Giuseppe Ieraci graduated in Philosophy in 1985, at the University of Genoa. In 1989 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Political Science, by the University of Florence, and in 1994 he was awarded the Jemolo Fellowship by Nuffield College, Oxford. He is currently Associate Professor in Politics in the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Trieste. He is Director of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies in Political Science and teaches courses in Theory of Democracy and Public Policy.
His main research interests include democratic theory, party systems and political institutions, policy analysis and European integration.

Books
Governments and Parties in Italy. Parliamentary Debates, Investiture Votes and Policy Positions (1994-2006), Leicester, Troubador Pub. Ltd, 2008.
L’Ulivo e la Libertà. Governi e partiti in Italia nella democrazia dell’alternanza, Trieste, E.U.T., 2008, forthcoming.
Teoria dei governi e democrazia. Ruoli, risorse e arene istituzionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003.

Journal Articles
Governments, Policy Space and Party Positions in the Italian Parliament (1996-2001), in South European Society & Politics, vol. 12, 2006, 261-285.
Politica tra le nazioni o scontro delle civiltà, in Ragion Pratica, vol. 24, 2005, 243-254.
From Polarized Pluralism to Polarized Bipolarism. Parties, Governments and Policy Space in Italy after the 2006 Elections, in Polena, 3, 2007, 9-24.

Piero Ignazi is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bologna, Bologna.
After having been graduated at the University of Bologna his doctoral and post-doctoral training was pursued at the EUI in Florence, at the MIT in Cambridge,Ma., and at the FNSP in Paris.
He has taught in France at the IEP of Lille and at the Universitè Paris II-Pantheon and profited of period of stay for research in Oxford (Christ Church and Nuffield collages), in Denver (Denver University), in Paris (FNSP), in Trier (Faculty of Political science), in Madrid (Universidad Autonoma).
At present he is Chairman of the Committee for Political Sociology of IPSA and ISA, and member of the scientific board of the International Political Science Review, the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica and il Mulino. He chairs the on-line Observatory of Italian Foreign Policy: www.foreignpolicy.it
He is currently working on the transformation of parties and party systems in Europe, on the process of secularization in Italy, on the impact of class and religion on party politics, on the comparative foreign policy of the European democracies.

Books
I partiti italiani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997.
co-edited with C.Ysmal, The Organization of Political Parties in Southern Europe, Westport, Praeger, 1998 .
Il polo escluso. Profilo storico del Movimento Sociale Italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, (1989), 1998 (expanded and updated edition).
L’estrema destra in Europa, Bologna, Il Mulino, (1994) 2000 (expanded and updated edition).
Il potere dei partiti. La politica in Italia dagli anni Sessanta ad oggi. Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002.
Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, (2003), 2006 (expanded and updated edition).
co-edited with A.Rommele and D.Farrell, Political Parties and Political Systems. The Concept of Linkage Rivisited, Westport, Praeger, 2005.
Partiti politici in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.

Daniela Irrera is a Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Catania.
PhD in International Relations at the University of Catania, she was research fellow at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Messina; Lecturer of International Relations at the Universities of Messina and Palermo.
Her international activities include: Research Assistant at the Stony Brook University, New York; Visiting Fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland; Member of the executive committee of the Standing Group on Organised Crime, European Consortium for Political Research.
She has published two books and several articles in the areas of International Relations and EU politics, dealing with global terrorism, transnational organised crime, civil society and democratisation processes.

Books
Gli Stati criminali: un possibile modello esplicativo, Giuffré, Milano.

Book Chapters
War on Terror: caratteri e implicazioni globali dell’egemonia americana, in M. Saija, Sources of Conflict and Prospects for Peace in the Mediterranean Basin within the North-South Relations, Giappichelli, Torino, 2006.
Organized Crime, Non-State Actors and Weak/Failed States, and, Organized Crime in the Balkans: Implications for Regional Security, in M. Shanty, Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism, ABC-CLIO, 2007.

Journal Articles
The Balkanisation of Politics: Crime and Corruption in Albania, EUI Working Papers – RSCAS no. 2006/18.
European Union Governance in the Southern Caucasus, in Geistlinger, Longo, Lordkipanidze, Nasibli, Security Identity and the Southern Caucasus, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Wien, 2007.
Le Organizzazioni Non Governative e le Nazioni Unite: il processo di istituzionalizzazione, in GROTIUS, Rubbettino, III/2006.

Pierangelo ISERNIA is professor of Political Science, Università degli Studi di Siena. He has been director of the Graduate School of Political Science – Comparative and European Politics of the University of Siena in the years 2006-2008 and he is presently the director of the Laboratorio Analisi Politiche e Sociali – LAPS at the Center for the Study of Political Change – CIRCaP.
He coordinates, with Maurizio Cotta, the Integrated Project INTUNE – Integrated and United A Quest for Citizenship in an ‘Ever Closer Europe’ under the 6th Framework Programme and he coordinates the Integrated Project “EuroPolis – A Deliberative Polity-Making Project” financed under the 7th Framework Programme.
He is scientific advisor of TNS international, of the Transatlantic Trend Survey and the Transatlantic Survey on Immigration, a joint project of the German Marshall Fund of the US and the Compagnia di San Paolo, and he is the principal investigator of the European Elite Survey.
His main research interests are in the field of public opinion and foreign policy, support for European integration, Transatlantic relations and anti-Americanism. He has published several contributions on these topics. He is currently working on the determinants of support for the use of force and on the role of deliberative democracy in fostering support for European integration and political participation in European elections.

Books
with Maurizio Cotta and Luca Verzichelli, L’Europa in Italia. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005.
with Philip Everts, Mending the Gap. Transatlantic Public Opinion and the Use of Force. Palgrave, forthcoming.

Book Chapters
Anti-Americanism and European Public Opinion, in America Contested. The Limits and Future of American Unilateralism, edited by Sergio Fabbrini. Routledge, 2006.
Anti-Americanism in Europe during the Cold War, in Anti-Americanism in World Politics, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane, Cornell University Press, 2007.
with Sergio Fabbrini, Bush, the Iraq War and Anti-Americanism, in Brendon O’Connor (editor). Anti-Americanism. History, Causes and Themes. Greenwood World Publs., 2007, 187-215.

Journal Articles
with Philip Everts, Partners Apart? The Foreign Policy Attitudes of the American and European Publics. Japanese Journal of Political Science. 5 (2), 229-258, 2005.
with Philip Everts, Poll Trend Review: The War of Iraq, Public Opinion Quarterly, 264-323, 2005.
with Philip Everts, European Public Opinion on Security Issues. European Security, Vol. 15, No. 4, 451-469, December 2006.
Present at Creation. Italian Mass Support for European Integration in the Formative Years, European Journal of Political Research, 47: 383-410, 2008.