Claudia Padovani is researcher and lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the Department of Historical and Political Studies at the University of Padova, Italy.
Her research interests concern supranational governance transformations in the field of communication, with an emphasis on trans-national advocacy groups and social mobilizations as they become “stakeholders” in decision-making processes.
She is a member of the International Council ) and co-chair of the Working Group on Global Media Policy of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and co-chair of the Communication and Democracy section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Padovani is also member of the editorial boards of Continuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and the Anuario ININCO. Investigaciones de la comunicacion, Venezuela.
She is currently engaged in a project titled Global Media Policy Mapping to develop an on-line platform, resource base and research hub on the global governance of communication (in cooperation with Marc Raboy at McGill University, Montreal).

Books
Governare il globale. Reti, attori e politiche di comunicazione, UTET Libreria, forthcoming 2009.
Comunicazione Globale. Democrazia, sovranità, culture, Utet Libreria, 2001.
with Calabrese A., Communication Rights and Global Justice: reflections on the Short History of a Social Movement, Hampton Press 2009 forthcoming.
with Drossou O., Jensen H. (eds). Saperi del futuro. Analisi di donne sulla società della comunicazione, EMI, Bologna, 2006.
editor, Global Media and Communication 1(3), special issue “From NWICO to WSIS: another World Information and Communication Order?, 2005.

Book Chapters
New World Information and Communication Order. In: DONSBACH W. The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
with Cernison M. Dalle reti alle mappe… sul web. Donne e comunicazione in Italia, fra tecnologie tradizionali e nuovi media, in Capitani A., Un altro genere di tecnologia, Il Secolo della Rete, 2008.

Journal Articles
with Cammaerts B., Il world summit on the information society: esercizi di e-governance fra “spazi di luogo” e “spazi di flusso” in ComPol, vol. VII a cura di F. Amoretti, 2006.

Carlo Pala è Dottore di Ricerca in Scienza Politica, titolo conseguito presso l’Università degli Studi di Firenze, XX Ciclo, il 4/04/2008. E’ visiting fellow presso l’Institut d’Études Politiques di Rennes (Francia) e ha partecipato a diversi seminari, congressi, winter e summer schools sulla disciplina in Europa. Dal 2004 è membro della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP).
I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano principalmente i partiti etnoregionalisti e i regionalismi, la politica locale e le elezioni primarie. Fa parte del progetto di ricerca PRIMES (Primaries Electoral Studies), coordinato dai Proff. Pasquino (Università di Bologna) e Venturino (Università di Cagliari). In via di definizione una sua partecipazione ad un progetto di ricerca sui regionalismi in Francia, condotto da varie Università francesi.
Collabora con le cattedre di Scienza Politica e Politica Comparata dell’Università di Cagliari, tenute dal Prof. Venturino, ed è Tutor per le materie di Scienza Politica 1 e 2 presso il corso di laurea in Amministrazione, Governo e Sviluppo Locale dell’Università di Cagliari nella sede decentrata di Nuoro.

Book Chapters
L’indice e i campioni di preferenza in Sardegna, in Esu A. (a cura di), Sardi al voto. Attori e scelte, CUEC, Cagliari, 2006.
Il caso di Alghero, capitolo in corso di pubblicazione nel volume sulle Elezioni Primarie Comunali, curato da Gianfranco Pasquino e Fulvio Venturino, Il Mulino, Bologna, forthcoming.

Journal Articles
con Fulvio Venturino, I rapporti fra politica e burocrazia in Sardegna: una proposta di analisi con un’applicazione alla legislazione sugli Enti strumentali, in Sps: Storia Politica Società, 2005, V, 7, 42-63.
Recensione di M. Caciagli, Regioni d’Europa. Devoluzioni, regionalismi, integrazione europea, Sps: Storia Politica Società, V, 8, 2005.

Damiano Palano is Associate Professor of Political Science at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Faculty of Political Sciences.
He has published books and articles in several areas, including political theory, concept analysis, democratic theory, transformations of the State, history of political sciences. He is on the editorial board of “Vita e Pensiero” and on the scientific board of the “Arti e mestieri” Research Center of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
He is currently engaged in a research project on the transformation of the State and the change of the political space.

Books
Geometrie del potere. Materiali per la storia della scienza politica in Italia, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2005.
Il potere della moltitudine. L’invenzione dell’inconscio collettivo nella teoria politica e nelle scienze sociali italiane tra Otto e Novecento, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2002.

Book Chapters
Lo spazio politico: territori, confini, potere, in A. Agustoni – P. Giuntarelli – R. Veraldi (a cura di), Sociologia dello spazio, dell’ambiente e del territorio, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2007, 54-90.

Journal Articles
Pensare la folla. Appunti per la ricostruzione di un itinerario terminologico e concettuale, in Teoria politica, XX (2004), n. 3, 15-53.
Fino alla fine del mondo. Stato e spazio politico nel recente dibattito sulla “forma-impero”, in Teoria politica, XIX (2003), n. 2-3, 217-250.

Günther Pallaver is associate Professor of Political Science, University of Innsbruck, and Dean of teaching of the Innsbruck School of Political Science and Sociology. Born in Bozen/Bolzano, doctor of philosophy (PhD) and doctor of civil and canon low (J.U.D), he studied in Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna, Verona and London. 1991 state examination of journalism in Rome, 1989-1995 journalist. Since 1995 at the University of Innsbruck.
Visiting professor at the Universities of Trento and Bolzano. 1996 co-founder of the research team Mediawatch (Innsbruck) for media monitoring and media analysis. Freelance collaborator with various print media and the RAI. Co-organisator of the Summer School in European Studies Innsbruck-Trento. Member of the Advisory Board of Contemporary Austrian Studies (Innsbruck-New Orleans) and member of the European Centre for Research on Federalism (University of Tübingen).
He is currently working in the European Collaborative Research Project: Political Communication Cultures in Western Europe (www.communication-cultures.eu) and with the British Academy on Ethnic Politics in the Cold War.
Research fields: Comparative politics, political communication, federalism, (ethno)regional parties.

Books
ed. with H. Barta, Karl Anton von Martini. Ein österreichischer Jurist, Wien, 2007.
ed. with G. Ferrandi, La Regione Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol nel XX secolo. Trento, 2007

Book Chapters
Die ethnisch halbierte Wirklichkeit. Medien, Öffentlichkeit und politische Legitimation in ethnisch fragmentierten Gesellschaften, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen (ed.) 2007.
South Tyrol’s Consociational Democracy: Between Political Claim and Social Reality, in: Woelk, J. – Palermo, F. – Marko, J. (eds.): Tolerance through Law. Self Governance and Group Rights in South Tyrol (European Academy Bozen/Bolzano), Leiden-Boston, 2008.
I sondaggi politici in Austria, in: Corbetta, P. – Gasperoni, G. (ed.): I sondaggi politici nelle democrazie contemporanee, Bologna, 2007.
Wahlsystem und Parteiensystem in Italien, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft

ANGELO PANEBIANCO è professore di Sistemi internazionali comparati presso la facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Bologna, dove è anche presidente del Master in relazioni internazionali (MRI), e di Teoria dello Stato e Geopolitica all’Università “San Raffaele” di Milano.
Dopo aver conseguito la laurea in Scienze Politiche presso l’Università di Bologna nel 1971 ha ottenuto, l’anno seguente, un Degree in International Affairs presso la Johns Hopkins University.
Ha svolto attività di insegnamento e di ricerca presso la Harvard University (1980), la University of California, Berkeley (1981) e la London School of Economics and Political Science (1989-1990).
Negli anni novanta è stato tra i fondatori della facoltà di Scienze Politiche “Roberto Ruffilli” dell’Università di Bologna, sede di Forlì, e direttore dell’omonima biblioteca. Dal 1991 al 1995 è stato presidente dell’indirizzo politico-internazionale della medesima facoltà. E’ membro del comitato direttivo della Scuola di dottorato in Scienza politica dell’Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane e fa parte del comitato direttivo di varie riviste, tra cui la ‘Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica’.

Books
Il potere, lo stato, la libertà, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
Guerrieri democratici. Le democrazie e la politica di potenza, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997.
Il prezzo della libertà, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1995.
a cura di, L’analisi della politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989.
co-autore, Manuale di scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1986.
Modelli di partito, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1982 (pubblicato in lingua inglese a cura della Cambridge University Press nel 1988 e in lingua spagnola a cura della Alianza Editorial, Madrid, nel 1990).

Book Chapters
Teoria politica e metodo comparato, in G. Pasquino (a cura di), La scienza politica di Giovanni Sartori, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005, 247-245.
Teoria politica e metodo comparato, in G. Pasquino, a cura di, La scienza politica di Giovanni Sartori, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005, 247-245
Politica, in Enciclopedia del Novecento, Supplemento III, Roma, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, 2004, 320-329.
Democrazia, in Enciclopedia del Novecento, Vol. X, Roma, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, 1998, 461-466.
Introduzione a Raymond Aron, La politica, la guerra la storia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992, 9-106.

Stefania Panebianco is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Catania, where she teaches International Relations, Mediterranean Politics and Comparative Politics. She also teaches Mediterranean Politics at the Master Course in European Studies held at LUISS.
She is Chair of the BA Degree Course in International Relations and Politics (University of Catania). She is scientific responsible of the Jean Monnet European Module EU Roles in International Governance funded by the European Commission. She is in the International Editorial Board of the International Journal of EuroMediterranean Studies and in the Editorial Board of the International Political Science Review .
She got her Ph.D. in International Relations at University of Padua in 1999. Then she held the Italian Chair of Mediterranean Relations and Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (University of Malta).
Her recent interests focus on EU foreign policy, in particular on EU Mediterranean Policy and Politics. She is currently working on the EU as global actor and as an external actor for Democratisation.

Books
A New Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Identity (editor), Frank Cass, London, 2003.
Il lobbying europeo, Giuffré, Milano, 2000.

Book Chapters
Sicurezza e cooperazione, in Cassano F. e Zolo D. (eds), L’alternativa Mediterranea, Feltrinelli, 2007, 556-583.
The constraints on EU action as a ‘norm exporter’ in the Mediterranean, in Elgström O. & Smith M. (eds), The European Union’s Roles in International Politics, Routledge, London/New York, 2006, 136-154.
Promoting human rights and democracy in European Union relations with Russia and China, in Lucarelli S. & Manners I. (eds), Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy, Routledge, London/New York, 2006, 130-146.
Security cooperation in the Mediterranean: the EMP instruments to appease different security perceptions, con Fulvio Attinà in M. G. Melchionni (ed), Le relazioni transmediterranee nel tempo presente, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), 2005, 407-430.
La Commissione europea nell’Unione a 25: tra influenza nazionale e autonomia sopranazionale, in Baldini G. (ed), Quale Europa? L’Unione oltre la crisi, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), 2005, 85-109.

Pamela Pansardi is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Pavia. She is graduated in Political Theory at the University of Pavia and she is graduated at the IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori). Her fields of research are political theory and political anthropology.
She is teaching assistant for the courses of Political Science, Theory of Political Institutions and Italian Political System. She has been tutor for the course of Political Science and for the course of “Women, Politics and Istitution” at the Faculty of Political Science of Pavia.

Antonio Papisca is Professor of International Relations and International Protection of Human Rights, University of Padua; Jean Monnet Chair ad honorem; Unesco Chair in Human Rights, Democracy and Peace; President of the Degree Course in Political Sciences-International Relations-Human Rights, Director of the Quarterly ‘Pace diritti umani/Peace human rights’ (Marsilio, Venice). Membership: Boards of the “European Union Review” and “Futuribili”, Scientific Council of the ‘Società Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internationale’, SIOI, European University Council for the Action Jean Monnet (1989-2001). President of the European Community Studies Association, ECSA World (2002-2004), Director of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice, 1997-2003). Teaching and lecturing in several universities in Italy and abroad.
Coordination of transnational research projects: among others, the European Project on ‘intercultural dialogue for the development of a new (plural, democratic) citizenship’ (2005-2007).
Main research topics: world order issues, international and transnational democracy, human rights politics and institutions. He is currently working on ‘City diplomacy’, as a new frontier of multi-level good governance.

Books
with M. Mascia, Le Relazioni internazionali nell’era dell’interdipendenza e dei diritti umani, Padova, Cedam, 2004 (3rd ed).

Book Chapters
Citizenship and Citizenships ‘ad omnes includendos’: A Human Rights Approach, in L. Bekemans et alii (eds), Intercultural Dialogue and Citizenship. Translating Values into Actions. A Common Project for Europeans and Their Partners, Venice, Marsilio, 2007, 457-480.
Les valeurs à la base de la coopération internationale: la contribution des Chaires UNESCO, in S.Gandolfi, P. Meyer Bisch, V.Topanou (eds), L’éthique de la coopération internationale et l’effectivité des droits humains, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2006, 187-194.

Journal Articles
Article 51 of the United Nations Charter: Exception or General rule? The Nightmare of the Easy War, in Pace diritti umani/Peace human rights, 1/2005, 13-28.

Vittorio Emanuele Parsi è professore ordinario di Relazioni Internazionali nell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Dal 2002 è professore a contratto nella Facoltà di Economia dell’Università della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano (USI). Dal 2005 è program director del Master in Economia e Politiche Internazionali (ASERI e USI). E’ membro del “Gruppo di riflessione strategica” istituito dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri. E’ socio delle Società per lo Studio della Diffusione della Democrazia – SSDD (http://www.cires.eu).

Books
con Filippo Andreatta, Marco Clementi, Alessandro Colombo, Mathias Koenig Archibugi, , Relazioni Internazionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
con Andrea Locatelli a cura di, Key Challenges to the Global System, Thoughts, Ideas and Essays on ASERI’s Tenth Anniversary, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2007.
L’alleanza inevitabile. Europa e Stati Uniti oltre l’Iraq, Università Bocconi Editore, Milano 2006, (ed americana: The Inevitable Alliance, Palgrave-Mcmillan, New York, 2006).
con Matthew Evangelista a cura di, Partners or Rivals? European-American Relations After Iraq, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2005.

Book Chapters
U.S. and Europe: Still an Inevitable Alliance?, in: Managing a Multilevel Foreign Policy. The EU in International Affairs, a cura di Paolo Foradori, Paolo Rosa and Riccardo Scartezzini, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2007, 135-155.

Journal Articles
Sarkozy, Brown e Co.: le nuove leadership europee, in Vita e Pensiero, XC, n. 3, 19-25.
Che cosa resta dell’Occidente, in Filosofia Politica, XVIII, 2004, n.1, 43-64.
Democrazia come religione politica, in Italianieuropei, n.3, 2004, 131-142.
I paradossi della guerra al terrorismo, in Limes, n.3, 2004, 295-306.
Le incomprensioni tra Vaticano e Israele, in Diritto e Libertà, V, n.8, 2004, 273-281.

Nicola Pasini, born in Chiavenna (SO) in 1964, 24th December. He is Associate Professor at the University of Milan since 2006. He holds a PhD in sociology and methodology from the Catholic University of Milan (1997).
He graduated in political science at the University of Milan. He teaches Politics and Public Administration, Local Government, Comparative Public Administration within the undergraduate program of the Faculty of Political Sciences.
His research interests are focused on: analysis of public administration and local government; transformation of relationship between politicians and civil servants in Italy and in Western Europe (spoils and merit system); ethical frontiers in public and private management with an interdisciplinary approach; rethinking the welfare state and citizenship (i.e. health policy and immigration) in the liberal and democratic societies; transformation of parties and party systems in Italy.
Since 2004 he is director of Centro di Formazione Politica, Milano (www.formazionepolitca.org) Since 1999 he is the coordinator of Ethics and Public Administration Section of Centro Studi Politeia, Milano (www.politeia-centrostudi.org).
Since 1995 he is the coordinator of Health and Immigration Unit of Foundation ISMU, Milano (www.ismu.org).

Books
Lo spoils system fa male alla democrazia?, G.Giappichelli, Torino, 2007.
a cura di, Le Carte dei servizi. Per migliorare la qualità dei servizi pubblici, F.Angeli, Milano 1999.
a cura di, Etica e pubblica amministrazione: analisi critica di alcune esperienze internazionali, F. Angeli, Milano 1996.

Book Chapters
with Fasano L., 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.
with Reichlin M., Solidarity, Citizenship and Distributive Justice, in Wil Arts and Ruud Muffels (eds.), Solidarity in Health and Social Care in Europe, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, vol.69, 2001

Journal Articles
with Fasano L, The impact of Market Thinking and Italian Culture on National Health Service, in “Notizie di POLITEIA – Rivista di Etica e Scelte Pubbliche”, Anno XXIII, 2007, N.88, 145-166.

Graduated in 1965 in Political Science at the University of Torino, advisor Norberto Bobbio, in 1967 received an M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies of Washington, D.C., from 1967 to 1969 specialized in Comparative Politics under the guidance of Giovanni Sartori.
He has also taught at the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C.: 1982–83, Fall Term; 1993-94, Spring Term; 2005-2006, Spring Term . In 1974-75, Fall Term : Lauro de Bosis Lecturer in the History of the Italian Civilization, Department of Government, Harvard University; in 1978-79, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.; in 1999 Fall Term, Visiting Scholar, Instituto Juan March, Madrid; in 2001 Spring Term, Fellow, Christchurch College, Oxford; in 2003 Spring Term, Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge; in 2005 February, Isaiah Berlin Visiting Scholar, Oxford; in 2006 Affiliated Scholar, The Brookings Institution; 2007 Hilary and Trinity Terms, Visiting Fellow St Antony’s College, Oxford.
Elected to the Italian Senate in 1983; re-elected in 1987 ; re-elected from 1994 to 1996. Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
In 1988 and in 1989, Parliamentary Observer for the plebiscite and the Presidential elections in Chile.

Books
Sistemi politici comparati, 2003, rev. 2004; Portuguese translation: Principia 2005; Spanish translation: Prometeo Libros 2004, New Italian edition, 2007.
Nuovo corso di scienza politica, 2004, Portuguese translation: Principia 2004.
Sistemi elettorali, 2006.
Le istituzioni di Arlecchino, 2007.
Los poderes de los jefes de gobierno, 2007.
Prima lezione di scienza politica, 2008.

Gianluca PASSARELLI. Esperienze professionali: 1) 2004-2007 Attività di Tutorato per il corso di Scienza Politica tenuto dal prof. Gianfranco Pasquino presso l’Università di Bologna; 2) 2003-2004 assegnista di ricerca in Analisi delle democrazie europee presso il Dipartimento di Organizzazione e Sistema Politico (prof. Gianfranco Pasquino).
Aree di ricerca: istituzioni politiche – semi-presidenzialismo – partiti politici-Presidente della Repubblica-Primo ministro – Regioni dell’Unione Europea

Book Chapters
Il Ppd-Psd: le sfide di un partito catch-all, in Bosco, A. (a cura di) Partiti ed elettori nel Sud Europa, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2006.
Portogallo: la governabilità conseguita, in Capi di governo di Gianfranco Pasquino (a cura di), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005, 183-216.

Journal Articles
Il Portogallo trent’anni dopo la Rivoluzione: dai garofani alla globalizzazione, in il Mulino, n. 2/2007.
Le elezioni regionali francesi del 21 e 28 marzo 2004, in Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale, n. 53, 2005, 115-153.
Influenze della coabitazione sul risultato elettorale di Lionel Jospin alle presidenziali del 21 aprile 2002, in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, vol. IV, n.1, 2004, 145-174.

Patrizia Pederzoli si è laureata in Scienze politiche a Bologna e dal 2005 è professore straordinario della Facoltà “Roberto Ruffilli” di Forlì. Attualmente insegna Organizzazione e comportamento giudiziario (corso di laurea triennale in Sociologia e scienze criminologiche per la sicurezza) e Sistemi giudiziari comparati (corso di laurea specialistica in Criminologia applicata per l’investigazione e la sicurezza).
I suoi interessi vertono sull’amministrazione della giustizia nelle odierne democrazie liberali. In particolare, studia il ruolo della magistratura e la sua influenza politica in alcuni paesi dell’Europa continentale e nei sistemi più rappresentativi della tradizione anglosassone. Al momento la sua attività di ricerca riguarda la Corte costituzionale e le sue relazioni con le altre istituzioni politiche, le regole del cd. giusto processo, e la riforma dell’ordinamento giudiziario italiano.

Books
con C. Guarnieri, The Power of Judges. A Comparative Study of Courts and Democracy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.
con C. Guarnieri, La magistratura. Il potere giudiziario nelle democrazie contemporanee, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2002.
con C. Guarnieri, La puissance de juger. Pouvoir judiciaire et démocracie, Paris, Michalon, 1996.
Selezione e formazione delle professioni legali in Germania, Padova, Cedam, 1992.

Book Chapters
El sistema italiano de selecciòn de jueces. Situacion actual y perspectivas de futuro, in R. Jiménez Asensio (a cura di), El acceso a la funciòn judicial. Estudio de Derecho Comparado, Consejo General del Poder Judicial, Madrid, 2002, 81-114.

Journal Articles
con A. Mestitz, Political Corruption: The Interplay between Justice and Media in Italy, in Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, 4, 2000, 53-85.
Il giudice nei regimi democratici, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XX, 1990, 293-323.

Monica Penco is PhD student at University of Pavia; Technician expert in Methodology of the Social Sciences at University of Genova, Department of Political and Social Sciences.
She has been involving in several researches at University of Genova since 2001: research on University Reformation, November 2001-April 2002; research on Atypical Work, December 2002-January 2003; activity of data collection and data elaboration in the frame of the project Monitoring at Provincia di Torino, 2004-2006; research activities in the frame of a national co-financing project on Political Science and Cognitive Sciences. New Paradigms to Face Uncertainty of Not Structural Problems, scientific referent: prof. Massimo Bonanni; research on Managerial Culture and Representation of Interests 2006; research on Paths to Create Solidarity Among Generations at Department of Political and Social Sciences, 2006-2007. She has been collaborating with the chair of Political Science, Political Science Methodology, Comparative Politics, International Relations at University of Genova since 2003.
She has been involving in the frame of International projects (Tempus Tacis, Alfa, 7th FP) on University Management, Quality Management Models and Active Citizenship.
Her interests focus on deliberative democracy and participative and deliberative procedures with particular reference to citizens’ juries, deliberative polling, Plannungszelle, focus groups, consensus conferences, Agenda 21, delphi method, televote and participatory budget.

Books
with Bonanni M., Preferenze o argomentazioni congelate? Esperienze di democrazia discorsiva, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2006.

Book Chapters
with Bonanni M., Modelli deliberativi: una ricognizione critica, in Pellizzoni, L., La deliberazione pubblica, Roma, Meltemi, 2005.

Conference Papers:
Orientation as a Key Feature in Lifelong Learning. Facing the New Challenges of the Post-industrial Society, at Final Dissemination Conference in the frame of the Tempus Tacis project, TSTU Strategic Planning of Management, Tambov, June 2006.

Carmina Petrarca, PhD in European and Comparative Politics, is contract Professor of Sociology of Organization, at the University of Molise. From 2003 to 2006 she was contract Professor of Political Communication at the University of Molise. From 2004 to 2007 she taught the Italian Party System in Comparative Perspective for the formation course “Women, Politics and Institutions” organized by the Equal Opportunities Ministry with the University of Molise.
Actually she collaborates with the work group PrimES (primaries electoral studies), coordinated by Gianfranco Pasquino of University of Bologna and Fulvio Venturino of University of Cagliari. Operating in the Italian Society of Political Science standing group area of research, the aim of PrimES is collecting, analyzing and releasing information and standardized data – aggregates and poll – concerning primaries election held in Italy at any level: national, regional, provincial and municipal.
Among her recent research interests there is the analysis in comparative perspective of English and Italian electorate values.

Book Chapters
con P. Bellucci, Valori politici e scelte di voto, in Maraffi M. (a cura di), Gli italiani e la politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, 209-234,
Le Primarie Comunali di Isernia in Pasquino G. e Ventrurino F. (a cura di), Le elezioni primarie comunali in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008 forthcoming

Journal Articles
Dal dominio Dc ai “ribaltoni”, in Le istituzioni del federalismo. Volume 3- 4/2000, 753-764.

Daniela PIANA, PhD in Sociology at The University of Paris IV – Sorbonne.
Academic Awards and Fellowiships: Research Scholar at the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice, Paris; Research Scholar Fulbright Fellowship – visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley – California; Visiting scholar at the Institut des Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels; Visiting scholar at the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice, Paris.
Teaching activities: Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence, Faculty of Political Science; Professor of Political Organisation in European Union, Master in Scienze del Lavoro (EuroMaster), Florence.
Research Activities: Due Process of Law in Eu and US, Fulbright funded project in cooperation with the Unversity of Bologna; Rule of law and Constitutionalism, Institute for Human Studies, Florence, 2008; Judicial Training in France, Project Supported by the Mission Droit et Justice of the French Ministry of Justice; Judicial Training in the XXI century, project supported by the Council of Europe.for the Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Judiciary (2007).

Books
Costruire la democrazia. I confini dello spazio pubblico europeo, Torino, De Agostini, 2006 (published in Romanian).
La scommessa di Pascal, Rubbettino Soveria Mannelli, 2005.
Le istituzioni nella mente, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2005.

Book Chapters
Judicial Policies and European Enlargement, in F. Cerutti and S. Lucarelli (eds.), European Identity and Legitimacy, London, Routledge, 2007.
Cognitive Foundations of Political Legitimacy. The European promotion of democracy, in L. Leonardi (ed.), Sociology of Europe, FUP, 2007.
Constitutional Cultures and National Tradition in the New Member States, in W. Sadurky and J. Ziller (eds.), After the Enlargement, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 2006.
An evolutionary Approach to the Constitutionalization of the Enlarged EU. Why will Cognitive and Cultural Boundaries Matter?, in W. Sadurski and A. Czarnota (eds.), Spreading Democracy and The Rule of Law, Dordrecht, Springer, 2005.
Le ragioni del movimento no global e l’agenda politica. una proposta di analisi cognitivista, in A Montanari, D. Ungaro (a cura di), Politica, identità globalizzazione, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005.

Journal Articles
When Politics comes back from the courts’ back-door, Comparative Political Studies, 2008.

SIMONA PIATTONI is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Trento, where she teaches Comparative Politics, European Politics, and Theories of European Integration at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level. She was previously tenured Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromsø (Norway) where she taught Comparative Politics and Methods of Comparative Analysis.
She is member of the Editorial Board of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, with responsibility for book reviews, and of the Editorial Board of Meridiana and European Political Science. She is member of SISP, APSA and IPSA and of the steering committee of the Conference Groups on Italian Politics and Society (CONGRIPS – organized section of APSA) in various capacities since 1994.
She has been Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute (1999-2000), at the Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (2004), and at the Institute for Governmental Studies of the University of California, Berkeley (2005, 2008).
Her current research interests include: European governance, Cohesion and Higher Education policy, and clientelism and corruption.

Books
Multi-Level Governance. Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Challenges, Oxford University Press, 2009,forthcoming.
Le virtù del clientelismo. Una critica non convenzionale, Bari/Roma: Laterza, 2007.
Clientelismo. L’Italia in prospettiva comparata, Roma: Carocci, 2005.
(ed), Clientelism, Interests and Democratic Representation. The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Journal Articles
with Sergio Fabbrini, Italy in the EU: the transformation of national interest in a compound polity, Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften, 2006, vol. 4, n. 2, 223-241.
Informal Governance in Structural Policy, Perspective on European Politics and Society, 2006, vol. 7 , no. 1, 56-74.
La governance multi-livello: sfide analitiche, empiriche, normative, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, vol. 35, n. 3, 2005, 416-445.
Clientelism Revisited. Clientelist Politics and Economic Development in Postwar Italy, Pôle Sud, 19, November, 2003.

Gianni Piazza is researcher at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Catania, where he is lecturer of Political Science and Public Policy Analysis. He is the Co-Director of the scientific review “Partecipazione e Conflitto” and the Responsible (with D. della Porta) of the SISP Standing Group on “Social Movements and Political Participation”.
After the PhD in Political Science at the University of Florence, he has worked as research assistant (assegnista di ricerca) at the University of Catania and has published books and journal articles in various research fields, as local government and politics, public policy analysis, parliamentarian and political elites, social movements, local and environmental conflicts, nonconventional political participation.
He has taken part in several national (SISP) and international (ECPR General Conference and Joint Sessions) conferences, where he has presented various papers and directed some SISP panels (2002-05-06-07) and the sections (with D. della Porta) on “Social Movements and Political participation” (2006) and “Social Movements and Participatory Democracy (2007).
He is currently working in research areas on local conflicts, new forms of democracy and decision-making processes of the non institutional radical left groups.

Books
with D. della Porta, Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits, Oxford/New York, Berghahn Books, 2008.
with D. della Porta, Le ragioni del no, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2008.
Sindaci e politiche in Sicilia, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 1998.
La città degli affari, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 1994.

Book Chapters
Le risorse dei comitati nei processi decisionali, in D. della Porta (ed.), Comitati di cittadini e democrazia urbana, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2004, 137-170.
with O. Lanza, Il ricambio dei parlamentari, in G. Pasquino (ed.), Dall’Ulivo al governo Berlusconi, Bologna, il Mulino, 2002, 239-273.

Journal Articles
with D. della Porta, Local Contention, Global Framing, in Environmental Politics, vol. 16, n. 5, 2007, 864-882.
with O. Lanza, I parlamentari di Forza Italia: un gruppo a sostegno di una leadership?, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, n. 3, 2002, 425-458.

Marco Pinfari is a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Political Science ‘Roberto Ruffilli’ (University of Bologna – Forlì campus) in International and Diplomatic Sciences summa cum laude. In 2006 he was awarded an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy with distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS – University of London).
In 2007/08 he held a teaching assistant position in Ethics of War at the LSE International Relations Department. In 2008/09 he will be awarded Associate Membership in the UK Higher Education Academy and will also teach at the LSE Government department and at the Department of Politics at Queen Mary University, London. He is also involved in designing virtual learning material (Moodle) for political science courses of the University of London External Programme.
His research interests are focused on the analysis of peace processes and conflict management techniques. He published a book on the history and ideological framework of the Oslo process and is currently presenting in a range of international conferences his ongoing research project on the impact of time pressure and ‘deadline diplomacy’ on post-Cold War peace negotiations.

Books
Quale pace? Storia ed interpretazioni del processo di Oslo, Bologna, Clueb, 2005.

Journal Articles
“Conservative Counter-Reformation” or Disillusionment?: A Reply to Michel Warschawski’s Analysis of Israeli Society after Camp David 2000, Rutgers Student Journal of Israel Affairs, No. 2 (2005), 5-20.
Datasets for the Analysis of Peace Processes and International Negotiation: Uppsala Conflict Data Project, COSIMO and the Mediation Project, presented at ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop no. 17 The Numbers We Use, the World We See: Evaluating Cross-National Datasets in Comparative Politics – Rennes, 11-16 April 2008.

Conference Papers:
Which Bridges? Inter-faith Comparisons and Social Conflict in the Era of Globalisation, presented at Globalisation and Cultural Transmission, organized by CRASSH, University of Cambridge – Cambridge, 25-26 May 2007.

Barbara Pisciotta is lecturer of Political Science at the University of Roma Tre, where she teaches International Relations and Political Science. She previously was Research Fellow at the Department of International Studies, University of Roma Tre, and collaborated with the Società Italiana di Organizzazione Internazionale (SIOI).
She is author of books and several articles on domestic and international dimensions of democratization in Eastern Europe. Her research interests are focused on consolidation of democracy, post-communist party systems and European Union conditionality.
Currently her research examines the validity of the Lipset-Rokkan freezing proposition in the East-European context. Moving from this approach, her recent book suggests a strong impact of the class cleavage to determine the key differences in post-communist voters alignments.

Books
Alle origini dei partiti post-comunisti. La frattura di classe nell’Europa centro-orientale, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2007.
Istituzioni europee e consolidamento democratico. Le politiche di privatizzazione e tutela della concorrenza in Polonia, Ungheria e Repubblica Ceca, ESI, Napoli, 2002.

Book Chapters
with D. Spizzo, L’impatto dell’Ue sul processo di democratizzazione dei paesi dell’Europa centro-orientale: performances nazionali e infranazionali, in G. Baldini (ed.), Quale Europa? L’Unione Europea oltre la crisi, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2005, 53-83.
Le formazioni ombrello durante la fase di consolidamento democratico. Polonia e Repubblica Ceca a confronto, in G. Ieraci e L. Mattina (eds.), Studi Politici, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Trieste, 1999, 155-179.

Journal Articles
Il neo-istituzionalismo nella scienza politica e nelle relazioni internazionali: una introduzione, in Teoria politica, 23, 1, 2007, 149-162.
La strutturazione dei cleavages in Europa orientale. Il ruolo esplicativo della frattura di classe, in Rivista italiana di scienza politica, 35, 2, 2005, 321-347.
La competizione partitica nei paesi in via di democratizzazione. Spagna ed Europa orientale in prospettiva comparata, in Quaderni di scienza politica, 11, 3, 2004, 447-480.

Noemi Podestà is PhD student of Political Science at the Department of Political Studies – University of Turin, and he is a member of the Interdepartmental Center CIVIS – University of Eastern Piedmont (http://polis.unipmn.it/indexCentri.php). She is teaching Public Policy Analysis at University of Eastern Piedmont. She has published books, journal articles and newspaper columns in some thematic areas: non profit sector, gender studies, local development,deliberative democracy, citizens’ juries.
Her recent interests focus on method to resolve local conflict and to involve citizen in local policy making. She has participated in some empirical research projects about Citizens’ Juries and Deliberative Polling, she 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 – Univer-sity of Turin – and Marco Revelli – University of Eastern Piedmont – on the conflict risen in the case of the High Speed Train Turin-Lyon.

Book Chapters
L’ascolto del territorio: attori e processi, in Bulsei (a cura di), Cooperazione, servizi territorio: un’indagine empirica, Stampatori, 2006.
Una giuria di cittadini, Dipartimento Studi Politici Università di Torino, working paper 7/2006
Investire in coesione sociale: il Fondo Speciale per il Volontariato, in Bulsei (a cura di) Investire in coesione sociale: organizzazioni volontarie e politiche pubbliche, Stampatori, 2008.
con G. L. Bulsei, Volontariato e territorio: quali politiche pubbliche, in Bulsei (a cura di) Investire in coesione sociale: organizzazioni volontarie e politiche pubbliche, Stampatori, 2008.

Journal Articles
con A. Chiari, Deliberare nella pratica: un modello per l’analisi della formazione del consenso, in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, n.2/2007.
Il Fondo Speciale per i CSV e i rischi di duplicazione, Communitas, 13, 2007.

Gianpasquale Preite has been carrying out research on policy and e-government at the University of Foggia, Department of Social Science (DISCUM). His research mainly focuses on: health policy, security policy, federalism and administrative reform. He teaches Scienza dell’Amministrazione digitale within the Politics Degree Course. He is also in charge for organization at the eGovernment research Lab (LEG), a Politics Section of the Department of FCSF, University of Salento. He is a member of D.R.E.A.M., a network Lab focusing on applied interdisciplinary research in medicine, Local Health Unit Lecce and University of Salento.

Books
Politica e tecnologie. Spazio pubblico e privato della conoscenza nella società dell’informazione, Carocci Editore, Roma 2010.
Il riconoscimento biometrico. Sicurezza versus privacy, Editrice Uni Service, Trento 2008.

Book Chapters
Servizi pubblici, qualità e politiche di acquisizione delle ICTs, in M. Mancarella (ed.), Profili negoziali e organizzativi dell’amministrazione digitale, Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, Trento 2009.
Le politiche per il territorio: governance e local government, in D.A. Limone, M. Mancarella, G. Preite (eds.), Turismatica: un nuovo paradigma della società dell’informazione, Editrice Uni Service, Trento 2008.