Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua, Research Associate at the European Social Observatory, Brussels and Chercheur associé at Sciences Po in Paris. He has held visiting positions at a number of universities, including University of Cambridge, Cornell University, University of Oxford, European University Institute, University of Melbourne, University of Washington. He is co-editor of Governance (2018- ), Past President (2019-2020) of the APSA Conference Group on Italian Politics (CONGRIPS) and Past President of the Fondazione Romagnosi (2021-2024).
He teaches Political Science and Public Policy Analysis and has published several authored and edited volumes and journal special issues. Among his most recent books: “Elgar Encyclopedia of European Union Public Policy” (Elgar, 2022), co-edited with Jale Tosun, and “The Eco-Social Polity? Theoretical, Conceptual and Policy Issues” (Policy Press, 2025), co-edited with Ekaterina Domorenok and Katharina Zimmermann. He is also editing a Special Issue for Regulation & Governance entitled “Bringing the Ecological and the Social Together in the Green Transition. A Multilevel Analysis” and working on a book project tentatively entitled “Crises, Leadership and Neopopulisms in the European Union”.
His work on eco-social movements, eco-social policies, neopopulism and comparative welfare state analysis has been published in, among other places: Policy & Society, European Policy Analysis, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, European Societies, Governance, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Administration, Journal of Common Market Studies, Government & Opposition, International Political Science Review, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Regional Studies, Public Management Review, Review of Policy Research, Italian Political Science Review.
