Ilvo Diamanti

teaches Political Science and Communication at the University of Urbino, where he founded and directs the Laboratory of Political and Social Studies (LaPolis). He also teaches Régimes Politiques Comparés at the Masters course in Etudes Politiques at the Paris II Panthéon-Assas University. He undertakes periodic investigations into Italian society and is a contributor to the newspaper la Repubblica. He is a member of the scientific/editorial advisory boards of many journals. His published works include Mappe dell’Italia politica. Bianco, rosso, verde, azzurro... e tricolore (2009), Gramsci, Manzoni e mia suocera. Quando gli esperti sbagliano le previsioni politiche (2012) for il Mulino; Tempi strani. Un nuovo sillabario (Feltrinelli, 2012); Un salto nel voto. Ritratto politico dell’Italia di oggi (with F. Bordignon and L. Ceccarini, Editori Laterza, 2013).