Enrico Padoan is a post-doc researcher in the Department of Social and Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence. He has recently obtained his PhD in Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His dissertation, which is currently under publishing process (“Anti-Neoliberal Populism in Comparative Perspective: The Latinamericanization of Southern Europe”, Routledge, 2020 forthcoming), is a comparative analysis of the emergence of different kinds of left-wing populisms in Latin America and Southern Europe in the aftermath of economic crises. He has published some advances of his dissertation in Quaderni di Scienza Politica and Partecipazione e Conflitto.

Research interests: social movements, populism, welfare policy, party organization, and populism and culture