Research
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Current
- Ties among Swiss MPs and Interest Groups in the Parliamentary Committees of the Federal Assembly (with Diane Porcellana, Année politique suisse – University of Bern, and Steven Eichenberger, University of Geneva).
- Social Reproduction of Swiss MPs (with Julie Falcon, Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel).
- The Legislative Elections in 2023 in the Canton of Ticino: Surveys among the Candidates and Voters (with Antoine Lehmann and Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
- From class representativeness to class gap: the transformation of the socio-professional profile of left-wing elected representatives in Switzerland (1910-2016) (with Baptiste Antoniazza, Roberto Di Capua and Karim Lasseb, University of Lausanne).
- Women in the Swiss Parliament (1971-2021). Socio-professional profile and political careers in the first 50 years of women’s suffrage.
Completed
2023
National Populism and Borders (with Oscar Mazzoleni, Grégoire Yerly, Lukas Lauener, University of Lausanne, Laurent Bernhard, Universities of Lausanne and Zurich, and Cecilia Biancalana, Università di Torino).
The Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties MPs. A Comparison among Austria, Italy and Switzerland (1980-2016) (with Manuel Anselmi, Università di Bergamo, and Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
2022
The competition for the 2019 Ticino parliamentary elections. Candidates and elected (with Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
The Transformation of the Political Careers Patterns in Switzerland since 1950s (with Roberto Di Capua, André Mach and Karim Lasseb, University of Lausanne).
2021
Ticino’s Elections 2019. Participation and abstentionism, party electorates and territorial links (with Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
Urban Transformations and Local Political Elites. A Comparative Study among four Swiss Cities (with Oscar Mazzoleni, André Mach, Roberto Di Capua and Karim Lasseb, University of Lausanne).
2020
Women in the Cantonal Parliament (1971-2019). A changing profile of women MPs in the Parliament of the Canton of Ticino (on behalf ot the Associazione Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Ticino, Massagno).
The Reform of the Electoral System for the Election of the Government and the Parliament of the Canton of Ticino (with Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
2019
The Young People in Switzerland: their Interest in Politics and their Position on the Left-Right Scale (with Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
2018
The “No Billag” Initiative and the Public Service Broadcasting in Italian-speaking Switzerland (with Oscar Mazzoleni and Yves Di Cristino, University of Lausanne).
Candidates and Elected at the Legislative Elections in 2015 in the Canton of Ticino (with Madeleine Braulin, Oscar Mazzoleni and Yves Di Cristino, University of Lausanne).
The Parliamentary Opposition in Switzerland (with Jan Rosset, University of Geneva, and Yannis Papadopoulos, University of Lausanne).
2017
Voters at the Legislative Elections in 2015 in the Canton of Ticino: Participation, Party, Personnalisation and Issues (with Oscar Mazzoleni, Carolina Rossini and Virginie Debons, University of Lausanne).
2016
The Vote on the Cantonal Initiatives “Prima i nostri” and “Stop al dumping salariale in Ticino !” (with Oscar Mazzoleni, Carolina Rossini and Madeleine Braulin, University of Lausanne).
Citizens’ Opinion on Public Television and Radio in the Italian-Speaking Part of Switzerland (with Virginie Debons, Carolina Rossini and Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
2015
The Opinions of the Christian Democratic Party in the Canton of Ticino (with Carolina Rossini, Virginie Debons and Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
2014
Analyse of Ticino’s Vote on 9 February 2014 Initiative “Against the Mass Immigration” (with Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne).
2013
The Urban Merging in the Canton of Ticino (with Oscar Mazzoleni, University of Lausanne, and Marco Marcacci).