Caiani, M. Eren, B and Pennucci, N., (forthcoming 2026), "Social Movements and Democratic Self-Defence", in Rovira katwasser, C.; Malkopoulou, A. and B., Rijpkema, The Oxford Handbook of Democratic Self-Defense, Oxford: OUP.

Caiani, M. (forthcoming 2026), "Social Movements", in Caramani, D. (Ed.), Comparative Politics (7th Edition), Oxford: OUP.

Caiani, M (2026), "Le reti transnazionali dell’illiberalismo in Europa", in Rapone, L. Le destre europee del XXI secolo, Carocci. 

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Caiani, M. and Pennucci, N. (2026), "Far Right Climate skepticism across Europe", in Caiani, M., Solinas, M. and Trenz, HJ. (eds.), (forthcoming 2026), Conspiracies and Political Conflict, Palgrave, Palgrave Macmillan.

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Caiani, M (forthcoming 2026), "Rethinking the Far Right Through a Social Movement Lens", in Giorgi, A. and Cullen, P., Mapping political Sociologies, Amsterdam University Press. 

Caiani, M. and Rydgren, J. (forthcoming 2026), "Introduction and Conclusion (ch1, ch 43)", in Caiani, M. and Rydgren, J. (Eds), The Oxford handbook of the social movements of the far right, Oxford: OUP. 

Caiani, M (2025), "The transnationalisation of the far-right between movements and parties", in Milan, C. and Buzogany, A. (Eds), Transnational Political Contention in the European Union and beyond, Routledge.   isbn 978-3-031-86208-3. 

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Caiani , M. and Padoan , E. (2024), "Playing 'Italianness' in popular music: National populism and music in contemporary Italy", in  Dunkel, M. and Schiller, M. (Eds.), Popular Music and the Rise

of Populism in Europe, Routledge, London &NY.

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Caiani, M. (2023), "Between offline and online violent radicalisation", in Akil N. Awan, James Lewis, C. Hurst (Eds.) Radicalisation: A Global and Comparative Perspective, Hurst/Oxford University Press

Caiani, M. (2023), "Meloni, l'Europe, et la transationalisation des droites", in LA RÈGLE DU JEU (80), 339-348.

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Caiani M., D della Porta, C Wagemann, P Castelli Gattinara, ALP Pirro, Wouter van der Brug, Meindert Fennema (2023), chapter, in Rydgren, J. and R. Switzer, Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishing.​

Caiani, M., (2022), "Populism/Populisms", in Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B., and McAdam D. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, Second Edition, https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm523.

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Caiani, M.  (2022) "Populism(s) and Science: Introduction" in H. Eslen–Ziya, A. Giorgi (eds), Populism and Science in Europe in Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. 

Caiani, M. (2021), "A Direita Radical 'em Movimento' em tempos de crise: O caso italiano", in Jefferson R. Barbosa, (Eds.) Extremismos Politicos e Direitas: Bolsonaro, Trump e a Crise das Democracias, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche ed Economiche – Unesp Editions.

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Caiani, M. and Carvalhalo, T. (2021), “The Italian radical right: Going mainstream?”, in Barbera. O (Ed.) Facing the new far right in Southern Europe: Analysing the rise of the extreme right after the financial crisis, Coppieters Foundation - Ideas For Europe, ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 946400875X.​

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Caiani, M. and Graziano, P. (2021), "Introduction: Understanding Varieties of populism in times of crises", in Caiani, M. and Graziano, P. (eds.) Understanding varieties of populism in times of crises,  Routledge, pp. 1-18.

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Caiani, M. (2021), "A Direita Radical 'em Movimento' em tempos de crise: O caso italiano", in EXTREMISMOS POLÍTICOS E DIREITAS: BOLSONARO, TRUMP E A CRISE DAS “DEMOCRACIAS, edited by Jefferson R. Barbosa, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche ed Economiche – Unesp Editions.
 

Caiani, M. (with Michelle Falkenbach) (2021), “Italy’s Response to COVID-19” , chapter 18 in Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19 (Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, André Peralta-Santos, Elize Massard da Fonseca, (Eds.), University of Michigan Press, pp. 320-338, https://www.press.umich.edu/11927713/coronavirus_politics
 

Caiani, M. (with A. Kluknavska), (2021) "Populist Radical right and immigrants in time of crisis. The case of Czech Republic and Slovakia", in Fouskas, Theodoros (Ed.) Immigrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Times of Crises: An International Handbook on Migration, Asylum, Social Integration and Exclusion, European Public Law Series, vol. CXXV, European Public Law Organization (EPLO), Athens.
 

Caiani M. (with Tiago Carvalho) (2021), "The Italian Radical Right: going mainstream?" in Facing the New Far Right in Southern Europe: Analysing the Rise of the Extreme Right After the Financial Crisis Brussels, pp. 32-49.

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Falkenbach, M. and Caiani, M. (2021) "Italy’s Response to COVID-19", in Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, André Peralta-Santos, Elize Massard da Fonseca (Eds.), Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19, University of Michigan Press.

Kluknavska, A. and Caiani, M. (2021) "Populist Radical right and immigrants in time of crisis. The case of Czech Republic and Slovakia", in Fouskas, T. (Ed.) Immigrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Times of Crises: An International Handbook, European Public Law Series, CXXV, European Public Law Organization (EPLO), Athens.

Caiani, M  and Susánszky, P (2020), “Radical-right political activism on the web and the challenge for European democracy: A perspective from Eastern and Central Europe”, in  Giusti, S.  and Piras, E. (eds.), Democracy and Fake News Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics, Routledge, London & NY, pp. 173-187. 

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Caiani, M. (2019), "I partiti populisti e il loro successo elettorale: Differenti cause per differenti populismi?", in Bressanelli, E. and Natali, D. (eds.) Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 49-73.
 

Caiani, M. and Weisskircher, M. (2019), “How many ‘Europes’? Left-Wing and Right-Wing Social Movements and their Visions of Europe”, In C. F. Fominaya and R. Feenstra (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements, pp. 30-45.
 

Caiani, M. (2018), “Organizzazioni di estrema destra e Internet nelle democrazie occidentali”, in Fumagalli, C. and Puttini, S. (Eds.) Destra. Feltrinelli, pp. 48-61.

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Caiani, M. and Cisar, O. (2018), "Chapters 1, 2, 15", in Caiani, M. and Císař, O. (Eds.) Radical Right movements- parties in Europe, Routledge

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Caiani, M. (2018), “Radical Right Cross-National Links and International Cooperation" in Jens Rydgren (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right (Oxford University Press), Oxford. Pp. 394-411.
 

Caiani, M.  and della Porta D. (2018), “The radical right as social movement organizations”, in Jens Rydgren (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right (Oxford University Press), Oxford. pp.327-347.
 

Caiani, M. (2017), “Nationalism, Populism and the ri-birth of nationhood in Europe”, in Grimmel (ed.), A., The Crisis of the European Union: Challenges, Analyses, Solutions, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 91-104. 
 

Caiani, M. and Pavan (2017), “Inconvenient Solidarities. How far-right organizations coalesce online around the construction of an anti-European frame”, Grimmel, A. (eds.), Solidarity and its crisis in the European Union, Nomos, pp. 145-161.
 

Pavan, E. and Caiani, M. (2017), “’Not in my Europe’: Extreme right online networks and their contestation of EU legitimacy”, in Caiani, M. and S., Guerra (eds.), Euroscepticism, democracy and the media: Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe, Palgrave McMillan, pp.169-195.
 

Caiani M. and Guerra, S. (2017), “Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe: An Introduction”, in Caiani, M. and S., Guerra (eds.), Euroscepticism, democracy and the media: Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe, Palgrave McMillan., pp 1-21
 

Guerra, S. and Caiani, M. (2017), “Europe Facing New Challenges of Contestation and Communication: Conclusion”, in Caiani, M. and S., Guerra (eds.), Euroscepticism, democracy and the media: Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe, Palgrave McMillan, pp. 167-193.
 

Caiani, M. and Kluknavska, A., (2017), “Extreme right, the Internet and European Politics in CEE countries: the cases of Slovakia and Czech Republic”, in Barisione, M. and A., Michailidou (eds.), Social media and European politics: Rethinking power and legitimacy in the digital era, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 167-193.
 

Caiani, M. and R. Borri (2016), “Beyond party politics: The search for a unified approach: Research on Right wing movements in Europe”, in G., Accornero and O., Fillieule (eds.) Social Movement Studies in Europe: The State of the Art, NY_Oxford: Berghahn Books, ch 4, pp.69-85.
 

Caiani, M., (2014) “Social Network Analysis”, in della Porta, D. (ed.),  Methodological Practices In Social Movement Research, Oxford University Press, pp. 368-396.
 

Caiani, M. and Borri, R., (2014), “Cyberactisivm of the Radical Right in Europe and the USA: For What, Whom and Why?”, in M. McCaughey (ed.), Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web, Routledge, pp. 182-207. 
 

Caiani, M. and Parenti, L., (2013), "Extreme Right Organisations and Online Politics: A Comparative Analysis on Five Western Democracies", in Paul G. Nixon, Rajash Rawal and Dan Mercea (eds.) Politics and the internet in Comparative Context, London: Routledge, pp. 135-153.
 

Caiani, M. and L., Parenti,(2013), “The Italian Extreme Right and its Use of the Internet: A bi-front Actor?", in A. Mammone, E. Godin and B. Jenkins, (eds.), Varieties of Right-Wing Extremism in Europe, Routledge, pp. 217-232.
 

Caiani, M., (2012), "Extremism", in Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B., and McAdam D. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 440-2.
 

Caiani, M., 2012, "Populism/populist movements", in Snow, D., della Porta, D., Klandermans, B., and McAdam D. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 990-4.
 

Caiani, M. and M., Ferrer-Fons, (2010), “Voluntary Associations and Support for Europe”, in Maloney, W.& van Deth, J. (eds.) Contextualizing Civil Society: A Comparative Analysis of Active Citizens in European Communities, London: Routledge, pp.129-155. 
 

Lelieveldt, H. and Caiani, M., (2007), “The Political Role of Associations” Chapter 9, in William Maloney and Sigrid Rossteutcher (eds.), Organizations as Participatory Vehicles? A Comparative Perspective on Citizen Involvement and Democracy, Routledge: London, pp. 175-192.
 

della Porta, D. and Caiani, M. (2007), “Eurosceptics or Critical Europeanists? Civil Society Actors and Europe”, ch.11, in Claes de Vreese and Herman Schmitt (eds.), A European Public Sphere: How Much of it do we have and how much do we need? Connex Report Series Nr.02, Mannheim, pp. 330-363.
 

della Porta, D. and Caiani, M., (2007), “Social Movements in a multilevel Europe”, in Otfried J., D. Lachenmeier, e A. Stenier (eds.), Entgrenzte Demokratie – Herausforderungen für die politische Kommunikation, Nomos, Baden-Baden, pp.163-180.
 

della Porta, D. and Caiani, M. (2007), “Addressing Europe: How domestic actors perceive European institutions and how they try to influence them”, in J. La Croix and R. Coman (a cura di), La Rèsistence à l’Europe, Edition de l’Univèrsitè de Bruxelles, pp.187-210.