Alessandro Pellegata is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universita degli Studi di Milano where his research is based within the field of comparative politics. He is the author of several articles in journals including European Political Science Review and Journal of European Public Policy. In 2011 he was awarded the Santoro Prize for the best paper presented by a young scholar at the Societa Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) Annual Congress.