Italy Today: The Sick Man of Europe

Andrea Mammone is a Lecturer in Modern History (post 1800) at Kingston University London. He has previously held visiting research and teaching positions at NYU Florence, State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA), and the Università di Siena (Italy). His articles on the extreme right, transnational history, and public memory have appeared in the journals Modern Italy, Contemporary European History, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Italia contemporanea, and The Italianist among others. He is currently finalizing a monograph on transnational neo-fascism across France and Italy (2010). He is also working on another monograph on the history of Italian neo-fascism (with S. Dechezelles and L. Guerrieri , Routledge Series on Extremism and Democracy), and co-editing two special editions of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies as well as two volumes on European right-wing extremism.

Giuseppe A. Veltri holds a Msc in Social Research Methods from the Methodology Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a PhD in Social Psychology from the LSE. He is currently a scientific fellow at the European Commission JRC Institute for Perspective Technological Studies (IPTS). Before joining the IPTS, he has been a research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS) in Paris. He has taught extensively in the fields of methodology of social research and social psychology. His research interests focus on public opinion research, social representations, behavioural economics and social psychology of economic life, and public understanding of science. He has published in journals such as Nature Materials and Public Understanding of Science.