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.