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My paper “The issue strategies of niche parties between elections: an analysis of question time in six countries” won the “Carlo Maria Santoro” award 2019 for best paper presented during the 2018 Annual Conference of Italian political scientists.

The Comparative Agendas Project has won the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award from the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Politics section. The award recognizes a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.

An interview with my coauthor Marco Lisi, where we discussed the findings of our recent article published in Southern European Society and Politics, Populism, blame shifting and the crisis: discourse strategies in Portuguese political parties.

This Oxford University Press Book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken within the Comparative Agendas Project over the past ten years.

Check out the latest Special Issue in the Italian Political Science Review (2018, 48, n.3) devoted to “Policy Agendas in Italy”. Guest editors: @EBorghetto M.Carammia @FedRusso. With articles on: the Programme-to-policy link, Constitutional Court, Public opinion priorities, Public spending, Decentralization reforms, Immigration.

The Economist mentions the findings from the recent working paper “Economic Inequality and Legislative Agendas in Europe” co-authored with Derek Epp (University of Texas) in the article As inequality grows, so does the political influence of the rich.