Donatella della Porta
European University Institute and Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
Italy

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute and Profes-sor of Political Science (on leave) at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She directs COSMOS (Center on Social Movement Studies. She is working at a major ERC project Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology. Her main fields of research are social movements, the policing of public order, participatory democracy, and political corruption.

Daniela Chironi
European University Institute
Italy

Daniela Chironi is a PHD researcher at the European University Institute. Her main research interest concerns the relation between social movements and party change. Indeed, her thesis is about the role of social movements in setting off significant organizational changes within the more innovative left-wing parties in Western Europe.