Dr. Diego Garzia - European University Institute

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Dr. Diego Garzia
European Union Democracy Observatory
European University Institute
Via dei Roccettini, 9
I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole – Italy
telephone: +39 055 4685 864
homepage: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Fellows/Garzia/
email: [email protected]
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Current Positions
2014/
Research Fellow, European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO/EUI)
2013/
Steering Committee Member, Societá Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP)
Previous Positions
2013-14
Country-teams and Scientific Coordinator, euandi project (EUDO/EUI)
2012-14
Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS/EUI)
Visiting Positions
2011
Visiting Doctoral Student, University of Oxford
2010
Visiting Researcher, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne
2006
Visiting Scholar, Universiteit Leiden
Academic Training
2011
Ph.D. Comparative and European Politics, Università degli Studi di Siena
2008
M.A. Political Science, Universiteit Leiden
2007
M.Sc. European Studies, Università di Roma “Sapienza”
2005
B.A. Political Science and International Relations, Università di Roma “Sapienza”
Books
Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (eds.) (2014). Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. Voting
Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective. Colchester: ECPR Press.
Garzia, D. (2014). Personalization of Politics and Electoral Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Cedroni, L. & Garzia, D. (eds.) (2010). Voting Advice Applications in Europe: The State of the Art.
Naples: Civis.
Journal Articles
Garzia, D. & De Angelis, A. (in press). Partisanship, leader evaluations, and the vote:
Disentangling the new iron triangle in electoral research. Comparative European Politics,
accepted for publication.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Lewis-Beck, M. (in press). Issues and leaders as vote determinants: The
case of Italy. Party Politics, online first: 1354068812472583.
Garzia, D. (2014). The dishonest vote in Italian parliamentary elections. Contemporary Italian
Politics 6: 115-130.
Barisione, M., Catellani, P. & Garzia, D. (2014). Tra Facebook ei Tg. Esposizione mediale e
percezione dei leader nella campagna elettorale italiana del 2013. Comunicazione Politica
14: 187-210.
De Angelis, A. & Garzia, D. (2013). Individual level dynamics of PTV change across the electoral
cycle. Electoral Studies 32: 900-904.
Garzia, D. (2013). Can Candidates’ Image Win Elections? A Counterfactual Assessment of Leader
Effects in the Second Italian Republic. Journal of Political Marketing 12: 348-361.
Garzia, D. (2013). The Rise of Party/Leader Identification in Western Europe. Political Research
Quarterly 66: 533-544.
Garzia, D. (2013). The 2013 Italian Parliamentary election: Changing things so everything stays
the same. West European Politics 36: 1095-1105.
Garzia, D. (2013). Changing Parties, Changing Partisans. The Personalization of Partisan
Attachments in Western Europe. Political Psychology 34: 67-89
Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (2012). Voting Advice Applications Under Review: The State of
Research. International Journal of Electronic Governance 5: 203-222.
Garzia, D. (2012). Party and Leader Effects in Parliamentary Elections: Towards a
Reassessment. Politics 32: 175-185.
Garzia, D. & Viotti, F. (2012). Party Identification, Leader Effects and Vote Choice in Italy, 19902008. World Political Science Review 8: 1-23.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Rubal, M. (2012). ¿Importa Europa en las Elecciones Europeas? Un
modelo explicativo de las elecciones del 2009 al Parlamento Europeo. Revista Española de
Investigaciones Sociológicas 137: 25-42.
Garzia, D. & Viotti. F. (2011). Leader, identità di partito e voto in Italia, 1990-2008. Rivista
Italiana di Scienza Politica 41: 411-432. Winner of award for best paper published in the
journal in 2011 and nominated for publication in World Political Science Review.
Garzia, D. (2011). The personalization of partisan attachments in the Second Italian Republic.
Bulletin of Italian Politics 3: 59-78.
Garzia, D. & Verzichelli, L. (2011). Publishing political science in Italy. An analysis of the last
decade of contributions to the RISP. Italian Political Science 6/2011.
Garzia, D. (2011). Le ragioni del ‘voto disonesto’ nelle elezioni parlamentari italiane del 2006.
Quaderni di Scienza Politica 18: 209-233.
Garzia, D. (2011). The Personalization of Politics in Western Democracies: Causes and
Consequences on Leader-Follower Relationships. The Leadership Quarterly 22: 697-709.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Rubal. M. (2010). Campagna elettorale e popolarità dei governi nelle
elezioni europee. Comunicazione Politica 10: 17-36.
Garzia, D. (2009). The Dynamics of (Personalized) Party Identification in the Second Italian
Republic. Politikon 15: 24-48.
Book Chapters
Sudulich, M., Garzia, D., Trechsel, A. & Vassil, K. (2014). “Party placement in supranational
elections: The case of the 2009 EP elections”. In D. Garzia & S. Marschall (eds.), Matching
Voters with Parties and Candidates. Voting Advice Applications in a Comparative
Perspective. Colchester: ECPR Press.
Garzia, D., De Angelis, A. & Pianzola, J. (2014). “The Impact of VAAs on Electoral Participation”.
In D. Garzia & S. Marschall (eds.), Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. Voting
Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective. Colchester: ECPR Press.
Garzia, D. & Marschall, S. (2014). “Voting Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective. An
Introduction”. In D. Garzia & S. Marschall (eds.), Matching Voters with Parties and
Candidates. Voting Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective. Colchester: ECPR
Press.
Garzia, D, Trechsel, A., Vassil, K. & Dinas, E. (2014). “Indirect Campaigning – Past, Present and
Future of Voting Advice Applications”. In B. Grofman, A. Trechsel & M. Franklin (eds.), The
Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective: Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social
Movements. New York: Springer.
Barisione, M., Catellani, P. & Garzia, D. (2013). “Alla ricerca di un leader”. In ITANES (ed.), Voto
amaro. Disincanto e crisi economica nelle elezioni del 2013. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Garzia, D. (2013). “Ancora tu.. Le motivazioni di voto per i candidati”. In C&LS – Candidate and
Leader Selection (ed.), Forza Doria. Divertissements seri sulle elezioni primarie. Genoa:
Edizioni Epoké.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Rubal, M. (2012). “Does Europe Matterin European Elections? A
Composite Model of the 2009 European Parliament Elections”. In S. Banducci, M. Franklin,
H. Giebler, S. Hobolt, M. Marsh, W. van der Brug & C. van der Eijk (eds.), An Audit of
Democracy in the European Union. Florence: European University Institute.
Garzia, D. (2012). “Understanding cross-national patterns of VAA-usage: integrating macro- and
micro-level explanations”. In A. Dziewulska & A. Ostrowska (eds.), Europeanisation of
political rights: Voter Advice Application and migrant mobilisation in 2011 UK elections.
Warsaw: Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw.
Garzia, D. (2010). “The Effects of VAAs on Users’ Voting Behaviour: An Overview”. In L. Cedroni
& D. Garzia (eds.), Voting Advice Applications in Europe: The State of the Art. Napoli: Civis.
Working Papers
Bright, J., Garzia, D., Lacey, J. & Trechsel, A. (2013). Trans-nationalising Europe’s Voting Space.
EUI Working Papers, RSCAS 2014/20. San Domenico di Fiesole: European University
Institute.
De Angelis, A. & Garzia, D. (2012). Short-term political attitudes and PTV’s. Preliminary evidence
from the Italian case. ITANES Working Papers Series, 2/2012. Bologna: Istituto Cattaneo.
Garzia, D. (2011). From Group Membership to Party Leadership: The Changing Determinants of
Partisanship in Italy, 1968-2008. Nuffield’s Working Papers Series in Politics, 2011-07.
Oxford: Oxford University.
Garzia, D. (2011). Changing Parties, Changing Partisans. The Personalization of Partisan
Attachments in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. GESIS Working Papers, 12-2011.
Bonn: Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften.
Garzia, D. (2010). Explaining the Dishonest Vote in Italian Parliamentary Elections, 2006.
CIRCaP Occasional Papers, 23/2010. Siena: Università degli Studi di Siena.
Book Reviews
Delia Baldassarri, “The Simple Art of Voting”, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Polis 27(3).
David Sanders, Paolo Bellucci, Gábor Tóka and Mariano Torcal, “The Europeanization of
National Polities? Citizenship and Support in a Post-Enlargement Union”, Oxford: Oxford
University Press. In Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 43(2).
Kees Aarts, Andrè Blais and Hermann Schmitt, “Political Leaders and Democratic Elections”,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, and Amanda Bittner, “Platform or Personality? The Role
of Party Leaders in Elections”, Oxford: Oxford University Press. In Political Studies Review:
11(2).
Jean Blondel and Jean Louis Thiébault with Katarzyna Czernicka, Takashi Inoguchi, Ukrist
Pathmanand and Fulvio Venturino, “Political Laedership, Parties and Citizens. The
Personalisation of Leadership”, London-New York: Routledge. In Modern Italy: 18(1).
Wojciech Cwalina, Andrzej Falkowski and Bruce I. Newman, “A Cross-Cultural Theory of Voter
Behavior”, New York and London: The Haworth Press. In Political Studies Review: 9(1).
Conference Papers
Barisione, M., Catellani, P. & Garzia, D. (2013). Fra Facebook e i TG. Esposizione mediale e
percezione dei leader nella campagna elettorale italiana del 2013. Paper presented at the
Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political Communication (ComPol), Milan, 12-13
December.
Garzia, D. & Trechsel, A. (2013). Assessing the Electoral Impact of Voting Advice Applications.
Experimental Evidence from the Italian Election of 2013. Paper presented at the EUDO
Dissemination Conference, San Domenico di Fiesole, 29-29 November.
Garzia, D. (2013). Voting made meaningful and easy: An experimental assessment of the
mobilizing potential of VAAs. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Italian
Society of Political Science (SISP), Firenze, 12-14 September.
Bright, J., Garzia, D., Lacey, J. & Trechsel, A. (2013). Trans-nationalising Europe’s Voting Space.
Paper presented at the 7th ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux, 4-7 September.
Garzia, D. & Trechsel, A. (2013). Assessing the electoral impact of VAAs: Preliminary evidence
from a field experiment. Paper presented at the 7th ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux, 4-7
September.
Bright, J., Garzia, D., Lacey, J. & Trechsel, A. (2013). Trans-nationalising Europe’s Voting Space.
Paper presented at the 3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science
Association, Barcelona, 20-22 June.
Garzia, D. (2013). The Electoral Effect of Party Leaders in Britain, Germany, and The
Netherlands, 1980/2010. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual General Conference of the
European Political Science Association, Barcelona, 20-22 June.
Garzia, D. (2013). Personalization of Politics and Electoral Change in Western Europe. Paper
presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Hollywood, CA, 28-30
March.
Garzia, D. & Bellucci, P. (2012). Introducing ‘Itanes VoteMatch’ – Methodology and Realization.
Paper presented at the 22nd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, 8-12 July.
De Angelis, A. & Garzia, D. (2012). Short-term political attitudes and PTVs in a non-electoral
context: Evidence from the Italian case. Paper presented at the ELECDEM Closing
Conference “Advancing Electoral Research”, Florence, 28-30 June.
Garzia, D. (2012). Reassessing Leader Effects in Three Parliamentary Democracies: Britain,
Germany, and the Netherlands (1961-2010). Paper presented at the 11th
Politicologenetmaal, Amsterdam, 31 May–1 June.
Garzia, D. & De Angelis, A. (2011). Partisanship, Leader Evaluations, and the Vote: Breaking the
New Iron Triangle in Electoral Research. Paper presented at the 1st European Conference
on Comparative Electoral Research, Sofia, 1-3 December.
Garzia, D. (2011). The Rise of Party/Leader Identification in Western Europe, 1961-2010. Paper
presented at the 1st European Conference on Comparative Electoral Research, Sofia, 1-3
December.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Lewis-Beck, M. (2011). Issues vs. leaders as determinants of voting:
disentangling the endogeneity. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Italian
Society of Political Science (SISP), Palermo, 8-10 September 2011.
Garzia, D. & Rosema, M. (2011). The Influence of Political Leaders on Voting Behaviour: The
Electoral Effects of Leadership Change. Paper presented at the 6th ECPR General
Conference, Reykjavik, 25-27 August.
Garzia, D. (2011). Reassessing Leader Effects in Parliamentary Elections with Instrumental
Variables. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society of
Political Psychology, Istanbul, 9-12 July.
Garzia, D. (2011). Causes and Electoral Consequences of the Personalization of Politics in
Parliamentary Democracies. Paper presented at the 3rd Graduate Conference of the Italian
Society of Political Science (SISP), Turin, 23-25 June.
Garzia, D. (2011). Voting Advice Applications in Europe: An Overview. Paper presented at the
10th Politicologenetmaal, Amsterdam, 9-10 June.
Garzia, D. (2010). Reversing the Michigan funnel? Some evidences from the Second Italian
Republic. Paper presented at the Political Studies Graduate Conference, Oxford, 6-7
December.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Rubal, M. (2010). Does Europe matter in European elections? A
composite model of the 2009 European Parliament election. Paper presented at the
“Auditing Electoral Democracy in the European Union” (PIREDEU) Conference, Bruxelles,
18-19 November.
Cedroni, L. & Garzia, D. (2010). A comparative assessment of Voting Advice Applications (VAAs)
in Europe: Purposes, Methodology, and Effects on Voters’ Behaviour. Paper presented at
the 24th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP), Venice, 16-18
September.
Garzia, D. (2010). From Group Membership to Party Leadership: The Changing Determinants of
Partisan Attachment in Italy, 1975-2008. Paper presented at the 24th Annual Conference of
the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP), Venice, 16-18 September.
Garzia, D. (2010). Changing Parties, Changing Partisans. The Personalisation of Party
Identifications in Western Europe, 1989-2008. Paper presented at the 3rd ECPR Graduate
Conference, Dublin, 30 August-1 September.
Garzia, D. (2010). Explaining the ‘Dishonest Vote’ in Italian Parliamentary Elections, 2006-8”.
Paper presented at the 60th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association,
Edinburgh, 29 March-1 April.
Bellucci, P., Garzia, D. & Rubal, M. (2009). Political campaign, government approval and EU
elections. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political
Science (SISP), Rome, 17-19 September.
Garzia, D. (2009). The ‘Dishonest Vote’ in the Italian Election of 2006. Paper presented at the 23rd
Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP), Rome, 17-19 September.
Awards and Nominations
[2013]
“Giacomo Sani” Award for the best article in political communication and electoral behaviour
[Garzia, D. & Viotti. F. 2011. Leader, identità di partito e voto in Italia, 1990-2008. RISP 41: 411-432]
Awarded by: Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica and Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica
XIV “Celso Ghini” Award for the best PhD thesis in electoral studies
[Garzia, D. 2013. Causes and Electoral Consequences of the Personalization of Politics in Western
Parliamentary Democracies. Centre for the Study of Political Change, Universitá degli Studi di Siena]
Awarded by: Societá Italiana di Studi Elettorali
[2012]
Shortlisted for the "Jean Blondel" Prize for the best PhD in politics
Awarded by: European Consortium for Political Research
[2011]
CIRCaP Internationalization Award
Awarded by: Centre for the Study of Political Change, Università degli Studi di Siena
Invited Talks
[2014]
Personalizing EU Politics?
Roundtable “2014 European Elections: Watershed Moment or More of the Same?”
European University Institute, Florence, 27 May 2014
[2013]
Personalization of Politics and Electoral Change
*Book Presentation
Innovation of Governance Lecture Series
University of Twente, 18 November 2013
Personalization of Politics and Electoral Change
Guest Lectures Series, Centre for the Study of Democracy
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 18 June 2013
Assessing the electoral effect of Voting Advice Applications
Jean Blondel Seminars in Political Science
Universitá degli Studi di Siena, 9 April 2013
The Italian Election of February 2013: Winners and Losers
Roundtable “2013 Italian Elections: Time for Change?”
European University Institute, Florence, 4 March 2013
*Book presentation
External Reviewer
Acta Politica
Comparative Politics
Electoral Studies
European Journal of Political Research
European Political Science Review
European Union Politics
Government & Opposition
International Political Science Review
Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties
New Media & Society
Political Psychology
Policy & Internet
Political Research Quarterly
Political Studies
Political Studies Review
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
Social Science Research
Swiss Political Science Review
Board Memberships
CIVIS: Montenegrin Journal of Political Science (International Advisory Board, 2013- )
Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science (Editorial Board, 2010-2011)
International Workshops and Panel Organization
2014 Section Chair – Voting Advice Applications and elections in Europe
8th ECPR General Conference, University of Glasgow
2013 Section Chair – Voting Advice Applications in a comparative perspective
7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po Bordeaux
Workshop Organizer – Matching voters with parties and candidates
IDHEAP/Institut de Hautes Études en Administration Publique, Lausanne
2012 Panel Organizer – Voting Advice Applications: Comparative research and perspectives
25th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science, Rome
Group Leader – Voting Advice Applications and their effect on voting behaviour
ECPR Research Sessions, European University Institute, Florence
Panel Chair/Discussant
2013
WPSA Annual Meeting, Hollywood, CA
(D)
2012
22nd IPSA World Congress of Political Science, Madrid
(D)
2011
34th ISPP Annual Meeting, Istanbul
(D)
3rd SISP Graduate Conference, Turin
(C)
3rd ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin
(C)
2010
Professional Affiliations
Italian National Election Study (ITANES)
Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP)
Società Italiana di Studi Elettorali (SISE)
Teaching Experience
2014
Visiting Lecturer: Mass Media e Politica
Alma Mater Studiorum, Forlí Campus, MA-level – Course Supervisor: Dr. Filippo Tronconi
2012
Instructor: Comparative Political Behavior
Università degli Studi di Siena, PhD-level
2011
Teaching Assistant: Quantitative Methods in Political Science
Università degli Studi di Siena, PhD-level – Course Supervisor: Prof. Michael S. Lewis-Beck
2010
Teaching Assistant: Political Sociology
Università degli Studi di Siena, MA-level – Course Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Bellucci
Additional Training and Skills
2011
Short Course in Structural Equation Modeling
Lancaster University
2010
Summer School on Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour
Università degli Studi di Milano
Survey Research and Methodology Workshop Series
Università degli Studi di Siena/TNS Opinion
[Last update: August 5th 2014]

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