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Dr. Diego GARZIA
+39 055 4685 864
European University Institute
Diego.Garzia@eui.eu
Via dei Roccettini 9
I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole
http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Fellows/Garzia
CURRENT POSITION
2014–
Research Fellow, European Union Democracy Observatory, Fiesole
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2015
Visiting Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
2012/14
Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Fiesole
2011
Visiting Doctoral Student, University of Oxford
2010
Visiting Researcher, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne
2006
Visiting Scholar, Universiteit Leiden
EDUCATION
2012
Ph.D., Comparative and European Politics, Università di Siena (with distinction)
2008
M.A., Political Science, Universiteit Leiden
2007
M.Sc., European Studies, Università di Roma “Sapienza” (cum laude)
2005
B.A., Political Science and International Relations, Università di Roma “Sapienza”
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION(S)
2015
Qualified as Associate Professor, ASN [Italian National Scientific Habilitation]
HONOURS AND AWARDS
2013
“Giacomo Sani Award” for the best article in political and electoral communication
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica & Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica
“Celso Ghini Award” for the best PhD thesis in electoral studies
Societá Italiana di Studi Elettorali
2012
Shortlisted for the “Jean Blondel Prize” for the best PhD in politics
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
2011
CIRCaP Internationalization Award – 2nd Edition
Università degli Studi di Siena, Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP)
2008
Honours Classes Student
Universiteit Leiden
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian – Native
English – Proficient (C2)
Spanish – Independent (B2)
Dutch – Basic (A2)
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2012/14
European University Institute, Jean Monnet Fellowship
2012
ELECDEM, Marie Curie ITN-238607, Conference Grant
Princeton University, Travel Award (declined)
2011
True European Voter, COST Action IS0806, Conference Grant
European Consortium for Political Research, Conference Grant
2010
6th EU Framework Programme/ZA-EUROLAB, Research Grant
Political Studies Association, Conference Grant
2008/11
Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research, Doctoral Scholarship
2006
Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Thesis Abroad Scholarship
ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND SKILLS
2011
Short Course in Structural Equation Modeling
2010
Summer School on Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour
Lancaster University
Università degli Studi di Milano
Survey Research and Methodology Workshop
Università degli Studi di Siena & TNS Opinion
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2015
Instructor: Multilevel Political Competition: Parties, Citizens and Elections
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, MA-level
2014
Visiting Lecturer: Mass Media & Politics
Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, MA-level – Course Supervisor: Dr. Filippo Tronconi
2012
Instructor: Comparative Political Behavior
Università degli Studi di Siena, PhD-level
2011
Teaching Assistant: Quantitative Methods in Political Science
Università degli Studi di Siena, PhD-level – Course Supervisor: Prof. Michael S. Lewis-Beck
2010
Teaching Assistant: Political Sociology
Università degli Studi di Siena, MA-level – Course Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Bellucci
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
2013/14
euandi.eu – Pan-European Voting Advice Application for the 2014 EP elections
2011
ITANES Expert Survey – Large-scale expert survey of Italian parties' positions
EXTERNAL REVIEWER
International Journals: Acta Politica, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics,
Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review,
European Union Politics, Government & Opposition, International Political Science Review,
Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties, New Media & Society, Political Behavior, Political
Communication, Political Psychology, Policy & Internet, Political Research Quarterly, Political
Studies, Political Studies Review, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Social Science Research, Swiss
Political Science Review, West European Politics
National Science Foundations: Israel Science Foundation
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2015–
Founding Convenor, ECPR Research Network on Voting Advice Applications
2014–
Editorial Board, Comunicazione Politica (ComPol)
2013–
Steering Committee Member, Societá Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP)
International Advisory Board, Montenegrin Journal of Political Science
2010–
Editorial Board, Politikon: IAPSS Journal of Political Science
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2013–
Member, Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica (ComPol)
Member, Societá Italiana di Studi Elettorali (SISE)
Member, Western Political Science Association (WPSA)
2011–
Founding Member, Consortium for European Research with Election Studies
Member, Italian National Election Study (ITANES)
2010–
Member, Societá Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP)
INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
2015
Party Transformation, Leadership Change and Closeness to Parties
Personalisation of Politics in the 21st Century - Final Conference, University of Lisbon, 16 April
Partisanship in Progress: Leadership Change and Closeness to Parties in Italy
Political Behaviour Research Group Seminars, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 10 March
The Personalization of Partisan Attitudes: Panel Evidence from the Italian Case
Political Science Departmental Seminars, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 4 March
2014
Understanding EP 2014 elections: Parties, Voters and Election Results
EP/EUI Policy Roundtable, European Parliament, Bruxelles, 11 December
Personalizing EU Politics?
Roundtable “2014 European Elections”, European University Institute, 27 May
2013
Personalization of Politics and Electoral Change (Book presentation)
Innovation of Governance Lecture Series, University of Twente, 18 November
Personalization of Politics and Electoral Change (Book presentation)
Guest Lectures Series, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 18 June
Assessing the electoral effect of Voting Advice Applications
Jean Blondel Seminars in Political Science, Universitá degli Studi di Siena, 9 April
The Italian Election of February 2013: Winners and Losers
Roundtable “2013 Italian Elections: Time for Change?”, European University Institute, 4 March
2011
Understanding cross-national patterns of VAA-usage
Conference "Voter empowerment ", University of Warsaw, 18 November
INVITED DISCUSSANT AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2013
WPSA Annual Meeting – Hollywood, CA, 26-30 March
2012
22nd IPSA World Congress of Political Science – Madrid, 8-12 July
2011
34th ISPP Annual Meeting – Istanbul, 9-12 July
PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2015
WPSA Annual Meeting – Las Vegas, 2-4 April
2014
28th SISP Conference – Perugia, 11-13 September
8th ECPR General Conference – Glasgow, 3-6 September
2013
ComPol Annual Conference – Milano, 12-13 December
EUDO Dissemination Conference – Fiesole, 28-29 November
27th SISP Conference – Firenze, 12-14 September
7th ECPR General Conference – Bordeaux, 4-7 September
3rd EPSA Annual General Conference – Barcelona, 20-22 June
WPSA Annual Meeting – Hollywood, CA, 26-30 March
2012
26th SISP Conference – Rome, 13-15 September
22nd IPSA World Congress of Political Science – Madrid, 8-12 July
ELECDEM Closing Conference – Fiesole, 28-30 June
11th Politicologenetmaal – Amsterdam, 31 May-1 June
2011
1st European Conference on Comparative Electoral Research – Sofia, 1-3 December
25th SISP Conference – Palermo, 8-10 September
6th ECPR General Conference – Reykjavik, 25-27 August
34th ISPP Annual Meeting – Istanbul, 9-12 July
3rd SISP Graduate Conference – Torino, 23-25 June
10th Politicologenetmaal – Amsterdam, 9-10 June
2010
PSA Graduate Conference – Oxford, 6-7 December
PIREDEU Final User Conference – Bruxelles, 18-19 November
24th SISP Conference – Venezia, 16-18 September
3rd ECPR Graduate Conference – Dublin, 30 August-1 September
ITANES/ComPol Workshop – Bologna, 17-18 June
60th PSA Annual Conference – Edinburgh, 29 March-1April
23rd SISP Conference – Rome, 17-19 September
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2015
Section Chair: Voting Advice Applications across the Atlantic
9th ECPR General Conference, Université de Montréal
2014
Section Chair: Voting Advice Applications and elections in Europe
8th ECPR General Conference, University of Glasgow
2013
Section Chair: Voting Advice Applications in a comparative perspective
7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po Bordeaux
Workshop Organizer: Matching voters with parties and candidates
Institut de Hautes Études en Administration Publique, Lausanne
2012
Panel Organizer/Chair: Voting Advice Applications: Comparative research
25th Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science, Rome
Group Leader: Voting Advice Applications and their effect on voting behaviour
ECPR Research Sessions, European University Institute, Fiesole
Publications
RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (forthcoming) (eds.) Voting Advice Applications across the Atlantic. Special
issue of Policy & Internet. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
Garzia, D. (2014) Personalization of Politics and Electoral Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (2014) (eds.) Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. Voting Advice
Applications in a Comparative Perspective. Colchester: ECPR Press.
Cedroni, L. & Garzia, D. (2010) (eds.) Voting Advice Applications in Europe. The State of the Art.
Naples: Civis.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Bright, J.; Garzia, D.; Lacey, J.; Trechsel, A. (in press) Europe’s Voting Space and the Problem of
Second-Order Elections: A Transnational Proposal. European Union Politics.
Garzia, D. & De Angelis, A. (in press). Partisanship, leader evaluations, and the vote:
Disentangling the new iron triangle in electoral research. Comparative European Politics.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Lewis-Beck, M. (2015). Issues and leaders as vote determinants: The case
of Italy. Party Politics 21: 272-283.
Garzia, D. (2014). The dishonest vote in Italian parliamentary elections. Contemporary Italian Politics
6: 115-130.
Barisione, M., Catellani, P. & Garzia, D. (2014). Tra Facebook ei Tg. Esposizione mediale e
percezione dei leader nella campagna elettorale italiana del 2013. Comunicazione Politica 14: 187210.
De Angelis, A. & Garzia, D. (2013). Individual level dynamics of PTV change across the electoral
cycle. Electoral Studies 32: 900-904.
Garzia, D. (2013). Can Candidates’ Image Win Elections? A Counterfactual Assessment of Leader
Effects in the Second Italian Republic. Journal of Political Marketing 12: 348-361.
Garzia, D. (2013). The Rise of Party/Leader Identification in Western Europe. Political Research
Quarterly 66: 533-544.
Garzia, D. (2013). The 2013 Italian Parliamentary election: Changing things so everything stays the
same. West European Politics 36: 1095-1105.
Garzia, D. (2013). Changing Parties, Changing Partisans. The Personalization of Partisan
Attachments in Western Europe. Political Psychology 34: 67-89.
Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (2012). Voting Advice Applications Under Review: The State of
Research. International Journal of Electronic Governance 5: 203-22.
Garzia, D. (2012). Party and Leader Effects in Parliamentary Elections: Towards a Reassessment.
Politics 32: 175-85.
Garzia, D. & Viotti, F. (2012). Party Identification, Leader Effects and Vote Choice in Italy, 19902008. World Political Science Review 8: 1-23.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Rubal, M. (2012). ¿Importa Europa en las Elecciones Europeas? Un
modelo explicativo de las elecciones del 2009 al Parlamento Europeo. Revista Española de
Investigaciones Sociológicas 137: 25-42.
Garzia, D. & Viotti. F. (2011). Leader, identità di partito e voto in Italia, 1990-2008. Rivista Italiana di
Scienza Politica 41: 411-32.
Garzia, D. (2011). The personalization of partisan attachments in the Second Italian Republic.
Bulletin of Italian Politics 3: 59-78.
Garzia, D. & Verzichelli, L. (2011). Publishing political science in Italy. An analysis of the last
decade of contributions to the RISP. Italian Political Science 6/2011.
Garzia, D. (2011). Le ragioni del ‘voto disonesto’ nelle elezioni parlamentari italiane del 2006.
Quaderni di Scienza Politica 18: 209-33.
Garzia, D. (2011). The Personalization of Politics in Western Democracies: Causes and
Consequences on Leader-Follower Relationships. The Leadership Quarterly 22: 697-709.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Rubal. M. (2010). Campagna elettorale e popolarità dei governi nelle
elezioni europee. Comunicazione Politica 1/2010: 17-36.
Garzia, D. (2009). The Dynamics of (Personalized) Party Identification in the Second Italian
Republic. Politikon 15: 24-48.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Garzia, D. (forthcoming). "Candidate evaluations". In K. Arzheimer, J. Evans & M. Lewis-Beck
(eds.), The Handbook of Electoral Behaviour. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
Sudulich, M., Garzia, D., Trechsel, A. & Vassil, K. (2014). “Party placement in supranational
elections: The case of the 2009 EP elections”. In D. Garzia & S. Marschall (eds.), Matching Voters
with Parties and Candidates. Voting Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective. Colchester:
ECPR Press.
Garzia, D., De Angelis, A. & Pianzola, J. (2014). “The Impact of VAAs on Electoral Participation”.
In D. Garzia & S. Marschall (eds.), Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. Voting Advice
Applications in a Comparative Perspective. Colchester: ECPR Press.
Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (2014). “Voting Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective. An
Introduction”. In D. Garzia & S. Marschall (eds.), Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates.
Voting Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective. Colchester: ECPR Press.
Garzia, D, Trechsel, A., Vassil, K. & Dinas, E. (2014). “Indirect Campaigning – Past, Present and
Future of Voting Advice Applications”. In B. Grofman, A. Trechsel & M. Franklin (eds.), The
Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective: Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements. New
York: Springer.
Barisione, M., Catellani, P. & Garzia, D. (2013). “Alla ricerca di un leader”. In ITANES (ed.), Voto
amaro. Disincanto e crisi economica nelle elezioni del 2013. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Garzia, D. (2013). “Ancora tu.. Le motivazioni di voto per i candidati”. In C&LS – Candidate and
Leader Selection (ed.), Forza Doria. Divertissements seri sulle elezioni primarie. Genoa: Epoké.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Rubal, M. (2012). “Does Europe Matterin European Elections? A
Composite Model of the 2009 European Parliament Elections”. In S. Banducci, M. Franklin, H.
Giebler, S. Hobolt, M. Marsh, W. van der Brug & C. van der Eijk (eds.), An Audit of Democracy in
the European Union. Fiesole: European University Institute.
Garzia, D. (2012). “Understanding cross-national patterns of VAA-usage: integrating macro- and
micro-level explanations”. In A. Dziewulska & A. Ostrowska (eds.), Europeanisation of political
rights: Voter Advice Application and migrant mobilisation in 2011 UK elections. Warsaw: Centre for
Europe, University of Warsaw.
Garzia, D. (2010). “The Effects of VAAs on Users’ Voting Behaviour: An Overview”. In L. Cedroni
& D. Garzia (eds.), Voting Advice Applications in Europe: The State of the Art. Napoli: Civis.
WORKING PAPERS
Garzia, D., Trechsel, A., De Sio, L. & De Angelis, A. (2015). euandi. Project description and datasets
documentation. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2015/01. Fiesole: European University Institute.
Bright, J., Garzia, D., Lacey, J. & Trechsel, A. (2014). Trans-nationalising Europe’s Voting Space.
EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2014/02. Fiesole: European University Institute.
De Angelis, A. & Garzia, D. (2012). Short-term political attitudes and PTV’s. Preliminary evidence
from the Italian case. ITANES Working Papers Series, 2/2012. Bologna: Istituto Cattaneo.
Garzia, D. (2011). From Group Membership to Party Leadership: The Changing Determinants of
Partisanship in Italy, 1968-2008. Nuffield’s Working Papers Series in Politics, 2011-07. Oxford:
Oxford University.
Garzia, D. (2011). Changing Parties, Changing Partisans. The Personalization of Partisan
Attachments in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. GESIS Working Papers, 12-2011. Bonn:
Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften.
Garzia, D. (2010). Explaining the Dishonest Vote in Italian Parliamentary Elections, 2006. CIRCaP
Occasional Papers, 23/2010. Siena: Università degli Studi di Siena.
BOOK REVIEWS
Marina Costa Lobo and John Curtice, "Personality Politics? The Role of Leader Evaluations in
Democratic Elections", Oxford: Oxford University Press. Party Politics (forthcoming).
Delia Baldassarri, “The Simple Art of Voting”, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Polis: 27(3).
David Sanders, Paolo Bellucci, Gábor Tóka and Mariano Torcal, “The Europeanization of National
Polities? Citizenship and Support in a Post-Enlargement Union”, Oxford: Oxford University
Press. In Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 43(2).
Kees Aarts, Andrè Blais and Hermann Schmitt, “Political Leaders and Democratic Elections”,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Amanda Bittner, “Platform or Personality? The Role of
Party Leaders in Elections”, Oxford: Oxford University Press. In Political Studies Review: 11(2).
Jean Blondel and Jean Louis Thiébault with Katarzyna Czernicka, Takashi Inoguchi, Ukrist
Pathmanand and Fulvio Venturino, “Political Laedership, Parties and Citizens. The
Personalisation of Leadership”, London-New York: Routledge. In Modern Italy: 18(1).
Wojciech Cwalina, Andrzej Falkowski and Bruce I. Newman, “A Cross-Cultural Theory of Voter
Behavior”, New York and London: The Haworth Press. In Political Studies Review: 9(1).
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