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Federico Trastulli

Federico Trastulli is a PhD Candidate in Politics at the Department of Political Science of Luiss University. He was awarded a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from Sapienza Università di Roma and a Master of Science in Global Europe: Culture and Conflict from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He conducts an empirical research project on the ideology of Western European social democratic parties (1990-2019). The title of his doctoral thesis (submitted on 30 November 2022) is “The Determinants of Intrafamily Ideological Differentiation: Western European Social Democracy Between 1990 and 2019.”

E-mail: ftrastulli@luiss.it

CV:

PhD Candidate at Luiss University (2019-2023)
Teaching Assistant to Prof. De Sio in the Political Science Course, Department of Political Science
Research Assistant to Dr. Vincenzo Emanuele in the Department of Political Science
Collaborator at the Italian Centre for Electoral Studies (CISE – Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali)
Member of the CES Research Network on Political Parties, Party Systems and Elections, Member of IPSA, Member of UACES.
Master of Science in Global Europe: Culture and Conflict, London School of Economics and Political Science.
B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Sapienza Università di Roma

Research interests:

Party Politics, Party Ideology, Electoral Manifestos, Political Representation, Elections, Public Opinion, Voting Behaviour, Policy Issues, Political Parties, Social Democracy, European and American Politics, Set-Theoretic Methods, Quantitative Methods, Research Methodology and Epistemology.

Publications:

- Trastulli, F., & Mastroianni, L. (2023). What’s new under the sun? A corpus linguistic analysis of the 2022 Italian election campaign themes in party manifestos. Modern Italy, doi: 10.1017/mit.2023.45.
- Trastulli, F. (2022). Two is Better than One? Testing a Deductive MARPOR-based Left-Right Index on Western Europe (1999-2019). Italian Journal of Electoral Studies – QOE – IJES. https://doi.org/10.36253/qoe-13796.
- Improta, M., Mannoni, E., Marcellino, C., & Trastulli, F. (2022). Voters, issues, and party loyalty: the 2022 Italian election under the magnifying glass. Italian Journal of Electoral Studies – QOE – IJES. https://doi.org/10.36253/qoe-13956.
- Trastulli, F. (2022). «Fence-Building» or «Preservation»: The Paths to Social Democratic Nationalist Position-Taking in Western Europe (2008-2018). Polis, 2/2022, pp. 189-218. doi: 10.1424/104521.
- Capati, A., Improta, M., & Trastulli, F. (2022). COVID-19 and party competition over the EU: Italy in Early Pandemic Times. European Politics and Society. doi: 10.1080/23745118.2022.2095170.
- Trastulli, F (2022). More Left or Left No More? An in-depth analysis of Western European social democratic parties’ emphasis on traditional economic left goals (1944-2021). Frontiers in Political Science, 4:873948. doi: 10.3389/fpos.2022.873948.
- Trastulli, F. (2021). The Broken Promise of Postmaterialism? Analysing Western European Parties’ Emphases Through Manifesto Data (1990-2019). Italian Political Science, 15(3), 273–304.
- Trastulli, F. (2021). Manifesti elettorali e posizionamento ideologico [Electoral manifestos and ideological positioning]. In Acampa, S., Gargiulo, G., Gatti, R., Mazza, R., & Paolillo, M. (eds.), Saperi, conoscenze ed esperienze in formazione (pp. 48–52). Limena: libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni.