SERGIO FABBRINI is Professor of Political Science at the University of Trento, and the Editor of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. He is Director of the School of International Studies, University of Trento.
He has lectured and held conferences in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, China, Canada, Japan, Thailand, and many universities in Italy, Europe and US. His international activities include the Recurrent Visiting Professorship of Comparative Politics at the University of California in Berkeley. He had the Jemolo Chair at the Nuffield College of Oxford University (2006). He was Visiting Professor (2004) and Jean Monnet Chair Professor (2001) at the European University Institute in Florence. He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Argentinean Centre de Estudios Internacionales, in Buenos Aires, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Masters on Civic Education (organized by Princeton University at Asti). He is member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR – Standing Group on the European Union. He has directed the series on The Institutions of Contemporary Democracy (Laterza publisher).
His recent interests focus on contemporary established democracies; the development and institutionalization of the supranational European Union (EU), compared with United States (US); the transatlantic relations; analysis of foreign policy making.

Books
Politica comparata. Introduzione alle democrazie contemporanee, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2008.
Compound Democracies: Why The United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
L’America e i suoi critici. Virtù e vizi dell’iperpotenza democratica, Bologna, Il mulino, 2005.

Books Chapters:
Conflict of Interest in Italy: The Case of a Media Tycoon Who Became Prime Minister (2001-2006), in Trost C., Gash A.L. (eds), Conflict of Interest and Public Life, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
with P. Isernia, Bush, The Iraq War and Anti-Americanism, in O’Connor B. (ed), Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, Themes, vol. 1: Causes and Sources. Westport, Greenwood, 2007.

Journal Articles
with D. Sicurelli, Bringing Policy-making Structure Back In: Why Are the US and the EU Pursuing Different Foreign Policies?, in International Politics, 2008.
Madison in Brussels: the EU and the US as Compound Democracies, in European Political Science, 2005.
Transatlantic Constitutionalism: Comparing the United States and the European Union, in European journal of political research, 2004.

Chiara Facello is currently enrolled with full scholarship in a Ph.D. programme in Political Science at the centre of advanced studies of Humanities Institute in Florence (Istituto di Studi Umanistici).
She got her advanced University Degree (Master equivalent) in Political Science (with distinction) at University of Roma Tre with a thesis on “The Italian political Culture”.
Her main research interests is related to political attitudes, public opinion and political participation and her dissertation focuses on political dissatisfaction in European countries with a special emphasis on Italy. She began working on a quantitative dissertation on “The Dissatisfied Electors. Italians in a Comparative Perspective” with supervising of Professor Leonardo Morlino.
Based upon her academic profile and special concern on methods and techniques of social research, she attended the University of Michigan as young scholar with a fellowship sponsored by ICPSR for statistic training.
She attended several international conferences organized by ECPR in Essex at the graduate conference (September 2005) and in Rennes (April 2008).

VALERIA FARGION is Jean Monnet Chair in “the Politics of European Integration” at the University of Florence. She is a Member of the ISA RC 19 Executive Board, and of the International Social Security Association Advisory Board. She has also been on the European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPANET) Executive Board until 2007 and served as National Representative in the Management Committee for the COST A13 Action on “Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship”.
She has taken part in many international research projects and co-operated as National Expert with DG for Employment and Social Affairs. In September 2007, she organized in Florence the international conference “Social Policy in a Globalizing World: Developing a North-South Dialogue” which hosted 140 social policy scholars coming from the five continents (www.unifi.it/rc19) She has published widely on the Italian welfare state in a comparative perspective, on territorial politics and European structural funds.
She is currently engaged in a research project on the origins of the distorted pattern of Italian social spending for the Historical Unit of Bank of Italy but her interests are moving towards global social policy.

Books
with L. Morlino and S. Profeti, Europeizzazione e Rappresentanza territoriale. Il caso Italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.

Book Chapters
Italy: Still a Pension state? in P. Alcock and G. Graig (eds), International Social Policy, London, Palgrave, 2008, forthcoming.
From the Southern to the Northern Question, in N. Mc Ewen and L. Moreno (eds.), The Territorial Politics of Welfare, London, Routledge, 2005: 127-147.

Journal Articles
Guest Editor special issue Social Policy in a Globalizing World, La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, (1), 2008
with L. Morlino and S. Profeti, Europeanization and Territorial Representation.The Case of Italy, West European Politics, 29 (4) 2006: 757-783.
Changes in the Responsibilities and Financing of the Health System in Italy, Revue Francaise des Affaires Sociales, 60 (2-3) 2006: 285-312.
Continental Inconsistencies on the Path to Activation, with J.C. Barbier, European Societies, 6(4) 2004: 437-460.

Luciano Mario Fasano, born in Milan in 1966, 18th May. He is Researcher at the University of Milan since 2001.
He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Milan (1999). He graduated in Political science at the University of Milan. He teaches Political Science within the Undergraduate program of the Faculty of Political Sciences.
His research interests are focused on Political representation, Organisations of business interest, Health, education and immigration policies, Normative political theory,Public Ethics, Political communication and Parties and party system analysis.

Books
with Addario, N., Logica dell’interazione sociale e istituzioni. Fondamenti metodologici e modelli teorici nelle scienze sociali, Edizioni Il Fiorino, Modena, 2000.

Book Chapters
with Pasini, N., Nuovi cleavages e competizione partitica nel sistema politico italiano, in F. Raniolo, a cura di, Le trasformazioni dei partiti politici, Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli, 2004.
La politica e il welfare state, in N. Addario (a cura di). Teoria dei sistemi sociali e modernità, Roma, Carocci, 2003.
L’economia, in Addario, N. (a cura di), Teoria dei sistemi sociali e modernità, Roma, Carocci, 2003.
Informazione e comportamento elettorale. Le condizioni del voto fra doppia contingenza e teoria dei giochi, in AA.VV., Giovani sociologi 2003, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2004.

Journal Articles
with Pasini, N. The impact of Market Thinking and Italian Culture on National Health Service, in Notizie di POLITEIA – Rivista di Etica e Scelte Pubbliche, Anno XXIII, vol. 88, 2007.
Oltre il senso del limite. Riflessioni sulla laicità in Italia a partire da una prospettiva liberale aggiornata al post-secolarismo, in Notizie di POLITEIA – Rivista di Etica e Scelte Pubbliche, Anno XXIII, vol. 87, 2007.
with Battegazzorre, F. and Di Palma, G.. Come insegnare la scienza politica. Una discussione sui manuali e la loro utilità, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, vol. 3, 2005.

Terenzio Fava has been assistant professor in Political Science at the University of Urbino since 2003, where he teaches Political Science.
He has conducted his research primarily through LaPolis (Laboratory of Political and Social Studies of the University of Urbino), though over the years he has also collaborated with various research centers; in particular, with the Fondazione Corazzin and the Fondazione Nordest in Venice and with the Istituto Cattaneo in Bologna. He is a member of the research group of Itanes (Italian National Election Studies) at the Istituto Cattaneo, and a member of the Società italiana di Scienza politica (SISP) and the Società italiana studi elettorali (SISE).
His scholarly interests concern various aspects of Sociology and Political Science, and his research has addressed: social deviance and social hardships, immigration, the condition of youths, political corruption, public policy, local politics, political communication, the party system and the electoral system.

Books
Do ut Des. Genesi, evoluzione e crisi del sistema della corruzione, Roma, Carocci, 1999.

Book Chapters
Venezia, in C. Catanzaro, F. Piselli, F. Ramella, C. Trigilia (a cura di), Comuni nuovi. Interessi e governi locali dopo la riforma, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
Immigrazione: le politiche degli enti locali, in I. Diamanti, L.Ceccarini (a cura di), Marche 2004. Mappe e scenari della società regionale, Napoli, Liguori, 2004.
with G. Baldini, M. Bucchi, Comunicazione politica e decisione di voto: una ricerca sulle elezioni comunali del 1999, in G. Sani (a cura di), Mass Media ed elezioni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.

Journal Articles
La politica dei gregari. Partiti e leader locali al tempo del “Porcellum”, Il Mulino, 6, 2007, 985-995.
Forza Italia, i limiti di una organizzazione leggera, Il Mulino, 5, 2005, 883-893.
Il Veneto. Una regione democristiana, Le istituzioni del federalismo. 3/4, 2000, 631-644

Giorgio Fedel teaches Political science and Political communication in the 1st cycle degree program in Political science and Aesthetics and political communication in the 2nd cycle degree program (Laurea magistrale) in Political theory at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Pavia. His research focuses on the theory of political symbols and general political theory.
He is editor of the journal Quaderni di scienza politica, coordinator of the Laurea magistrale in Political theory, Director of the Centro interuniversitario di Analisi dei Simboli e delle Istituzioni Politiche – Mario Stoppino (Casip), and coordinator of the Pavia-based PhD program in Political Science.

Books
Discorso politico ed etica della responsabilità, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2008.
La retorica politica italiana nel secolo delle ideologie. Un esercizio di analisi, Genova, Name 2003.
Saggi sul linguaggio e l'oratoria politica, Milano, Giuffrè, 1999.
Simboli e politica, Napoli, Morano, 1991.

Book Chapters
Potere simbolico e comunicazione politica, in Giorgio Fedel (a cura di), Studi in onore di Mario Stoppino, Milano, Giuffrè, 2005.
Il problema del potere politico in Bruno Leoni e in Mario Stoppino, in Masala A. (a cura di), La teoria politica di Bruno Leoni, Soveria Mannelli, Rubettino, 2005.

Journal Articles
Appunti semischerzosi sul postmodernismo in scienza politica, in Quaderni di scienza politica, n.1, 2007.

PAOLO FELTRIN is Professor of Political Science and the President of Science of Administration degree course at the University of Trieste, where he also teaches Advanced Research Methodology. He is the President and CEO of Tolomeo Studi e Ricerche, a research company focused on electoral and public policy consulting. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Italia Lavoro and of Isfol. He takes part to the direction of the review Polena, POLitical and Electoral Navigations.
His interests focus mainly on voting behaviors and elector's opinions, interest associations, policies and consensus. His researches concern all the aspects of the electoral competition starting from the analysis of the electoral systems and the relations with the sub national governments, till the definition of the electoral systems and the related specification of probable future sceneries.
In 1993 he was nominated member of the National Commission in charge of planning the new electoral districts. He continued to be nominated official member of the Commission till 2006.
His research activities deal with territorial issues concerning principally the local governments institutional reforms. He also works on researches concerning the labor market, the associations and unions, focusing mainly on the regulating dynamics.

Books
La sindacalizzazione in Italia (1986-2004). Tendenze e dinamiche di lungo periodo, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2005.
with Natale P., Ricolfi L., Nel segreto dell'urna. Un'analisi delle elezioni politiche del 2006, Torino, Utet, 2007.
with Maset S., I servizi nei sindacati, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2007.

Book Chapters
La partecipazione elettorale, in Mannheimer R., Natale P. (a cura di), L'Italia a metà. Dietro il voto del paese diviso, Milano, Cairo, 2006, 29-36.
with Fabrizio D., "L'intendenza seguirà …": quando le riforme trascurano i procedimenti (elettorali), in D'Alimonte R., Fusaro C. (a cura di), La legislazione elettorale in Italia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008, 141-169.
La silenziosa ascesa di un diverso equilibrio, in Baglioni G., Paparella D. (a cura di), Il futuro del sindacato. Complessità e innovazione, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2007, 157-180.

Journal Articles
with Forlani N., De Colle M., Ammortizzatori sociali ed effetti perversi. Le trappole dell'intervento pubblico, in Polena, n. 3, 29-60, 2007.
Il sindacato tra arene politiche e arene delle relazioni industriali: equilibri instabili o sabbie mobili, in Quaderni di Rassegna sindacale, n. 4, 2006, 35-83.

MAURIZIO FERRERA is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the University of Milan. He is also the President of the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences. He formerly taught at the University of Pavia and has been Visiting Professor at several universities, including UC-Berkeley, the LSE, McGill, the Juan March Institute and the European University Institute.
He is a member of several academic and editorial boards, including the Research Council of the European University Institute (EUI), the Group of Societal Policy Advisors of the European Commission and the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
He also directs the Research Unit on European Governance (URGE) of the Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation in Moncalieri (Turin).
His research interests include comparative public policies and European integration, with a special focus on the development, crisis and perspectives of the Euopean welfare state.

Books
with M. Giuliani (eds), Governance e politiche nell’Unione europea, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008.
Le politiche sociali. L’Italia in prospettiva comparata, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
The Boundaries of Welfare. European Integration and the new Spatial Politics of Solidarity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
editor, Welfare State Reform in Southern Europe, London: Routledge, 2005.
with E. Gualmini, Rescued by Europe? Italy’s Social Policy Reforms from Maastricht to Berlusconi, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004.

Journal Articles
The European Welfare State: Golden Achievements, Silver Prospects, in West European Politics, vol. 31, n. 1-2, 2008, 81-106.
Amici o nemici? Integrazione europea e modelli sociali nazionali, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, n. 1, 2006, 3-26.

Antonio Fiori is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Politics, Institutions, History of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna.
He has obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Pavia, with a dissertation titled “The Development of Pension and Health Care Policies in Korea, 1960-2000.” His interests focus on the Republic of Korea, and specifically on Korean civil society, social movements, transition to democracy, welfare state policies.
He has lived in Asia for a long time and has studied in Seoul at Yonsei University, Sogang University, Kyung Hee University. He has been visiting fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, USA) and at the United International College (Zhuhai, People’s Republic of China).
He is member of the Korean Political Science Association, the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, the Association for Asian Studies.

Journal Articles
with C. Aspalter, From Developmentalism to Productivism: the Pathway of Korean Welfare State Development, in Journal of Societal and Social Policy, vol. 5, no. 2, 21-40.
Development, Democracy and the Politics of Health Care Policy in Korea, in Asian Journal of Social Policy, vol. 1, no. 1, 43-64.

Asia Fiorini, graduated in Political Science in may 2009 at the University of Florence with the thesis “Le primarie e il caso Firenze”. Currently she’s continuing to work on primary elections in Italy, her main field of studies, collaborating with the SISP standing group “Candidate and leader selection”.
Actually she’s studying for the Master Degree in International Relations and European Studies at the University of Florence and in the past two years she participated at some diplomatic simulations like the National Model United Nations at the UN Headquarters in New York in 2010. Her master thesis will be on the United Kingdom’s role in the European integration process. Moreover she is a member of Imagining Europe, a research group on European identity at the European University Institute in Florence.

Book
“Le primarie e il caso Firenze”, Anteprima Lucca 2010, con il contributo di CGIL Toscana

Journal Article
Fiorini- Bussoletti, “Il Partito Democratico e le primarie del 2009. Indagine sui Partecipanti” in “SPS. Storia Politica Società” forthcoming.

Paper
Fiorini- Venturino, “ Le primarie comunali in Italia 2004-2011: una descrizione basata su dati aggregati”

Antonio FLORIDIA. Esperienze professionali: Ricercatore e poi dirigente di ricerca presso l’Istituto Regionale per la programmazione economica della Toscana (IRPET), dal 1989 al 2004 – Dal giugno 2004 dirigente responsabile del settore “Ufficio e osservatorio elettorale” della Regione Toscana – Dall’ottobre 2004 membro del comitato scientifico della SISE (società italiana di studi elettorali).
Aree di ricerca: Modelli e sistemi elettorali – Studi sul sistema politico regionale e sui sistemi politici locali — Analisi dei comportamenti elettorali

Journal Articles
Le metamorfosi di una regione rossa. Stabilità ed evoluzione nel voto del 21 aprile 1996 in Toscana, in Quaderni dell’Osservatorio elettorale, n. 37,1997.
Elezione diretta del sindaco e mutamenti nei sistemi politici locali, 1998.
Il voto amministrativo in Toscana dal 1993 al 1998, in Quaderni dell’osservatorio elettorale, 1998.

Book Chapters
L’astensionismo in Toscana: cultura civica e mobilitazione politica, in Le nuove forme di astensionismo elettorale, Atti del convegno della Società Italiana di studi elettorali Roma 21-23 gennaio 1998, a cura di A. Mussino, edizioni dell’Università degli studi La Sapienza, 1999.
La Toscana: il modello dell’elezione diretta e alcuni suoi effetti sui sistemi politici locali, in Il modello dell’elezione diretta, atti del convegno della Provincia di Milano, 16 febbraio 1998, a cura di D. Comero e G. Mottola, Prometheus, Milano, 1999.

FABIO FOSSATI is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Trieste, where he teaches International relations and International political organizations. He has also taught at the University of Calabria in Cosenza and was voluntary teaching assistant at the Universities of Florence and Pisa. Researcher (in 1987/8) at the Forum on the problems of peace and war, he was awarded his PhD in Political science by the University of Florence in 1992 and then obtained a post-doctoral research scholarship at the University of Bologna.
He has been visiting scholar at the CEPAL in Santiago and Buenos Aires, the CENDES in Caracas, the OECD in Paris, the University of California in Berkeley, the Essex University and the Universidad Complutense in Madrid.
His research has been concerned with world order, political cultures and ideologies in international relations, polarity of the international system, economic security, economic regionalism and globalization, international regimes, Italian and Spanish foreign policies, political conditionality to foreign aid, European enlargement, foreign debt of developing countries, democratization and economic liberalization in Latin America and peace research. He is currently preparing a book on post-’89 armed conflict resolution processes.

Books
Mercato e democrazia in America latina, Milano, Angeli, 1997.
Economia e politica estera in Italia, Milano, Angeli, 1999.
Introduzione alla politica mondiale, Milano, Angeli, 2006.

Book Chapters
L’intervento esterno: attori, strumenti e modalità, in L. Mattina (ed), La Sfida dell’Allargamento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.

Journal Articles
Il debito estero in America latina, RISP, 23, 2, 1993, 283-313.
Giganti economici e paesi in via di sviluppo, Quaderni di scienza politica, 2, 1, 1995, 57-109.
I regimi internazionali: note per una definizione, Quaderni di scienza politica, 4, 2, 1997, 293-321.
Le riforme delle istituzioni di politica estera economica, Stato e Mercato, 57, 3, 1999, 443-67.
Il crescente ruolo delle ideologie nella politica mondiale dopo la guerra fredda, Quaderni di scienza politica, 13, 2-3, 2006, 365-95.
Italy and European Union enlargement, Modern Italy, 13, 2, 2008, 187-98.

Fabio FRANCHINO. Since 2002, University College London, Department of Political Science, London: Lecturer/Reader in Political Science. Director of the MSc in European Public Policy.
2000-1 London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Government, London: Lecturer in European Union Politics and Policies.
1997-2000 London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Government, London: Tutorial Fellow and Class Teacher in European Union Politics and Policies. Lecturing and seminar teaching in the Master on European Politics and Policy with Dr K.Goetz and Dr S.Hix.
1994-8 University of Brighton, Department of Business Management, Brighton: Undergraduate Lecturer and Class Teacher.
Research Interests: Politics and policy of the European Union; Comparative legislative, executive and bureaucratic politics; Policy analysis; Rational choice;Europeanisation and domestic politics; Transposition of EU law and compliance.

Books
The Powers of the Union: Delegation in the EU. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 355.

Book Chapters
Delegation in the European Union: Debates and Research Agenda, in Dietmar Braun e Fabrizio Gilardi (eds), Delegation in Contemporary Democracies. Routledge: London, 2006, 216-38.

Journal Articles
Democrazia, Delega e Burocrazia nei Sistemi Presidenziali, Parlamentari e Sovranazionali, Teoria Politica, 22, 3, 2006.
Delega ed Attuazione delle “Policies” nell’Unione Europea, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Sezione Focus 36, 2006:115-34.
with E. Borghetto and D. Giannetti, Complying with the Transposition Deadlines of EU Directives: Evidence from Italy, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche 5, 2006:7-38.

Paolo Franzosi ha conseguito il titolo di Dottore di Ricerca in Scienza politica presso l’Università degli Studi di Pavia nel dicembre 2007, con la tesi Il problema del potere simbolico (supervisore prof. Giorgio Fedel).
E’ cultore della materia per i corsi di Scienza politica, Comunicazione politica, Sistema politico italiano, Estetica e Comunicazione politica presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Pavia. Nell’a.a. 2007/2008 ha tenuto un corso di Scienza politica per studenti a tempo parziale. Interessi di ricerca: teoria politica, teoria del simbolismo politico.

Giorgio Freddi, has a PhD in Political Science (Berkeley), and a B.A. at the Law School of Bologna (1955).
His published research is concerned with institutional functioning, decision making, and public policy He has worked on several and different empirical referents: the comparative study of public bureaucracies, the Italian judicial system, special district governments, the comparative analysis of health care policies, and the politics and policies of environmental protection.
He has taught at several foreign universities, in Europe as well in the US, where he is a frequent visitor in the University of California. He has been active in many a professional body and institution, as: Committe on the Comparative Study of Public Policy, Social Science Research Council, New York, 1972-76; Department of Political Science, University of Bologna, Chair, 1986-92 and 1997-2003; Scientific Council, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, 1985-92; European Consortium for Political Research – ECPR -, Chair, 1988-94; Italian Society of Political Science – SISP -, Chair, 1990-98; Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell’Amministrazione, Editor, 1982-91.
Freddi is also the editor of the Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, which he founded in 2001 and the central coordinator of a joint international research venture Italy-USA, financed jointly by the University of Bologna and the Ministry of Higher Education, focussing on the theme “New forms of democracy: politics and policies”.

Book Chapters
Aaron Wildavsky passione civile e conoscenza scientifica, in D.Campus e G.Pasquino (eds.), Maestri della Scienza Politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004, 259-281.
Le origini della SPISA: breve storia di una sperimentazione innovativa troppo presto abbandonata, in G.Gemelli (ed.), Nuove Scienze per l’amministrazione. Le origini della SPISA tra innovazione istituzionale e normalizzazione accademica, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2006, 13-27.
Giuseppe Di Federico e le ricerche sul sistema giudiziario: un caso di navigazione in mari molto nebbiosi, Introduzione a C. Guarnieri e F. Zannotti (eds.), Giusto processo? Introduzione di diritti fondamentali dei cittadini o creazione di canoni processuali di rango istituzionale?, Padova, Cedam, XVII-XXXVIII, 2006.
with Daniela Giannetti, The Current State of Political Science in Italy, in H-D. Klingemann, (ed.), The State of Political Science in Western Europe, Opladen and Farmington Hills, Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2007, 255-274.

Domenico Fruncillo è Ricercatore di Scienza Politica e si occupa prevalentemente di partecipazione politica, elezioni e astensionismo. E’ docente di Scienza Politica presso il corso di laurea triennale in Sociologia dell’Università di Salerno. Per l’anno accademico 2007-2008 ha tenuto il corso di Scienza politica e Politica Comparata presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”.
E’ Membro del collegio dei docenti del dottorato di ricerca in “Sociologia, analisi sociale e politiche pubbliche” presso l’Università di Salerno. E’ rappresentante del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Scienza della Politica all’interno del network nazionale che aderisce all’ICPSR (International Consortium for Political and Social Research) Università del Michigan. Coordina le attività di ricerca svolte dal laboratorio CATI (Computer Aided Telefhone Interview) istituito presso il Dipartimento di Sociologia e Scienza della Politica dell’Università di Salerno.

Books
Urna del silenzio. L’astensionismo elettorale in Italia, Roma Ediesse, 2004.

Book Chapters
Tra modalità di mobilitazione e modernizzazione: una proposta di analisi della partecipazione elettorale, in Scipione Novelli (a cura di). Le Campagne elettorali Passato, presente e futuro, Roma: 2005 Aracne editrice.
Oltre la “rivoluzione comportamentista”. Lo studio della politica a partire dall’analisi delle elezioni in Bianca Arcangeli e Margherita Platania (a cura di),Trasformazioni e persistenze nel Golfo di Policastro, Soveria Mannelli, Rubettino editore, 2007.

Journal Articles
La “primavera” elettorale… del centrosinistra, in Nuvole, anno XV n. 27 – 2005, 69-98.
Perifericità sociale e marginalità politica. Una proposta di analisi del risultato delle elezioni politiche del 2006, in Democrazia e Diritto. vol. 4/2006 XLIV, 159-197.