Andrea L. P. Pirro is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna. He is Editor of the journal East European Politics and Editor of the Routledge Book Series in Extremism and Democracy. He has previously served as Steering Committee chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy. He has published on far-right politics, populism, Euroscepticism, and mobilisations in the electoral and protest arenas. He has authored The Populist Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe: Ideology, Impact, and Electoral Performance (Routledge, 2015), edited three special issues and one symposium.

Research interests: far right, populism, euroscepticism, political parties, and social movements