Publications
Selected publications and books.
For a complete list of my work, see my University of Messina research profile.
Selected publications and books.
For a complete list of my work, see my University of Messina research profile.
Cozzolino, A. (2021). Neoliberal Transformations of the Italian State: Understanding the Roots of the Crises. Rowman & Littlefield.
Giannone, D., & Cozzolino, A. (2023). La democrazia dei tecnocrati. Discorsi e politiche dei tecnici al governo in Italia. Meltemi.
Cozzolino, A. (forthcoming). La maschera e il campo. Stato neoliberale e autoritarismo molecolare. Meltemi.
English edition forthcoming with Brill.
Cozzolino, A., Malatesta, O., & Sica, L. (Eds.). (2021). Questione Europa. Crisi dell’Unione e trasformazioni dello Stato. Napoli: IISF Press. ISBN 978-88-97820-47-5.
Giannone, D., & Cozzolino, A. (Eds.). (2020). Fratture nell’Unione. L’Europa dentro le crisi del XXI secolo. Milano: Mimesis. ISBN 9788857575384.
Cozzolino, A., & Giannone, D. (eds.) (2025). Tecnocrazia. Prospettive multidisciplinari di ricerca. Carocci.
Cozzolino, A., & Zucaro, A. (2026). Beyond dualism: The hybridization of technocracy and democracy in Europe. European Political Science Review, First View, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773926100514
Cozzolino, A., Ippolito, M., Ercolano, S., & Giannone, D. (2026). Experts and the people: Technocrats in government and the shifting patterns of political participation. International Political Science Review, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/01925121261425442
Caterina, D., & Cozzolino, A. (2026). Neo-authoritarianism as molecular transformation: The reordering of political space in Italy. European Politics and Society, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2026.2619025
Cozzolino, A. (2026). Sterilizing democratic politics: The rise of the technocratic–neoliberal fix in Italy and Europe. Comparative European Politics, 24, Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-025-00454-3
Cozzolino, A., Caterina, D., Gasseau, G., & Monaco, D. (2025). The international political economy of Berlusconism: Emergence, consolidation and crisis of a neoliberalising project. European Journal of International Relations, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661251397622
Cozzolino, A., Caterina, D., & Giannone, D. (2025). Recasting technocracy theory and analysis: Avenues for a critical-qualitative research framework. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 27(3), 1064–1084. https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481241280167
Cozzolino, A. (2025). It takes two to tango: The technocracy-populism nexus in Italy and the EU from a critical-realist perspective. The International Spectator, 60(1), 55–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2024.2365682
Giannone, D., & Cozzolino, A. (2024). Politics by other means: An analysis of the discourses of Italian technocratic Prime Ministers. Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 54(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2023.16
Caterina, D., Cozzolino, A., & Giannone, D. (2024). Ripoliticizzare le politiche: Concetti e strumenti della “Historical Materialist Policy Analysis”. Stato e mercato, 44(3), 401–426. https://doi.org/10.1425/116070
Cozzolino, A. (2022). La politicizzazione della sfera digitale nell’Unione Europea. Futuri. Rivista Italiana di Futures Studies, special issue Lo spazio europeo nella turbolenza globale.
Giannone, D., & Cozzolino, A. (2022). Still the return of the State? Critical issues and possible new research avenues. Soft Power, 9(2), 102–121. https://doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2022.9.2.6
Amoretti, F., Cozzolino, A., & Giannone, D. (2021). Covid-19 pandemic and the fiscal strategy of the International Monetary Fund. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 14, 38–56. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v14i1p38
Cozzolino, A., & Giannone, D. (2021). Technocrats in (the crises of) the state: Political change and state transformations in Italy. Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 7, 5–34. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20398573v7n1p5
Cozzolino, A. (2020). The discursive construction of Europe in Italy in the age of permanent austerity. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 58, 580–598. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12921
Cozzolino, A. (2019). Reconfiguring the state: Executive powers, emergency legislation, and neoliberalization in Italy. Globalizations, 16, 336–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2018.1502495
Cozzolino, A., & Giannone, D. (2019). State transformations and neoliberalizations in Italy (1988–2009). New Political Science, 41(3), 443–458. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2019.1642724