About this journal

Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy. The journal has two main aims:

Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product. We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties. On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media. Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate. On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies. So what we are seeking to do in this new journal is to provide a forum which is designed to promote research in Italian politics and to offer an outlet that counterbalances the fragmentation of the field. In doing this, we also seek to rely on research conducted in Italian, which hardly reaches the English-speaking world.

The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful. With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.

Editors:

Maurizio Carbone, University of Glasgow, UK
James Newell, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Reviews Editors:

Marta Regalia, University of  Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Luigi Rullo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Editorial Board:

Martin Bull, University of Salford, UK
Christopher Bickerton, University of Cambridge, UK
Luigino Ceccarini, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
Donatella Della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Sergio Fabbrini, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy
Miriam A. Golden, European University Institute (EUI), Italy
David Hine, University of Oxford, UK*
Piero Ignazi, University of Bologna, Italy*
Erik Jones, European University Institute (EUI), Italy
Richard S. Katz, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Amie Kreppel, University of Florida, USA
Robert Leonardi, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy
Mark Lazar, Sciences Po, Paris*
Alfio Mastropaolo, University of Turin, Italy*
Leonardo Morlino, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy*
Lucia Quaglia, University of Bologna, Italy
Gianfranco Pasquino, University of Bologna, Italy*
Simona Piattoni, University of Trento, Italy
Claudio M. Radaelli,  European University Institute (EUI), Italy
Alberta Sbragia, University of Pittsburgh, USA*
Vivien A. Schmidt,  Boston University, USA
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University, USA

Editorial Board for the Politica in Italia annual issue:

Asher Colombo,  University of Bologna, Italy
Gianfranco Baldini,  University of Bologna, Italy
Silvia Bolgherini,  University of Perugia, Italy
Ruth Hanau Santini,  L’Orientale University of Naples, Italy
Jonathan Hopkin,  London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Erik Jones,  European University Institute (EUI), Italy
Amie Kreppel,  University of Florida, USA
Emanuela Moschella,  Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
James Newell,  University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
Stefania Profeti,  University of Bologna, Italy
Andrea Pritoni,  University of Turin, Italy
Stefano Sacchi,  Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy 
Filippo Tronconi,  University of Bologna, Italy
Salvatore Vassallo,  University of Bologna, Italy

*indicates active board members who are retired (i.e. emeritus) from the institution listed.

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• Volumes 1-4 can be accessed here.