Giuseppe Gangemi achieved the post of Full Professor in “Political Science” at the University of Padua from 2000.
He has been: Consultant of the Apulia’s Regional Authority to the Transparency and Active Citizenry (2006-2007);
Editor and translator of the first Italian edition of the work “La crisi del Diritto e dello Stato” of Silvio Trentin (“Book of the year 2006 in Legal Science”). Head of the research project on “The Territorial Projects of 42 Municipalities in the Provinces of Padua, Verona and Vicenza” funded by the GAL Patavino (2002-2004); Head of the Operative Research Unit of the University of Padua (PRIN 2002): “Cognitive Sciences and Direct, Representative and Deliberative Democracy”; Head, for the University of Padua, of the Interreg IIIA programme “Mare Hadriaticum Local Democracy NETwork” (October 2004-March 2007);
Member of the Scientific Committee of REGIMEN – Réseau d’Etudes sur la Globalisation et la Gouvernance Internationale et les Mutations de l’Etat et des Nations -(2004-2007).
He is: Director of the journal Foedus; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation Augusto Del Noce (Savigliano-Torino); Member of the Managing Committee of the Foundation Giuseppe Capograssi (Roma-Sulmona).

Books
La linea siciliana del federalismo, Roma, Gangemi Editore, 2004.
La linea sarda del federalismo, Roma, Gangemi Editore, 2002.
La linea veneta del federalismo, Roma, Gangemi Editore, 2000.
La linea lombarda del federalismo, Roma, Gangemi Editore, 1999.

Journal Articles
Norberto Bobbio, La rifondazione della scienza politica e la democrazia. RIFD, 2007.
Silvio Trentin e Giuseppe Capograssi: similitudini e differenze. RIFD, 2005.
Silvio Trentin, il diritto naturale e la libertà come autonomia. RIFD, 2004.
Regieren und Zivilgesellscahft in Zeiten der Regieren Berlusconi. AUS POLITIK UND ZEITGESCHICHTE, 2004.

Books Chapters:
Pratiche di democrazia e regolazione dei conflitti in alcuni teorici del Novecento. In: LUIGI PELLIZZONI. Democrazia locale. Apprendere dall’esperienza. GORIZIA, Grafica Goriziana, 2007.
Democrazia, sussidiarietà e reti sul territorio. In: C. DONOLO (a cura di), Il futuro delle politiche pubbliche, MILANO, Bruno Mondadori, 2006.

ALESSANDRO GAROFOLI is working at the Univ. of Siena. Member of associations among which the IPSA., the Petrarca Academy, founder/Councillor of the Arezzo Historic Society, member of the Editorial Committee of the Notizie di Storia. Co-operation with institutions and journals (as the Trinity College, Dublin, for the "Evaluation of the positions of Italian parties on certain political dimensions").
He is the editor of the Dictionary Aretine People 1900-1950 (www.societastoricaretina.org/dba.htm). Member of the jury Degree Thesis Award Arezzo. Author of more than 100 publications on historical-political themes; involved on several conferences, meetings, collected writings. The most recent reports: Declino dell'aristocrazia terriera, Int. days "Albergotti famiglia memoria storia"; 1861-1882 for "Arezzo e la sua storia"; Storiografia politico-istituzionale. Anni postunitari-primo '900 (National Conf. "Storia di Arezzo. Studi e prospettive"); Il filofascismo pentito.
He works as Prof. at the Univ. of the Free Age Now he is involved in research (19th-20th Century) regarding national identity, institutional reforms, the popular education, ruling classes.

Books
Ruling class. Arezzo 1861-1882, forthcoming.
Potere e classi dirigenti ad Arezzo negli anni post-unitari, Arezzo, 1999.

Book Chapters
Gli Albergotti fra Ottocento e Novecento. Il lento declino dell'aristocrazia terriera, in Gli Albergotti. Famiglia, memoria, storia, ed. by P. Benigni, L. Carbone, C. Saviotti, Firenze, 2006.
Arezzo 1861-1882. Amministrazione, classe dirigente, vita pubblica, in Atti e memorie dell'Accademia Petrarca, Montepulciano, 2001.
A vantaggio del progresso e della modernizzazione della società, in Itinerari pedagogici e culturali, Siena, 2000.

Journal Articles
Guido Guidotti Mori: un liberale del primo Novecento, Annali Aretini, X, 2002, 329-357.
Considerazioni sull'istruzione popolare, professionale e la previdenza in Italia nella seconda metà dell'800, Educazione Permanente, 1, 1995, 55-73.
Le competenze delle regioni, province e comuni in ambito scolastico, supplement to "Dirigenti scuola", 16-2, 1995, 49-63 (ed. by C. Scurati).

Diego Garzia ha conseguito il titolo di Dottore di Ricerca in "Comparative and European Politics" presso l'Università degli Studi di Siena. Ha studiato in precedenza presso le Università di Roma (Sapienza), Leiden ed Oxford. I suoi studi si focalizzano sul ruolo della personalità nel processo politico, con particolare riferimento alla psicologia delle scelte di voto in ambito italiano ed europeo.

Pubblicazioni recenti

Garzia, D. (2011). Changing Parties, Changing Partisans. The Personalization of Partisan Attachments in Western Europe. Political Psychology (article in press)

Garzia, D. (2011). Can Candidates' Image Win Elections? A Counterfactual Assessment of Leader Effects in the Second Italian Republic. Journal of Political Marketing (article in press)

Garzia, D. & Viotti, F. (2011). Leader, identità di partito e voto in Italia, 1990-2008. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 40: 411-32.

Garzia, D. (2011). Le ragioni del 'voto disonesto' nelle elezioni parlamentari italiane del 2006. Quaderni di Scienza Politica 18: 209-33.

Garzia, D. (2011). The Personalization of Politics in Western Democracies. Causes and Consequences on Leader-Follower Relationships. The Leadership Quarterly 22: 697-709.

Bellucci, P.; Garzia, D. & Rubal, M. (2010). Campagna elettorale e popolarità dei governi nelle elezioni europee. Comunicazione Politica 1/2010.

Alberto Gasparetto is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Political Science and International Relations, University of Turin, Italy.
He has a Master of Science in International Relations from the University of Bologna, discussing his dissertation on “State and Islamic fundamentalism. Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Iran”. He formerly had his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Padua.
Currently, his main focus of research is the role of religion in Iran and Turkey’s foreign policies.

Francesca Gelli is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University IUAV of Venice (Faculty of Planning), where she teaches Public Policies & Public Administration. She also collaborates with the Policy Design Laboratory.
Her research interests lie in policy analysis, urban and regional governance, EU public policies, local democracy, qualitative methods of analysis. She is currently researching on urban power structures, federalism and public policies, and on the quality of democracy in Italy.
She holds a PhD in Public Policies and Planning (IUAV, 2000) and has a background in Music (degree, 1993) and Architecture (Laurea, 1995). From 2000 to 2002 she was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua (Department of Political Studies). As a Research Fellow at the Department of Planning, IUAV (2003-6) she studied the impacts of EU policies on domestic EU Member States. Research stays at IURD, Berkeley (1998; 2000) and at the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government, Lafayette College (2002). Between 2001 and 2006 she was lecturer in EU Public Policies at the University of Padua, in Policy Analysis at the University of Venice, in Theories of Social Planning at the University of Lecce and in Territorial Policies at the University of Trento.

Books
a cura di, La democrazia locale tra rappresentanza e partecipazione, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2005.
Politica & Politiche. Lo studio di caso? Una domanda di ricerca, Milano, Giuffrè, 2002.
con Cardinali, Milanesi, Esperienze di Governo Locale. Quattro casi internazionali, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2002.

Book Chapters
with A. Grasse, forthcoming: Föderalismus, Regionen und Territorialität in Italien: Governance-Konzeptezwischen Markt und Staat, in: Glassmann, Ulrich/Köppl, Stefan/Rörig, Karoline (cur.): Länderbericht Italien, Bonn, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2009.
Dispositivi di democratizzazione: le Agenzie di Democrazia Locale come modello di azione? in: L. Pellizzoni Democrazia locale. Apprendere dall'esperienza, Trieste, Univ. di Trieste e ISIG, 2007.

Journal Articles
Idee e forme della governance tra razionalità strumentale e razionalità dei valori, Sociologia e politiche sociali, 2/2005.
Planning Systems in Italy within the context of new Processes of Regionalisation, International Planning Studies, 2/2001.

Sara Gentile insegna Scienza politica e Analisi del linguaggio politico alla Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università di Catania e nel Corso di Laurea in Comunicazione e Relazioni Pubbliche di Caltanissetta. Ha studiato i partiti politici ed il pensiero politico conservatore di fine '800. Negli ultimi anni ha concentrato i suoi interessi sull'analisi del potere ed in specie del potere carismatico.
Fra le sue pubblicazioni ricordiamo: PCI e ordine pubblico: La sfida comunista degli anni '70, Bonanno Editore 1990; L'isola del potere. Metafora del dominio nel romanzo di Sciascia, Donzelli, 1995; Capo carismatico e democrazia: il caso De Gaulle, Franco Angeli 1998; Mitterrand, il Monarca repubblicano, Franco Angeli 2000. Collabora inoltre alle riviste Teoria Politica e Comunicazione Politica.

Books
La Francia della V Repubblica. Istituzioni e sistema partitico, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2005.
Mitterrand, il monarca repubblicano, Milano FrancoAngeli, 2000.
Capo carismatico e democrazia: il caso De Gaulle, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 1998.
L'isola del potere. Metafore del dominio nel romanzo di Sciascia, Roma, Donzelli 1995.
Il PCI e l'ordine pubblico: la sfida comunista degli anni '70, Catania, Bonanno, 1990.

LUCA G. GERMANO is PhD in Political Science, he is Lecturer of Management of Public Administration at the University of Trieste and contract Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Roma Tre, Department of International Studies. He previously was research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Trieste.
He has published books and articles on the transformation of relationships between large firms and the government in Italy. His recent research interests are focused on interest groups, public policies, quality of democracy. He is particularly interested in the linkage between business and government and the impact of pressure activities of the formers on democracy.
Currently He is working on two researches, the first one on the action of economic interest groups in the Italian Parliament committees, and the second one on lobbying of Italian big firms in Italy and EU.

Books
Governi e grandi imprese. La Fiat da azienda protetta a global player, Bologna, Il Mulino, forthcoming
Grande industria e decisioni pubbliche in Italia. Il caso Fiat tra sviluppo e crisi, Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienza politica e Sociologia, 2005, mimeo.
with F. Russo (Eds.) Nord est amaro? Riflessioni sul federalismo incompiuto prima e dopo la riforma, Trieste, Lint, 2002.

Book Chapters
Introduzione, in Germano L. e Russo F. (Eds.), Nord est amaro? Riflessioni sul federalismo incompiuto prima e dopo la riforma, Trieste, Lint, 2002.

Journal Articles
Grande impresa e decisioni pubbliche. La Fiat da campione nazionale atipico a global player, in Stato e Mercato, n. 2, agosto 2007, 245-278.
Le trasformazioni della democrazia. Una lettura contemporanea del pensiero di Vilfredo Pareto, in Sociologia, n. 3, 2004, 23-34.

NICOLA GIANNELLI was born in Florence in 1966. He is researcher in Political Science at the University of Urbino where he teaches Policy Analisys.
His first studies were about illegal power of crime organizations. During Phd in Florence he studied European transport policy and its Italian spillovers. In Urbino he made a research on independent regulatory authorities. He took part of research group leaded by prof.Leonardo Morlino on European development policies.
At the moment he is making a research on local public utilities and is member of the Local Government Research Unit on Local Governance of the University of Florence.

Books
L’analisi delle politiche pubbliche, Roma, Carocci, 2008.

Book Chapters
I fondi strutturali tra politica e amministrazione nelle regioni del Mezzogiorno, in V. Fargion, L. Morlino e S. Profeti (a cura di), Europeizzazione e rappresentanza territoriale: il caso italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 221-262, 2006.
con Giulio Citroni, Andrea Lippi e Stefania Profeti, Adapting Public – Private governance to the local context. The case of water and sanitation services in Italy, Public management review, n.4, 2008.
Servizi pubblici tra affidamento e controllo. In: Chi governa l’acqua? Studio sulla governance locale. A cura di G. Citroni, N. Giannelli e A Lippi, Catanzaro, Rubbettino, 2008.

Journal Articles
La riforma dei servizi idrici: uno sguardo alla normativa nazionale e regionale, in Le Istituzioni del Federalismo, n. 2, 2006.
con Giulio Citroni, Andrea Lippi e Stefania Profeti, Qui gouverne les services publics locaux? Des configurations variables entre secteurs public et privé dans le cas du service public de l’eau en Italie, Politiques et management publique, n. 3, 2007.

Daniela Giannetti is Professor of Political Science at University of Bologna, Italy. Previously she has been a Research Associate at Trinity College, Dublin (1998-1999) and was a Visiting Scholar at University of Rochester, NY (1992), Washington University in St. Louis (1997) and University of California, Los Angeles (2006 and 2007).
Her research interests and publications focus on rational choice approach to political behaviour and institutions.

Books
with K. Benoit eds., Intra-party politics and coalition governments, London, Routledge, forthcoming 2008.
Teoria politica positiva. L’approccio razionale alla politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003.

Book Chapters
with D. Campus, Razionalità limitata e organizzazione, in G. Capano (ed) Non solo potere: le altre facce della politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Modelli e pratiche della democrazia deliberativa, in G. Pasquino (ed) Strumenti della democrazia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
with R. Mulé, The Democratici di sinistra: In Search of a New Identity, in A. Bosco and L. Morlino (eds) Party change in Southern Europe, London, Routledge, 2007.
with G. Freddi, The current state of political science in Italy, in H.D. Klingemann (ed) The current state of political science in Europe, Opladen, Barbara Budrich, 2007.

Journal Articles
with R. Lewanski, Inclusione, efficacia e qualità della deliberazione: uno studio di caso, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, special issue edited by L. Bobbio and D. Giannetti, 2: 15-48, 2007.
with E. De Giorgi, The 2006 Italian general elections: issues, dimensions and policy positions of political parties, Journal of Modern Italian Studies 11, 4: 494-515, 2006.
with K. Benoit and M. Laver, Voter Strategies with Restricted Choice Menus, British Journal of Political Science. Vol. 36, 3: 459-485, 2006.
Il contributo dell’approccio razionale allo studio della democrazia, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XXXV, 2: 235-260, 2005.

GIORGIO C.S. GIRAUDI is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Calabria, where he teaches Political Science and European politics and policy (undergraduated and post-graduated). In 2001 he was Faculty Fellow at the American University (Washington D.C.) and in 2002 he won a contest as Research Fellow at the European University Institute of Fiesole (BP Chair Fellow). Since 2003 he is full time researcher in Calabria.
Member of the scientific committee of the Istituto calabrese di politica internazionale (www.iscapi.org), Giorgio Giraudi has recently been involved in the Polipo project (European public policies) within URGE (European Research Unit on European Governance – www.urge.it ).
He has published books, journal articles and newspaper columns in several areas: European integration, European politics and policy, europeanization, regulation, independent administrative bodies, Italian constitutional reforms.
His recent research interests focus on European integration and the transformations of the member states of the European Union.

Books
Ripensare l'Europa. Storia, processi e sfide dell'Unione europea, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino 2008.
Crisi della politica e riforme istituzionali, (a cura di), Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005.
con Stella Righettini, Le autorità amministrative indipendenti, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2001.

Book Chapters
Italy and Regulatory Policy, in Fabbrini, S. e Piattoni, S. (eds.), Italy in the European Union, Latham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.
L'evoluzione istituzionale, in M. Ferrera e M. Giuliani (a cura di), Governace e politiche nell'Unione europea, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008.
Lo stato regolatore tra europeizzazione e globalizzazione, in R. Scartezzini e P. Foradori (a cura di), Globalizzazione e processi di integrazione sopranazionale: l'Europa, il mondo, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino Editore, 2006, 129-160.

Journal Articles
La regolazione: il concetto, le teorie, le modalità. Verso una tipologia unificante, in Rivista italiana di politiche pubbliche, 1/2004, 57-86.
La regolazione amministrativa nell'unione europea. Fattori di successo e fallimento delle reti transnazionali di regolazione. in Rivista italiana di scienza politica, n. 2, 2004, 223-248.
Bargaining Community exemptions: the role of Italian actors in the negotiation of state aid to labour and industry. in Modern Italy, Vol. 9, n. 2, 2004, 189-202.

MARCO GIULIANI is professor of Political Science at the University of Milano, where he teaches Comparative politics, and European Union Governance. He is co-editor of the “Rivista Italiana di Politiche pubbliche”, and member of the editorial board of “South European Society & Politics”. He is founding member of the standing groups of the ‘Società italiana di scienza politica’ dedicated to parliaments and to public policy analysis.
He has published mainly on issues regarding the Italian political system and its policy-making: from environmental policies, to the analysis of legislatures and to the relationship between Italy and the European Union. Among his recent interests: europeanization, EU governance and the comparative analysis of parliaments.

Books
ed. with M. Ferrera, Governance e politiche nell’Unione europea, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008.
ed. with F. Zucchini, Law-making in Italy in the Age of Alternation, Special issue of South European Society & Politics, 1, 2008.
La politica europea, Bologna, il Mulino, 2006.

Book Chapters
with S. Piattoni, Italy: Back to the future or steps towards normality, in E. Zeff, E. Pirro (eds.), The European Union and Member States, Boulder, Lynne Rienner 2006.
Europeanization in Comparative Perspective: Institutional fit and national adaptation, in K. Featherstone, C. Radaelli (eds.), The Politics of Europeanization, Oxford, Oxford UP 2003.

Journal Articles
Patterns of consensual law-making in the Italian parliament, South European Society & Politics, 1, 2008, 61-85.
Fra politics e policy: annotazioni sulla politica europea dell’Italia, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 1, 2007, 5-39.
Il recepimento delle politiche comunitarie in Italia. Dov’è il problema?, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 1, 2007, 39-69.

Umberto Gori (PhD) is since 1975 Full Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies in the “Cesare Alfieri” Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Florence, where he now teaches – after his retirement – Terrorism, Intelligence and Techniques of Forecasting.
He is Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies for the Staff Officers in the Naval Academy, Italian Navy, and in the Air Force College. He has been director of research for the Analysis and Planning Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the Military Centre of Strategic Studies.
He is President of the University Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSSI), President of the Scientific Committee of the Master on “Intelligence and Security Studies” of the Link Campus University of Malta, Director of the Institute of Forecasting Studies and International Research (ISPRI), V. President of CERPRE (Centre Européen pour les Recherches de Prévision – Association Européenne), Geneva, Switzerland, and V. President of IFRA (International Futures Research Academy). Until Nov. 2007 he has served as Director of the Department of Political Science of the University of Florence.
He is Member of the Scientific Committee of Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica and Futuribili, and has been Member of the Advisory Board of International Interactions, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and of the Editorial Board of International Studies Quarterly.

Books
Invisible Threats: Financial and Information Technology Crimes and National Security, (Ed. with I. Paparela), IOS Press, The NATO Programme for Security through Science, Amsterdam, 141, 2006.
Lezioni di Relazioni Internazionali, 2nd Edition, CEDAM, Padua, 582, 2004.
La cooperazione allo sviluppo. Errori e illusioni di un mito, Prefazione di Pasquale Antonio Baldocci, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 123, 2003.

Book Chapters
Les dimensions antagonistes de la paix dans différentes civilisations, in Dialogue des cultures à l’aube du XXIème siècle. Hommage à Denis de Rougemont par José Manuel Barroso, sous la direction de Dusan Sidjanski en collaboration avec F. Saint-Ouen, Collection du Centre Européen de la Culture, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 151-173, 2007.

Journal Articles
La sfida dell’Europa al terrorismo e il contributo dell’intelligence, in: L’Europa in bilico – L’Europe en suspens, Quaderni di Futuribili, n.9, ISIG – Istituto di Sociologia Internazionale, Gorizia e IUIES – International University Institute for European Studies, 57-76.

Alexander Grasse, professore ordinario di Scienza Politica presso l’Università di Giessen/Germania (dal 2007); research and/or teaching activities at the universities of Milano Statale, Padova, Bologna, North Carolina State, Athens Panteion, and Giessen; main focus of research: multi-level governance, political economy, regional and federal studies, Italian politics; Clemens Maria Brentano Laureate of the German-Italian University Centre/Ateneo Italo-Tedesco 2007 in Political Science.

Books
Local Governance in the Global Context: Theory and Practice (ed. with C.-P. Chu, S.-C. Park, M. Porsche-Ludwig), Berlin et al. 2010.
Soziale Gerechtigkeit. Reformpolitik am Scheideweg (with C. Ludwig, B. Dietz) Wiesbaden 2006.
Modernisierungsfaktor Region. Subnationale Politik und Föderalisierung in Italien, Wiesbaden 2005.
Im Süden viel Neues. Italienische Staats- und Verfassungsreformen am Scheideweg zwischen Modernisierung und Gefährdung der Demokratie, Stuttgart 2004.
Belgien – Zerfall oder föderales Zukunftsmodell? Der flämisch-wallonische Konflikt und die “Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft“ (with F. Berge), Opladen 2003.
Il sistema federale tedesco tra continuità e nuove dinamiche, Bologna 2001.
Italiens langer Weg in den Regionalstaat. Die Entstehung einer Staatsform im Spannungsfeld von Zentralismus und Föderalismus, Opladen 2000.
Interregionale Zusammenarbeit in der EU. Analysen zur Partnerschaft zwischen Hessen, der Emilia-Romagna und der Aquitaine (with D. Eissel et al. ), Opladen 1999.

Book Chapters
Dissoziativer Föderalismus: Föderalismus in Italien, in: Härtel, I. (ed.): Handbuch Föderalismus. Föderalismus als demokratische Rechtsordnung und Rechtskultur in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt, Vol. IV, Berlin 2012, pp. 781-801.
Federalism in Germany, in: Seidelmann, R. (ed.): The New Germany: History, Economy, Policies, Baden-Baden 2011, pp. 239-268.
Regions in a Globalisation-Localisation Dialectic and the Italian Case (with J. Labitzke), in: Chu, C. et al. (eds.): Local Governance in the Global Context, Berlin et al. 2010, pp. 161-197.
Belgien und Italien: Föderalismus als integrierende Kraft? In: Bundesrat (ed.): 60 Jahre Bundesrat: Die Rolle der Regionen im europäischen Einigungsprozess, Berlin 2010, pp. 49-64.
Competition, Cohesion, and the “Knowledge-Based Economy” – The EU Lisbon Strategy (with D. Eissel), in: Hanska, I. et al. (eds.): Nachdenken über Europa. Probleme und Perspektiven eines Ordnungsmodells, Baden Baden 2009, pp. 129-150.
Dienstleistungen von allgemeinem Interesse in Italien (with D. Donati), in: Krautscheid, A. (ed.): Die Daseinsvorsorge im Spannungsfeld von europäischem Wettbewerb und Gemeinwohl, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 336-372.
The Vertical Dimension of Democracy and Development: Federalism, Regionalisation, and Local Autonomy – Some Lessons learned from Europe (with D. Eissel), in: Hadiwinata, B./Schuck, C. (eds.): Democracy in Indonesia. The Challenge of Consolidation, Baden-Baden 2007, pp. 75-108.
Territoriale Gerechtigkeit im deutschen Bundesstaat – Reformen im Spagat von Wachstums- und Verteilungsproblemen, in: Grasse, A. et al. (eds.): Soziale Gerechtigkeit. Reformpolitik am Scheideweg, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 129-149.

Journal Articles
Un Paese in bilico. L'Italia del divario territoriale (with F. Gelli), in: Foedus: Culture, Economie e Territori, No. 26/ 2010, pp. 3-35.
Föderative Tendenzen in Italien: Politik, Wirtschaft und Regionalbewusstsein im Wandel, in: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg (ed.), Der Bürger im Staat, Themenheft "Italien", n. 2/ 2010, pp. 193-201.
Identità regionali in Europa: quale rilevanza ai fini della modernizzazione? Formazione, elementi costitutivi ed efficacia di un “costrutto effimero”, in: Teoria Politica, anno XX, n. 1/2004, pp. 57-84.

Davide Grassi is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Torino. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where he studied under the direction of Prof. Adam Przeworski.
He is Faculty member of the Ph.D program in Political Science and of the GlobAAAl Masters’ in area studies, both at the University of Torino. Prof. Grassi lectured in Italy, Spain and the USand has published books and journal articles in areas such as comparative politics, democratization and methodology, in particular qualitative methods (such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis).
He is referee for the national political science journal: Rivista italiana di scienza politica and a member of various associations amongst which the international COMPASS Research Group (COMParative methods for the Advancement of Systematic cross-case analysis and Small-n Studies). His recent interests focus on the consequences of democracy (social welfare and political violence), especially in Latin America.
At the moment he is working in a national project group (PRIN) on the consequences of democracy in different areas of the world.

Books
Le nuove democrazie: i processi di democratizzazione dopo la caduta del muro di Berlino, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008.

Book Chapters
Voci: Democratizzazione, Populismo, in Dizionario di politica. Torino: Casa Editrice UTET, 2004.

Journal Articles
Democracia y democratización en la África sub-Sahariana: algunas evaluaciones comparativas, REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE CIENCIA POLITICA, OTTOBRE 2008.
Democrazia e democratizzazione nei paesi post-comunisti: Europa centro-orientale ed ex-Unione sovietica, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, agosto 2006.
La survie des régimes démocratiques: une AQQC des démocraties de la “troisième vague” en Amérique du Sud, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 11, 2004.
La globalizzazione della democrazia, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XXXII, 1, 2002.
Democratic Consolidation in Latin America: Recent Theoretical Developments, Facilitating Conditions and Outcomes, Swiss Political Science Review, 4 (3), 1998.

PAOLO GRAZIANO is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Fellow of the Center for Research on Comparative Politics (POLEIS) at the Bocconi University;
Visiting Fellow at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques Centre d’Etudes Européens and Coordinator and Professor of several courses at ISPI – the Italian Institute for Studies on International Politics; Visiting Scholar, University of California Berkeley, Political Science Department.
He is a member of the Steering Committee of the international research group, YEN-Young Europeanization Network, which is affiliated with the European Consortium for Political Science. He is Bocconi representative in RECWOWE, Network of Excellence (6th EU Research Framework Program).
His recent interests focus on Europeanization, European integration, local politics and policies for local development, the politics of welfare and welfare policies, participatory democracy. He is also member of the Italian team of YOUNEX – Youth Unemployment and Exclusion in Europe (7th EU Research Framework Program).
Among other research projects, he is currently working with Matteo Bassoli at completing “Le politiche locali per la promozione della Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa. Il caso italiano” Milano, FrancoAngeli (forthcoming).

Books
edited with M. P. Vink, Europeanization: New Research Agendas, New York, Palgrave, 2007.
Europeizzazione e politiche pubbliche italiane. Coesione e lavoro a confronto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.

Book Chapters
with F. Bertozzi, The impact of OECD guidelines on Italian Welfare State Reforms in K. Armingeon and M. Beyeler (eds), OECD and Welfare State Reforms in Europe, Northampton, Edward Elgar, 2004.

Journal Articles
with S. Baglioni and D. della Porta, The Contentious Politics of Unemployment. The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective, European Journal of Political Research, forthcoming, 2008.
Adapting to the European Employment Strategy? Recent Development in Italian Employment Policy, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Volume 23/4, 2007.
Entering Italian Academia in Political Science: can the Sacred Fire’ Keep Burning?, European Political Science, Vol 5., N. 3, 2006.
Europeanisation or Globalisation? A Framework for empirical research, Global Social Policy, Vol. 3, N. 2, 2003.

PIETRO GRILLI DI CORTONA is Professor of Political Science, University of “Roma Tre”, Member of the Editorial Board of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica and Director of the Department of International Studies, University of “Roma Tre”. He teaches also Comparative Politics and Processes of Democratization.
He has been member of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale dell’Economia e del Lavoro (2000-2005), of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Political Science (2000-2006) and of the Italian Consiglio Universitario Nazionale (1997-2006). He has published books and journal articles on several areas, including communist regimes, political revolutions, democratizations, nationalisms, parties and party systems, Italian political transition.

Books
Il cambiamento politico in Italia, Roma, Carocci, 2007.
Gli italiani e l’Europa, Roma, Philos, 2004.
Stati, nazioni e nazionalismi in Europa, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003.
Da uno a molti. Democratizzazione e rinascita dei partiti in Europa orientale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997.
with G. Pasquino, Partiti e sistemi di partito nelle democrazie europee, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
with B. Simeone, A. Pennisi, F. Ricca, C. Manzi), Evaluation and Optimization of Electoral Systems, Philadelphia, SIAM, 1999.
with S. Bartole, Transizione e consolidamento democratico nell’Europa centro-orientale, Torino, Giappichelli, 1998.

Book Chapters
Transizioni di regime e istituzioni burocratiche in prospettiva comparata, in L. Lanzalaco (ed.), Istituzioni, amministrazione, politica, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2000, 99-140.

Journal Articles
Pochi voti, tanta influenza. Nazionalismi e partiti nazionalisti in Europa, in Risp, 31, 2, 2001, 185-234.

Selena Grimaldi is currently enrolled with full scholarship in a PhD programme in Political Science at the centre of advanced studies of Humanities Institute (SUM) in Florence.
Her research interests are about political institutions in advanced democracies, her PhD dissertation is focused on a comparison of the role of the President of the Republic in four countries: Austria, Germany, Ireland and Italy, with supervising of Professor Gianfranco Pasquino.
She has recently participated to a multi-disciplinary study-group on political language at the University of Padua publishing a chapter on the political values in the discourses of the Italian Presidents and their capacity in promoting the social capital.

Book Chapters
con Riccamboni G., Valori politici e capitale sociale nei discorsi dei Presidenti della Repubblica, in Tuzzi A. e Cortelazzo M. (a cura di), Messaggi dal Colle, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008.

Markus Grimm, born in 1978, studied political sciences, constitutional, social, and economic history as well as medieval and modern history at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn and .
at Università degli Studi di Perugia, received his Magister Artium in 2005, and has been working on his doctoral thesis on the development of the Alleanza Nazionale as type of right/centre-right-party.
His research focus is the comparison of the party systems in Europe, especially of Italy, Spain, and Germany, the German-Italian relations, federalism and the constitutional reform in Italy and Spain.

Journal Articles:
Il Popolo della Libertà – Die Auferstehung der Democrazia Cristiana?, in: PIFO Occasional Paper (8/2009).
Ist der Ruf erst ruiniert… Europapolitik alla Berlusconi, in: onde 32 (2009), 6-8.
Trilaterale Tagung in Hildesheim: „Italien, Österreich und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Europa. Ein Dreiecksverhältnis in seinen wechselseitigen Beziehungen und Wahrnehmungen von 1945/49 bis zur Gegenwart“, in: Geschichte und Region / Storia e Regione 18/1 (2009), 180-187.

ELISABETTA GUALMINI is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. She’s Director of the post-graduate master’s degree in HR Management of the Alma Graduate School. She’s been visiting scholar in several foreign universities (London School of Economics, UCLA, University of Berkeley, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung and Humboldt Universität in Berlin).
From 2005 to 2007 she co-directed the Italian Review of Public Policy. She is currently member of the Evaluation Committee of the National Agency for Public Administration Representation (ARAN) and member of the editorial board of the “Revue electronique de comparisons en sciences socials”. In 2005 she won the SISP yearly award for the best book written by a young scholar (L’amministrazione nelle democrazie contemporanee, currently at the 4th edition).
She has published several books and articles both in Italian and in English in the field of labour policies and administrative modernisation. Her latest research interests focus on comparative policies for administrative reform, the European Employment Strategy and its impact on national decision making, and the problem of accidents at work in a cross national perspective.

Books
L’amministrazione nelle democrazie contemporanee, Bari, Laterza, 2003, 4th ed. 2008.
with G. Capano, La pubblica amministrazione in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
with M. Ferrera, Rescued by Europe? Social and Labour Market Reforms from Amsterdam to Berlusconi, AUP, 2004.

Book Chapters
Sei “modelli di carriera” della dirigenza pubblica, in G. Capano e S. Vassallo, La dirigenza pubblica. Il mercato e le competenze dei ruoli manageriali, Rubbettino, 2003, 31-63.
Le politiche dell’UE in tema di ispezione, vigilanza, salute e sicurezza nei luoghi di lavoro, in E. Gualmini, A. Pizzoferrato e S. Vergari, Vigilanza sul lavoro, Padova, Cedam, 2005, 1-28.
Scienza dell’amministrazione in Italia, in G. Capano, Non solo potere. Le altre facce della politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, 25-54.
Rewards for High Public Office: The Case of Italy, in G. Peters and M. Braans, Public Managers’ Rewards, forthcoming.

Journal Articles
Restructuring Weberian Bureaucracy: Comparing Managerial Reforms in Europe and the United States, in Public Administration, 1, 86, 2008, 54-75.

Carlo Guarnieri is professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna, where he teaches Italian politics and Comparative judicial systems. Previously he taught at the University of Calabria and at the High School of Public Administration in Rome. He was Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and The University of California Berkeley and professeur invité at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Université de Monpellier.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences (1997-2000), Head of the study program in Political Sciences (2001- 2007), and member of the executive board of the “Rivista italiana di scienza politica” (1980-2000). Presently, he is member of the executive committee of the Società italiana di scienza politica.
His main research interest is the comparative analysis of judicial systems in democratic countries. More specifically, his interests have focused on the expansion of judicial power, with a particular attention to Latin Europe and to the increasing significance of supranational and transnational justice. He is currently working at a comparative analysis of the evolution of public prosecution in Europe.

Books
Il sistema politico italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
Giustizia e politica. I nodi della Seconda Repubblica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003.
with Patrizia Pederzoli, The Power of Judges. A Comparative Study of Courts and Democracy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.

Book Chapters
Lawyers and Statist Liberalism in Italy, in T.C. Halliday, L. Karpik e M.M. Feeley (eds.), Fighting for Political Freedom. Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism, Oxford, Hart, 2007, 439-461.
Professional qualifications of the judiciary in Italy, France and Germany, in Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2007. Corruption in Judicial Systems, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 56-61.

Journal Articles
Courts and Marginalized Groups: Perspectives from Continental Europe, in International Journal of Constitutional Law, V, n.2, 2007, 187-210.
Appointment and career of judges in continental Europe: the rise of judicial self-government, in Journal of Legal Studies, XXIV, 2004, 169-187.