Projects

Staff

Enrico Borghetto
Title: Associate Professor
Institution(s): University of Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences
Enrico Borghetto (personal homepage) is Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences. His research has focused on compliance with EU policies, the Europeanisation of national legislation, legislative studies and European decision-making. He is also one of the co-PIs of the Portuguese policy agendas project. He was responsible for the project "Portuguese Parliament: Agenda-setting and Law-making" Project financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (IF/00382/2014).
 
 

Marcello Carammia
Title: Senior Lecturer
Institution(s): Institute for European Studies of the University of Malta
Marcello Carammia is a Senior Researcher at the University of Catania. Between 2015 and 2019 he was a Senior Researcher at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO – the EU Asylum Agency) where he was responsible for the Agency’s Research programme on the push and pull factors of asylum-related migration. Previously he was a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer in Comparative European politics at the University of Malta.
Marcello's research focuses on the comparative analysis of institutions and public policies, with special interest in the interaction between migration flows, politics, and policy. He is also a member of the EU Agendas Team.
 
 
 

Federico Russo
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution(s): University of Salento

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
Title: Post-doctoral researcher
Institution(s): University of Trieste

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
Title: Research fellow
Institution(s): University of Leicester

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.