Irene Landini

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Irene Landini is a third-year doctoral researcher at the Department of Politics at Luiss University, in Rome. The main topic of her dissertation is the relation between migration and welfare States’ development in Western Europe, with particular focus on parties and politicians discourses and policy action regarding the management of natives-migrants’ competition for social benefits. Her research is based on a comparative multiple-case analysis of several Western European countries and on a qualitative content analysis of politicians’ parliamentary speeches regarding welfare and immigration. During the first and second year of her PhD, she attended several national and international conferences, both as presenter and discussant. She also spent one academic semester of her PhD abroad, as a visiting research at the University of Vienna (Department of Government). The working title of her thesis is “Relation between migration and welfare States’ development in Western Europe,”

She currently holds a Post-Doc at the School of International Studies at the University of Trento for the project “The World Health Organization and the Covid-19 emergency: function, limits and impact on the territory” 

She speaks fluently French (C1/C2 level) and English (c1 level).

E-mail: irene.landini@luiss.it

CV: 

• PhD Candidate in Politics, Luiss University.
• Teaching Assistant for Dr. Lorenzo De Sio
• Assistant Project Manager for ALDA (European Association for Local Democracy)
• Assistant Project Manager for GLOCAL FACTORY, Verona.
• Second-Level Master in EU project management, University of Venice.
• Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Multi-Level Governance, University of Padova.
• Erasmus Exchange for two semesters, University of Bath.
• Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies, University of Trento.

Research Interests:

migration, political parties, party politics, welfare state, social rights

Academic Publications/Working Papers:

• Landini, I. (2021), The exclusion of migrants and refugees from welfare programs in Austria: the “legitimizing explanations” across different policy areas, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-10-2020-0486
• Landini, I., Paparo, A, 2019. Italy: Complete overturn among government partners League doubles, the M5S is halved. In: De Sio L., Franklin, M., ParliamentElections of 2019. Dossier CISE, Rome: Italian Centre of Electoral Studies.

Other Publications:

• The Constitutional Court struck down the Austrian government’s discriminatory welfare policies against migrants and refugees. But that won’t prevent social exclusion. The Loop, ECPR’s Political Science blog.  15 December 2020 (The Constitutional Court struck down the Austrian government’s discriminatory welfare policies against migrants and refugees. But that won’t prevent social exclusion – The Loop (ecpr.eu)
• Angelucci, D., Landini, I. (2019), “Regionali Basilicata: verso una storica prima volta per il centrodestra?”, Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali, disponibile a: https://cise.luiss.it/cise/2019/03/20/regionali-basilicata-verso-una-storica-prima-volta-per-il-centrodestra/
• Angelucci, D., Landini, I. (2019), “Regionali Basilicata: una svolta storica”, Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali, disponibile a:https://cise.luiss.it/cise/2019/03/27/regionali-in-basilicata-una-svolta-storica/
• Landini, I. (2019), “Europa e istituzioni: una (s)fiducia trasversale”, Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali, disponibile a: https://cise.luiss.it/cise/2019/05/10/italiani-europa-e-istituzioni-una-sfiducia-trasversale