politics of Regulation and Cohesion.
Her main research interests include Policy analysis and European governance. She has worked on the Europeanisation of policy making in Italy, with special emphasis on the following fields: Common fisheries policy, Cohesion policy and structural funds, Environmental policy. Her current projects deal with regulatory reforms, participatory law making and impact assessment in the European Union.

Books
with A. La Spina, Le Autorità indipendenti, il Mulino. 2008.
co-edited with A. La Spina, La consultazione nell’analisi di impatto della regolazione, Rubbettino, 2001.

Book Chapters
Dalla sovranità contesa alla governance multilivello, in Ferrera M. and Giuliani M. (eds.), Governance e politiche nell’Unione europea, il Mulino, 2008.
with L. Verzichelli, Italy and the strategy of political appointment, in Fabbrini S. and Piattoni S. (eds.), Italy in the European Union, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
Le autorità indipendenti, in Capano G., Gualmini E. (eds.), La pubblica amministrazione in Italia, il Mulino, 2006.
with G. A. Fois, Le elites politiche italiane nelle grandi scelte comunitarie, in Cotta M., P. Isernia, L. Verzichelli (eds), L’Europa in Italia, il Mulino, 2005.
Attuare Maastricht e la politica delle “rigidità flessibili”, in Cotta M., P. Isernia, L. Verzichelli (Eds), L’Europa in Italia, il Mulino, 2005.
The Europeanization of Public Policies: the Case of the Common Fisheries Policy, in Leonardi R. and M. Fedele (eds), Italy: Politics and Policies, Ashgate, 2003.
L’Unione Europea: molto rumore per nulla?, in Radaelli C.M., L’Analisi di impatto della regolazione in prospettiva comparata, Rubbettino, 2001.

Franco Cazzola, nato a Torino nel 1941. Laureato in Scienze politiche all’Università di Torino, dal 1992 è Professore Ordinario di Scienza politica all’Università di Firenze.
Ha insegnato nelle Università di Trento (1969-71) e Catania (1972-92) nonché al “Master su diritti umani e azioni umanitarie” dell’Università di Siena (2004-05). Ha collaborato come editorialista a diversi quotidiani quali “Corriere della Sera, “Messaggero”, “l’Unità“, “il Secolo XIX” o settimanali come “l’Europeo”, “il Mondo”.
Ha svolto ricerche e pubblicato articoli e libri sul sistema politico italiano, sulla corruzione, sul Parlamento, sulla magistratura e sullo sviluppo politico ed economico nei paesi in via di sviluppo. Attualmente si occupa di America Latina e di storia dei conflitti sociali e politici.
E’ stato assessore al Comune di Catania (1988-89) e alla Regione Toscana (1995-2000).

Books
Dopo “Tangentopoli”. Ovvero: storia di un paese miracolato, in AA.VV., Studi in onore di Miguel Beltran, Università Autonoma di Madrid, 2008.
L’opposizione tra la “piazza” e il “Palazzo”. Governo e opposizione nel Parlamento italiano: 1996-2008 (in corso di stampa), 2008.
con F. N. Moro, Per una politica. Antologia di scienza politica, Bonano Editore, Roma-Catania, 2008.
La classe politica regionale. Primi elementi per una comparazione fra Italia e Spagna, in M. Beltran (a cura di), Italia e Spagna a confronto, Università di Granada, 2005.
a cura di, La sicurezza come sfida sociale, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2004.
Il partito di massa e la sua organizzazione territoriale: il caso del Partito Socialista Italiano, in AA.VV., Partiti di massa nella prima repubblica, Patron Editore, Bologna, 2003.
Duecento anni di guerre, Firenze, 2003.

Journal Articles
con A. Lippi, La privatizzazione dei servizi idrici in Toscana, in Utility, giugno, n. 6, 2005.
Due secoli di promesse mancate, in Eupolis, n. 31, 2003.

LUIGI CECCARINI is assistant professor of Political Science, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. He is one of the founders of LaPolis, the Laboratory of Political and Social Studies (Univ. of Urbino) and a member of the working group of ITANES (Italian National Election Studies).
He is the Official Representative of the University of Urbino in the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research).
Currently he teaches Political Sociology and he is part of the working group that edits L’Osservatorio sul capitale sociale degli italiani (Observatory on Italians’ Social Capital) by Demos-Coop and the annual report Gli italiani e lo stato (Italians and the State) by Demos-Repubblica.
He has published essays in collective volumes and specialized journals nationally in Italy (Polis, il Mulino, ComPol, Polena, Limes, Politica ed economia, Political Trend) and internationally (South European Society & Politics, Journal of Modern Italian Studies), and has edited various collective publications and monographs.
The main focus of his research activity is the relationship between society and politics in the change of the Italian system: in particular, the relationship between Catholics and politics, new forms of participation, generations, political culture and electoral behaviour.

Books
Consumare con impegno. La politica quotidiana tra botteghe del mondo e supermercato, Roma e Bari, Laterza, 2008.
Le voci di dio. Stampa cattolica e politica in Italia, Napoli, l’ancora del mediterraneo, 2001.

Book Chapters
Unioni di fatto e divisioni politiche, in M. Donovan, P. Onofri (a cura di), Politica In Italia 2008, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
with I. Diamanti, Semper fideles? Genere e generazioni politiche al voto, in ITANES (a cura di) Dov’è la vittoria. Le elezioni del 2006 raccontate dagli italiani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.

Journal Articles
Frattura etica o cleavage politico? Gli elettori italiani in tempi di bipolarismo, Polena, 2, 2007, 39-63.
with I. Diamanti, Catholics and politics after the Christian Democrats: the influential minority, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 1, 2007, 8-36.
with F. Forno, From the street to the shops: The rising of new forms of political action in Italy, South European Society & Politics, 2, 2006, 197-222.

Lorella Cedroni is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Political Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”; Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute EUI, Florence. She has taught and lectured in many European and American Universities. Her international activities include, among others, the Athena Research Network, Advanced Thematic Network for Activities on Women’s in Europe, European Commission; Fulbright distinguished Professor of Political theory at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA); Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen; South University of Denmark; Research fellow, Columbia University (New York, USA), St. John College, Annapolis (MD); Complutense University of Madrid and Council of Europe (Strasbourg).
She has published books, articles and papers in several areas, including theory of democracy, political representation, party systems in European countries, political language and electoral communication. Her recent interests focus on the transformation of political parties and the representative systems in western democracies.

Books
La rappresentanza politica. Teoria e modelli, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2004.
Processi sociali e nuove forme di partecipazione politica, Milano: Franco Angeli, 2004.
con T. Dell’Era, Il linguaggio politico, Roma, Carocci, 2002.
Rappresentare la differenza. Le donne nelle istituzioni elettive, Roma: Lithos. 2001.
Rappresentanza e partiti politici nella società della comunicazione, Roma, Seam, 1998.

Book Chapters
Lega, in Bardi, Ignazi, Massari., I partiti italiani, Milano, Ube-Egea, 2007.
Elementi per una teoria politica delle relazioni internazionali. Fonti e indicazioni metodologiche, in Annali Lumsa Università 2005-2006, Torino, Giappichelli, 2007, 485-503.

Journal Articles
Retorica e linguaggi politici, voce in Enciclopedia del pensiero politico, diretta da R. Esposito e C. Galli, Bari, Laterza, 2006.
La transizione nella politologia. Un concetto preso in prestito alla storia, in Novecento gennaio-dicembre 2006, n. 14-15, 55-64.
La democrazia oltre la democrazia. Paradossi e dilemmi della politica contemporanea, in Mondoperaio n. 3-4, 2004.
La deriva illiberale delle democrazie occidentali, Mondoperaio, n. 1., 2003.
Totalitarismo e futuro della democrazia, in Sociologia, n. 3, 2002.

Furio Cerutti is professor of political philosophy at univerity of Florence. In the past ten years Cerutti has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and a Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris 8 and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. A member of GARNET, a Network of excellence funded by the EU under the Sixth Framework Programme, he coordinates a transnational research group on normative issues of regional and global governance; in another GARNET team he is working on risk and responsibility in environmental governance.
Cerutti’s early work dealt mainly with Western Marxism and Critical Theory; he has then worked and still works at a political philosophy of international relations and global affairs, following two different research paths:
- the theory of global challenges (nuclear weapons and global warming), seen as those that disrupt political modernity and raise problems that go beyond both the realist and the cosmopolitical approach;
- the question of a political (not social or cultural) identity of the Europeans in connection with the legitimation of the European Union.
Although political philosophy remains its leading interest, Cerutti’s research is interwoven with elements deriving from political science, International Relations and environmental studies.

Books
Global Challenges for Leviathan. A Political Philosophy of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming, Lanham, Md.: Rowman&Littlefield 2007.
ed. with S. Lucarelli, The Search for a European Identity, Routledge: London 2008.
ed. with E. Rudolph, Peeters, A Soul for Europe. On the Political and Cultural Identity of the Europeans, 2 vls., Leuven 2001. Transl. into Italian, ETS: Pisa 2002 and Farsi, Teheran: Negah-e maser 2005.

Book Chapters
Un’identità politica di potenza civile? In G. Laschi and M. Telò, Europa: potenza civile o entità in declino?, Bologna: Il Mulino 2007, 221-28.
Gibt es eine politische Identität der Europäer?, in S. Donig, T. Meyer, C. Winkler (Hrsg.), Europäische Identitäten-Eine europäische Identität?, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2005, 128-151.

Journal Articles
Europe’s Deep Crisis, in European Review, November 2005, 525-540.
A Political Identity of the Europeans? in Thesis Eleven, February 2003, 26-45.

FLAVIO CHIAPPONI teaches Government and institutional communication and Theory of political development at the University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Studies.
His interests focus on political communication, political institutions and political parties, especially extreme right-wing parties and neo-populist parties in European party systems. He is currently carrying out a comparative study dealing with the European neo-populist parties.

Books
Il populismo come problematica della scienza politica. Un primo bilancio, Genova, Mauro Cormagi Editore, 2008.

Book Chapters
with Simone Bertolino), L’identità alla prova, in Roberto Chiarini and Marco Maraffi (edited by), La destra allo specchio, Venezia, Marsilio, 2001, 84-117.
Populismo russo e populismo americano, in Giorgio Fedel (edited by), Studi in onore di Mario Stoppino (1935-2001), Milano, Giuffrè, 2005, 307-339.

Journal Articles
Un tema controverso: il neo-populismo, in Quaderni di scienza politica, VIII (2001), Nuova serie, n. 3, 527-550.
In tema di nazionalismo e democrazia, in Quaderni di scienza politica, XI (2004), Nuova serie, n. 2, 361-384.
Alcuni appunti su populismo e democrazia, in Trasgressioni, XIX (2005), n. 1, 37-60.

ALESSANDRO CHIARAMONTE is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence, where he also received his doctorate. He is co-founder and vice-Director of Cise, the Italian Center of Electoral Studies (www.unifi.it/cise) at the University of Florence. He is also member of the editorial board of the review Polena.
He has been a Research Fellow in Modern Italian Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Lse) and visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science of the University of California San Diego (Ucsd). He currently teaches Comparative Politics and Analysis of Electoral Systems at the University of Florence and Italian Politics at the New York University (Florence Abroad Program).
He has published books and articles on elections, electoral systems and party systems. More specifically, his research interests have focused on the functioning and the effects of various types of electoral systems, especially the mixed majoritarian-proportional ones, and on the long-lasting electoral transition of the Italian party and political systems, analyzed from both a national and a regional perspective.

Books
ed., with R. D’Alimonte, Proporzionale ma non solo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
ed., with G. Tarli Barbieri, Riforme istituzionali e rappresentanza politica nelle regioni italiane, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
Tra maggioritario e proporzionale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.

Book Chapters
How Prodi’s Unione won by a handful of votes, in J. Newell (ed.), The Italian general election of 2006: Romano Prodi’s Victory, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2008.

Journal Articles
with A. Di Virgilio, Da una riforma elettorale all’altra: partiti, coalizioni e processi di apprendimento, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 3, 2006.
with S. Bartolini and R. D’Alimonte, The Italian Party System between Parties and Coalitions, in West European Politics, 1, 2004.
with B. Grofman et al., Comparing and Contrasting the Uses of Two Graphical Tools for Displaying Patterns of Multiparty Competition, in Party Politics, 3, 2004.

Alberto Chiari is PhD student of Political Science at the Department of Political Studies – University of Turin, and he is a member of the Department of Social Research – University of Eastern Piedmont. He has taught and lectured on Marketing Strategy, Social Psychology, Deliberative Democracy at University of Eastern Piedmont.
He has published books, journal articles and newspaper columns in some thematic areas: sociology of work, trade union, local governance, deliberative democracy, citizens’ juries.
His recent interests focus on Deliberative Democracy. He has participated in some empirical research projects about Citizens’ Juries and he has managed the Ecpr Euroloc Summer School In Local Government 2007 on “Citizens’ Involvement in Local Policy-Making”.
He is currently working with Luigi Bobbio – University of Turin – on the quality evaluation of deliberative democracy.

Book Chapters
Forme di organizzazione degli interessi: Sindacati Ordini e Collegi Professionali in Dondi A. (a cura di) Società, arte e parità di genere, FrancoAngeli, 2004.
L’esperienza di Equal AL V.I.A., il percorso di una ricerca, 2004, editore Provincia di Alessandria.

Journal Articles
con Noemi Podestà, Deliberare nella pratica: un modello per l’analisi della formazione del consenso, in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, n.2/2007.
La democrazia deliberativa nella pratica: una giuria di cittadini, in La città diffusa luglio 2006, periodico del gruppo consiliare Ds Regione Toscana.
La giuria di cittadini: un esperimento di democrazia deliberativa, in Minerva, periodico dell’Università di Torino, numero 4/2006.
Una giuria di cittadini, editore Dipartimento Studi Politici Università di Torino, working paper 7/2006.

ROSALBA CHIARINI is researcher in Political Science at the University of Roma Tre, where she teaches Public Administration. She has also taught at the University of Calabria in Cosenza, Faculty of Political Sciences (1997-2007) and was teaching assistant at the University of Bologna in Forlì, Faculty of Political Sciences (1992-1997).
Researcher (1987-1988) at the AROC (Associazione Ricerca Organizzativa e sulla Cooperazione), Department of Organization and Political System, University of Bologna, she was awarded her PhD in Political Science by the University of Florence in 1992 and then obtained a post-doctoral research scholarship at the University of Bologna.
She developed research activity at the “Centro di Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche” in the Department of Organization and Political System, University of Bologna (1992-1997) and she has been visiting scholar at the Department of Government, University of Essex (England) in 1997. Her research has been concerned with the socio-professional characteristics of top civil servants of the Italian public administrations, relations between executive and bureaucracy, public employment reforms.

Books
La riforma del pubblico impiego nell’Italia degli anni ‘90. Tra Maastricht e patti sociali, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2007.

Book Chapters
Esecutivo e burocrazia. Ridefinita la relazione fra amministratori e politici, in C. Barbieri e L. Verzichelli (ed), Il governo e le sue istituzioni: l’evoluzione del caso italiano in prospettiva comparata, Genova, Name, 2003, 179-226.

Journal Articles
L’alta burocrazia ministeriale: modelli di reclutamento e carriera, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1, 1995, 119-125.
La pubblica amministrazione italiana tra crisi e transizione, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, VI, 1, 1999, 103-157.
Assetti politici e burocrazie: il rapporto tra esecutivo e amministrazione centrale, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, VII, 3, 2000, 417-477.
Le ragioni di un cambiamento: la riforma dell’impiego pubblico in Italia, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XXXV, 2, 2005, 289-319.

MARCO CILENTO is Researcher in Political Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. BA in Political Sciences (1991), PhD in Social Systems and Public Policy Analysis (2002, Rome La Sapienza).
He has taught Political Science and International Politcs at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (2001-2008). He participated in several national and international research programmes concerning political parties, political systems, policy studies, central and local governments in Italy.
His recent research interests cover: symbolic policies at local level, that was the theme of his PhD thesis and book; and political systems in post-soviet area with a participation in the GeoPec (Osservatorio sulle élite geopolitiche), directed by Rita di Leo, at CRS, Centro per la Riforma dello Stato, Rome.

Books
Governo locale e politiche simboliche. Il caso Bagnoli, Napoli, Liguori Editore, 2000.

Book Chapters
Le campagne elettorali bassoliniane, in C. Marletti (a cura di), Il leader postmoderno. Studi e ricerche sulla personalizzazione e la mediatizzazione delle campagne elettorali locali, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2007.
La battaglia dei rifiuti, in O. Cappelli (a cura di), Potere e società a Napoli a cavallo del secolo, Napoli, ESI, 2003.
con F. Allum, Antonio Bassolino da sindaco di Napoli a presidente della Campania, in M. Caciagli, A. S. Zuckerman (a cura di), Politica in Italia. I fatti dell’anno e le interpretazioni, Edizione 2001, Bologna, Il Mulino/Istituto Cattaneo.
con F. Allum, Antonio Bassolino: From Mayor of Naples to President of Campania, in M. Caciagli, A.S. Zuckerman (eds), Italian Politics. Emerging Themes and Institutional Responses, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2001.

Journal Articles
Le politiche del sindaco. il policy making simbolico dell’amministrazione Bassolino, in Nord e Sud, XLV, aprile-maggio 1998.
L’Ucraina post-sovietica tra democrazia e populismo, in Quaderni del Dipartimento. Scienze Sociali, IUO, NA, Anno VIII, n. 13-14, 1996.
L’Ucraina stato indipendente, Osservatorio Est-Ovest, Dipartimento Scienze Sociali, IUO, 1995.
Dopo un decennio di elezioni competitive in Ucraina: verso il consolidamento democratico?, in Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale, n. 41.

MARCO CLEMENTI is Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Pavia, and member of the Editorial Board of the “Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica”. He teaches International Relations at the University of Pavia and at the University of Lugano (USI, Switzerland).
He taught and lectured at several universities and research institutes, including: Alta Scuola di Economia e Relazioni Internazionali (ASERI, Milan); “Bocconi” University (Milan); Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI, Milan); Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS, Pavia); Research Unit on European Governance (URGE, Turin); Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa); University of Bologna.
He was Visiting Scholar at the Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Abteilung Internationale Beziehungen/Friedens-und Konfliktforschung – Universität Tübingen; the Henry Jackson School of International Studies – University of Washington; the Department of Politics and International Studies – Warwick University.
His research interests focus on the theory of international relations, security institutions, and international organizations.
He is currently working on hegemony, and on stability and order in the post-Cold War system.

Books
with F. Andreatta, A. Colombo, M. Koenig-Archibugi, V.E. Parsi, Relazioni internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
L’Europa e il mondo. La politica estera, di sicurezza e di difesa europea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.

Book Chapters
La politica estera italiana, in A. Colombo e N. Ronzitti (a cura di), L’Italia e la politica internazionale. Edizione 2007, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, 103-117, forthcoming.
L’Unione europea come attore della politica internazionale, in M. Ferrera e M. Giuliani (a cura di), Governance e politiche nell’Unione Europea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, 307-339.
Italy and World Affairs: The Sgrena-Calipari Case, in G. Aymot and L. Verzichelli (eds.), Italian Politics 2005. The End of the Berlusconi Era?, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2006, 85-104.

Journal Articles
Ordine internazionale e democrazia. L’allargamento dell’Unione Europea e della Nato dopo il 1989, in Quaderni di Relazioni Internazionali, 2, 2006, 64-73.
L’egemonia e i suoi limiti, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1, 2005, 29-56.

ALESSANDRO COLOMBO is Professor of International Relations at the University of Milan, and the Coordinator of the Master in Strategic International Studies.
He is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Observatory on “Security and Strategic Studies” at the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (Ispi). He is a member of the Commission of History of International Relations. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of International Relations, and he did also serve on the Editorial Board of Millenium.
He has published books, chapters and articles in several areas, including security studies, theory of alliances, transatlantic relations, and the European tradition of International Relations Theory. His recent interests focus on the evolution of the post-bipolar international system, the Grand Strategy of the United States of America, the crisis of war convention and the collapse of international society.
He is currently publishing two essays on the English School of International Relations, and on the US perception of the spatial order of international politics. He is eventually working at a book on the changing boundaries of the international system.

Books
with Filippo Andreatta, Marco Clementi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Relazioni Internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
La guerra ineguale. Pace e violenza nel tramonto della società internazionale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
La lunga alleanza. La Nato tra consolidamento, supremazia e crisi, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2001.

Book Chapters
The “realist institutionalism” of Carl Schmitt, in L. Odysseos e F. Petito (a cura di), The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt. Terror, liberal war and the crisis of global order, London and New York, Routledge, 2007, 21-35.
L’Alleanza atlantica tra globalizzazione e marginalizzazione, in A. Colombo (a cura di), L’Occidente diviso. La politica e le armi, Milano, Università Bocconi Editore, 2004, 3-32.

Journal Articles
La società anarchica tra continuità e crisi. La scuola inglese e le istituzioni internazionali, in Rassegna italiana di sociologia, 2, 2003, 237-255.
L’Europa e la società internazionale. Gli aspetti culturali e istituzionali della convivenza internazionale in Raymond Aron, Martin Wight e Carl Schmitt, in Quaderni di scienza politica, 2, 1999, 251-301.

Nicolò Conti is a post-Doc Fellow (Assegnista di ricerca) at CIRCaP (University of Siena) where he has been the Project Manager of INTUNE, an Integrated Project financed by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme. He collaborates to the research activities of the centre, in particular in the fields of party politics, Europeanisation and Euroscepticism. He also collaborates in teaching at graduate and undergraduate level, his teaching portfolio includes Comparative politics, EU politics, Western political systems, Italian politics, Party politics and Methodology for the social sciences.
He got a laurea (BA) from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Siena, a Master degree and a PhD from CIRCaP. His doctoral dissertation was on party attitudes to European Integration and focused on the longitudinal analysis of the Italian case.
He was Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Sussex (U.K) in 2002-2003.

Book Chapters
La Dimensione Europea del Discorso Politico: Un’Analisi Diacronica del Caso Italiano (1950-2001), with L. Verzichelli, in M. Cotta, P. Isernia and L. Verzichelli (eds.), L’Europa in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
La thèse du Parti de Cartel en Question: Le Cas Italien (2008), con M. Cotta e F. Tronconi, in Y. Aucante, A. Dézé e N. Sauger (a cura di), Les Transformations des Systémes de Partis dans les Démocraties Occidentales. La thèse du Parti de Cartel en Question, Parigi, Presse de Science Po.
On the political ‘fragmentation’: Stay in or stay out? The role of small parties in the Italian Centre-Left in Italy, in Chiaroscuro: Shades of Italian Society, a special issue of Journal of Modern Italian Studies, edited by A. Mammone and G. Veltri, 2008.

Journal Articles
Parties and Voters in Italy: The Challenges of Multi-level Competition, a special issue of Modern Italy edited by N. Conti, F. Tronconi, C. Roux, 14:2, 2009, forthcoming.
Tied hands? Italian Political Parties and Europe, in Parties and Voters in Italy: The Challenges of Multi-level Competition, 2009.
The Italian Parties and Their Programmatic Platforms: How Alternative?, CIRCaP Occasional Paper, 19, 2007.
The Italian Parties and their Programmatic Platforms: How Alternative? in Modern Italy, 13:4, 2008.
Domestic Parties and European Integration: The Problem of Party Attitudes to the EU and the Europeanisation of Parties, in European Political Science, 6, 2007.
Party Conflict Over European Integration in Italy: A New Dimension of Party Competition?, in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 8:2, 2006.

VALTER MARIA CORALLUZZO is Associate Professor of Political Science and Interna-tional Relations at the University of Perugia. He also teaches Strategic Studies at the University of Turin.
He has previously taught International Relations at the Universities of Eastern Piedmont and Sassari, and Political Science at the University of Turin. His major research interests are in the areas of Italian foreign policy, international relations theory and international conflict. He is currently preparing a volume on Italian foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.

Books
(ed.), Democrazie tra terrorismo e guerra, Milano, Guerini e Associati, 2008.
Oltre il bipolarismo. Scenari e interpretazioni della politica mondiale a confronto, Perugia, Morlacchi Edi-tore, 2007.
co-edited with Marina Nuciari, Conflitti asimmetrici. Un approccio multidisciplinare, Roma, Aracne Edi-trice, 2006.
La politica estera dell’Italia repubblicana (1946-1992). Modello di analisi e studio di casi, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2000.
(ed.), I dilemmi della geopolitica e le nuove vie della pace, Milano, Guerini e Associati, 2000.

Book Chapters
Le missioni di pace italiane all’estero durante e dopo la guerra fredda, in Istituto romano per la storia d’Italia dal fascismo alla Resistenza, Politiche di occupazione dell’Italia fascista. L’Annale Irsifar, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2008.
Nuovi nomi per nuove guerre, in A. d’Orsi (ed.), Guerre globali. Capire i conflitti del XXI secolo, Roma, Carocci, 2003.

Journal Articles
Italy and the Mediterranean: Relations with the Maghreb Countries, Modern Italy, XIII, n. 2, May 2008, 115-133.
Italy’s Foreign Policy with Respect to China, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, XIII, n. 1, March 2008, 6-24.
La politica estera del governo Berlusconi: un bilancio in chiaroscuro, Biblioteca della libertà, XLI, n. 182, gennaio-marzo 2006, 55-86.

PIERGIORGIO CORBETTA is professor of Methodology of Social Research at University of Bologna. He has been Director of the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo, vice-president of the “Il Mulino” association, member of the editoril board of several academic journals. It has been among the founders of the Itanes (Italian National Election Studies) group. Besides the University of Bologna, he has been professor of Sociology or Metodology of Social Research at Universities of Trento and Salerno. He published books and journal articles in the area of Statistics applied to the Social Sciences and in the field of Political participation, with empirical research on political parties, electoral participation and electoral choice, public opinion, political culture. He is currently working with social psychologists in the field of euristcs implied in the process of electoral choice and with historians in the production of an atlas of the Italian elections from the foundation of the nation

Books
editor, with G. Gasperoni, I sondaggi politici nelle democrazie contemporanee, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
editor, with P. Catellani, Sinistra e destra. Le radici psicologiche della differenza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
La ricerca sociale: metodologia e tecniche, voll. 4, Bologna, il Mulino, 2003.
Social Research: Theory, Methods and Techniques, London, Sage, 2003.
Metodologìa y técnicas de investigacion social, Madrid, McGraw Hill, 2003.
Metodi di analisi multivariata per le scienze sociali. I modelli di equazioni strutturali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002.

Journal Articles
with N. Cavazza, From the parish to the polling booth: Evolution and interpretation of the political gender gap in Italy, 1968-2006, in Electoral Studies, 27, 2008, 272-284.
with G. Legnante, Brogli immaginari e sindrome della cospirazione, Bologna, in Il Mulino, 56, 2007, n. 1, 91-103.
La falsa immagine dell’Italia spaccata a metà come una mela, in Contemporanea, 10, 2007, 107-112
Variabili sociali e scelta elettorale. Il tramonto dei “cleavages” tradizionali, in Rivista italiana di scienza politica, 36, 2006, 415-430.

MAURIZIO COTTA, born in Turin, is currently professor at the University of Siena. He has launched and directed the Master programme “Politics in Europe” and the PhD Programme in “Comparative and European Politics” all at the University of Siena and is currently director in the same university of the Centre for the Study of Political Change. Was Chairman of the Italian Political Science Association (2001-2004), member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (1994-2000) and co-editor (1992-1997) of the “Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica”. He was visiting research fellow at Yale University, at the Minda de Günzburg Centre for European Studies at Harvard, and at the Centro Juan March of Madrid and visiting professor at the university of Texas at Austin, the European University Institute of Florence, the Instituts d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, Lille and Montpellier, the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid and Fudan University of Shangai.
His research work has been devoted mainly to the comparative study of political institutions, and of the recruitment of political elites. He has also worked extensively on the analysis of the Italian political system. More recently he has turned his attention to the study of the European polity and its problems. In this field he has coordinated with P. Isernia a large research project (INTUNE. Integrated and united: a quest for citizenship in an “ever closer” Europe) with the support of the European Sixth Framework Programme.

Books
co-edited with H. Best, Democratic Representation In Europe: Diversity, Change and Convergence , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
co-authored with L. Verzichelli, Political Institutions of Italy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
co-edited with P. Isernia and L. Verzichelli, L’Europa in Italia. Elites, opinione pubblica e decisioni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
co-edited with H. Best, Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000: Legislative Recruitment and Careers in Eleven European Countries, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
co-edited with J. Blondel, The Nature of Party Government, London, Palgrave, 2000.
co-edited with J. Blondel, Party and Government. An Inquiry into the Relationship between Governments and Supporting parties in Liberal Democracies, London, Macmillan, 1996.
co-edited with P. Isernia, Il gigante dai piedi di argilla. Il governo di partito e la sua crisi nell’Italia degli anni novanta, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1996.
Classe politica e Parlamento in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1979.

ANNARITA CRISCITIELLO is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Naples Federico II, EC member and Secretary of The Italian Political Science Association (SISP). BA in Sociology (1989), PhD in Social Systems and Public Policy Analysis (2001, Rome La Sapienza).
She teaches Italian Political System and Analysis of Political Language at the University of Naples Federico II. She participated in several national and international research programmes concerning political parties, public management, e-government and e-democracy, concept analysis, central and local governments in Italy.
Her recent research interests cover executives in comparative perspective and political concepts analysis. She has been a Research Associate in a joint international project on political concepts and theory, directed by Mauro Calise and Theodore J. Lowi.
She is currently working at a book on the rules and functioning of the Italian and US spoil systems.

Books
Il cuore dei governi. Le politiche di riforma degli esecutivi in prospettiva comparata, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2004.

Book Chapters
Il nuovo governo e lo spoils system in J. L. Briquet e A. Mastropaolo (a cura di), Politica in Italia, ed. Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
Governo e strutture di supporto al premier. Come cambia Palazzo Chigi in C. Barbieri e L: Verzichelli (a cura di), Il governo e i suoi apparati. L’evoluzione del caso italiano in prospettiva comparata, Genova, Name, 2003.
L’organizzazione amministrativa della Presidenza del Consiglio italiana: storia di un open-ended process, in L. Lanzalaco (a cura di) Istituzioni, amministrazione, politica. Analisi istituzionale e apparati amministrativi, Napoli, ESI, 2000.

Journal Articles
Gli attrezzi della Scienza Politica. Una rassegna critica di 11 dizionari, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, n. 1, 2002.
Campania. Tra continuità centrista e personalizzazione della leadership, Le Istituzioni del Federalismo, n. 3-4, 2000.

Luigi Curini is Researcher in Political Science, University of Milan, where he teaches Political Science and Government and Legislative Process.
He also teaches Quantitative Methods for Political Science within the ‘Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences’ at the same University, in the Doctorate in Political studies, Institutions and public policies. His major interests are related to the spatial theory of voting, with a special emphasis on the Italian case. He is also interested in exploring the empirical implications of theoretical models. Moreover, he wrote several papers about problems of collective action and cooperation, including the relationship between deliberation and game theory. He is co-director, with Paolo Martelli, of the Standing Group Politics&Rationality of the SISP (Italian Political Science Society) and he is a member of the Editorial Board of IPS (Italian Political Science).
He is currently working with Paolo Martelli at completing La competizione politica in Italia, Carocci editore, forthcoming.

Books
Il dilemma della cooperazione. Capitale sociale, sviluppo, frammentazione. Milano: V&P 2004.

Book Chapters
On the externalities of social capital: between myth and reality, in Derrick Purdue (ed.), Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems, Routledge, 2007.

Journal Articles
Experts’ Political Preferences and Their Impact on Ideological Bias. An Unfolding Analysis based on a Benoit-Laver Expert Survey, Party Politics, forthcoming.
with Paolo Martelli, La vicenda Tambroni, la questione dell’antifascismo e la nascita del “centro-sinistra”. Un caso di narrazione analitica, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1/2008, 3-28.
A call for more structure in Collective Action Theory, Sociologica vol.3/2007.
with Andrea Ceron, Un’applicazione della teoria delle coalizioni alle elezioni tedesche del 2005: alcuni scenari, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n.2/2007, 251-273.
Vox populi – vox dei? (Alcuni) limiti e (alcuni) paradossi della pratica deliberativa, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2/2006, 231-257.