Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua and coordinates the Standing Group “Politics and History” for the Italian Political Science Society (with Carlo Baccetti). He is the author of numerous essays on Italian democracy, on the parties and political cultures in Italy, including his book “A possible democracy. Politics and territory in contemporary Italy “(published by Carocci, 2016) and the monograph issue in “Quaderni di Scienza politica” (3/2017), titled “The Five Star Movement. Research perspectives”, edited with Paul Graziano