About

Andrea Pettrachin is a Postdoctoral Researcher at CCA. Before joining the Whole-COMM Project, he worked as Research Associate at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute, on the H2020 Project ASILE and the ERC Project MIGPROSP, and at the University of Bologna in the ERC project “Processing Citizenship”. He holds a PhD in Politics awarded in 2020 by the University of Sheffield, supervised by Prof. Andrew Geddes. His research focuses on the interplay between migration (multi-level) governance, politics and policymaking. During his PhD he analysed policymakers’ decision-making processes during the ‘refugee crisis’, at both the local and national levels, applying qualitative methods and social network analysis. He has published articles on this topic in various international journals. Fred Paxton is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Milan, where he is involved in the Volkswagen Stiftung-funded research project ‘ProDem’. He was awarded a PhD in Social and Political Sciences by the European University Institute in September 2021. His PhD project dealt with the participation of populist radical right parties in local government in Western Europe. His publications have appeared in Political Science Research and Methods, Government and Opposition, Representation, and Contemporary Italian Politics.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Extremism, Local Government, Political Parties, Populism, Communication

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Extremism and Democracy
• Local Government and Politics
• Political Parties