Team Leader: Luca Verzichelli (PhD, University of Florence) is Professor of Political science at the University of Siena. He has been visiting scholar at the Universities of Columbia (New York), Montreal, Australian National University (Canberra), Granada, Jena, Oxford and Frankfurt. His main field of interest is the study of democratic elites and institutions. Former member of the executive committee of the European Consortium of Political Research, he is currently Chair of the Italian Political Science Association Among his publications, The Europe of Elites (Oxford University Press, 2012 co-edited with Heinrich Best and Gyorgy Lengyel) and The fate of European Political Scientists. From mith to action (Palgrave 2023, with Giliberto Capano).
