Resumé

Research Areas

Dr. Elisabetta Girardi has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Professorships of Global Health and Global Security and Technology since April 2025. Her research focuses on political mobilization, contentious politics, and party competition. She also researches the political implications of inequality, with a particular focus on economic and labour precarity.

Elisabetta primarily employs quantitative methodologies but is also experienced in conducting interviews and qualitative content analysis. She values mixed-method approaches that integrate both qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Academic Career

Elisabetta earned her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Trento (Italy), including a semester abroad at the University of York (United Kingdom). She then completed a Master’s degree in Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, specializing in International Administration and Conflict Management and in Methods for Politics and Public Administration. During her Master's  studies, she spent a semester at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). In June 2024, she obtained her PhD in Political Science from the University of Mannheim. From February 2024 to March 2025, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa (Italy) as part of the project RESisting the CRISES: Forms of Political Engagement by Low-Skilled Workers.

Publications

Girardi E und Palma N. (2024). Mainstream convergence and challengers’ success: a comparative analysis of Southern and Northwestern Europe. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 1-25.

Girardi E (2024). Precarity and political protest. West European Politics, DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2024.2403046

Girardi E (2024). Precarious work and challenger parties: how precarity influenced vote choice in the 2018 Italian election. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 54(1), 17-35.