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Welcome to CIRCaP

The Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP) was established in June 1997, with the aim of doing research, analysis, collecting data and promoting advanced education on the problems and processes relating to political change at the sub-national, national and international levels. The academics and founders of the Centre are political scientists, but the Centre also involves the participation of scholars from the main social science disciplines.

The Centre mainly promotes research activities in the following areas:
a) Comparative analysis of the European political elites and of their recruitment processes
b) Analysis of public opinion, with a particular focus on the themes of national and European identity and the public’s beliefs on foreign and defence policy issues
c) Study of political behaviour and elections
d) Comparative analysis of parliamentary and governmental institutions
e) Analysis of the relationship between domestic politics and the European integration
f) Analysis of political language
g) Theories of political class

CIRCaP operates as a reference point for international research networks (i.e. the scientific network EurElite, supported by the European Science Foundation, the IntUne project, which is part of the VI Framework Programme of the European Union, the Europolis project and the Transworld project which are part of the VII Framework Programme of the European Union). The Centre also hosts the Standing Group of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) on Parties, Public Opinion and Elections (POPE).

Connected to these activities, CIRCaP creates and updates some important databases (on the parliamentary and governmental elites; on the programmes of government and political parties; on public opinion and foreign policy), and it also publishes Occasional Papers. Within the framework of our graduate community and in cooperation with the School of International Studies (University of Trento), the Centre also edits Interdisciplinary Political Studies. The primary aim of the journal is to encourage and promote the research of graduate students and young scholars.

Concerning the teaching activities, in recent years the Centre has established a Graduate School with a strong international orientation, which manages the Ph.D program in Political Science, European Politics and International Relations, a joint doctoral initiative of the University of Siena, the Pisa-based Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and the Universities of Florence and Pisa. Both programmes are taught in English and attended by students from both European and non-European Countries. Within these programmes, the Centre regularly accepts Visiting Scholars from Italian and foreign Universities that take part in the teaching activities. Short specialized courses, which are particularly focused on research methodologies, complete the advanced education offered at the Centre.

CIRCaP operates with the collaboration and the administrative support of the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena.
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March, 27th
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"Approaches in Politica Career Studies: A Critical Review for a Research Agenda".
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Patterns of isolationism: a quantitative assessment of Italy’s defence and foreign policy from government alternation to ‘grand coalitions’


Framing War: Public Opinion and Decision-Making in Comparative Perspective


Can European elections be deliberative? The 2009 Europolis deliberative poll


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Experiencing Multilevel Democracy
Siena, 13 June 2016
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Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize in Political Sociology
CIRCaP Director Maurizio Cotta awarded by the European Consortium for Political Research
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Honoris causa
Professor Maurizio Cotta honoured by Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lisbon, 9 April 2014
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