Mario Quaranta is an Assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento (Italy). Previously, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a post-doctoral fellow at Scuola Normale Superiore and LUISS University. He obtained a PhD in Political Science in 2013 from the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence (Italy), and was a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California (USA), and at the Department of Sociology, Universiteit Utrecht (NL). He has been involved in research projects on quality of democracy, political participation, public opinion, and collection of survey data. His articles have appeared, among others, in European Journal of Political Research; Information, Communication and Society; International Journal of Public Opinion Research; Electoral Studies; European Political Science Review; Social Indicators Research; South European Society and Politics; West European Politics. His most recent book “Citizens and Democracy in Europe: Contexts, Changes and Political Support” (with S. Martini) was published in 2019 (Palgrave).

Research interests: attitudes towards democracy, political behaviour, and public opinion