Biography

Vittorio Mete is a full professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence, where he also teaches “Sociology of Leadership”, “Society and Democracy”, and “Mafia, Politics and Corruption”. He took his PhD in Political Sociology at the University of Florence in 2004. His main areas of research are anti-politics and anti-party sentiment, the local political class, political participation, and the relations between the mafia, the economy, and politics, as well as anti-mafia movements. His most recent books include: “Il partito che non c'è. L'astensionismo elettorale in Italia e in Europa” (il Mulino, 2025) (with D. Tuorto) and “Anti-Politics in Contemporary Italy” (Routledge, 2022).

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