▪ Delia Baldassarri (dbalda@princeton.edu)
 Delia Baldassarri Biography:
Delia Baldassarri is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University . Her research interests are in the fields of political sociology, economic sociology, and methodology of social research, with a focus on social networks, interpersonal influence, cooperation, collective action, and human decision-making. Her current research projects include “lab-in-the-field” experiments in Uganda to study the impact of social networks on cooperation and economic development, and a research on trends in public opinion polarization in the USA. She is the author of The Simple Art of Voting (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) and has written articles on civil society inter-organizational networks, formal models of collective action, dynamics of interpersonal influence, and public opinion.
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Baldassarri – Personal page
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| ▪ Mauro Barisione (mauro.barisione@unimi.it)
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Mauro Barisione (Genova, 1971), PhD in Political Science (Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris and University of Florence), is associate professor of Political Sociology at the University of Milan, where he currently teaches Public Opinion Analysis. He is a Member of the Board of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Political Sociology Research Network, and of the Scientific Committees of the SISE (Italian Society of Electoral Studies), and of the AIS (Italian Association of Sociology) Political Sociology Section. He has published several books and articles both in national and international refereed journals, especially in the fields of electoral behaviour, political communication, public opinion, and sociology of political leadership.
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Barisione – Personal Page
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Roberto Biorcio
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| ▪ Patrizia Catellani (patrizia.catellani@unicatt.it)
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Patrizia Catellani is full professor of Social Psychology. She presently teaches Social Psychology of Politics and Psychology of Communication at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. Her most recent studies deal with how counterfactual thinking may affect political communication and voting behaviour. She is the author of several journal articles and books. She has co-edited The psychology of counterfactual thinking (Routledge, London, 2005) and written chapters for the volumes A trivial country. Essays on media and politics in Italy (Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2010), Changes in working life and the appeal of the extreme right (Ashgate, London, 2007), and Extreme right activists in Europe. Through the magnifying glass (Routledge, London, 2005).
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Catellani – Personal Page
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▪ Nicoletta Cavazza (cavazza.nicoletta@unimo.it)
 Nicoletta Cavazza Biography:
Nicoletta Cavazza took a degree in Political Science in 1987.
In 1992 she had the D.E.A. at Université Blaise Pascal Clermont Ferrand II, U.F.R. de Psychologie, Sciences Sociales et Sciences de l’Education.
In 1995 she had her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Bologna.
She was a lecturer in Social Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bologna- Italy. Since 2004 she has been associate professor in Social Pychology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Teaching acrtivities: she teaches Psychology of persuasion, Social Psychology, Interview and survey techniques.
Her current main research interests include attitude change, persuasive communication, political psychology, social aspects of eating.
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Cavazza – Personal Page
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| ▪ Luigi Ceccarini (l.ceccarini@soc.uniurb.it)
 Luigi Ceccarini Biography:
Luigi Ceccarini is assistant professor of Political Science, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, where is one of the founders of LaPolis, the Laboratory of Political and Social Studies. He is the Official Representative in the ECPR. He is part of the working group that edits the Observatory on Italians’ Social Capital and the annual report The Italians and the State . He has published essays in collective volumes and specialized journals nationally in Italy and in the world. He has edited various collective publications and monographs. The main focus of his research activity is the relationship between society and politics: in particular, the relationship between Catholics and politics , new forms of participation, generations, political culture, electoral behaviour.
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Ceccarini – Personal Page
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| ▪ Roberto D’Alimonte (dalimonte@unifi.it)
 Roberto D'Alimonte Biography:
Full Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science at the University of Florence, where he leads courses about the Italian political system, elections and political partieis. Since 1993 he leads a a research group interested in elections and evolution of the Italian political system whose findings have been published in several volumes by Il Mulino. He is also Director of the Centro Italiano di Studi Elettorali (Italian Centre for Electoral Studies) and commentator for Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s leading financial newspaper. He also teaches European Integration at the Florence Campus of New York University and has been visiting professor at Yale and Stanford University. He is a regular speaker about EU institutions at the Graduate School at Stanford University and has consulted for Fondazione Olivetti and the OECD
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D’Alimonte – Personal Page
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| ▪ Lorenzo De Sio (lorenzodesio@libero.it)
 Lorenzo De Sio Biography:
Lorenzo De Sio is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. A founding member of the CISE (Italian Center for Electoral Studies), he participates to the EUDO (European Union Democracy Observatory) and to the “The True European Voter” international research project. He has taught at the universities of Florence, Siena and at LUISS “Guido Carli”. His main research interests: ecological inference and the analysis of vote turnover; the italian political transition, analyzed through aggregate electoral data; spatial and non-spatial models of voting behaviour and party competition; the logical-quantitative modelling approach for the analysis of social phenomena. He is the author of Elettori in movimento (Polistampa, 2008) and Competizione e spazio politico (Il Mulino, 2011). Among his publications are articles appearing in Comparative Political Studies, South European Society and Politics, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Polis.
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De Sio – Personal Page
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| ▪ Guido Legnante (legnante@unipv.it)
 Guido Legnante Biography:
Guido Legnante, Ph.D. allo European University Institute, is associate professor of Faculty of Politic Science of Università di Pavia . President of Faculty of Comunication, he teaches studies on elections, public opinion and politic comunication. He is member of research group NEPOCS (Network of European Political Communication Scholars). It works on electoral behavior, public opinion, electoral campaign. Oltre a molti saggi in riviste e libri collettanei, has published Città al voto (with G. Baldini, 2000), Alla ricerca del consenso (2004) e Il cittadino-elettore in Europa e America (edited by R. Mannheimer and P. Segatti, 2009).
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Legnante – Personal Page
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| ▪ Patrizia Milesi (patrizia.milesi@unicatt.it)
 Patrizia Milesi Biography:
Assistant professor in Social Psychology, she taught at Pavia University, Faculty of Political Science. She is now lecturer of Political Communication and teaches Organizational Communication at the Catholic University of Milan, Faculty of Political Science. Besides ITANES project, she participated in international research projects dealing with psychological processes linked to political orientation (“Right-wing Extremism in Europe”, supervised by B. Klandermans – Free University of Amsterdam; “SIREN – Socio-Economic Change, Individual Reactions and the Appeal of the Extreme Right”, funded under the “Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-Economic knowledge Base” programme of the European Commission).
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Milesi – Personal Page
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Maurizio Pisati
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| ▪ Michele Roccato (roccato@psych.unito.it)
 Michele Roccato Biography:
Michele Roccato is an associate professor in Social Psychology at the University of Torino.
At present his main research interests are right-wing authoritarianism, fear of crime, participation in Lulu (Locally Unwanted Land Uses) movements and the cognitive processes leading to political behaviors.
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Roccato – Personal Page
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| ▪ Dario Tuorto (dario.tuorto@unibo.it)
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2000: Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
2006: Assistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Education Sciences, University of Bologna
Main research interests: political-electoral participation, youth activism, political sociology.
Since 2002, responsable for the Osservatorio sull’astensionismo elettorale, Istituto Cattaneo.
He published for Il Mulino Apatia o protesta. L’astensionismo elettorale in Italia (2006).
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Tuorto – Personal Page
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Salvatore Vassallo
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| ▪ Cristiano Vezzoni (cristiano.vezzoni@unitn.it)
 Cristiano Vezzoni Biography:
Cristiano Vezzoni is a Sociology researcher at the department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento and also collaborates with the department of Social and Political Studies at the University of Milan.
His main research interests are quantitative methods for social research, voting behavior, political behavior and values.
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Vezzoni – Personal page
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