Roberto D'Alimonte

Roberto D’Alimonte is in Rome and chair of the department of political sciences. Professor D’Alimonte has been Ford Foundation Fellow at Yale and American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at Harvard and taught as visiting professor in the political science departments at Yale and Stanford. At Stanford he has also given courses on Europe in the MBA program at the Graduate School of Business and continues to be a speaker in the Stanford Business School’s Executive Program. Since 1995 he has taught at New York University Florence Center. His most recent research interests have to do with political and electoral change in Western democracies and particularly Italy. From 1993 to 2009 he has directed a research group on the Italian elections of the Second Republic. The findings have been published in several edited volumes by Il Mulino. His most recent publications in English are The Twilight of the Berlusconi Era: Local Elections and National Referendums in Italy, May and June 2011 (with A. Chiaramonte), in “Southern European Politics and Society” and The Italian elections of February 13: the end of the Second Republic ?, in “ Contemporary Italian Politics” , Special Issue , 5 (2013). Since 2005 he has been the director of the Italian Center for Electoral Studies. Well-known as a political journalist, Professor D’Alimonte covers Italian political events for Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s major financial newspaper. He has collaborated with PM Matteo Renzi on the new Italian electoral reform.