Aberto Vannucci

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Alberto Vannucci is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pisa. His latest books are Atlante della corruzione (Edizioni gruppo Abele, 2012), The Hidden Order of Corruption (Ashgate 2012, with Donatella Della Porta), Nero, grigio, sommerso: attori e politiche per l’emersione del lavoro irregolare (Felici 2009), Mani impunite. Vecchia e nuova corruzione in Italia (Laterza 2007, with Donatella Della Porta), Lo spettro della competitività. Le radici istituzionali del declino italiano (Rubbettino 2006, with Raimondo Cubeddu), Governare l’incertezza. Scelte pubbliche e cambiamento istituzionale (Rubbettino 2004).

Research interests: political and administrative corruption, mafia and organised crime, public policy against irregular work, neo-institutionalism, and Italian political system

News

29/11/2018

Call for Papers - International Conference on Feminist Alliances

The conference will focus on the role played by discourses, practices and politics in the construction and political consequences of feminist alliances with inequalities defined by class, race/ethnicity, citizenship, age, disability and sexuality.

20/11/2018

Call for Papers - International Conference The Contentious Politics of Solidarity

The conference will focus on the contestation of acts of solidarity by counter-movements and the state, as well as on resistance to it by migrant and pro-migrant movements.

09/11/2018

Donatella della Porta on the Growing Criminalization of Protest

The criminalization of protest is growing: there are many signals of this both in ‘hybrid’ regimes and in democratic countries. In this interview, Donatella della Porta discusses the dynamics and consequences of such trend.

Publications

Journal Article - 2018

Movement parties of the far right: The organization and strategies of nativist collective actors

Andrea Pirro, Pietro Castelli Gattinara

Despite theoretical commonalities, very little empirical research has focused on far-right “movement parties” as collective actors operating both in the protest and the electoral arenas. The article redresses this inconsistency by exploring the organizational and strategic configuration of two far-right collective actors—the Hungarian Jobbik and the Italian CasaPound.

Monograph - 2018

Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America. The Zapatistas and Bolivian Cocaleros

Leonidas Oikonomakis

This book investigates how social movements form their political strategies in their quest for social change and -when they shift from one strategy to another- why and how that happens.

Cosmos

The Centre on Social Movement Studies