Donatella Della Porta has directed the Demos project, devoted to the analysis of conceptions and practices of democracy in social movements in six European countries. She is now starting a major ERC project Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Among her recent publications are: L'intervista qualitativa, Laterza 2011; (with M. Caiani), Social Movements and Europeanization, Oxford University Press, 2009; (ed.) Another Europe, Routledge, 2009; (ed.) Democracy in Social Movements, Palgrave, 2009; Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences (with Michael Keating), Cambridge University Press. She is professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute.
Manuela Caiani has worked on several comparative projects on collective action and European mobilization and on right wing extremism and violence. She has been recently awarded by the European Commission with the Marie Curie fellowship for a project on 'Disengagement from Terrorism: underground organizations in Spain and Italy'. Her main research interests concern social movements and collective action, right wing extremism in Europe, Europeanization and the public sphere. Among her publications: "Quale Europa, Europeizzazione, Identità e Conflitti", Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006 (with della Porta Donatella) and "Social Movements and Europeanisation", Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009 (with Donatella della Porta). She is Assistant Professor in Comparative European Politics at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) of Wien.
Claudius Wagemann graduated from the European University Institute (EUI) with a thesis on breakdown and change of Private Interest Governments and continued to work at the EUI as a research assistant. He is also an international expert on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and fuzzy set methodology. His publications include; Set-Theoretic Methods: A User's Guide for Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets in Social Science (with C. Q. Schneider), Cambridge University Press, 2012, and Breakdown and Change of Private Interest Governments, Routledge, 2011. He works at the Istituto italiano di scienze umane (SUM) in Florence as a lecturer and scientific secretary of the doctoral program.