Donatella Della Porta

Professor of Sociology

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 240/233

Fax: [+39] 055 4685 201 

Email: Donatella.DellaPorta@eui.eu

Secretary: Monika Rzemieniecka

Office: BF 265, Badia Fiesolana

 

EUI SPS Department

Via dei Roccettini 9

50014 San Domenico di Fiesole

Italy 

 

Office Hours

For appointments please contact: Monika Rzemieniecka

Short Biography

Donatella Della Porta is professor of sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. She is on leave of absence from the University of Florence, where she was full professor of Political Science, president of the corso di laurea in Administrative Sciences, and Director of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Florence.

Professor Della Porta received a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and a Ph.D in political and social sciences at the European University Institute in Florence.

She directs the DEMOS project (Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of the Society), financed under the VI FP by the EC. She coordinated the Gruppo di Ricerca sull'azione collettiva in Europa (GRACE), and has conducted research also at Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. In 1990 she received a Career Development Award of the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation; in 1997 a Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.

Her main research interests concern social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police and policies of public order. On these issues she has conducted investigations in Italy, France, Germany and Spain.

She has directed a project of comparative research on control of public mass demonstrations in Europe and one on the police in Italy. Currently she is involved in several comparative projects on citizenship and social movements. She is coeditor of the Europeoan Political Science Review (ECPR and Cambridge University Press; journals.cambridge.org/epsr).

Professor Della Porta has been appointed to the Chair in Sociology, and joined the Department of Political and Social Sciences on 1 April 2003.

Languages

• Active: Italian, English, French, German
• Passive: Spanish

Fields of Research

Social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, police and policies of public order.

On these issues she has conducted investigations in Italy, France, Germany and Spain. She has directed a project of comparative research on control of public mass demonstrations in Europe and one on the police in Italy. Currently she is involved in several comparative projects on citizenships and social movements.

Seminars

• Core methods seminar (with P. Vennesson), Autumn 2010

• Research Design in Qualitative Analysis: Interviews & text analysis (with P. Culpepper), Winter 2010

• Contentious Politics: Social Movements, Political Violence and Revolutions (with G. Haupt and S. Smith), Autumn 2009

• Transformations in Democracy: An Introduction to Political Sociology
• Theory and Methods in Research on Political Participation and associational Life
• Social Movements & Political Violence in Europe (with H.-G. Haupt, History Department)
• Qualitative Methods, Winter 2005
• Compulsory Methods (with M. Keating), Autumn 2005
• Compulsory Methods (ctd.) (with M. Keating), Winter 2006
• Transformation in Democracies - An Introduction to Political Sociology, Winter 2006

Publications

• (With M. Keating, eds.) Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences. A Pluralist Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Introduzione alla scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008 (new expanded edition).
• (with M. Cotta and L. Morlino), Scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008 (new expanded edition).
• (with Gianni Piazza), Le ragioni del no. Le campagne contro la Tav in Val di Susa e il Ponte sullo Stretto, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2008.
• (with Alberto Vannucci), Mani Impunite. Vecchia e nuova corruzione in Italia, Roma-bari, Laterza, 2007.
• Et al., Global democracy and the World Social Forum, Boulder Co., Paradigm, 2007.
• (ed.), The Global Justice Movement. Cross National and Transnational perspectives, Boulder Co. Paradigm, 2007.
• O movimento por unma nova globalizacao, Sam Paulo do Brasil, Edicoes Loyola, 2007.
• With Abby Peterson and Herbert Reiter (eds.), The Policing of Transnational Protest, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006.
• La Politica locale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, third revised edition.
• With Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter, Globalization from Below, Minneapolis, The University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
• With Olivier Fillieule (ed.), Police et manifestants, Paris, Presses de Science Po., 2006.
• With Manuela Caiani, Quale Europa? Europeizzazione, identità e conflitti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
• With Mario Diani, Social Movements: an introduction, 2nd edition, Oxford, Blackwell, 2006
• With Sidney Tarrow (eds), Transnational Protest and Global Activism, New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
• (ed.), Comitati di cittadini e democrazia urbana, Cosenza, Rubbettino, 2004.
• With Herbert Reiter, La protesta e il controllo. Movimenti e forze dell’ordine nell’era della globalizzazione, Milano, Berti/Altreconomia, 2004.
• With Maurizio Cotta and Leonardo Morlino, Fondamenti di scienza politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.

Full List of Publications