Research

My research focuses on political parties, in particular their internal organisation and ideological change.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journals

[Forthcoming] Twenty Thousand Leagues below the Po: Career Patterns and Party Institutionalisation in the Lega (Nord). Regional & Federal Studies – with Piccolino G.
2025 Do more inclusive parties change less? Intraparty democracy and programmatic change. West European Politics, 48 (2), 270–296.
2025 Italy’s Democratic Quality and the Role of Political Parties: Comparative Empirical Patterns. Italian Political Science Review, 55 (2) 138-155. – with Panzano, G.
2023 Right-wing victory in the 2022 Italian parliamentary election: territorial patterns and systemic implications. Italian Journal of Electoral Studies, 86(1), 29-50. – with Piccolino, G.

Chapters in edited volumes

2024 Populist parties and party competition. In Huber, R.A. & Jankowski, M. (Eds.). Populism: An Introduction. SAGE Publications – with Wagner, M.

Others

2023 Fratelli d’Italia nei consigli regionali. Il Mulino, 72 (2), 179-186. – with Piccolino, G.
2022 The Scale of Trust: Local, Regional, National and European Politics in Perspective. GEG Working Paper. – with Arrighi JS., Battestini JT., Coatleven L., Hublet F., and Queudet V.
2020 Institutions and foreign interferences. Study for the AFCO Committee of the European Parliament. –with Bressanelli E., di Palma A., Inglese G., and Repetto E.
2019 Il Partito Verde Europeo e le sfide dell’europeizzazione. In Giusti, S. (Ed.) Idee per l’Europa. Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli, XXXIX (135).

Public outreach

2023 Regional election in Latium, 12-13 February 2023. BLUE, 4, online first. – with Hublet, F.
2023 Parliamentary election in Italy, 25 September 2022. BLUE, 3, 103-106. – with Plescia, C.
2022 Italian municipal elections (Rome and Milan), October 2021. BLUE, 2, 158-162.