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Beppe Grillos Five Star Movement : organisation, communication and ideology / edited by Filippo Tronconi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-3663-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-3155-6906-2 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-3171-7514-8 (epub)
1. Movimento 5 stelle. 2. Grillo, Beppe, 1948 3. ItalyPolitics and government21st century.
I. Tronconi, Filippo, editor of compilation.
JN5657.M55B47 2015
324.245'087dc23
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Notes on Contributors
Pasquale Colloca is assistant professor at the University of Bologna, and collaborates with the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo of Bologna. He holds a PhD in sociology from University of Trento. His main research interests include the impact of economic crisis on political attitudes, old and new political cleavages, political values and civic engagement.
Piergiorgio Corbetta is research director at Istituto Cattaneo of Bologna. Now retired, he has been professor of methodology of social research at University of Bologna and also director of the Istituto Cattaneo from 1991 to 2001. In the nineties, he was among the founders of the research group ITANES (Italian National Election Studies). He is author of several articles and books on methodology of social science, statistics applied to social research, political participation and electoral studies.
Maria Elisabetta Lanzone has recently completed a PhD program in political science at the University of Pavia. She is currently a vising scholar at the Laboratoire Ermes, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Her main research areas are new parties and political participation. She has published articles and book chapters about new populist expressions in Europe. She is a member of the research team C&LS (Candidate & Leader Selection).
Lorenzo Mosca is assistant professor at the University of Roma Tre. He holds a post-doctorate in political and social sciences from the Max Weber Programme of the European University Institute in Fiesole. He is the author of several articles, book chapters and books on online politics, social movements and political communication.
Gianluca Passarelli is assistant professor in political science at the Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome. He is a researcher at the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo and a member of the ITANES (Italian National Election Studies) research group. His main research interests concern: comparative politics, presidents of the Republic, political parties, electoral systems, and electoral behaviour. He is the author of Monarchi elettivi? (2008); Presidenti della Repubblica (ed.) (2010); Lega & Padania. Storie e luoghi delle Camicie verdi (with D. Tuorto, 2012) and several articles in French Politics, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Modern Italy, Polis, South European Society and Politics, Contemporary Italian Politics, and Political Geography. He is currently review editor for the journal Polis.
Andrea Pedrazzani is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Bologna. His main research interests include legislative behaviour, executive-legislative relations and intra-coalitional politics. He has published articles in the European Journal of Political Research, Government and Opposition and the Italian Political Science Review.
Luca Pinto is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Bologna. His research interests include party competition and legislative studies. His articles have been accepted for publication in Party Politics, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Government and Opposition, and International Political Science Review.
Filippo Tronconi is associate professor of political science at the University of Bologna, Department of Social and Political Sciences, and a regular collaborator of the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo. His research interests cover European political parties, with a specific focus on the ethnoregionalist party family, political elites and legislative behaviour. Recent publications include From Protest to Power. Autonomist Parties and the Challenges of Representation (edited with A. Elias, 2011).
Dario Tuorto is associate professor at the University of Bologna, where he teaches sociology of social inclusion and exclusion. His main research topics in the field of political sociology are turnout, populism and party activism. His recent publications include Lega & Padania. Storie e luoghi delle Camicie Verdi (with G. Passarelli, 2012) and Il lavoro difficile. Discriminazione e gruppi discriminate in Italia (2013).
Cristian Vaccari is lecturer in political science at Royal Holloway University of London and associate professor in political science at the University of Bologna. He studies political communication in a comparative perspective, with a particular focus on digital media. His latest book is titled Digital Politics in Western Democracies: A Comparative Study (2013). He is the principal investigator of a comparative research project on social media and political inclusion (www.webpoleu.org).
Augusto Valeriani received his PhD in media studies from the University of Siena. He is currently assistant professor in media sociology at the University of Bologna, Department of Social and Political Sciences, where he lectures in media and international politics. His main scientific interests focus on digital media and politics, journalism, internet and society. On these topics he has authored and co-authored articles in international journals, chapters in edited books and three monographs. His latest book is
