Publications | Manuela Caiani

Below is a comprehensive list of Manuela Caiani's publication history. To access and download her open-access publications, please consult her Academia.edu profile. For further information, please emai: Manuela.Caiani@sns.it

Book Publications

Caiani, M. et al., (2024), European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU, Routledge.

Manuela Caiani & Enrico Padoan (2023), Populism and (Pop) Music, Palgrave.

Manuela Caiani & Paolo Graziano, (2021), (eds.) Varieties of populism in Europe in times of crises, Routledge.

Manuela Caiani and Ondrej Csiar (eds.), (2018), Radical Right Movement Parties in Europe, Routledge.

Manuela Caiani and Simona Guerra (eds.), (2017), Euroscepticism, democracy and the media: Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe, Palgrave.

Manuela Caiani and Linda Parenti, (2013), European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet, Ashgate.

Manuela Caiani and Linda Parenti, (2013), Web Nero: Organizzazioni di estrema destra ed Internet, Bologna, Il Mulino.

Manuela Caiani, Donatella della Porta and Claudius Wagemann, (2012), Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States, Oxford, Oxford University press.

Manuela Caiani, (2011), L’Europeizzazione degli attori domestici: policy networks, mobilitazione e frames sull’Europa, Roma, Bonanno Editore.

Donatella della Porta and Manuela Caiani, (2009), Social Movements and Europeanization, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Donatella della Porta and Manuela Caiani, (2006), Quale Europa? Europeizzazione, identità e conflitti, Bologna, Il Mulino.

Scientific Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

Caiani, M. & Tranfić, I. (2024; forthcoming), 'Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Networks', Mobilization: An International Quarterly.

Caiani, M, Susasnzky, P. & Saridakis, N., (2024), 'Radical Right and Anti-Vax Protests Between Movements and Parties: a Comparative Study', Acta Politica.

Caiani, M., & Eren, B., (2023), 'A EUROPEAN ANTIPOPULIST MOVEMENT? THE EMERGENCE AND DIFFUSION OF THE ITALIAN SARDINES AND FINNISH HERRINGS', Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 1 September 2023; 28 (3): 375–395.

Caiani, M. & Lubarda, B., (2023), 'Conditional environmentalism of right-wing populism in power: ideology and/or opportunities?', Environmental Politics.

Caiani, M. (2023), 'Framing and Social movements', Discourse Studies, pp. 1 -15

Caiani, M. & Meardi, G. (2022), ‘Populism in power and its socio-economic policies: An assessment of European evidence,’ Stato e Mercato.

Caiani, M. & Graziano, P. (2022), ‘The Three Faces of Populism in Power: Polity, Policies and Politics’, Government and Opposition, pp. 1-20.

Caiani, M. & Weisskircher, M. (2022), ‘Anti-Nationalist Europeans and Pro-European Nativists on the Streets: Visions of Europe from the Left to the Far Right’, Social Movement Studies.

Caiani, M., Padoan, E., & Marino, B. (2021). ‘Candidate Selection, Personalization and Different Logics of Centralization in New Southern European Populism: The Cases of Podemos and the M5S’. Government and Opposition.

Caiani, M., Carlotti, B. & Padoan, E. (2021) ‘Online Hate Speech and the Radical Right in Times of Pandemic: The Italian and English Cases’, Javnost - The Public, 28:2, 1-17.

Caiani, M. & Carvalho, T. (2021) ‘The use of religion by populist parties: the case of Italy and its broader implications,’ Religion, State and Society, 49:3, 211-230, DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2021.1949935

Caiani, M. & Custodi, J., (2021) 'Populismo di sinistra e nazionalismo. Il caso spagnolo,' ComPOl, (1) 21, pp.79-101.

Caiani M, & Padoan E. (2020) ‘Populism and the (Italian) crisis: The voters and the context’. Politics, pp. 1-17. doi:10.1177/0263395720952627

Manuela Caiani and Enrico Padoan (2020), Special Issue “The Cultural Side of Populism: Politics, Emotions, Music and Subcultures in Populist Times”, Partecipazione e Conflitto (Participation and Conflict), Issue 13(1), DOI: 10.1285/i20356609v13i1p01

Caiani M, & Padoan E. (2020), “Setting the Scene: Filling the Gaps in Populism Studies”, Partecipazione e Conflitto, (Participation and Conflict), Issue 13 (1), pp.1-28.

Caiani, M. (2020), ‘How to measure populism’, Polis, Il Mulino, pp. 151-164, https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1424/96444

Caiani, M. & Graziano, P. (2019) ‘Understanding varieties of populism in times of crises’, West European Politics, 42:6, 1141-1158.

Caiani, M. (2019) ‘The populist parties and their electoral success: different causes behind different populisms? The case of the Five-star Movement and the League’, Contemporary Italian Politics, Vol 11 (3), pp.236-250, https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2019.1647681

Caiani, M. (2019), “The rise and endurance of radical right movements”, In Current Sociology Review 67(6) 918-935, DOI: 10. 1177/00 11392 119868000.

Caiani, M. and Graziano, P. (2018) ‘Europeanisation and social movements: The case of the Stop TTIP campaign’, European Journal of Political Research 57, 1031-1055.

Caiani, M. & Graziano, P. (2018), ‘Europeanisation and social movements: The case of the Stop TTIP campaign’, European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 57, Issue 4, pp. 1-25, https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12265

Caiani, M. (2017) ‘Between Contextual Opportunities and Discursive Resources’, in Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, v. 3, n. 3, sep. 2017. ISSN 2416-089X.(http://intersections.tk.mta.hu/index.php/intersections/article/view/397)

Caiani, M. (2017), “Radical Right Wing Movements: Who, When, How and Why?” In Sociopedia, pp. 1-15.

Caiani, M. and Pavan, E. (2017), "Solidarietà Sconvenienti. Reticoli di estrema destra contro l’Europa e proposte per riformarla”. In Comunicazione Politica (ComPol), 3/2017, 359-384.

Caiani, M. & Kröll, P. (2017) ‘Nationalism and Populism in Radical Right Discourses in Italy and Germany’, Javnost - The Public (Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture), 24:4, 336-354.

Caiani, M. and Graziano, P. (2016), “Varieties of Populism: Insights from the Italian Case”, in Italian Political Science Review, 46 (2), 243-267.

Caiani, M. (2015), “Symposium on Mario Diani’s book: An introduction”, in Partecipazione e Conflitto, Vol.8, n. 3, pp. 876-886.

Caiani , M. and Kröll, P. (2014), “The transnationalization of the extreme right and the use of the Internet,” International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 39(3), pp.1-21.

Caiani, M. and Conti, N. (2014), “In the Name of the People: The Euroscepticism of the Italian Radical Right”, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 15:2, pp. 183-197.

Caiani M. and Borri, R. (2013), “The Extreme Right, Violence and Other Action Repertoires: An Empirical Study on two European Countries”, in Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 14, Issue 4, pp. 562-581.

Borri, R. and Caiani, M. (2012), "Violenza politica e strategie di azione: uno studio empirico sulle organizzazioni di estrema destra in Italia e Spagna," in Partecipazione e Conflitto, Anno V, n. 2/2012, pp.5-30.

Caiani, M. and della Porta, D. (2011), “The Elitist Populism of the Extreme Right: A Frame Analysis of Extreme Right Wing Discourses in Italy and Germany”, in Acta Politica, Vol 46, n. 2, pp.180-202.

Caiani, M. (2011), 'L’estrema destra in Italia fra passato e presente: il discorso sulla globalizzazione in Societa’, Mutamento e Politica, issn 2038-3150, vol. 2, n. 3, pp. 133-151.

Caiani, M. and Parenti, L. (2011), “The Cyber-Hate in Spain: Extreme Right Organizations and the Internet”’, in Análise Social, vol. XLVI (201), 2011, 719-740.

Marchi, R., Caiani, M. and Bulli, G., (2011), “L’estrema destra nel Sud Europa: una Introduzione”, in Análise Social, vol. XLVI (201), 2011, 625-632.

Caiani, M. and Parenti, L., (2009), “The Dark Side of the Web: Italian Right-Wing Extremist Groups and the Internet” in South European Society & Politics, Volume 14, Issue, 3, September, pp. 273 – 294.

Caiani, M. and Wagemann, C., (2009), “Online Networks of the Italian and German Extreme Right: An Explorative Study with Social Network Analysis”, in Information, Communication & Society, Volume 12, No 1, pp. 66-109.

Caiani, M., (2009), “Networks e mobilitazione sull’Europa: quale la partecipazione dei movimenti sociali?”, in Partecipazione e conflitto, n. 2, pp. 75-111.

Caiani, M. and Wagemann, C., (2007), “The Rise and the Fall of the Extreme Right in Europe: Towards an Explanation?”, in ModernItaly, Taylor & Francis, November, Issues 3, Vol 12, pp. 376-388.

della Porta, D. and Caiani, M., (2007), “Europeanization from Below? Social movements and Europe”, in Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Research in Social Movements, Protest, and Contentious Politics 12(1), pp. 1-20.

della Porta, D. and Caiani, M., (2007), “Talking Europe in the Italian Public Sphere”, in South European Society & Politics, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 1–21.

della Porta, D. and Caiani, M., (2006), The Europeanization of Public Discourse in Italy: A Top-Down Process?”, in European Union Politics, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 77-112.

Caiani, M. and Andretta, M., (2005), “Social Movements in Italy: which kind of Europeanisation?” in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 7, n. 3, pp. 283-298.

della Porta, D. and Caiani, M., (2004), “L’europeizzazione della sfera pubblica in Italia: Un processo top-down?” in Rivista italiana di Scienza Politica, 34, pp. 459- 489.

Caiani, M., (2003), “Capitale sociale e partecipazione politica: associazioni e attivisti a Firenze”, in Polis, pp. 61-92.

Book Chapters

Caiani, M., (2022 forthcoming), ‘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, Second Edition.

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. and Graziano, P. (2021), ‘Introduction: Understanding Varieties of populism in times of crises,’ Manuela Caiani & Paolo Graziano (eds.) ‘Understanding varieties of populism in times of crises’, Routledge, pp. 1-18.

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 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.

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.

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, (https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Contemporary-European-Social-Movements-Protest-in/Flesher-Fominaya-Feenstra/p/book/9781138494930 ).

Caiani, M. (2018), “Organizzazioni di estrema destra e Internet nelle democrazie occidentali”, in Destra Destre. Feltrinelli, pp. 48-61.

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.

Miscellaneous Articles, Working Papers, and Book Reviews

Caiani, M., (2018), "La destra Radicale in Movimento: fra successi elettorali e nuove strategie online in Movimento," Il Mulino, Bologna, n. 5/2018, pp.831-838.

Caiani, M., (2014), "Le grandi contraddizioni della destra populista," Il Mulino, Bologna, n. 473, 3/2014, pp. 450-458.

Caiani, M., (2014), Anti-Europe Political Parties: Will they Conquer the EU? Standpunkt paper, 22/2014, IHS, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

Caiani, M., (2014), “Radical Right Wing Mobilization and Discourses on Europe in Time of Crisis”, Innovative Democracy WP Series, Osterreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Austrian Research Association, Vienna, Austria.

Caiani, M. and Borri, R., (2011), “Between violent and non-violent action strategies: a study on extreme-right organizations in Italy and Spain, WP Political Science Series n.121, IHS, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

Caiani, M. and della Porta, D., (2010), "Extreme Right and Populism”, WP Political Science Series n.130, IHS, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.

Caiani, M., (2010), book review “Italy Today: The sick Man of Europe”, by Mammone & Veltri (eds.), in Bulletin of Italian Politics, Routledge, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 181-198.

Caiani, M., (2007), “Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Non reconciliation”, by Anna Cento Bull, book review, ECPR-SG on Extremism & Democracy, Berghahn Books, Vol. 9, No. 4, December.

della Porta, M. and Caiani, M., (2005), “Di cosa si parla, quando si parla d’Europa?” in Il Mulino, Bologna, 56, n. 421, pp. 937-948.

Non academic recent publications:
-https://www.rivistailmulino.it/isni/2896

OCIS and Altreconomia:

Caiani, M., & Lubarda, B., (2023), "L’ambientalismo condizionato dei partiti populisti di destra", Altreconomia.

Caiani, M., (2023), "PERCHÉ LA DESTRA RADICALE OGGI PARLA AL FEMMINILE? UNO SGUARDO ALL’ITALIA E ALL’EUROPA", OCIS.

Caiani, M., (2022), "DISCORSI D’ODIO, DESTRE RADICALI E SOCIAL MEDIA AI TEMPI DELLA PANDEMIA", OCIS.

Caiani, M., & Falkenbach, M., (2020), "L’impatto ambiguo dei populismi sui sistemi sanitari nazionali", Altreconomia.

Caiani, M., & Lubarda, B., (2020), "Quello scivoloso “ecologismo di governo” della destra populista in Europa", Altreconomia.

Caiani, M., (2019), "LA DESTRA POPULISTA IN EUROPA E LE PROSSIME ELEZIONI EUROPEE", OCIS.