Stefano Braghiroli
CV (with publication/lectures list)
(Update September 2012)
Personal data
Place of Birth: Carpi (Modena), Italy
Date of Birth: January 13, 1981
Gender: Male
Nationality: Italian
Office address: Institute of Government and Politics / Room 309 University of Tartu Lossi 36-327 51003 Tartu, ESTONIA
Current position
EROMS Researcher at the Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu, Estonia. Project title: “An analysis of voting dynamics in the European Parliament on issues involving the Russian Federation and EU-Russia relations” (Mentor: Dr. Piret Ehin). ERMOS research grant programme, funded by the by the Estonian Science Foundation within the framework of the FP7 Marie Curie COFUND the “People” Programme.
Research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), University of Siena.
Co-Editor (with Nelli Babayan) of Inter-disciplinary Political Studies (IdPS) Journal edited by the Universities of Siena and Trento [www.idps.unisi.it]
Additional activities
Research contract: Transworld, WP7 "Elite Survey Design and Analysis", funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme. [http://www.transworld-fp7.eu/]
Research contract: “Asia in the Eyes of Europe”, sponsored by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the Tsinghua University. [http://www.asef.org/ index.php? download=cHJvamVjdHMvZG9jdW1lbnRzLzE0NDc%3D]
Education
Title: PhD in Political Science – Comparative and European Politics Academic institution: Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), University of Siena Level in classification: Doctorate with distinction Dates: October, 2006 – September, 2010 Thesis title: A normal Parliament? Conflicting loyalties in the European Parliament: Impacting Factors and Long-Term Effects on the European Party System Thesis supervisor(s): Prof. Luca Verzichelli and Prof. Paul Taggart
Activity/Function: Visiting Research Student Academic institution: Institute for European Studies (IES), Université Libre de Bruxelles Dates: February–March, 2009
Activity/Function: Visiting Research Student Academic institution: Sussex European Institute (SEI), University of Sussex Dates: April–July, 2008
Title: Master in Comparative and European Politics Academic institution: University of Siena, Italy Dates: October, 2006 – July, 2007
Title: Laurea specialistica in Scienze Politiche (MA in Political Science) Academic institution: University of Bologna, Italy Level in classification: 110/110 Magna cum laude Dates: September, 2000 – October, 2005 Thesis title: The European Convention and the draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union Thesis supervisor: Prof. Piero Ignazi
Foreign languages
Italian (native) English (excellent), Spanish (advanced), German (basic), Norwegian (beginner).
Statistical and analytical packages
SPSS, Stata, LISREL, Tenka-Text, IdMONITOR CATI-CAWI.
Short courses
INTUNE Winter School on “Multilevel Modeling in Political Science”, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, January 11-14, 2009. [http://www.intune.it/events/winter-school-in-barcelona]
Winter School on “Italy in the EU: Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity”, University of Trento, February 21-23, 2007.
Research areas
Party politics in the European Parliament EU-Russia relations Comparative politics International relations E-politics
Publications
Chapters in edited books [Forthcoming] “Citizens’ AGORA: A Bridge between Represented and Representatives?”. In Emanuela Bozzini and Irena Fiket eds., Partecipation, Consultation and Deliberation in the EU (Essex: ECPR Press, 2012).
[Fortcoming] (with Nelli Babayan) “Googling Democracy: A Comparison of Democracy Promoters on the Internet”. In Jonathan Bishop and Ashu Solo ed., Politics in the Information Age (Berlin: Springer, 2012).
“Portraying the Dragon: Reporting and Understanding Asia in Italy”. In Michael Bruter, Natalia Chaban, Martin Holland, and Ronan Lenihan eds., Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Images of a Rising Giant (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag).
(with Luca Verzichelli) “Condemned to ineffectiveness? Pd and IdV between parliamentary opposition and coalition strategies”. In Elisabetta Gualmini and Eleonora Pasotti eds., Italian Politics 2011 (London: Berghaham Press, 2011).
“Lithuania”. In Juliet Lodge ed., The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament (London: Palgrave, 2010). ISBN 0230230407
In languages other than English (with Luca Verzichelli) “Condannati all'inefficacia? Pd e Idv tra opposizione parlamentare e strategie di coalizione”. In Elisabetta Gualmini and Eleonora Pasotti eds., Politica in Italia 2010 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2011). ISBN 978-88-15-23352-3 [ITALIAN]
“Povestea unei logodne lipsită de dragoste, dar de convenienţă reciprocă” [A loveless wedding of mutual convenience]. In Ovidiu Pecican and Sergiu Gherghina eds., Romania in UE. Trei ani de la aderare [Romania in the EU. Three years after the accession] (Cluj-Napoca: Lumen Ed., 2010). ISBN 973-726-550-0 [ROMANIAN]
“La Bruxelles, dar cu gandul acasa (o evalutare empirica a vietii duble a europarlamentarilor)” [In Brussels, but thinking of home (an empirical assessment of MEPs’ double life)]. In Sergiu Gherghina ed., Cine decide? Partide, reprezentanti si politici in Parlamentul Romaniei si cel European [Who decides? Parties, representatives and politicians in the Romanian and European parliament] (Iasi: European Institute, 2010). ISBN 978-973-611-658-2 [ROMANIAN]
Peer reviewed articles [Forthcoming] (with Irena Fiket) “Financing of political parties in Western Balkans: Closer to Europe, further from corruption?,” Transitions Review, May 2012.
Euro-legislators’ perspective on Turkey: Easier said than done…, Bahçeşehir University Center for Economic and Social Research Working Paper N. 8/August 2012.
“Je t'aime… moi non plus! An empirical assessment of MEPs’ voting behaviour on Turkey and Turkish membership”, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 14(1), 2012. ISSN 1468-3857.
(with Caterina Carta) “Measuring Russia's snag on the fabric of the EU's 'International Society': The impact of the East-West cleavage upon of the cohesion of the EU Member States vis-à-vis Russia”, Journal of Contemporary European Research, July 2011. ISSN 1815-347x.
“The Italian Local Elections of 2011: Four Ingredients for a Political Defeat”, Bulletin of Italian Politics, 3(1), Summer 2011. ISSN 1759-3077. (with Nelli Babayan) “Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo? Assessing the Imperialist Aspirations of the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States”, Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, 5(2), July 2011. ISSN 1802-548x.
(with Sergiu Gherghina) “Romania in the eyes of the Italian political elites: a partner to be ashamed of,” Journal of Social Research and Policy, 1(2), 2011.
“MEPs 2.0? Europarliamentarians talking to Voters in the Internet Era,” Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 10(3), September 2010. ISSN 1582-8271.
Politicians Online! MEP Communication Strategies in the Internet Era, Politics and Institutions EPIN Working Papers, No. 29/September 2010.
(with Luca Verzichelli) “La classe politica italiana in Europa. Un'altra occasione mancata?”, Rivista Il Mulino, No. 5/2009. ISSN 0027-3120. [ITALIAN]
(with Caterina Carta) An Index of Friendliness toward Russia: An Analysis of the Member States and Members of the European Parliament’s Positions, Electronic Publications of Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics, No. 15/2009. ISSN 1795-5076.
(with Nina E Liljeqvist) “Transatlantic Watch: L’Atlantismo di ritorno,” Aspenia, No. 45, June 2009. ISSN 1590-5942.
Home Sweet Home: Assessing the Weight and the Effectiveness of National Parties' Interference on MEPs' everyday Activity, Sussex European Institute Working Paper N. 108, December 2008. ISSN 1350-4649.
(with Sergiu Gherghina) “Chasing Putnam: The Relationship Between Democratization and Civicness in Transitional Post-Communist Countries,” Europolis Political Science Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 2008. ISSN 1582-4969.
“The Failed Belgianization of Post-Communist Czechoslovakia: Impacting Factors and Political Consequences,” CEU Political Science Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2008, pp. 305-328. ISSN 1818-7668.
“The Challenges to Democracy in the Interwar Period: Lessons from the Past Relevant Today. Poland, Lithuania, and Czechoslovakia in an Extended Rokkanian Perspective,” CEU Political Science Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 358-380. ISSN 1818-7668.
Other articles “E-virgins, e-MEPs and MEP 2.0: Internet-based political communication in the European Parliament”, Italian Political Science, May 2011.
(with Nelli Babayan) “Pandemic Revolutions, the Bewildered West, and the Friendly Autocrats”, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 1(1), June 2011. ISSN 2039-8573 [Editorial]
Book reviews Soren Dosenrode, Approaching the European Federation (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007). In Political Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 2011. ISSN 1478-9299.
Aleks Szczerbiak and Paul Taggart, Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism, Vol I and II, (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008). In Political Studies Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009. ISSN 1478-9299. Michael Longo, Constitutionalising Europe: Processes and Practices (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006). In Political Studies Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2009. ISSN 1478-9299.
Project reports Antenna Europarlamentare – Edizione 2012, Observatory on Institutional Change (CIRCaP). [http://www.circap.unisi.it/events/antenna-europarlamentare-2012]
Antenna Europarlamentare – Edizione 2011, Observatory on Institutional Change (CIRCaP). [http://www.circap.unisi.it/file_download/657/Antenna_europarlamentare_2011_final.pdf]
Antenna Europarlamentare – Edizione 2010, Observatory on Institutional Change (CIRCaP). [http://www.gips.unisi.it/circap/file_download/594]
European Elites Survey 2008: Key Findings Report, CIRCaP and Compagnia di San Paolo di Torino. [http://www.gips.unisi.it/circap/ees_overview]
Workshop and conference presentations
(with Irena Fiket) “Pro bono membership? Assessing the impact of EU-sponsored legislation on minority rights in the Balkans”, Paper presented at the 2012 Assessing Accession Research Symposium, University of Tartu, Estonia. [http://assessingaccession.eu/2012-research-symposium/]
(with Pasqualina Smaldore) “One like no one? An assessment of the government-opposition dynamics in the EP”, Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association, University of Palermo, September 8-10, 2011. [http://www.sisp.it/convegno/2011/]
Invited guest at the workshop “Asia in the Eyes of Europe Methodology Workshop - 2“, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC, March 9-11, 2011. [http://www.asef.org/ index.php? option=com_project&task=view&id=692]
Invited speaker at the workshop “Public communications practices in the age of web 2.0”, European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, January 27-28, 2011. [http://www.eesc.europa.eu/? i=portal.en.events-and-activities-press-officers-seminar-2011]
“Merhaba Turkey! Güle Güle! An empirical assessment of MEPs’ voting behaviour on Turkey and Turkish membership”, Paper presented at the International Conference “Debating Security: Changes and Challenges for Turkey”, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 22-23, 2010. [http://www.bahcesehir.edu.tr/iscturkey]
“Parliamentarians or “Yes men”? The impact of domestic pressures on MEPs’ voting behaviour”, Paper presented at the Third ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin City University, Ireland, August 30 – Septeber 2, 2010. [http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/graduate_conference/dublin/]
Invited guest at the workshop “Asia in the Eyes of Europe Methodology Workshop - 1“, German Council for Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, August 23-27, 2010. [http://www.asef.org/ index.php? option=com_project&task=view&id=663]
“Cohesive armies of loyal troops? Looking at MEPs’ parliamentary loyalty through their institutional self- representation”, Paper presented at the Fifth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, University Fernando Pessoa & University of Oporto, Portugal, June 23-26, 2010. [http://www.jhubc.it/ecpr-porto/index.cfm] (with Nelli Babayan) “Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo? Assessing the Imperialist Aspirations of the European Union, the Russian Federation, and the United States”, Paper presented at the workshop “Imperial Power Europe? The EU’s Quest for Supremacy”, University of Manchester, UK, May 27, 2010. [http://www.uaces.org/events/calendar/event.php?recordID=206]
“Who Rules? A Retrospective Analysis of Party Delegations Influence on MEPs’ Voting Behavior”, Paper presented at the 8th Biennial conference of the European Community Studies Association – Canada, University of Victoria, Canada, April 29 – May 1, 2010. [http://web.uvic.ca/ecsac/biennial2010/Home.html]
(Pierangelo Isernia and Nina Liljeqvist) “A Transatlantic Gap in Europe? European Elite and Public Opinion on Transatlantic Issues”, Paper presented at the IPSA International Conference, Université du Luxembourg, March 18-20, 2010. [http://www.luxembourg2010.org/]
“Ideological borders during the Cold war: Stable blocs and blurred boundaries”, Paper presented at the 7th convention of the Central and East European International Studies Association, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg University, September 2-4, 2009. [http://www.sir.edu/rus/project/ceeisa/index_e.shtml]
Invited speaker at the workshop “Qualitative Approaches to Investigating the European Parliament“, Sussex European Institute, July 17, 2009. [http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/outreach/event/qualitative- approaches-investigating-european-parliament
“MEPs 2.0? Europarliamentarians’ Communication Strategies in the Internet Era: General Developments and Individual Specificities”, Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, University of Lisbon, April 14-19, 2009. [http://www.ecprnet.eu/ecpr/lisbon]
(with Caterina Carta) “The EU’s Attitude towards Russia: Condemned to Be Divided? An Analysis of Member States and Members of the European Parliament’s Preferences”, Paper presented at the 4 th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, University of Latvia, Riga, September 25-27, 2008. [http://www.jhubc.it/ecpr- riga]
“Home Sweet Home: Assessing the Weight and the Effectiveness of National Parties’ Interference on MEPs’ Everyday Activity”, Paper presented at the 2nd ECPR Graduate Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, August 25-27, 2008. [http://www.ecpr.org.uk/conference]
“Home Sweet Home: Assessing the Weight and the Effectiveness of National Parties’ Interference on MEPs’ Everyday Activity” [Work in progress], Paper presented at the workshop on “Transnational Party Politics”, European University Institute, Florence, February 1, 2008. [http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/e-texts/ 20080201_TransnationalPartyPolitics.pdf]
“Why Do the MEPs Defect? An Assessment of the Intragroup Cohesion in the European Parliament”, Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association, University of Catania, September 20-22, 2007. [http://www.sisp.it/ sisp_convegnoannuale_paperroom2.asp?id=590]
Past teaching experience
Lecturer of Research Methods at the Graduate School of Social Sciences (yrs. 2011-12), Bahçeşehir University. Teaching Assistant in Public Policy Analysis and Italian Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Siena.
Lecturer of European Politics at the Master Programme “Politics and Society in Europe” (yrs. 2011-12), University of Siena. [http://www.gips.unisi.it/gradschool/master/15/about-the-master-programme]
Lecturer at the Summer School on “European and Russian Elites: Current Transformations”, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia (June 2011). [http://v4.udsu.ru/english/elites]
Joint lecturer at the Crash course “Introduction to SPSS and STATA for Data Analysis in Political Science”, Graduate Program in Comparative and European Politics, University of Siena (November, 2008). [http://www.gips.unisi.it/gradschool/file_download/138]
Visiting lecturer at the course of “Institutions of the European Union” (European Parliament module), Master of Politics and Society in Europe (MPSiE), University of Siena (December, 2009). [http://www.gips.unisi.it/gradschool/file_download/164]
Past activities
Visiting research Fellow at the Bahçeşehir University Center for Economic and Social Research. Project title: “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? An Empirical Assessment of what MEPs think and how the actually vote with respect to Turkey and Turkish Membership” (Mentor: Prof. Seyfettin Gürsel) funded by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey – TÜBİTAK. [http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/tubitak_content_files/ BIDEB/duyuru/2216_2011_2_donem_desteklenenler.pdf]
Research Fellow at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Project title: “So Special, so Normal: An Analysis of the Voting Dynamics in the EP and their Macro-Level implications on the Democratic Nature of the EU” (Mentor: Prof. Christopher Lord); Yggdrasil research grant programme, funded by the Research Council of Norway. (NOK. 143,000) [http://www.forskningsradet.no/ servlet/Satellite? c=Prosjekt&cid=1253966373572&pagename=ForskningsradetNorsk/Hovedsidemal&p=1181730334233]
INTUNE project (Integrated and United? A Quest for a Citizenship in an Ever Closer Europe), Project financed by the 6th European Framework (November 2009 – January 2010). Programme; Role: Field work team member [www.intune.it]
Europolis “A deliberative polity‐making project”, Project financed by_the 7th Framework Program, (May‐ June, 2009); Role: Scientific coordinator [www.europolis‐project.eu]
“Active Welfare in Tuscany and in Europe”, Formez and Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), supported by Tuscany Region (April‐June, 2009); Role: Field work team member.
“European Elites Survey 2008”, Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP), supported by the Compagnia di San Paolo (June‐August, 2008); Role: Scientific team member. [http://www.gips.unisi.it/circap/ees_overview]
“The New European Parliament and the New European Parliamentarians” (interviews with MEPs), Sussex European Institute (SEI), University of Sussex, funded by the British Academy, directed by Prof. Paul Taggart and Dr. Tim Bale (April‐July, 2008); Role: Field work team member.
PARTIREP (Participation and Representation), Inter-university Attraction Pole (IAP) funded by the Belgian Science Policy. Role: Scientific team member. [www.partirep.eu]