Prof Paolo Mancini

Post: Visiting Research Fellow, MDCEE and RISJ

Introduction

Professor Paolo Mancini, University of Perugia, is Visiting Fellow with the ERC-funded project on Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, October 2010-March 2011)

Paolo Mancini’s research interests focus on the relationship between mass communication systems and the political system, and on the study of electoral campaigns, where he has considerable comparative research experience. His principal publications include:

In 2005 Mancini and Hallin's Comparing Media Systems won the Goldsmith Award from Harvard and the Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association, and in 2006 it won the Outstanding Book Award from the NCA.  His articles have appeared in Theory and Society, European Journal of Communication, Communication, Journal of Communication and in various other collections in Italian, Spanish and English.

Publications

• Comparing Media Systems (with Daniel Hallin) (Cambridge, 2004; Italian tr. Modelli di giornalismo, Rome, 2004).
• La decisione di voto tra comunicazione di massa e influenza personale (ed) (Rome, 2001)
• Il sistema fragile (Rome, 2001; rev ed 2002)
• Una principessa nel paese dei mass media (Milan, 1998)
• Manuale di comunicazione pubblica (Rome, 2002, rev ed.)
• Politics, Media and Modern Democracy (with David Swanson) (London, 1996)
• Sussurri e grida dalle Camere (Milan, 1994)
• Come vincere le elezioni (Bologna, 1988)
• Videopolitica. Telegiornali in Italia e in USA (Turin, 1985)