Federico Russo (PhD) is currently assistant professor (ricercatore senior) at the University of Salento. Previously he worked as post-doctoral fellow at the New University of Lisbon and at the University of Siena. His main research interest concerns parliaments, political representation and public policy.
Alice Cavalieri (PhD) is currently Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Trieste, where she works on a project titled "Democracy under Pressure" which investigates the effect of different crises on democracy and democratic institutions. Her research interests deal especially with budgetary policy – her first book "Italian Budgeting Policy" is published by Palgrave Macmillan – and the agenda-setting process in parliament. She was the Country Lead for Italy of the OxCGRT and worked as external collaborator for the European University Institute, the Politecnico of Milan and the PLUS Universität Salzburg on projects focusing on fiscal policy and taxation in European countries.
Francesco Visconti is a research fellow in the ResponsiveGov (www.responsivegov.eu) project at the University of Leicester. He holds a PhD in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena. His main research interests include agenda setting, public policy, government responsiveness, and public opinion.
