Massimiliano Andretta

Massimiliano Andretta is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Pisa, where he teaches Political Science, Political Communication and Political Participation.
His recent publications include:
Books
2022
-La crisi economica e la protesta: L’Italia in prospettiva storico-comparata, Pisa, Pisa University Press.
2018
- with Donatella della Porta, Tiago Fernandes, Eduardo Romanos and Markos Vogiatzoglou, Legacy and Memory in Movements: Justice and Democracy in Southern Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
-with Lorella Sini (eds.), Populismi, nuove destre e nuovi partiti: quali discorsi politici in Europa, Pisa, Pisa University Press.
Chapters:
2022
With Paola Imperatore, “Kick them off!”: Debating the immigration issue in the 2018 Italian National Election Campaign. In E. Calossi and P. Imperatore (eds.), Populism in Contemporary Italian Parties: Actors and Processes in Times of Crisis, Pisa, Pisa University Press, pp. 133-156.
2021
With Roberta Bracciale, Young Italians and political engagements: good news? In V. Cuzzocrea, B. Gook and B. Schiermer (eds.), Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions: A Global Perspective, BRILL, Leiden, pp. 161-184.
2020
with Donatella della Porta, When millennials protest:Youth activism in Italy, in V. Cuzzocrea, B. G. Bello and Y. Kazepov (eds.), Italian Youth in International Context, Routledge, New York, pp. 41-57
2018
Transition Times in Memory, in Donatella della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta et al., Legacy and Memory in Movements: Justice and Democracy in Southern Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 24-53.

with Elena Pavan, Mapping Protest on the Refugee Crisis: Insights from Online Protest Event Analysis, in Donatella della Porta (Ed.), Solidarity Mobilizations in the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Contentious Moves, London, Palgrave-McMillan.

Articles in Scientific Journals
2021
with Roberta Bracciale and Antonio Martella, Does Populism Get Viral? How Italian leaders engage citizens through social media, in “Information, Communication and Society”, Online First, pp. 1-18 (Review classified as “A” from the Italian Association of University Assessment”, ANVUR).
2018
Protest in Italy in times of crisis: a cross-government comparison, in “South European Society and Politics”, 23/1: 97-114 (Review classified as “A” from the Italian Association of University Assessment”, ANVUR)
2017
with Riccardo Guidi, Political consumerism and producerism in times of crisis. A social movement perspective? In “Partecipazione & Conflitto”, 10/1: 246-274 (Review classified as “A” from the Italian Association of University Assessment”, ANVUR)

Recent Research Projects Participation and Coordination
2022-2024 - He is Associate PI of the European funded project “Improving collective Bargaining in Europe Union Comparison of Different Industrial Relations Regimes – IMPROCOLLBAR” (contract n. 101052292).
2018-2020 Member of the research team of the project “Collective Action of the Refugee crisis” at the Scuola Normale Superiore (2018) (http://cosmos.sns.it/collective-action-and-the-refugee-crisis/).
He was member of the research project PRA funded by the University of Pisa “Populismi in Italia: attori e processi in tempi di crisi” coordinated by Prof. Alberto Vannucci (2018-2020)
He was co-manager (with Roberta Bracciale”) of the project #Toscana2015; on social media and electoral campaign for the Regional Elections in Tuscany (2015).
He was co-manager (with Roberta Bracciale) of the project “Policom” on social medial and electoral campaign in Italy for the 2018 national elections, in partnership with other institutions and research centres (https://medialab.sp.unipi.it/team/).
2014-2015 He obtained a research contract under the ERC GRANT “Mobilizing for Democracy” coordinated by Pro. Donatella della Porta (2014-2015) (http://cosmos.sns.it/social-movements-and-the-deepening-of-democracy/)