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Professor Daniele Albertazzi

Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe

MA, PCTL(HE), PhD

+44 (0)1483 689962

d.albertazzi@surrey.ac.uk

27 AP 01

Academic and research departments

Department of Politics, Centre for Britain and Europe.

About

Biography

Daniele Albertazzi is Professor of Politics in the Politics Department of the University of Surrey. He is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe. Before moving here in September 2021, he was Reader in Politics at the University of Birmingham.

Daniele has been the principal investigator of several research projects focusing on right wing populism, Italian politics, political communication and party organisation. These have been funded by major British research organisations, such as the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and The British Academy. At present, Daniele is leading “The survival of the mass party: Evaluating activism and participation among populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Europe”. This is a large comparative project funded by the ESRC (Ref: ES/R011540/1) which pioneers the systematic comparative study of European populism thanks to unprecedented access to four populist radical right parties in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Finland.

Daniele has published widely on European politics in international journals such as West European Politics, Party Politics and Government & Opposition, and on Italian politics in Contemporary Italian Politics, Modern Italy and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of several volumes, special issues of journals and monographs.

Daniele is regularly called upon as a key-note speaker, external supervisor, and media pundit on areas such as populism and democracy, the European radical right and contemporary Italian politics.

He has convened or co-convened the Italian Politics Specialist group of the Political Studies Association between 2008 and 2018.

Daniele Albertazzi on google scholar.

Daniele Albertazzi on ResearchGate

Research

Research interests

The major strands of Daniele’s research have been about populism in Western Europe, party organisation, Italian politics, Swiss politics, and the communication strategies and mass media use of political parties.

Teaching

Daniele is an experienced programme leader and teacher, having devised, set up and led two interdisciplinary programmes in the past. Throughout the years, he has taught comparative and party politics, contemporary history, political communication and media studies.

During his first year at Surrey, Daniele will contribute sessions to a variety of modules at all levels of the curriculum, focusing on Europe-related matters, populism, the crisis of democracy and political ideologies.

Publications

D. Albertazzi and D. Vampa (2021) Populism in Europe: Lessons from Umberto Bossi’s Northern League, Manchester University Press.

D. Albertazzi and D. Vampa (eds.) (2021) Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe, Routledge.

D. Albertazzi and P. Cobley (2009) The Media - An Introduction, Routledge

D. Albertazzi, C. Brook, C. Ross and N. Rothenberg (2009) Resisting the Tide, Bloomsbury

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2008) Twenty-first Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy, Palgrave

D. Albertazzi, D. Bonansinga and M. Zulianello (2021) The right-wing alliance in the time the Covid-19 pandemic: all change? Contemporary Italian Politics (13) 2.

D. Albertazzi and M. Zulianello (2021) Populist Electoral Competition in Italy: The Impact of Sub-National Contextual Factors, Contemporary Italian Politics, 13:1.

D. Albertazzi (2016) Going, Going,… Not Quite Gone Yet? “<<Bossi’s Lega”>> and the Survival of the Mass Party, Contemporary Italian Politics, 21:8.

D. Albertazzi, A. Giovannini and A. Seddone (2018) No Regionalism Please, We are Leghisti !" The Transformation of the Italian Lega Nord Under the Leadership of Matteo Salvini’, Regional & Federal Studies, 28:5.

D. Albertazzi and A. Giovannini (2015) Surviving the Perfect Storm: Italy After the 2013 Elections, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 20:4.

D. Albertazzi and J. Newell (2015) A Mountain Giving Birth to a Mouse?‘Introduction: A mountain giving birth to a mouse? On the Impact and Legacy of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, Modern Italy: 20: 1.

D. Albertazzi and S. Mueller (2014) Populism and Liberal Democracy: Populists in Government in Austria, Italy, Poland and Switzerland, Government and Opposition, 48: 3.

D. Albertazzi (2013) Amici fragili: the Alliance between the Lega Nord and the Popolo della Libertà as seen by their Representatives and Members, Modern Italy, 18: 1.

D. Albertazzi (2012) La sfida del populismo alla democrazia liberale, La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali (Italian Journal of Social Policy), n. 1.

D. Albertazzi, D. McDonnell and J. Newell (2011) Di lotta e di governo: the Lega Nord and Rifondazione Comunista in Office, Party Politics, 17: 4.

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2010) The Lega Nord Back in Government, West European Politics, 33: 6.

D. Albertazzi (2009) Reconciling “Voice” and “Exit”: Swiss and Italian Populists in Power, Politics, 29: 1

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2008) La botte piena e il militante ubriaco: la Lega Nord al governo, Trasgressioni, 23: 1.

D. Albertazzi (2007) Addressing “the People” – A Comparative Study of the Lega Nord’s and Lega dei Ticinesi’s Political Rhetoric and Styles of Propaganda, Modern Italy, 12: 3.

D. Albertazzi (2006) The Lega dei Ticinesi: The Embodiment of Populism, Politics, 26: 2.

D. Albertazzi (2006) Back to Our Roots” or Self-Confessed Manipulation? The Uses of the Past in the Lega Nord's Positing of Padania, National Identities, 8:1.

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2005) The Lega Nord in the Second Berlusconi Government: in a League of its Own, West European Politics, 28: 5.

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2005) Introduction. Enough Vaccine? The Berlusconi Years, Modern Italy, 10: 1.

D. Albertazzi and I. Fremeaux (2001) Discursive Strategies around “Community” in Political Propaganda - the case of the Lega Nord, National Identities, 4: 2.

D. Albertazzi and S.Mueller (2017) Populism and Liberal Democracy: Populists in Government in Austria, Italy, Poland and Switzerland, in Mudde, C. (ed. ) The Populist Radical Right: A Reader. Routledge.

D. Albertazzi and P. Cobley (2009) Introduction, in Albertazzi, D. and Cobley, P. (eds.) The Media: an Introduction. Routledge.

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2009) The Parties of the Centre Right: Many Oppositions, One Leader, in Newell, J. (ed.) The Italian General Election of 2008 – Berlusconi Strikes Back. Palgrave.

D. Albertazzi and N. Rothenberg (2009) Introduction: This Tide is not for Turning’, in Albertazzi, D. et al. (eds.) Resisting the Tide: Cultures of Opposition Under Berlusconi (2001-06): Bloomsbury.

D. Albertazzi (2009) In Bed with the Enemy: Infighting Among Governing Parties and the Return of the Centre’ in Albertazzi, D. et al. (eds) Resisting the Tide: Cultures of Opposition Under Berlusconi (2001-06). Bloomsbury,

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2008) Introduction: The Sceptre and the Spectre’, in Albertazzi, D. and McDonnell, D. (eds.) Twenty-first Century Populism-The Spectre of Western European Democracy. Palgrave.

D. Albertazzi (2008) Switzerland: Yet Another Populist Paradise’, in Albertazzi, D. and McDonnell, D. (eds.) Twenty-first Century Populism-The Spectre of Western European Democracy. Palgrave.

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2008) Conclusions: Populism and Twenty-first Century Western European Democracy’, in Albertazzi, D. and McDonnell, D. (eds.) Twenty-first Century Populism-The Spectre of Western European Democracy. Palgrave.

D. Albertazzi, D. Bonansinga and D. Vampa (2021) Introduction, in D. Albertazzi and D. Vampa (eds.) Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe, Routledge.

D. Albertazzi, D. Bonansinga and D. Vampa (2021) The Strategies of Party Competition: A Typology, in D. Albertazzi and D. Vampa (eds.) Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe, Routledge.

D. Albertazzi and D. Vampa (2021) Conclusion, in D. Albertazzi and D. Vampa (eds.) Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe, Routledge.

D. Albertazzi and D. McDonnell (2015) Populists in Power. London and New York: Routledge

D.Albertazzi, D. Bonansinga and M. Zulianello (2021) La coalizione di destra al tempo del Covid-19: tra continuità e cambiamento, in Giovannini, A. and Mosca, L. (eds.) Politica in Italia 2020. Bologna: Il Mulino

D. Albertazzi and D. Bonansinga (2023) “Beyond anger: the populist radical right on TikTok”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, published online 29th January.