Davide Vampa

Davide Vampa is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Aston University, Birmingham, and was co-convenor of the Italian Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association between 2018 and 2021. His work focuses on the links between territorial party politics and public policy. He has also published extensively on recent transformations in democratic representation (at local, regional and national levels), rising populism and the crisis of social democracy. He published a monograph with Palgrave Macmillan, The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain (2016). More recently, he has co-edited a book entitled Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe (2021, with Daniele Albertazzi) and co-authored a monograph on the Italian Northern League under its former leader Umberto Bossi, Populism in Europe: Lessons from Umberto Bossi’s Northern League (2021, with Daniele Albertazzi).