Alessandro Chiaramonte

Biography

Alessandro Chiaramonte is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence, where he also received his doctorate. He is co-founder of CISE, the Italian Center of Electoral Studies (CISE) at the University of Florence and LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome. Former member of the editorial board of the Italian Political Science Review, member of the Italian Political Science Society (SISP), of the Italian Electoral Studies Society (SISE) and of the Association for Parliamentary Studies and Research. He is a Research Fellow in Modern Italian Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science of the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He currently teaches Italian Politics and Elections and Electoral Systems at the University of Florence and Italian Politics at New York University in Florence. He has published books and articles on elections, electoral systems and party systems.   

Research Interest

More specifically, his research interests have focused on the functioning and the effects of various types of electoral systems, especially mixed mazoritarian-proportional systems, on the long-lasting electoral transition of the Italian party and political systems, analyzed from both a national and a regional perspective, and on the comparative analysis of party system change.