"Marco Damiani is Assistant Professor in Political Sociology at University of Perugia. His researches focus on the European political parties. In particular, he works on the Left and radical Left parties and the European populist parties. With Routledge he published: ""Citizen democracy. New politics in new participation models"", in M. Anselmi and P. Blokker (eds.) Multiple Populisms: Italy as Democracy's Mirror (2019); ""The European Radical Left. Transformation and Political Changement"", in J. Ibrahim and J. M. Roberts (eds.) Contemporary Left-Wing Activism Volume 1: Democracy, Participation and Dissent in a Global Context (2019); ""Radical Left-wing Populism and Democracy in Europe"", in C. de la Torre (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Global Populism (2018)."