Marco Morini

Marco Morini is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). He has previously been Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre (European University Institute), Assistant Professor in Political Science at the International University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Sociology at Macquarie University (Australia). He is the author of "Lessons from Trump’s Political Communication: How to Dominate the Media Environment". London, Palgrave (2020).

The road to the midterm elections: still a blurred picture

In less than six months, American citizens will vote in the 2022 midterm elections. Democrats are aiming to keep their majority in both branches of Congress, while Republicans are trying to conquer at least one chamber. As usual, the…

Demographic and cultural fault lines put Democratic Party’s electoral future at risk

The first major elections held in the U.S. since Joe Biden became president in Jan. 2021 likely sent a shiver down Democrats' spines. On November 2, Republican Glenn Youngkin won the race for governor of Virginia, the first Grand Old Party…

Biden’s legislative gamble: big spending and party polarization

On March 12th, US President Joe Biden signed what is likely to become a landmark of his administration: the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 economic aid package. It includes pandemic-related $1,400 checks and larger unemployment benefits, as well as…

The new Congress and US politics

In his 35 years of service as a Senator from Delaware (plus eight years as US Vice President and President of Senate), Joe Biden has been widely known as a moderate policymaker, able to compromise and work across the aisle. Using European…

The Electoral College and 2020: understanding a distortion in US politics

People often forget that the United States is a federation of states. And the institutional structure designed in the US Constitution reflects this. The framers of the Constitution had to reach several agreements over the representation of…

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