Giovanni Capoccia

Giovanni Capoccia is Professor of Comparative Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Education and career

He obtained his Doctorate in Political Science at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy. Before his present post, he was Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and in 2006-2007 he was the Rita E. Hauser Fellowship at Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.[1][2][3]

Research

Capoccia's research focuses on the comparative study of democracy and democratization and the analysis of political institutions, with particular emphasis on European politics. A major theme of his research is the analysis of the causes and consequences of the strategies used by democratic governments to control extremist dissent. His comparative analysis of inter-war Europe provided the material for several journal articles and a monograph entitled Defending Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press 2005 [paperback 2007]).[4] His current project, Reshaping Democracy after Authoritarianism, for which he has received funding from the British Academy, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, the Research Development Fund of Oxford University, and the Nuffield Foundation, analyzes how European democracies have dealt with the political legacies of authoritarianism. His work has received several prizes (including Best Book in European Politics) of the American Political Science Association.[5]

References
  1. "Corpus Christi College - Professor Giovanni Capoccia". Oxford University. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
  2. "Radcliffe recognizes its 2006-07 fellows". Harvard University Gazette. 8 June 2006. Archived from the original on 30 August 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
  3. "Past awards - Fellowships 2006". British Academy. Archived from the original on 30 May 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
  4. Capoccia, Giovanni (2007). Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8038-4.
  5. "CSDG - Setting the Boundaries". Oxford University. Archived from the original on 1 February 2006. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
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