EUGENIO PIZZIMENTI CURRICULUM VITAE Personal information Place and date of birth: Pisa (IT), November 14 th, 1978; Nationality: Italian; Gender: Male; Personal address: Pisa, Piazza San Martino, n. 5, 56125 Pisa (PI); Office address: Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Via Serafini 3, 56125 Pisa, Italy E-mail: eugenio.pizzimenti@sp.unipi.it; Education March, 27 th, 2007 PhD in Political Science, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Florence, Years 2004-2007. Dissertation on: The Paradigm of Sustainable Development and the Italian Political System (1992-2006) (Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Vannucci). January, 28 th, 2003 Graduation in Political Sciences, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Pisa. Graduate Thesis on: The Evaluation of the EU Structural Policies (Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Anselmo Martino).
Personal skills and competences Native speaker Italian Other language(s) English, Spanish, French Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English B2 C2 B2 C1 B2 Spanish B2 C2 B2 B2 B2 French B2 C2 B2 B1 B1 Computer skills and competences Office; SPSS; Research Fields Policy Sciences; Organisation Theory; Political Parties; Italian Political System; Current Position: Since December, 23 rd, 2011: Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa; Previous Positions: Since February 2010: Research Fellow in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa;
Post-Doc Fellow at the Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR); Jan. 2008 Dec. 2009: Research Fellow in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics, Institutions and History, University of Bologna; Mar. 2007 Dec. 2007: Post Doc Fellow in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa; Feb. 2006 Aug. 2006: Research Assistant at the Department of Political Science at the European University Institute for the research group DEMOS (Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society); Oct. 2004 Dec. 2006: Research Assistant at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa; Mar. 2003 Jun. 2007: Junior Researcher at the Regional Institute for Economic Planning of Tuscany (IRPET), Florence; On-going Projects Nov. 2011: Researcher for the project: Electoral Systems, Parties and Political Personnel in Italy (1987-2008), coordinated by Professors Luciano Bardi (University of Pisa), Piero Ignazi (University of Bologna), Oreste Massari (University of Roma); Nov. 2010 Jun. 2011: Research Assistant for the project: "Uncommon Democracies Revisited, Phase 2: Loss of One-Party Dominance, Causes, and Consequences After Dominance: Do "Uncommon Democracies" Become "Common?", Center for International, Comparative and Advanced Japanese Studies, University of
Pisa, University of Washington, University of San Diego, University of Tsukuba, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Colorado University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Tokyo, University of Berkeley; Chuo University; Participation in National/International Research Project Jan. 2010 Dec. 2010: Research Assistant for the Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR) Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies - (EUI). International project titled: How to create a transnational European party system?, coordinated by Professors Peter Mair (EUI) and Luciano Bardi (University of Pisa); Jan. 2008 Dec. 2010: Junior Co-ordinator for the Research Project of National Relevance (PRIN 2007) "The Regionalisation of the Italian Political Parties, coordinated by Professors Luciano Bardi (University of Pisa), Piero Ignazi (University of Bologna), Oreste Massari (University of Roma); Nov. 2007 Feb. 2010: Junior Researcher for the Research Project of National Relevance (PRIN 2005) "The External Perception of the Italian Foreign Policy, coordinated by Professor Luciano Bardi (University of Pisa); Dec. 2004 May 2007: Junior Researcher for the Research Project of National Relevance (PRIN 2003) "The organisation of Italian Political Parties, coordinated by Professors Luciano Bardi (University of Pisa), Piero Ignazi (University of Bologna), Oreste Massari (University of Roma); Feb. 2006 Aug. 2006: Research Assistant for the FP6 "Demos" (Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society), coordinated by Professor Donatella Della Porta (EUI);
Apr. 2006 Jun. 2006: Research assistant for the project "The governance of Public Water Supply in Tuscany, coordinated by Professor Franco Cazzola (University of Florence); May 2005 Jun. 2006: Junior Researcher for the project The Evaluation of Expected Effects of Regional Planning on Regional Policy Objectives, coordinated by Dr. Patrizia Lattarulo (IRPET) February 2005 : Participant at Programme Intensif: Séminaire interuniversitaire Citoyennete, Identites, Legitimite et Gouvernance Dans l'union Eeuropeene Multiniveaux. Organised by: Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Institut d Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Europa Universitat Viaderina Frankfurt/Oder (EUV), Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Politikatudomanyok Intezetenek Miedynarodowa Szkola Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu Ślaskiego, Galatasaray Universite (Budapest - Miskolc); Mar. 2003 Aug. 2004: Junior Researcher for the project The Planning of EU Structural Funds and Evaluation Practices, coordinated by Dr. Roberto Pagni at IRPET Teaching Activities - Teaching Support, University of Pisa, class on Political Sciences, (A.Y. 2010-2011), Prof. Alberto Vannucci; - Teaching Support, University of Pisa, class on Comparative Political Systems, (A.Y. 2009-2010), Prof. Luciano Bardi; - Teaching Support, University of Bologna, class on Comparative Politics, (A.Y. 2007-2008 and 2008-2009), Prof. Piero Ignazi;
- Teaching activities for the seminars organised by the IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies (December 2009); - Teaching activities for the seminars "Results-Oriented Management and its Political Integration", in collaboration with the faculty of Political Sciences and the Department of Social Sciences of Palermo and Klink SrL (Palermo, Trapani September-October 2009); - Teaching Support, University of Pisa, class on Public Policies, (A.Y. 2006-2008), Prof. Alberto Vannucci; - Teacher for the seminar "Women, Politics, Institutions, organised by the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Pisa, Prof. Rita Biancheri, (Eds. 2007 and 2008); - Teacher for the seminar "Local Development", organised by the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Pisa, and Toscana Promozione, (Eds. 2006); - Teaching activities for the seminar on Local Development, organised by the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Macerata, Prof. Luca Lanzalaco; - Teacher for the Master on Local Development, organised by Regione Toscana and IRPET, (Eds 2005 e 2006); Attended Conferences - Speaker and Co-author, with Professor Luciano Bardi, of the paper: Il finanziamento pubblico ai partiti e lo sviluppo dei Partiti Europei, presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Palermo, September 2011); - Co-author, with Professor Luciano Bardi, of the paper: The Italian DC: end of dominance and post-dominance setting, presented at the Conference After Dominance: Do Uncommon Democracies Become Common?, Tokyo, December 1 st -3 rd 2010;
- Speaker and Co-author, with Professor Piero Ignazi, of the paper: Interazione tra flussi finanziari e organizzazione in quattro partiti italiani: AN, FI, PDS-DS, PPI-DL presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Venezia, September 2010); - Speaker at the conference The future of Parties, organized by the Istituto Alcide De Gasperi (Bologna, December 2009); - Speaker at the conference From Ideas to Paper, from Paper to Road: The Institutionalisation of Change, organized by the Association Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (Empoli, December 2009); - Speaker and Co-author, with Professor Alberto Vannucci, of the paper: Politiche come format. Il caso delle riforme antifannulloni nella pubblica amministrazione, presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Roma, September 2009); - Speaker and Co-author, with Dr. Nicola Chelotti, of the paper: Tra diffidenze, indifferenze e aperture di credito. La percezione esterna del ruolo dell Italia sulla scena internazionale, presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Pavia, September 2008); - Speaker and Author of the paper: Regioni (scarsamente) sostenibili. La sostenibilità dello sviluppo in Veneto e in Toscana, presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Catania, September 2007); - Speaker and Author of the paper: Sotto il vestito niente. L idea di sviluppo sostenibile e il sistema politico italiano 1992-2006, presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Bologna, September 2006); - Co-author, with Dr. Enrico Calossi and Dr. Simona Iacopetti, of the paper: Tra mutamento e continuità: l organizzazione dei partiti post democristiani e comunsti nella Seconda Repubblica, presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Bologna, September 2006);
- Speaker and Co-author, with Professor Alberto Vannucci, of the paper: Governare lo sviluppo sostenibile a livello locale: il caso italiano, presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Cagliari, September 2005); - Speaker and Author of the paper: Governing Sustainable Development at Local Level: a Comparison Between Two Italian Regions, presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops (Granada, April 2005). - Speaker at the Giornata di studi sulla programmazione dei fondi strutturali comunitari ed i sistemi di valutazione, organised by the Commissione di Vigilanza del Consiglio Regionale della Toscana (Florence, December 2004); - Speaker and Author of the paper: Programmazione locale e concertazione. L esperienza toscana dei Programmi Locali di Sviluppo Sostenibile, presented at the Conferenza Annuale della Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (Padova, September 2004); Other Activities Since March 2011: Member of the Editorial Committee of the Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sul Sud Europa (CIRES); Since April 2004: Cultore della materia in Political Science at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Pisa; Aug. 2010 Sep. 2010: External Consulting at Klink SrL for the formulation of project proposal for Life+ Programme (2007-2013); Aug. 2009 Sep. 2009: External Consulting at Klink SrL for the formulation of project proposal for Life+ Programme (2007-2013); Dec. 2005 Sep. 2007: Local Organiser of the IV ECPR General Conference (Pisa, September 6 th 8 th 2007); Apr. 2005 Feb. 2006: External Consulting at Sviluppo Italia SpA;
Oct. 2001 Feb. 2003: Stage at Kiosco SpA: training on how to write a funding proposal for EU projects; Publications Doctoral Thesis: - (2007), Un idea in cerca di autore. Il paradigma dello sviluppo sostenibile e il sistema politico italiano (1992-2006); Books: - (2010) with Bardi, L., Bressanelli, E., Calossi, E., Gagatek, W., Mair, P.. How to create a Transnational Party System. European Parliament Publications, Brussels; - (2010) with Rovina, M., Russo, F.. Casa Amara casa. La questione abitativa a Pisa e Provincia (1998-2010). Pacini Editore, Pisa; - (2009) Le politiche per lo sviluppo sostenibile in Italia. Collana di Scienza Politica, Vol. 1, Edizioni Plus Pisa University Press, Pisa; - (2004) Programmazione locale e concertazione in Toscana: il caso della Legge 41/98, Collana IRPET, Firenze; - (2004) Programmazione dei Fondi Strutturali europei e sistemi di valutazione. Collana IRPET, Firenze; Chapters in books: - (2012) with Chelotti, N. The Role of Bureaucracy in Italian Foreign Policy: an Overlooked Factor? In G. Giacomello, B., Verbeek (eds), Italian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. An Aspiring Middle Power? Lenham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield; - (2007) La galassia post democristiana. In L., Bardi, P., Ignazi, O., Massari (eds), I partiti italiani. Egea, Milano;
Articles: - (2011) with F. Russo, La politica abitativa nella Provincia di Pisa tra persistenza e mutamento, in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, n. 3, pp. ; - (2011) with P. Ignazi, Finanziamento pubblico e mutamenti organizzativi nei partiti italiani, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, n. 2; pp. 199-235; - (2010) From Admiration to Competition. Italy as seen from Spain. In Modern Italy, Special issue: Italy in the eyes of Others, (Guest Editors) O., Croci, S. Lucarelli, vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 337-347; - (2008) Do paradigms matter? L idea di sviluppo sostenibile in Italia. In Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, n. 1, pp. 101-128; - (2005) with A. Vannucci, Il concetto di sicurezza e le politiche per la sicurezza. In Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell Amministrazione, n. 4., pp. 51-76; Submitted Articles: - with Vannucci, A. Le politiche come format. Il caso delle riforme 'antifannulloni' nella pubbblica amministrazione; (submitted to Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, February 2011). Reviews: - E. Rossi, I partiti politici. Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007, pp. 194, In Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, n. 1, 2009; Proceedings: - With Bardi, L., The Italian DC: end of dominance and post-dominance setting; Chapter in the book "Uncommon Democracies Revisited: Loss of One-Party Dominance, Causes, and Consequences After Dominance: Do "Uncommon Democracies" Become "Common?"; - Research Reports:
- (2011) Il sistema politico veneto. Report for for the Research Project of National Relevance (PRIN 2007) "The Regionalisation of the Italian Political Parties, coordinated by Professors Luciano Bardi (University of Pisa), Piero Ignazi (University of Bologna), Oreste Massari (University of Roma); - (2006) AA.VV. La valutazione integrata di piani e programmi regionali, IRPET; - (2005) with Pagni, R., Giordano, A. Monitoraggio e valutazione del Piano Regionale dello Sviluppo Economico della Regione Toscana 2001-2005, Anno 2005; - (2004) with Pagni, R., Giordano, A. Monitoraggio e valutazione del Piano Regionale dello Sviluppo Economico della Regione Toscana 2001-2005, Anno 2004;