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Introduction
PhD in Political Science, with interest in research related to democracy, globalization, economic inequality and poverty and gender inequalities. Currently a permanent Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS)
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May 2019 - present
March 2019 - February 2022
March 2019 - March 2020
Education
October 2015 - October 2018
Field of study
- Political Science
September 2012 - November 2014
Field of study
- Political Science - International Relations
September 2009 - October 2012
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Publications (39)
Against the backdrop of the growing emphasis on gender aspects in the energy transition within the scientific community, this Systematic Literature Review provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of scientific literature on the interconnection between gender issues and energy transitions. Unlike other SLRs on the topic, the primary co...
Background
An equal distribution of hospital structures represents an important factor to achieve Universal Health Coverage. Generally, the most diffused approach to measure the potential availability to healthcare is the provider-to-population ratio based on the number of beds or professionals. However, this approach considers only the availabilit...
Background
An equal distribution of hospital structures represents an important factor to achieve Universal Health Coverage. Generally, the most diffused approach to measure the potential availability to healthcare is the provider-to-population ratio based on the number of beds or professionals. However, this approach considers only the availabilit...
Over the past decades, the European Commission has urged to overcome gender differences in research and innovation to stop the leaking pipeline and break the glass ceiling and glass door. While Gender Budgeting practice is now fairly widespread, Gender Equality Plans are becoming consolidated as an eligibility criterion for HorizonEurope calls for...
Political, economic and, now, health dynamics have caused and continue to cause a worsening of citizens' living conditions within most of western democracies. The literature highlighted how this contributed to the increase of citizens' frustration and the drop of their trust in democratic institutions. In this context, a populist upsurge has been r...
This study provides a macro-level societal and health system focused analysis of child vaccination rates in 30 European countries, exploring the effect of context on coverage. The importance of demography and health system attributes on health care delivery are recognized in other fields, but generally overlooked in vaccination. The analysis is bas...
The paper investigates the influence of the measures implemented by national governments to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic on the citizens' trust in government, within European countries. Data collected from the Eurofound's Living, Working and Covid-19 survey and data from the Oxford Covid-19 Government response tracker database has been...
This chapter analyzes and presents data on gender gap in Italian academia before and after the reform of careers of 2010. data show that in the specific academic sectors we consider (law, economy, sociology and political science) the university reform of 2010 did not manage - or at least did not manage enough - to reverse the gender gap, especially...
Participatory budgeting (PB) has become one of the most widely employed and extensively debated instruments in the field of participatory democracy. Its supporters have highlighted its ability to increase political participation and the empowerment of citizens. Critics have warned of its (lack of) capacity to be inclusive and to fulfil promises of...
I dottori di ricerca sono, in Italia, assai meno che nei nostri partner economici, politici e culturali, sia in rapporto allo stock totale della forza lavoro che in termini di flusso annuale di diplomati. È quindi del tutto sensato aumentare il loro numero, anche se occorre contestualmente creare per loro adeguate opportunità professionali. I dotto...
Of all the socioeconomic changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the disruption to workforce organizations will probably leave the largest indelible mark. The way work will be organized in the future will be closely linked to the experience of working under the same institution's response to the pandemic. This paper aims to fill the gap in knowled...
Context
The Covid-19 pandemic hit the developed world differentially due to accidental factors, and countries had to respond rapidly within existing resources, structures, and processes to manage totally new health challenges. This study aimed to identify which pre-existing structural factors facilitated better outcomes despite different starting p...
This article assesses whether a gender gap in political science, identified in the international literature, also is present in the context of Italian political science. The literature has mostly centered on the comparison of female publication rates in international journals with the academic workforce in the United States, but this raises an issu...
Questo articolo intende evidenziare i legami tra le dimensioni interna e globale del deficit democratico e offrire alcuni suggerimenti per azioni che potrebbero essere implementate dalle OI, dai singoli governi e dall'opinione pubblica. Ciò si basa su un presupposto che vale la pena esplicitare: un’autentica governance democratica globale richiede...
The flows of refugees have ignited the European political debate, thereby boosting nationalistic forces in almost all countries. The aim of this paper is to counterbalance a widespread view about their overall impact and show that the number of asylum seekers did not represent a ‘refugee crises’. It argues, however, that the current European Union...
Cosa accade, quando improvvisamente, una serie di norme, modelli di comportamento e pratiche professionali muta radicalmente la natura del lavoro scientifico? Quale impatto può assumere una rivoluzione completa di questo tipo sulla dimensione di genere nelle carriere? Come è possibile svolgere attività scientifica praticando il work-life balance in...
La programmazione del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche è definita dal Piano Triennale di Attività (PTA), che costituisce il documento di programmazione a breve e medio termine che definisce gli obiettivi strategici dell’Ente per il periodo di riferimento, sia dal punto di vista scientifico sia da quello gestionale. Tali obiettivi generali vanno p...
Gli studi di breve periodo condotti finora, sulla produzione scientifica al tempo della pandemia, pongono una serie di interrogativi e di sfide, anche a livello metodologico, che andranno sicuramente verificati sul lungo periodo per poter capire l’impatto della pandemia sul mondo della ricerca ed in particolare rispetto ai temi dell’uguaglianza e d...
Negli ultimi decenni, il bilancio partecipativo (BP) è diventato uno degli strumenti più utilizzati e discussi della democrazia partecipativa. La letteratura teorica ed empirica sul BP ne hanno discusso e sottolineato i suoi punti di forza e i suoi limiti. I partigiani del BP hanno evidenziato la sua capacità di aumentare la partecipazione politica...
The report presents the results of the survey on Smart Working (SW) and gender issues in Italian research institutions during the Covid-19 emergency. The survey intends to provide a first analysis of the workloads, the time dedicated to professional tasks and family workloads, and the ways to deal with SW during the pandemic emergency. It aims to i...
Il rapporto presenta i risultati dell’indagine sullo Smart Working (SW) e questioni di genere negli enti di ricerca italiani durante l’emergenza Covid-19. L’indagine intende fornire una prima analisi dei carichi di lavoro, dei tempi dedicati a compiti professionali e carichi familiari, delle modalità per affrontare lo SW in un momento emergenziale....
Questo report riporta e analizza i dati raccolti attraverso la somministrazione di un questionario dedicato ai partecipanti al Bilancio Partecipativo organizzato dal Comune di Milano. L'obiettivo è quello di ricostruire il profilo sociodemografico di questi cittadini attivi, interessati alla vita pubblica della città e coinvolti nel migliorare il p...
This paper analyses the role of peaceful and violent protest in the democratization process. We interpret the democratization process as a sequence of phases so as to allow citizens' and elites' preferences for democracy to vary according to the particular phase that a country is experiencing. By doing so we jointly model the probability of protest...
La Unión Europea se encuentra en una encrucijada: el brexit, las po-líticas económicas y la incapacidad de gestionar con éxito los ingre-sos de refugiados han aumentado el euroscepticismo y ponen en riesgo el proyecto de integración europea. El tema de la migración, y específi-camente de los refugiados, probablemente ha sido el más relevante en ale...
The refugee’s flows have alighted the European political debate boosting nationalistic forces in almost all
countries. The aim of this paper is to show that the actual number of asylum seekers does not really allow to
talk about a “refugee crises”. It argues, however, that the current European Union institutions and
procedures are highly insufficie...
While the model of deliberative democracy gives a crucial role to dialog, empirical evidence has not yet established if discussion helps to reach a better understanding of political issues and, above all, if individuals are prepared to change their views. It is still unclear when the deliberative model, and more specifically discussion, could be us...
The study of the relation between democracy and income inequality is puzzling scholars at least since the 1970s, however, there is still no agreement about how the relation between the two variables would shape nor how the causal mechanisms would work, and some scholars even denied the presence of any causal relation. The aim of the present work is...
The debate about the state of democracy has taken a U-turn in the last decade. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, for twenty years there was a widespread optimism about the fact that the peoples of the world wanted to elect their leaders and build democratic institutions. This optimist climate was corroborated by significant events: in Eastern...
In the 1920s José Ortega y Gasset, an educated and conservative Spanish thinker, observed with increasing concern that liberal regimes, in spite of the fact that they extended suffrage and increased political and social rights, were losing control over their political systems and that the masses were inclined to support extremist political forces....
As a response to the increase in the number of refugees arriving in the European Union territory since 2014, European Commission has implemented the European Agenda on Migration. I argues that the new system, despite being promising for resolving the problems from the point of view of Member States, overlooks the perspective of asylum seekers. As a...
While the model of deliberative democracy gives a crucial role to dialogue, empirical evidence has not yet established if discussion helps to reach a better understanding of political issues and, above all, if individuals are prepared to change their views and preferences. This article presents an experiment carried out within the Department of Pol...
The paper explores the methods to introduce democratic devices in global governance. The first part makes an attempt to define what democratic global governance is and what its aims are. The second part provides some benchmark to identify when and how international organizations, the most important and visible part of global governance, correspond...
Immigration and asylum issues are currently central in the European political debate. In this paper, I first analyse the European legislation on asylum, the so-called ‘Dublin System’, finding three main gaps affecting it: a) the allocation of refugees between member states; b) the differences between member states in the treatment of asylum seekers...
El artículo explora los métodos para introducir dispositivos democráticos en la gobernanza global. En la primera parte intentamos definir lo que es la gobernanza global democrática y cuáles son sus objetivos. La segunda parte ofrece puntos de referencia para identificar cómo y cuándo las organizaciones internacionales (OI en adelante), la parte más...
In this paper I analyze the relation between democracy and income inequality. The literature review shows the presence of four main theoretical lines that explain differently this relation, from time to time as: a linear relation in which democracy affects income inequality; a linear relation in which economic inequality affects democracy; a non-li...
The paper explores the methods to introduce democratic devices in global governance. The first part makes an attempt to define what a democratic deficit is. The second part provides some benchmark to identify when and how international organizations, the most important and visible part of global governance, corresponds to the values of democracy. T...
