Journal articles

  • Ceron, Andrea and Elisa Volpi (2022). "How do parties react to defections? Electoral strategies after a valence loss". In: European Journal of Political Research, https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12516.

  • Ceron, Andrea and Elisa Volpi (2021). "Breakups hurt: Party switching and perceived proximity between politicians and their party". In: Party Politics, Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 656-666, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819880138.

  • Volpi, Elisa (2019). "Ideology and party switching: A comparison of 12 West European countries". In Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsx079. Article selected as Editor’s Choice for the issue.


Book chapters

  • Volpi, Elisa, Lorenzo Cicchi and Tobias Widmann (2022). "Pandemic frames: How is the European Union narrated by Italian (populist) parties during Covid-19’s first wave in Italy" in Populism in Contemporary Italian Politics: Actors and Processes in Times of Crisis, Edited by: Calossi, Enrico and Paola Imperatore. Pisa University Press.


Outreach activities


Media appearances