Marco Damiani
University of Perugia
Italy

Marco Damiani is Assistant Professor in Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science of the University of Perugia. He is currently studying the European political parties through a comparative approach. In particular, his research deals with the Left and the radical Left parties in Western Europe and the European populist parties. The most recent publications include: The European Radical Left. Transformation and Political Changement, in J. Ibrahim and J.M. Roberts (eds.), in Contemporary Left-Wing Activism, Vol. I (Routledge, 2019); Radical Left-wing Populism and Democracy in Europe, in C. de la Torre (eds.), Global Populism (Routledge, 2018); La sinistra radicale in Europa. Italia, Spagna, Francia, Germania (Donzelli, 2016). From the Communist Party to the Front de gauche. The French radical left from 1989 to 2014 (with M. De Luca), in «Communist and Post-Communist studies» (2016); New Left in the European Democracies: The case of German Radical Left (with L. Viviani), in «Partecipazione e conflitto» (2015).

Lorenzo Viviani
University of Pisa
Italy

Lorenzo Viviani is an Associate Professor in Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science, University of Pisa, Italy. He is the Secretary of the Political Sociology Section of AIS (Italian Sociological Association). His research focusses on the sociology of political parties, political leadership, democracy and populism. Amongst his recent publications on the topic of populism are: Sacralizzazione del popolo e politica della disintermediazione. La sfida populista alla liberal-democrazia, in Quaderni di Teoria Sociale QTS, Morlacchi, n.2/2018; Crisi della rappresentanza politica e trasformazioni della democrazia: la sfida del populismo, in D’Alessandro L. e Montanari A. (a cura di), Diseguaglianze e Crisi della Fiducia. Diritto, Politica e Democrazia nella Società Contemporanea, Franco Angeli, Milano, Collana Sociologia Politica; A Political Sociology of Populism and Leadership, in SMP Società Mutamento Politica, vol. 8, n. 15/2017; Populismo, partiti e qualità della politica, in Qualità della vita e trasformazioni sociali, Carocci, Roma, 2017; Dai partiti della New Politics ai partiti anti-establishment: le nuove forme della politica radicale in Europa, in “Rivista di Politica”, n. 2/2017; New Cleavage in Old Europe: Toward a Political Sociology Populism, in F. Saccà (ed), Globalization and New Socio-Political Trends, Roma, Eurilink, 2016; Sociologia dei partiti. Leader e organizzazioni politiche nelle società contemporanee, Roma, Carocci, 2015.