The Rise of the Radical Right in Italy

About the Author

Valerio Alfonso Bruno is Research Fellow at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he collaborates with Polidemos (Center for the Study of Democracy and Political Change) and fellow at the Far-Right Analyis Network (FRAN). Bruno is a specialist on the Italian far-right and has recently contributed to the Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe and the Handbook Non-Violent Extremism. His online analyses have appeared, among others, on Al Jazeera, Financial Times, The Economist, France24. Dr James F. Downes is Assistant Professor I in Comparative Politics & International Relations at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. James is the Programme Leader (Head) of the Politics & Public Administration at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. James is also an Adjunct (Part-Time) Professor on the MSSc in Greater China Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Research Fellow in the Global Europe Centre at the University of Kent/The Brussels School of International Studies and a Research Fellow at The Far-Right Analysis Network (FRAN). Dr Alessio Scopelliti is a Political Scientist and PostDoc at the University of Milan (DEMOPE project). He is also Research Assistant at the Royal Holloway University of London in the framework of Professor Joost van Spanje’s ERC Consolidator Grant project “New Parties on the News”. More recently, Alessio has also been appointed as Honorary Research Associate at the University of Bristol and Research Fellow at The Far-Right Analysis Network (FRAN).