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Nicolò Conti

Department of History, Law, Political and Social Science
Faculty of Political Science – University of Siena
Via Mattioli, 10 – 53100 SIENA (Italy)
Phone: +39 0577 235387
Fax: +39 0577 235292
E-mail: conti19@unisi.it

Nicolò Conti is Assistant Professor at the Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome. He was a post-Doc Fellow at CIRCaP (2005-2009) where he was (2005-2006) the Project Manager of INTUNE, an Integrated Project financed by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme. He participates in the research activities of the Centre, in particular in the fields of party politics, Europeanisation and Euroscepticism. His teaching portfolio includes Comparative politics, EU politics, Western political systems, Italian politics and Party politics.
He received his undergraduate degree (BA) from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Siena, as well as a Masters degree and a PhD from CIRCaP. He was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Sussex (U.K) in 2002-2003.

Selected publications:
(2011) (with M. Cotta and P. T. de Almeida) (Eds.), Perspectives of National Elites on European Citizenship. A South European View, London, Routledge
(forthcoming in 2011, available before as on-line advance publication) (with V. Memoli), The Multi-faceted Nature of Party-based Euroscepticism, in Acta Politica
(2011) (with E. De Giorgi), L’Euroscetticismo a Parole: Lega Nord e Rifondazione Comunista, tra Retorica e Comportamento Istituzionale, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 41:2
(2011), The Radical Right in Europe, Between Slogans and Voting Behaviour, in Análise Social, 46:201
(2010) (with V. Memoli), Le Posizioni Programmatiche dei Partiti Italiani in Occasione delle Elezioni Europee, in Polis, 24:3
(2010) (with Cotta, M. and P. Tavares De Almeida) (Eds.), European Citizenship in the Eyes of National Elites: a South European View, a special issue of South European Society and Politics, 15:1
(2010) European Citizenship in Party Euromanifestos: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective (1994-2004), in South European Society and Politics, 15:1
(2010) (with Cotta, M. and P. Tavares De Almeida), Southern Europe: a Distinctive and More Pro-European Region in the EU?, in South European Society and Politics, 15:1
(2010) The Programmatic Convergence of Parties and their Weakness in Policy Making, in A. Mammone and G. A. Veltri (eds.), Italy Today: The Sick Man of Europe/, London, Routledge
(2010) Which Europe do Parties Want? A View from France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, N. Conti (ed.), a special issue of Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 11:2
(2010) Italian Parties and Europe: Problems of Identity, Representation and Scope of Governance in the Euromanifestos (1989-2004) (with V. Memoli), in Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 11:2
(2009) Tied hands? Italian Political Parties and Europe (2009), in Modern Italy, 14:2
(2009), Conti, N., L’Europa vista dai partiti. Paesi dell’UE e Italia a confronto, PLUS-Pisa University Press
(2009), Conti N. (with C. Roux And F. Tronconi) (Eds.), Parties and Voters in Italy: The Challenges of Multi-level Competition /(2009), a special issue of Modern Italy /14:2
(2008) The Italian Parties and their Programmatic Platforms: How Alternative?, in Modern Italy, 13:4.
(2008) On the political ‘fragmentation’: Stay in or stay out? The role of small parties in the Italian Centre-Left, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 13:3.
(2008) (with A. Manca) L’Europa nel Discorso Politico degli Stati Membri: Un’analisi degli Euromanifesti, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 37:2.
(2008) with M. Cotta and F. Tronconi, La thèse du Parti de Cartel en Question: Le Cas Italien, in Y. Aucante, A. Dézé e N. Sauger (eds.), Les Transformations des Systémes de Partis dans les Démocraties Occidentales. La thèse du Parti de Cartel en Question, Paris, Presse de Science Po.
(2007) Domestic Parties and European Integration: The Problem of Party Attitudes to the EU and the Europeanisation of Parties, in European Political Science, 6.
(2006) Party Conflict Over European Integration in Italy: A New Dimension of Party Competition?, in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 8:2.
(2005) with L. Verzichelli, La Dimensione Europea del Discorso Politico: Un’Analisi Diacronica del Caso Italiano (1950-2001), in M. Cotta, P. Isernia and L. Verzichelli (eds.), L’Europa in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino.