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