​I am Associate Professor of Political Science at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. I am  Deputy director of CISE (Italian Center for Electoral Studies) and member of ITANES (Italian National Election Studies).
My research focuses mainly on elections, cleavage politics, party competition, and party system change.
I have published articles on several national and international journals such as, among others, European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics, West European Politics, Government and Opposition, South European Society and Politics, and Comparative European Politics. I have co-edited seven e-books on Italian local and national elections and the European Parliament elections published by CISE, and I am the author of several book chapters focusing on party systems, voting behaviour, Italian and European politics.
My first monograph, entitled 'Cleavages, institutions, and competition. Understanding vote nationalization in Western Europe (1965-2015)', has been published by Rowman and Littlefield/ECPR Press. My second monograph, entitled 'The deinstitutionalization of Western European party systems' has been published by Palgrave Macmillan.