2026 Piero Ignazi: 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	29	1232	1116	35	32	173	6233

Overview

Piero Ignazi is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations. Their research covers multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, history, and the history and philosophy of science.

The scholar's main research topics comprise:

Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Religion and Society Interactions
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
French Urban and Social Studies
Healthcare Systems and Practices

Ignazi's notable papers include the following:

"The failure of mainstream parties and the impact of new challenger parties in France, Italy and Spain" (2020) published in Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
"Class, religion and socialist parties: The unpredicted effect of (a)religious voting" (2022) published in Party Politics
"The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession" (2021) published in Government and Opposition
"Party change and citizens' retrotopia" (2020) published in Contemporary Italian Politics
"Party System Change, The European Crisis and the State of Democracy Edited by Marco Lisi, Abingdon: Routledge, 2019, p. 338." (2020) published in Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica

Frequent publication venues where Ignazi's work appears include:

Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
Party Politics
Government and Opposition
Contemporary Italian Politics
il Mulino

Collaborations have been established with several coauthors across multiple publications. Frequent coauthors are:

Dominique Reynié
Dario Tuorto
Chiara Fiorelli

Ignazi has also published book work, including the title La vie politique (2021) through Presses de Sciences Po.

Best Publications

Extreme right parties in Western Europe

Piero Ignazi

1538
Citations
The silent counter- revolu tion: hypo theses on the emer gence of extreme right- wing parties in Europe

Piero Ignazi

1219
Citations
The silent counter-revolution

Piero Ignazi

714
Citations
The Crisis of Parties and the Rise of New Political Parties

Piero Ignazi

394
Citations
Postfascisti? : dal Movimento sociale italiano ad Alleanza nazionale

Piero Ignazi

163
Citations
Party and Democracy: The Uneven Road to Party Legitimacy

Piero Ignazi

146
Citations
Dal PCI al PDS

Piero Ignazi

133
Citations
Il potere dei partiti : la politica in Italia dagli anni Sessanta a oggi

Piero Ignazi

110
Citations
Italian Military Operations Abroad: Just Don't Call it War

G. Giacomello;P. Ignazi;F. Coticchia

101
Citations
Power and the (il)legitimacy of political parties An unavoidable paradox of contemporary democracy

Piero Ignazi

100
Citations
I partiti italiani. Iscritti, dirigenti, eletti.

Luciano Bardi;P Ignazi;O. Massari

99
Citations
New Challenges: Postmaterialism and the Extreme Right

Piero Ignazi

94
Citations
The four knights of intra-party democracy: A rescue for party delegitimation:

Piero Ignazi

92
Citations
Legitimation and evolution on the Italian Right wing: Social and ideological repositioning of Alleanza Nazionale and the Lega Nord

Piero Ignazi

85
Citations
Party and Democracy

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85
Citations
Italian Military Operations Abroad

Piero Ignazi;Giampiero Giacomello;Fabrizio Coticchia

84
Citations
Forza senza legittimità : il vicolo cieco dei partiti

Piero Ignazi

82
Citations
I partiti italiani

Piero Ignazi

76
Citations
New and old extreme right parties

Piero Ignazi;Colette Ysmal

73
Citations
L'estrema destra in Europa

Piero Ignazi

70
Citations
Il polo escluso : profilo del Movimento sociale italiano

Piero Ignazi

28
Citations
The intellectual basis of right-wing anti-partyism

Piero Ignazi

28
Citations
Al di là dell'Atlantico, al di qua dell'Europa. Dove va la politica estera italiana

Piero Ignazi

11
Citations
Finanziamento pubblico e mutamenti organizzativi nei partiti italiani

Eugenio Pizzimenti;Piero Ignazi

10
Citations
Il puzzle dei partiti: più forti e più aperti ma meno attraenti e meno legittimi

Piero Ignazi

7
Citations
Il Parlamento europeo

Luciano Bardi;Piero Ignazi

7
Citations
Gianfranco Fini è in fuga ma il suo plotone arranca

Piero Ignazi

5
Citations
Partiti politici in Italia

Piero Ignazi

4
Citations
Le varie anomalie del centrodestra

Piero Ignazi

2
Citations
L'intramontabile fascino del populismo

Piero Ignazi

1
Citations
Le risorse dei partiti. I partiti italiani alla prova della legge n. 13 del 21 febbraio 2014

Piero Ignazi;Chiara Fiorelli

1
Citations
ATTORI E VALORI NELLA TRASFORMAZIONE DEL PCI

Piero Ignazi

1
Citations
La destra trionfante

Piero Ignazi

1
Citations
Internet non si ferma a Chiasso

Piero Ignazi

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Farrell University College Dublin

Richard S. Katz Johns Hopkins University

Toril Aalberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Thomas Poguntke Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Jonathan Hopkin London School of Economics and Political Science

Lieven De Winter Université Catholique de Louvain

External Links

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