Books:
- I labirinti della sorveglianza informatica: cittadinanza e impegno politico nell’era della trasparenza universale, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2019 [in Italian]
- (ed. & transl.) What Is a Nation? And Other Political Writings, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018
- Legitimacy and Revolution in a Society of Masses: Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, and the Fin-de-Siècle Debate on Social Order, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2013; re-ed. London: Routledge, 2017
Journal articles:
- “Caught between sovereignty and solidarity? A multidimensional revisitation of EU mass-elite congruence” (with A. Pareschi & G. Baldini), Italian Political Science Review forthcoming
- “Bread or Circuses? Repoliticization in the Italian Populist Government Experience” (with G. Baldini), Government and Opposition 56:3 (Jul. 2021): 505-24
- “Plutocratic Leadership in the Electoral Arena: Three Mitteleuropean Cases of Personal Wealth in Politics,” Comparative European Politics, 18:3 (Jun. 2020): 309-29
- “Italy 2018: The Perfect Populist Storm?” (with G. Baldini), Parliamentary Affairs, 73:2 (Apr. 2020): 363-84
- “Do Changing Electoral Systems Affect (Corrupt) Particularistic Exchanges? Evidence from the Italian Case” (with S. Piattoni), Politics and Governance, 8:2 (2020): 78-91
- “Letture di George Orwell, dal socialismo al populismo,” Nuova Informazione Bibliografica 16:4 (Oct.-Dec. 2019): 697-709 [in Italian]
- “Premessa” (with A. Dal Lago), Aut Aut special section “Nuove forme di sorveglianza,” 384 (Dec. 2019): 141-5 [in Italian]
- “Diffidenza generalizzata e diffidenza specifica nell’epoca della sorveglianza informatica,” Aut Aut special section “Nuove forme di sorveglianza,” 384 (Dec. 2019): 178-88 [in Italian]
- “Kings, Jesters or Kingmakers? European Populist Parties as a Microcosm for Celebrity Politics” (with G. Baldini), British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 21:3 (Aug. 2019): 576-93
- Populist celebrities database (replication material)
- Populist celebrities database (replication material)
- “Wealth, Status, and Faction in Machiavelli’s Worldview,” Il Pensiero Politico 51:1 (Jan. 2018): 3-27
- “The Self as Legitimate Target: Self-Sacrifice and Self-Determination in Mazzini and Gandhi,” Politics, Religion & Ideology 18:1 (Mar. 2017): 23-41
- “«Il deputato della bellezza»: Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Aesthetic Politics in the Fin-de-siècle Crisis,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 18:4 (Aug. 2013): 500-20
Book chapters:
- “European Integration as a Mass-Elite Cleavage? Empirical Evidence and Conceptual Ambiguities” (with A. Pareschi & G. Baldini), forthcoming
- “Norberto Bobbio’s Right and Left between Classic Concepts and Contemporary Crises” in Ferreira, Ana Rita & João Cardoso Rosas (eds.), Left and Right: The Great Dichotomy Revisited, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013: 24-37
- “Plutocracy and Pluto-democracy: The Pervasive Power of Wealth in Modern Society as Polemics and Social Science” in Paul, Joanne M. et al. (eds.), Governing Diversities: Democracy, Diversity and Human Nature, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: 55-66
- “Glorious Instants, Perpetual Recurrences: Georges Sorel, Vilfredo Pareto, and the Dismissal of Progress as a Political Category” in Churn, Natalie & Cecile Lawrence (eds.), Movements in Time: Revolution, Social Justice and Times of Change, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: 199-210
Reviews:
- Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them, by E. Zuckerman, Italian Political Science Review 52:1 (Mar. 2022): 149-51
- Robert Michels e la prima guerra mondiale. Lettere e documenti (1913-1921), by F. Trocini (ed.), Ricerche di Storia Politica 35:2 (Aug. 2020): 209-10 [in Italian]
- From Fascism to Populism in History, by Federico Finchelstein, Ricerche di Storia Politica 34:3 (Dec. 2019): 367-8 [in Italian]
- Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent, by Brooke Harrington, Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa 11:3 (Sep.-Dec. 2018): 530-2 [in Italian]
- Democracy: A Life, by Paul Cartledge, Democratization 25:8 (Nov. 2018): 1540-2
- The Political Is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy, by Lorna Finlayson, Il Pensiero Politico 50:1 (Jan. 2017): 152-3 [in Italian]
- Naissance littéraire du fascisme, by Uri Eisenzweig, Intellectual History Review 24:4 (Oct. 2014): 566-8
- As If God Existed: Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy, by Maurizio Viroli, Journal of Intellectual History and Political Thought 2:1 (Nov. 2013): 251-3
- Oligarchy, by Jeffrey Winters, Constellations 19:4 (Dec. 2012): 624-6
- Les anti-Lumières. Du XVIIIe siècle à la guerre froide, by Zeev Sternhell, Filosofia Politica 21:2 (Aug. 2007): 286-90 [in Italian]
- L’illégitimité de la République. Considérations sur l’histoire politique de la France au XIXe siècle (1851-1914), by Fabrice Bouthillon, Filosofia Politica 20:2 (Aug. 2006): 299-300 [in Italian]
- Perché gli uomini ubbidiscono. Max Weber e l’analisi della socialità umana, by Alfredo D’Attorre, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia 47:1 (Jan. 2006): 167-70 [in Italian]
Translations:
- Nussbaum, Martha, The Monarchy of Fear. Translated as La monarchia della paura, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2020
- Bedoya, Alvaro & Cindy Cohn, “‘I have nothing to hide’ is another way of saying ‘I have privilege’.” Translated as ““Non ho nulla da nascondere” `e un altro modo di dire “Sono privilegiato”,” Aut Aut special section “Nuove forme di sorveglianza,” 384 (Dec. 2019): 146-57
- Doctorow, Cory, “Peak Denial.” Translated as “Il culmine del negazionismo,” Aut Aut special section “Nuove forme di sorveglianza,” 384 (Dec. 2019): 158-62
- Goffman, Erving, “The interaction order”. Translated as L’ordine dell’interazione, Roma: Armando, 1998
- Wagner-Pacifici, Robin, “Theorizing Contingency, or Speaking of Standoffs”. Translated as “Come teorizzare la contingenza, ovvero l’analisi degli stalli”, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia 39:3 (Jul. 1998): 387-411
- Berezin, Mabel, “Enacting Political Identity: Public Rituals as Arenas of the National Self”. Translated as “I rituali pubblici e la rappresentazione dell’identità politica”, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia 39:3 (Jul. 1998): 359-86
List of works in the pipeline.