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Antonino Castaldo is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon (from 2015). He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence (2008). He was Visiting Student at the University of Science Po (Paris) in 2007, Teaching Assistant at the Luiss University (Rome) in 2008, Teaching Assistant at the University of Roma Tre from 2008 to 2015, Contract Lecturer in European Political and Economic Structures at Accademia Italiana (Rome) in 2010, Research Assistant at the University of Oxford (Coordinator Prof. Giovanni Capoccia) in 2011, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Roma Tre in 2012, Research Assistant at the University of Roma Tre in 2013. From 2013 to 2015 he was a member of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) Secretariat. Over the past years, he has mainly focused his attention on the broad subjects of political parties and party systems, the analysis of democratization processes and the breakdown of non-democratic regimes. He is currently working on populism and autocratization processes in the Balkan region and the Middle East, and on technocracy and ministers’ profiles in Italy.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Antonino Castaldo

Citation names

  • Castaldo, Antonino

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
741D-10D7-7695
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2943-9853
Education
Degree Classification
2022/09/05 - 2025/09/04
Ongoing
Investigador associado (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in political science
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2022/08/30
Concluded
Post doctoral research fellow (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in Political Science
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2012/02 - 2013/01
Concluded
Post doctoral research fellow (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in Political Science
Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2005 - 2008/04/04
Concluded
Corso di dottorato in Scienza politica (Doctoral Program in Political Science) (Dottorato di Ricerca)
Major in Political Science
Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
"Il potere nei partiti. La sinistra riformista in Italia e Francia (Power within Political Parties. The Reformist Left in Italy and France)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
N/A
2007/05/01 - 2007/08/31
Concluded
Visiting student (Outros)
Major in Political Science
Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po, France
1996 - 2002/03/05
Concluded
Corso di Laurea in Scienze Politiche (Degree in Political Sciences) (Laurea)
Major in Political Science
Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
"L'europeizzazione dei partiti politici nazionali. Il caso italiano: Forza Italia e i Democratici di Sinistra (The Europeanization of National Political Parties. The Italian Case: Forza Italia and Democratici di Sinistra)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
110/110 e Lode (Magna cum Laude)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/09/05 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2022/09/30 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2013/07/01 - 2013/09/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2012/02/01 - 2013/01/31 Postdoc (Research) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2011/08/31 - 2011/09/23 Research Assistant (Research) University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/10/01 - Current Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/10/01 - 2022/09/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020/09/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2019/09/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2018/09/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2017/09/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2014/10/01 - 2015/09/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2013/10/01 - 2014/09/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2012/10/01 - 2013/09/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2011/10/01 - 2012/09/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2010/10/01 - 2011/09/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2009/10/01 - 2010/09/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
2010/01/01 - 2010/05/30 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Accademia Italiana, Italy
2008/10/01 - 2009/09/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Italy
2008/10/01 - 2009/09/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2013/10/01 - 2015/09/30 Member of the Italian Society of Politica Science's Secretariat Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, Italy
2007/05/01 - 2007/08/31 Visiting Student, Power Within Political Parties: the Case of the French Socialist party Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po, France
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/12/12 - 2025/01/30 WHO GOVERNS SOUTHERN EUROPE IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM? Portuguese Ruling Elites in Comparative Perspective
“Who governs Southern Europe in the third millennium”
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2012/02 - 2013/01 Why democratizing? The causes of crisis and breakdown of non democratic regimes during the third wave
Post-doc Fellow
Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca
Concluded
2008 - 2010 From old to new. The role of legacies in European democratization processes.
Post-doc
Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy
Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019 - Current Varieties of technocratic populism around the world
o
Other
Goethe Institut, Germany

Arizona State University, United States
Ongoing
2016 - Current South European Government Project (SEGP)
o
Other
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Universitat de València, Spain
Ongoing
2015 - Current Regime and Political Institutions
o
Other
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Castaldo, Antonino. Dall'imposizione al successo. La democratizzazione tedesca in prospettiva comparata (From Imposition to Success. The German Democratization in Comparative Perspective). Napoli, Italy: Editoriale Scientifica. 2014.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Castaldo, Antonino; Camerlo, Marcelo; Mota, Luis; Malamud, Andrés; Teruel, Juan. "Impacto da Covid-19 na Estrutura Organizacional e Decisória dos Governos. Portugal em perspetiva comparada". edited by Delicado, Ana ; Ferrao, Joao. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2021.
    Published
  2. Castaldo, Antonino. "O Debate Acadêmico Sobre A Crise Da Democracia: Uma Proposta Tipológica (The academic debate on the crisis of democracy: a typological proposal)". In A Qualidade Da Democracia No Brasil: Questões Teóricas E Metodológicas Da Pesquisa Volume 5 (The quality of democracy in Brasil: theoretical questions and methodology of research), edited by Lídia de Oliveira Xavier; Carlos F. Domínguez Avila; Vicente Fonseca, 93-116. Curitiba, Brazil: Editora CRV, 2020.
    Published
  3. Castaldo, Antonino. "The Proactive International Dimension and the Breakdown of Non-Democratic Regimes". edited by Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Pisciotta, Barbara; Terzuolo, Eric T., 165-208. United States: New Academia Publishing, 2016.
    Published
  4. Castaldo, Antonino. "L'Africa". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Italy: Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  5. Castaldo, Antonino. "Armenia". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  6. Castaldo, Antonino. "Botswana". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  7. Castaldo, Antonino. "Comoros Islands". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  8. Castaldo, Antonino. "Dominican Republic". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  9. Castaldo, Antonino. "Grenada". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  10. Castaldo, Antonino. "Haiti". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  11. Castaldo, Antonino. "Lesotho". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  12. Castaldo, Antonino. "Malawi". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  13. Castaldo, Antonino. "Mexico". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  14. Castaldo, Antonino. "Mozambique". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  15. Castaldo, Antonino. "Namibia". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  16. Castaldo, Antonino. "Panama". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  17. Castaldo, Antonino. "São Tomé and Príncipe". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  18. Castaldo, Antonino. "South Africa". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
  19. Castaldo, Antonino. "Tanzania". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  20. Castaldo, Antonino. "Uganda". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio, 173-185. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  21. Castaldo, Antonino. "Zambia". In Come cadono i regime autoritari? Primi passi verso la democrazia nei paesi della terza ondata (How does authocratic regimes breakdown? First steps toward democracy in third wave countries), edited by Germano, Luca; Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio. Editoriale Scientifica, 2014.
    Published
  22. Castaldo, Antonino; Di Sotto, Nicoletta. "Germania. Le eredità del nazismo nella Bundesrepublik (Germany. The Nazi Legacies in the Bundesrepublik)". edited by Grilli Di Cortona, Pietro; Lanza, Orazio, 79-108. Il Mulino, 2011.
    Published
Book review
  1. Castaldo, Antonino. "O processo de tomada de decisão em política externa e de defesa na UE.". (2017): https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2017.53r01.
    doi.org/10.23906/ri2017.53r01
Journal article
  1. Castaldo, Antonino; Memoli, Vincenzo. Corresponding author: Castaldo, Antonino. "Political Support and Democratic Backsliding Trends. The Strange Case of Central and Eastern European Countries". Journal of Contemporary European Studies (2023):
    In press
  2. Camerlo, Marcelo; Castaldo, Antonino. "Government partisans: A practical typology". Party Politics (2023): 135406882311598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13540688231159862.
    10.1177/13540688231159862
  3. Antonino Castaldo. "Back to Competitive Authoritarianism? Democratic Backsliding in Vucic’s Serbia". Europe-Asia Studies (2020): https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2020.1817860.
    10.1080/09668136.2020.1817860
  4. Castaldo, Antonino; Verzichelli, Luca. "Technocratic Populism in Italy after Berlusconi. The trendsetter and his disciples". Politics and Governance 8 4 (2020):
    Open access • Submitted
  5. Castaldo, Antonino. "External Democracy Promotion in Time of Democratic Crisis: Linkage, Leverage, and Domestic Actors’ Diversionary Behaviours". East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures (2020): https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325420954533.
    10.1177/0888325420954533
  6. Castaldo, Antonino; Pinna, Alessandra. "After competitive authoritarianism. Hybrid regime legacies and the quality of democracy in Croatia". Journal of Contemporary European Studies 27 4 (2019): 486-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2019.1651698.
    Published • 10.1080/14782804.2019.1651698
  7. Castaldo, Antonino; Alessandra Pinna. "Eredità dei regimi ibridi e qualità democratica. Il caso della Serbia (hybrid regime legacies and the quality of democracy. The serbian case)". Quaderni di Scienza Politica 26 1 (2019): 28-59. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/38507.
    Published
  8. Castaldo, Antonino. "Populism and competitive authoritarianism in Turkey". Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 18 4 (2018): 467-487. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2018.1550948.
    Published • 10.1080/14683857.2018.1550948
  9. Castaldo, Antonino. "A crise da democracia: uma revisão seletiva do debate académico atual (The crisis of democracy: a selective overview of the current academic debate)". Relações Internacionais 59 (2018): 9-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.23906/ri2018.59a02.
    Published • 10.23906/ri2018.59a02
  10. Castaldo, Antonino; Pinna, Alessandra. "De-Europeanization in the Balkans. Media freedom in post-Miloševic Serbia". European Politics and Society 19 3 (2018): 264-281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2017.1419599.
    10.1080/23745118.2017.1419599
  11. Castaldo, Antonino; Pinna, Alessandra. "Western Balkan Countries in Transition. EU Democracy Promotion in Croatia". Iconocrazia 12 (2017): http://www.iconocrazia.it/western-balkan-countries-in-transition-eu-democracy-promotion-in-croatia/.
  12. Castaldo, Antonino; Germano, Luca. "Parties and party systems in Pietro Grilli Di Cortona’s research". Italian Political Science 12 2 (2017): http://www.italianpoliticalscience.com/index.php/ips/article/view/21.
    Published
  13. Castaldo, Antonino. "Party System Institutionalization: The Cases of Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany". World Political Science 10 2 (2014): 187-216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/wpsr-2014-0009.
    Published • 10.1515/wpsr-2014-0009
  14. Castaldo, Antonino. "Sistemi partitici e istituzionalizzazione. I casi di Italia e Germania federale". Quaderni di Scienza Politica 3 (2013): 451-486.
    Published
  15. Castaldo, Antonino. "Democratizzazione e sistemi partitici. Il caso della Repubblica federale tedesca (Democratization and party systems. The case of the German Federal Republic)". Mondo Contemporaneo 1 (2011): 115-147. http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=42725&idRivista=136.
    10.3280/MON2011-001005
  16. Castaldo, Antonino. "Elezioni primarie e chief executive selection. Francia, Italia e Stati uniti a confronto (Primary elections and chief executive selections. France, Italy and United States in comparison)". Quaderni di Scienza Politica 1 (2011): 147-181.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Castaldo, Antonino. "Il potere nei partiti. La sinistra riformista in Italia e Francia (Power within parties. The reformist left in Italy and France)". PhD, Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, 2008.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/09/09 “The international dimension of autocratization. A comprehensive typology”
University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
2022/06/09 Political Support and Democratic Backsliding Trends. The Strange Case of Central and Eastern European Countries
Luiss University, Rome (Rome, Italy)
2022/04/27 Partisanship in Southern Europe
Varieties on Democracy (V-DEM) and University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/09/22 Political Support and Democratic Backsliding Trends. The Strange Case of Central and Eastern European Countries Vulnerable in Contemporary politics
Scope, University of Bucarest (Bucarest, Romania)
2021/07/12 Behind the Technocratic Challenge: Old and New Alternatives to Party Government in Italy IPSA World Congress 2021
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/07/12 Political Support and Democratic Backsliding Trends. The Strange Case of Central and Eastern European Countries IPSA World Congress 2021
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/02/25 Behind non-partisanship. Old and new alternatives to party government in Italy Workshop of the SEGov Progect "Technocrats and critical junctures,"
University of Valencia and Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Valencia, Spain)
2020/02/11 Technocratic Populism in Italy after Berlusconi. The Trendsetter and his Disciples Anti-Elitism: Varieties of Technocratic Populism around the World
University of Jena (Jena, Germany)
2019/11/27 Ministerial recruitment and cabinet’s profiles in Italy Technocracy, Governments and Ministerial Recruitment in Southern European Democracies
University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
2019/09/13 External democracy promotion and democratic backsliding. The theory of Linkage and Leverage revisited 33th Annual Conference of the Italian political Science Association
University of Salento (Lecce, Italy)
2019/09/03 Back to Competitive Authoritarianism? Democratic Backsliding in Vucic’s Serbia 49th UACES annual conference
University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/05/30 Back to Competitive Authoritarianism? Democratic backsliding in Vucic’s Serbia Values in Politics, SCOPE: SCIENCE OF POLITICS – International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research
University of bucarest (Bucarest, Romania)
2018/11/16 Back to Competitive Authoritarianism? Democratic backsliding in Vucic’s Serbia international conference 'The Autocratic Challenge. Assessing Autocratization Processes in Contemporary Times'
University of Brussels (Brussels, Belgium)
2018/09/07 Back to Competitive Authoritarianism? Democratic backsliding in Vucic’s Serbia 32th Annual Conference of the Italian political Science Association
University of Torino (Torino, Italy)
2018/04/19 After Competitive Authoritarianism. Hybrid Regime Legacies and the Quality of Democracy in Croatia Conference of the Portuguese Association of Political Science (APCP)
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2017/09/21 The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey Conference of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration (AECPA)
University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de compostela, Spain)
2017/09/15 After Competitive Authoritarianism. Hybrid Regime Legacies and the Quality of Democracy in Croatia 31th Annual Conference of the Italian political Science Association
University of Urbino (Urbino, Italy)
2017/09/15 Populism and Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey 31th Annual Conference of the Italian political Science Association
University of Urbino (Urbino, Italy)
2017/09/07 Populism and Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR)
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
2017/05/27 After Competitive Authoritarianism. Hybrid Regime Legacies and the Quality of Democracy in Croatia Democracy in Development. Comparative Perspectives on the Governance of the Public Good
University of bucarest (Bucarest, Romania)
2015/12/09 External Democratization after War. From the Second to the Third Wave and Beyond II Forum ICS
ICS-Ulisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/09/11 Perché cadono le autocrazie? La dimensione internazionale Proattiva 29th Annual Conference of the Italian political Science Association
University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende, Italy)
2010/09/17 Democratizzazione e sistemi partitici. Il caso della Repubblica federale tedesca 24th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association
IUAV (Venezia, Italy)
2010/03/05 Primaries and Chief Executive Selection. The Case of De la Rua in Comparative Perspective 5th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Political Science
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2009/09/18 Germania. Le eredità del nazismo nella Bundesrepublik 23th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association
LUISS University (Roma, Italy)
2009/09/18 Elezioni primarie e chief executive selection. Francia, Italia e Stati uniti a confronto 23th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association
LUISS University (Roma, Italy)
2007/09/16 The Italian Democrats of Left. Decision-making Processes and Internal Distribution of Power 16th Annual ECPR Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems
European University Institute (Firenze, Italy)
2006/09/08 Europeanisation Processes. How and Why the European Integration Process would Affect National Political Parties 1th Graduate Conference of the ECPR
University of Essex (Essex, United Kingdom)
2005/09/22 Processi di europeizzazione. Come e Perché il processo d’integrazione europea Influenzerebbe i partiti politici nazionali 19th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association
University of Cagliari (Cagliari, Italy)
2005/07/04 The Europeanisation of National Political Parties 7th Annual Graduate student retreat of the Society for Social Research (SSR)
Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2021/09/10 - 2021/09/10 Organizer and Chair of the Round table “The end of the backsliding paradigm?,” (2021/09/09 - 2021/09/11)
Conference (Other)
2014/12 - 2015/09 Member of the organising commettee of the 2015 annual conference of the Italian Society of Political Science (2015/09/10 - 2015/09/12)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, Italy

Università della Calabria Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
2013/12 - 2014/09 Member of the organising commettee of the 2014 annual congress of the Italian Society of Political Science (2014/09/11 - 2014/09/13)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, Italy

Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/04/11 - 2018/04/11 presentation of the paper 'Back to Competitive Authoritarianism? Democratic backsliding in Vucic’s Serbia'
Seminar
Research Seminar of the ICS-UL Research Group 'Regimes and Political Institutions'
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2017/11/08 - 2017/11/08 Presentation of the paper 'Populism and Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey'
Seminar
Research Seminar of the ICS-UL Research Group 'Regimes and Political Institutions'
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2017/06/19 - 2017/06/21 Summer School on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Other
Summer School on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
2017/05/24 - 2017/05/24 Presentation of the paper 'De-Europeanization in the Balkans. Media Freedom in Post-Miloševic Serbia' (co-author Alessandra Pinna, Freedom House)
Seminar
Research Seminar of the ICS-UL Research Group 'Regimes and Political Institutions'
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016/09/15 - 2016/09/17 Research group meeting
Congress
30th annual conference of the Italian Society of Political Science
Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche, Italy
2016/01/25 - 2016/01/29 Workshop on “Métodos Historico-Comparativos”
Workshop
Workshop on “Métodos Historico-Comparativos”
2007/09/10 - 2007/09/21 ECPR Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems
Other
16th Annual ECPR Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems
European University Institute, Italy

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019 - 2021 Italian Society of Political Science Standing Group on Regime Change Member of the Executive Committee
2019 - 2021 Italian Society of Political Science Standing Group on European Union Member
2019 - 2021 Italian Society of Political Science Standing Group on The Quality of Democracy Member
2010 - 2021 Portuguese Association of Political Science (APCP) Member
2004 - 2021 Italian Society of Political Science Member
2017 - 2020 Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration (AECPA) Member
Distinctions

Award

2021 ERICS Award 2021
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020 ERICS Award 2020
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019 ERICS Award 2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2002 100 tesi per l'Europa (A Hundred Thesis for Europe)
Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Italy