2026 Donatella Della Porta: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	82	23	19	2	2	520	36025

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Political Science in Italy Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Political Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Political Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Italy Leader Award
2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Donatella Della Porta is affiliated with the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Italy. Their research focuses primarily on the social sciences, with significant contributions in sociology and political science, political science and international relations, public administration, gender studies, and communication.

Their main research topics include:

Social Policy and Reform Studies
Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Political Conflict and Governance
Digital Economy and Work Transformation
Labor Movements and Unions
Social Media and Politics
European Union Policy and Governance

Recent notable papers by Donatella Della Porta include:

Building Bridges: Social Movements and Civil Society in Times of Crisis (2020), published in VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Introduction: Solidarities in Motion: Hybridity and Change in Migrant Support Practices (2020), published in Critical Sociology
Rich Kids of Europe? Social Basis and Strategic Choices in the Climate Activism of Fridays for Future (2021), published in Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
A Bourgeois Story? The Class Basis of Catalan Independentism (2020), published in Territory Politics Governance
(Water) Bottles and (Street) Barricades: The Politicisation of Lifestyle-Centred Action in Youth Climate Strike Participation (2022), published in Journal of Youth Studies (co-authored)

Frequent co-authors of Donatella Della Porta include:

Lorenzo Cini
Riccardo Emilio Chesta
César Guzmán-Concha
Andrea Felicetti
Daniela Chironi

Key publication venues where Della Porta has contributed extensively are:

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
Bristol University Press eBooks
Social Movement Studies
Territory Politics Governance
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

Their book publications are distributed among several publishers, including Bristol University Press eBooks, Cambridge University Press, Policy Press, Oxford University Press, and Berghahn Books. Some notable titles include:

Contesting Higher Education (2020)
Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age (2022)
Contentious Politics in Emergency Critical Junctures (2022)
The Contentious Politics of Global Health Movements (2025)
Discursive Turns and Critical Junctures (2020)
Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits (2022)

Donatella Della Porta has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2012.

Best Publications

Social Movements: An Introduction

Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

7052
Citations
Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Germany

Donatella della Porta

2000
Citations
Globalization From Below: Transnational Activists And Protest Networks

Donatella della Porta Della Porta;Massimillano Andretta;Lorenzo Mosca;Herbert Reiter Reiter

1043
Citations
Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective

Donatella Della Porta;Michael James Keating

1033
Citations
Social Movements in a Globalizing World: an Introduction

Donatella della Porta;Hanspeter Kriesi

820
Citations
Transnational Protest and Global Activism

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta;S. Tarrow

730
Citations
Policing Protest: The Control of Mass Demonstrations in Western Democracies

Donatella della Porta Della Porta;Herbert Reiter Reiter

702
Citations
Global Justice Movement: Cross-national and Transnational Perspectives

Donatella Della Porta

687
Citations
Clandestine Political Violence

Donatella Della Porta

625
Citations
Global-net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements

Donatella Della Porta;Lorenzo Mosca

529
Citations
Social Movements: An Introduction (2nd edition)

Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

525
Citations
The Oxford handbook of social movements

Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

489
Citations
Social Movements and Europeanization

Donatella della Porta;Manuela Caiani

439
Citations
Movement Parties Against Austerity

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta;Joseba Fernandez;Hara Kouki;Lorenzo Mosca

431
Citations
Social Movements in a Globalizing world (second expanded edition)

Donatella Della Porta;Hanspeter Kriesi;Dieter Rucht

425
Citations
Los Movimientos Sociales

Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

391
Citations
Social Movements and the State: Thoughts on the Policing of Protest

Donatella Della Porta

372
Citations
Social movements in a globalizing world

Donatella Della Porta;Hanspeter Kriesi;Dieter Rucht

358
Citations
Social Movements in Times of Austerity: Bringing Capitalism Back Into Protest Analysis

Donatella Della Porta

332
Citations
Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements

Donatella Della Porta

288
Citations
Lo scambio occulto : casi di corruzione politica in Italia

Donatella Della Porta

283
Citations
Movimenti collettivi e sistema politico in Italia : 1960-1995

Donatella Della Porta

232
Citations
Global, noglobal, newglobal. La protesta contro il G8 a Genova

Massimiliano Andretta;D Della Porta;L Mosca;H. Reiter

194
Citations
Il terrorismo di sinistra

Donatella Della Porta

179
Citations
I partiti politici

Donatella Della Porta

167
Citations
Le ragioni del no: Le campagne contro la TAV in Val di Susa e il Ponte sullo Stretto

Donatella Della Porta;Gianni Piazza

166
Citations
Comitati di cittadini e democrazia urbana

Della Porta;Donatella Alessandra

161
Citations
Mani Impunite. Vecchia e nuova corruzione in Italia

Donatella Della Porta;Alberto Vannucci

138
Citations
Movimenti senza protesta? : l'ambientalismo in Italia

Donatella Della Porta;Mario Diani

133
Citations
Un paese anormale. Come la classe politica ha perso l'occasione di mani pulite

Alberto Vannucci;D. Della Porta

116
Citations
L'intervista qualitativa

Donatella Della Porta

113
Citations
Démocratie et corruption en Europe

Yves Meny;Donatella Della Porta

81
Citations
Quale Europa? Europeizzazione, identità e conflitti

Donatella della Porta;Manuela Caiani

73
Citations
Globalizzazione e movimenti sociali

D. Della Porta;L. Mosca

69
Citations
Corruzione politica e amministrazione pubblica : risorse, meccanismi, attori

Donatella Della Porta;Alberto Vannucci

13
Citations
Fondamenti di Scienza Politica

Donatella Alessandra Della Porta;Maurizio Cotta;Leonardo Morlino

11
Citations
Movimenti sociali e rappresentanza: i comitati spontanei dei cittadini a Firenze

Donatella della Porta;Massimiliano Andretta

8
Citations
Ricercando nella rete: stili di comunicazione e movimenti sociali in Europa

D Della Porta;Lorenzo Mosca

5
Citations
Movimenti sociali e globalizzazione

Donatella della Porta;Hanspeter Kriesi

4
Citations
Cercando la politica: protesta e democrazia

Donatella della Porta

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Diani University of Trento

Marco Giugni University of Geneva

Hanspeter Kriesi European University Institute

Sidney Tarrow Cornell University

Colin Crouch University of Warwick

Philippe C. Schmitter European University Institute

Thomas Risse Freie Universität Berlin

Sheila Jasanoff Harvard University

Gary LaFree University of Maryland, College Park

Rainer Bauböck European University Institute

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