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Luca Manucci received his PhD in Democracy Studies from the University of Zurich in 2018. His thesis titled "Populism and Collective Memory: Comparing Fascist Legacies in Western Europe" has been published in 2020 by Routledge. He holds a Master in Mass Media and Politics (2012) and a Bachelor in Communication Science (2009) from the University of Bologna. In 2010-11 he spent the academic year at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and during his PhD has visited the Central European University (Budapest) and the Diego Portales University (Santiago de Chile). He has previously worked as a research assistant at the NCCR Democracy project in Zurich. Between 2019 and 2022, he has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon (Institute of Social Sciences), in the project POPULUS: Rethinking populism. In 2021 he wins the 4th Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (2021.03609.CEECIND), and in 2022 he receives FCT funding for his project about the Iberian far right titled POLAR: "Back to the future? Populism and the Legacies of Authoritarian Regimes" (2022.03115.PTDC). His research interests include populism, party politics, political communication, and collective memory. His research has been published in international journals such as West European Politics, Swiss Political Science Review, Acta Politica, European Politics and Society, Nations and Nationalism, Political Research Exchange, and Italian Political Science Review, as well as in several edited volumes for Oxford University Press, Palgrave, and others. His blog on populism has received two awards for its capacity to reach audiences beyond academia and communicate the findings of current research on populism to a broader public.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Luca Manucci

Citation names

  • Manucci, Luca

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DD11-5952-1E2A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6695-518X

Email addresses

  • luca.manucci@ics.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • ICS (Instituto de Ciências Sociais) Universidade de Lisboa, 1600-189, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Political Science

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
German Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019 - 2022
Ongoing
 POPULUS: Rethinking Populism (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2013 - 2018
Concluded
 Doctoral Program in Democracy Studies (DPDS) (Doctor of Philosophy)
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland

Universität Zürich Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Switzerland
"Populism and Collective Memory: Comparing Fascist Legacies in Western Europe" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009 - 2012
Concluded
 Mass Media and Politics (Master)
Università di Bologna, Italy

Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
2010 - 2010
Concluded
 Course of Higher Education in Journalism and Communication of Public Services (Master)
Università di Bologna, Italy

Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
2006 - 2009
Concluded
 Communication Science (Bachelor)
Università di Bologna, Italy

Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione, Italy
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022 - 2028 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019 - 2022 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2013 - 2018 Researcher (Research) Universität Zürich Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Switzerland
2017/03 - 2017/06 Visiting Researcher (Research) Central European University Department of Political Science, Hungary
Central European University Department of Political Science, Hungary
2016/03 - 2016/06 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Universidad Diego Portales Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, Chile
2012 - 2012 Research Trainee (Research) Council of Europe, France
European Audiovisual Observatory, France
2010 - 2010 Research Trainee (Research) Comune di Forlì, Italy
Comune di Forlì - Ufficio Stampa, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022 - Current Scientific Employment Stimulus, 4th Edition (CEEC)
2021.03609.CEECIND
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/03 - 2024/09 De volta para o futuro? Populismo e os Legados dos Regimes Autoritários
Provided by PTCRIS: 2022.03115.PTDC
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019 - 2022 POPULUS: Rethinking Populism
PDTC/SOC-SOC/28524/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013 - 2018 NCCR Democracy: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Universität Zürich Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Switzerland

Universität Zürich Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung, Switzerland

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
LA/P/0051/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0051/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Luca Manucci. The Populism Interviews. Routledge. 2022.
    10.4324/9781003250388
  2. Manucci, Luca. Populism and Collective Memory: Comparing Fascist Legacies in Western Europe. New York, United States: Routledge. 2020.
    Published • 10.4324/9780429275289
Book chapter
  1. "Populism and Collective Memory". In The Palgrave Handbook of Populism, 451-468. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-80803-7_28
  2. Manucci, Luca. "Democrazia italiana nello scenario post-pandemico: tra populismo e tecnocrazia". In One Year with Covid-19, edited by Ewert, Christian; Heyne, Lea, 111-115. DemocracyNet, 2020.
    Published
  3. Manucci, Luca. "Populism and the Media". In The Oxford Handbook of Populism, edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser; Paul Taggart; Paulina Ochoa Espejo; Pierre Ostiguy, 467-488. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2017.
    10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.17
  4. Mudde, Cas. "A talk with Cas Mudde on American and European populism". In The Far Right in America, 52-55. Routledge, 2017.
    Published • 10.4324/9781315160764-14
Journal article
  1. luca manucci. "They shall not pass? The role of supply-side factors in the electoral breakthrough of VOX and Chega". European Politics and Society (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2024.2303322.
    10.1080/23745118.2024.2303322
  2. António Luís Dias; Luca Manucci; Filipa Alves Raimundo. "Populism and transitional justice: talking the talk without walking the walk". Acta Politica (2023): https://doi.org/10.1057%2Fs41269-023-00307-5.
    10.1057/s41269-023-00307-5
  3. "Populism and nationalism revisited: A comparative study of the Spanish and Portuguese New Left". Nations and Nationalism (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nana.12817.
    10.1111/nana.12817
  4. "A new Iberian exceptionalism? Comparing the populist radical right electorate in Portugal and Spain". Political Reserach Exchange (2021): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2021.1989985.
    10.1080/2474736X.2021.1989985
  5. "Forty years of populism in the European Parliament". População e Sociedade (2021): https://www.cepese.pt/portal/pt/populacao-e-sociedade/numero-atual-1/populacao-e-sociedade-n-o-35/forty-years-of-populism-in-the-european-parliament.
    10.52224/21845263/rev35a2
  6. "The Shadow of the Authoritarian Past in the Iberian Peninsula: failures and Success of Radical Right Populist Parties". Relações Internacionais (2020): http://www.ipri.pt/images/publicacoes/revista_ri/pdf/risi2020/RI_si20_a04.pdf.
    10.23906/ri2020.sia04
  7. Manucci, Luca. "A sombra do passado autoritário na Península Ibérica". Relações Internacionais 67 (2020): 41-56.
    Published • 10.23906/ri2020.66
  8. Caramani, Daniele; Manucci, Luca. "National past and populism: the re-elaboration of fascism and its impact on right-wing populism in Western Europe". West European Politics 42 6 (2019): 1159-1187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1596690.
    Published • 10.1080/01402382.2019.1596690
  9. Manucci, Luca; Michi Amsler. "Where the wind blows: Five Star Movement's populism, direct democracy and ideological flexibility". Italian Political Science Review 48 1 (2018): 109-132. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2017.23.
    Published • 10.1017/ipo.2017.23
  10. Manucci, Luca; Weber, Edward. "Why The Big Picture Matters: Political and Media Populism in Western Europe since the 1970s.". Swiss Political Science Review 23 4 (2017): 313-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12267.
    Published • 10.1111/spsr.12267
Magazine article
  1. "The Populist Radical Right and Collective Memory", Magazine 'Living Democracy!', from the Helmut Schmidt Foundation, 2021, https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/en/news-1/detail/living-democracy-publication-to-the-helmut-schmidt-lecture-2021.
  2. "Quem vota na extrema-direita? O eleitorado do Chega e VOX.", Setenta e Quatro, 2021, https://setentaequatro.pt/ensaio/quem-vota-na-extrema-direita-o-eleitorado-do-chega-e-do-vox.
  3. Manucci, Luca. "Can 5 Stars Govern Italy?", Le Monde Diplomatique, 2019, https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/02fivestar-italy.
Newspaper article
  1. Manucci, Luca; Gori, Annarita. "Acca Larentia: os anos de chumbo, o legado do fascismo e o imagin ário que continua a ter fascínio na direita italiana", Expresso, 2024, https://expresso.pt/opiniao/2024-01-23-Acca-Larentia-os-anos-de-chumbo-o-legado-do-fascismo-e-o-imaginario-que-continua-a-ter-fascinio-na-direita-italiana-a9eba4c1.
  2. Manucci, Luca. "Una politica post-populista", Corriere degli Italiani, 2019, https://corriereitalianita.ch/una-politica-post-populista/.
  3. Manucci, Luca. "La vera sorpresa delle ultime elezioni: i partiti verdi", Corriere degli Italiani, 2019, https://corriereitalianita.ch/la-vera-sorpresa-delle-ultime-elezioni-i-partiti-verdi/.
Online resource
  1. Populismo y nacionalismo en la nueva izquierda ibérica, for Agenda Pública - EL PAÍS. 2022. https://agendapublica.elpais.com/noticia/17755/populismo-nacionalismo-nueva-izquierda-ib-rica.
  2. "Who votes for the populist radical right in Portugal and Spain?", for the LSE EUROPP Blog.. 2021. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2021/11/17/who-votes-for-the-populist-radical-right-in-portugal-and-spain/.
  3. "Uma nova geração atraída para a extrema-direita: o que a análise dos eleitores de partidos extremistas da Espanha e Portugal tem a ensinar", Interview with Regra dos Terços.. 2021. https://regradostercos.com.br/uma-nova-geracao-atraida-para-a-extrema-direita/.
  4. "Back to the future: illiberal democracy feeds on fascist ghosts", for The Loop, ECPR's Political Science Blog. 2021. https://theloop.ecpr.eu/back-to-the-future-illiberal-democracy-feeds-on-fascist-ghosts/.
  5. Manucci, Luca. 25 April in Italy and Portugal: revisionism, populism, and commemorations, for OpenDemocracy.. 2020. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/25-april-italy-and-portugal-revisionism-populism-and-commemorations/.
  6. Manucci, Luca. "Smemoria Collettiva", on Jacobin. 2020. https://jacobinitalia.it/la-smemoria-collettiva/.
  7. Manucci, Luca. Populism in Italy: Exploring the Ideoogical Roots of Lega and Five Star Movement, for Cicero Foundation. 2019. http://www.cicerofoundation.org/lectures/Luca_Manucci_Populism_in_Italy.pdf.
Report
  1. Manucci, Luca. 2020. Populism and the Pandemic: A Collaborative Report (Italy). http://populismus.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/interventions-7-populism-pandemic-UPLOAD.pdf.
    10.15760/honors.2
Working paper
  1. Manucci, Luca. 2016. "The appeal of populist ideas, strategies and styles: A theoretical model and research design for analyzing populist political communication". https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/127461/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/11 Right-wing populism and historical legacy, Interview for the Team Populism YouTube Video Series. Team Populism Video Series
Team Populism
2021/10 Apocalypse Now? How Populists Manufacture Fear on Twitter. Paper presented at Populism Seminar. Populism Seminar
2021/03 Invited speaker at the Workshop "Back to the Future? Countering the Misuse of Memory to Preserve Peace and Security in Europe", Expert workshop organised by the Swiss Peace Foundation and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Back to the Future? Countering the Misuse of Memory to Preserve Peace and Security in Europe
Swiss Peace Foundation
2020/01 Invited speaker at the roundtable on "Interculturalism and Populism", University of Coimbra. Interculturalism and Populism
Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/09 Invited speaker at the Summer School on Populism organized by the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI). Populismos
Portuguese Institute of International Relations (Obidos, Portugal)
2017/04 Presentation at ECPR Joint Sessions 2017, Nottingham. ECPR Joint Sessions
(Nottingham, United Kingdom)
2016/08 Presentation at the ECPR General Conference, Montreal. ECPR General Conference
(Montreal, Canada)
2016/04 Presentation at the 74th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. 74th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association
(Chicago, United States)
2016/04 Presentation at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Pisa. ECPR Joint Sessions
(Pisa, Italy)
2016 Invited speaker, presentation about "Populism and Collective Memory" at the Department of Political Science of the Diego Portales University. Seminar
Diego Portales University (Santiago de Chile, Chile)
2015/06/25 Presentation at the conference "New Populisms - Political Communication", Institut des sciences de la communication du CNRS, Paris. New Populisms’ Political Communication
Institut des sciences de la communication du CNRS
2015/05 Presentation at the 1st Populism Conference, Prague. 1st Populism Conference Prague
Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/07 - Current Convenor of the Panel "Populism and Authoritarian Legacies in Southern Europe and Latin America", IPSA 2021. (2020/07)
Congress (Other)
 International Political Science Association, Canada
2020/08 - Current Panel organizer at the ECPR General Conference 2020: "The (In)evitable Success of Radical Right Parties: Explaining Variance Across Contexts". (2020/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 European Consortium for Political Research, United Kingdom
2022 - 2022 I porganized "The Rise of Illiberalism: An International Roundtable", Roundtable organized for the ECPR House Series. (2022 - 2022)
2017/12 - 2017/12 First European Presentation of "Populism, A Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, written by Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser). (2017/12 - 2017/12)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universität Zürich Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Switzerland

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/07 - Current Is the populist Robin Hood just a tale? Studying attention for the topic of poor assistance in seven parliaments. With Enrico Borghetto.
Conference
 6th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments
European Consortium for Political Research, United Kingdom
2021/07 - Current A New Iberian Exceptionalism? Comparing the Populist Radical Right Electorate in Portugal and Spain. Paper presented with Lea Heyne.
Conference
 2021 IPSA World Congress of Political Science
International Political Science Association, Canada
2020/12 - Current Invited speaker at the roundtable "How to deal with Populists?" organized by the Istanbul Political Political Research Institute.
Round table
 How to deal with Populists?
2023 - 2023 Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference. Title: "Back to the Future? Far-right Parties from Stigmatization to Normalization".
Conference
 ECPR General Conference
2023 - 2023 Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference. Title: Hate Will Tear Us Apart: Affective Polarization in the Iberian Peninsula ECPR General Conference
2023 - 2023 hair and Moderator of the panel"The many faces of populism: party organization, electoral support and institutional reforms". XI APCP Conference at the University of Beira Interior
Conference
 XI APCP Conference
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Paper presented at the XI APCP Conference at the University of Beira Interior. Title: They shall not Pass? VOX, Chega, and the Normalization of the Populist Radical Right.
Conference
 XI APCP Conference
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Paper presented at the Council of European Studies Conference. Title: Populism and Transitional Justice in Third Wave Democracies
Conference
 Council of European Studies Conference
2019/09 - 2019/09 Workshop on "Automated content analysis", University of Louvain la Neuve.
Workshop
 Workshop on Automated content analysis
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
2016/09 - 2016/09 Seminar on "Configurational Research with QCA and CNA", University of Konstanz.
Seminar
 Configurational Research with QCA and CNA
Universität Konstanz, Germany
2015/08 - 2015/08 Summer School on "Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets", ECPR Summer School, Ljubljana.
Other
 ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques
Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia
2015 - 2015 Workshop on Multilevel Analysis, University of Zurich.
Workshop
 Workshop on Multilevel Analysis
Universität Zürich, Switzerland
2015 - 2015 Seminar on "Democracy - Concepts and Measurement", University of Zurich.
Seminar
 Democracy - Concepts and Measurement
Universität Zürich Philosophische Fakultät, Switzerland
2014 - 2014 Winter School on "Analysing Political Language", University of Vienna.
Other
 ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques
European Consortium for Political Research, United Kingdom
2014 - 2014 Global School in Empirical Research Methods, course on "Regression Analysis I and II", University of St Gallen.
Other
 Global School in Empirical Research Methods - Regression Analysis I and II
Universität Sankt Gallen Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Switzerland

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 I evaluated the proposals submitted to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) for the for the NIAS Fellowship 2024-25
Member
2023 - 2023 I evaluated the candidates for the YUFE4 PostDocs 2023 Programme, launched by the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) Alliance, co-funded by Horizon Europe's Marie Sklodowska-Curie programme.
Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/03 - Current Qualitative Content Analysis and Studying the Origins of Populism in European Politics SPARC Spring School Political Europe: Themes, Methods, and Techniques (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/04 - Current Course on Qualitative Comparative Analysis Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Nationalism and National Identity (Bachelor) Universität Zürich, Switzerland
2023/06/05 - 2023/06/09 The Populist Radical Right The Populist Radical Right (Bachelor) Universität Zürich, Switzerland
2022/05 - 2022/05 Populism and Public Policy (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/12 - 2021/12 Media and Populism (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Trieste Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
2021/11 - 2021/11 Populism and the Crisis of Institutions Populism and the Crisis of Institutions (Bachelor) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/02 Course on Qualitative Comparative Analysis for the Winter School of the EUROSUD Master Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Master)
2021 - 2021 Democracy and Populism in the European Parliament's Political Groups Comparative Politics (Master) Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
2015/05 - 2015/05 Migration: Causes and Effects Beyond Statistics, project Swiss Youth in Science. Universität Zürich, Switzerland
2014/05 - 2014/05 Wikipedia and Direct Democracy, project Swiss Youth in Science. Universität Zürich, Switzerland
2013 - 2014 Tutor for Course in Comparative Politics, University of St. Gallen. (Bachelor) Universität Sankt Gallen Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Switzerland

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023 I had an interview for the Portuguese newspaper Público, titled "Populismo, direita radical, extrema-direita: o que são? E onde está o Chega?" Público
2023 Interview for La Stampa. Article: "Portogallo, scandalo su litio e idrogeno: il premier Costa si dimette". La Stampa
2022/01 Interview for L'Humanité: "Élections au Portugal. Face au variant fasciste, l'immunité baisse". L'Humanité
2019/11/06 Interview: "Verdi contro populisti?" Corriere degli Italiani
2019/02/15 Interview. Italie: "Le boss, c'est Matteo Salvini!" Marianne

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/01 - Current Interview for Giornale Radio Rai, National Radio News, Rai Radio 2 (minute 7). Portuguese elections
2022/01 - 2022/01 Interview for Radio France International: "Qué está en juego en las elecciones parlamentarias de Portugal de este domingo?" Portuguese elections
2017/10/10 - 2017/10/10 TV Interview on SFR (Swiss National TV), program "10 vor 10" Results of my research
Distinctions

Award

2020 Social Sciences Outreach Award (Prémios Extensão em Ciências Sociais)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016 Knowledge Transfer Award
Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland