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PAOLO COSSARINI -
PI-Investigador/a Distingit/Da
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Department: Constitutional Law, Political and Administrative Sciences
Biography

Paolo Cossarini is María Zambrano Fellow at the Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Administration (University of Valencia), and member of the DEMOS research group (Aalborg University). Previously, he was postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University (Denmark), at the School of International Studies - University of Trento (Italy), and Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University (UK). He has also held visiting positions at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and Queen Mary University of London. 

His research focuses on populism and nationalism, democratic theory, Italian and Spanish politics, protest movements, EU politics, and civil society organisations. He has published in European Politics and Society, Global Discourse, European Political ScienceJavnost-The Public, and Revista de Estudios Políticos, among other journals. He is co-editor of Populism and Passions. Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity (2019), The Impact of Populism on European Institutions and Civil Society. Discourses, Practices, and Policies (2021), and Democracia Digital y Emocional. Perspectivas desde América Latina (2024).

Subjects taught and teaching methods