Francesca Zannotti, a graduate of the University of Bologna both in Law and in Political Science, began her academic career at the University of Trieste, then got an appointment at the University of Calabria, where she moved from assistant professor to associate professor and finally, in 1990, to full professor of Political Science, the first woman in Italy to get such an appointment. Her major research interests and publications are concerned with the comparative and national analysis of judicial systems and of the relationship between judiciaries and political systems in liberal democracies. In 1993 she was appointed to a professorship on Judicial Organization and Behaviour at University of Bologna, still now her academic position.
She has been active in a number of academic and public institutions:
Committee for Political Science, National Research Council (CNR), 1988-99;
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Bologna, Chair, 1996-97;
Member (elected by Parliament) of the Higher Council of the Judiciary, 1997-98;
Chef du Cabinet, Ministry of Higher Education, 1998-99;
Italian Representative at the European Committee Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based society, 2002-06;
Deputy Director, Doctoral School in Social and Political Science since 2005.

Books
con C. Guarnieri (eds.) Giusto processo?, Padova, CEDAM, 2006.

Book Chapters
La costituzionalizzazione dei principi del giusto processo nel dibattito parlamentare, in C. Guarnieri e F. Zannotti (eds.) Giusto processo?, Padova, CEDAM, 2006, 31-84.

Journal Articles
L'indipendenza della magistratura e la Costituzione Italiana, in Revista Argentina del Régimen de la Administraciòn Pùblica (monographic issue), Vol. 350, XXX, 2007, 81-109.

MONICA ZUCCARINI is a PhD researcher at University of Naples Federico II.
She got her PhD in Political Science at University of Florence in 2005. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from University of Naples and a Master in Institutional Communication.
She has spent almost one year at Cornell University (NY) as visiting scholar working on Electronic Government. She also studied and researched in Germany, Mannheim – on political consulting and strategic campaign communication – and in Canada, Ontario, on surveillance and privacy.
Political communication, e-government and e-democracy are the major fields to which most of her research have been oriented. Her current research interests relate to e-government and security and privacy in information society. Currently, she is member of the strategic commette of the e-learning project Federica at the University of Naples Federico II. She is also member of the editorial staff of the International Politcal Science Association Web Portal, IPSAonline.
Membership: SISP, APSA, IPSA, Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Pubblica, the Italian Journalist Register.

Journal Articles
Dieci anni di e-government in Italia: destra e sinistra a confronto, in Polis, vol I, 2007.
Tra e-democracy ed e-government: definizioni e percorsi di ricerca. In Comunicazione Politica, vol. VII, n. 1 2006.
E-government development trends: new dynamics of power and Transformation of Government Roles Toward a Digital State in Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and Matti Malia “Encyclopedia of Digital Government”, Idea Group, 2006.

Conference Papers:
Information technologies and politics: does e-government policy really matter?, Annual APSA Meeting, Chicago, 2007.
Digital technologies and new dynamics of power: who (e-)governs?, Information, Communication, Society (ICS) 10th Anniversary International Symposium, University of York (UK), 2006.
La politica dell’e-government in Italia. Congresso annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, SISP. Sessione: Il sistema politico italiano – Università di Bologna, 2006.

Francesco Zucchini, graduated in the University of Milano (1990), he holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Firenze (1995). He is Associate Professor (with tenure) since 2001 at the University of Milano.
He teaches Positive Political Theory at the Graduate School in Social, Economics and Political Science of the University of Milano. He also teaches Political Science within the undergraduate program of the Faculty of Political Sciences. He has been visiting scholar in the Harvard University and in the University of California (Los Angeles). He is member of the board of directors of the Italian Political Science Association and he is referee for the main journals in Political Science in Italy and Europe (Rivista Italiana di Scienza della Politica, Polis, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, European Journal of Political Research, British Journal of Political Science ).
His research interests are mainly focused on the Legislative Studies, Courts and Rational Choice Institutionalism. He has also published contributions on the Italian parliamentary elites and the Italian immigration policies.

Book Chapters
Italy:Government alternation and legislative agenda setting, in The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting, Bjørn Erik Rasch and George Tsebelis (eds), London, Routledge, 2008 forthcoming
with Luca Verzichelli. The new Parliament and the start of a decisive legislature. In:. The Italian General Election of 2001. Berlusconi’s Victory, J. Newell. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.
with Alberto Martinelli, Profilo sociale e professionale, livello e tipo di istruzione ed esperienza politica dei deputati italiani: evoluzione e prospettive. In: AA.AA. Storia d’Italia. Annali 17. Il Parlamento. Torino: Einaudi, 2001.

Journal Articles
Dividing Parliament? Italian Bicameralism in the legislative process (1987-2006). SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY & POLITICS. vol.3, 2008.
with Michele Santoni, Legislative output and the Costitutional Court in Italy. CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY. vol. Volume 17, 2006, 165-187.
with Michele Santoni, Does policy stability increase the Constitutional court’s independence? The case of Italy during the First Republic (1956-1992), PUBLIC CHOICE. vol. 120, 2004, 439-461.
Teoria della delega e leggi.Cenni introduttivi ed esempi di applicazione, RIVISTA ITALIANA di POLITICHE PUBBLICHE. vol. 3, 2005.
Veto Players ed interazione tra esecutivo e legislativo: il caso italiano, RIVISTA ITALIANA di SCIENZA POLITICA. vol. 1, 2001.