Crises, Populism and Political Leadership: Italy in Comparative Perspective

Paolo Graziano

Professor of Political Science

University of Padua

Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua, Research Associate at the European Social Observatory, Brussels, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Surrey and has been Chercheur associé at Sciences Po in Paris (2019-2022). He has held visiting positions at a number of universities, including Cornell University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Melbourne, University of Washington, European University Institute. He is co-editor of Governance (2018- ) and Past President (2019-2020) of the APSA Conference Group on Italian Politics (CONGRIPS).

He teaches Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Public Policy Analysis. He has published several authored and edited volumes and journal special issues. His most recent authored book in English is Europeanization and Policy Change. Italy in Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 2013). His most recent book is “Elgar Encycolpedia or European Union Public Policy” (Elgar, 2022), co-edited with Jale Tosun. He is currently working on a book project entitled “Crises, Leadership and Neopopulisms in the European Union”.

His work on Europeanization, European public policy, social movements and populist parties has been published in, among other places: Governance, European Journal for Political Research, West European Politics, Journal of Common  Market Studies, Government & Opposition, International Political Science Review, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Journal of European Public Policy, Policy & Society.