Antonino Castaldo is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon (from 2015). He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence (2008). He was Visiting Student at the University of Science Po (Paris) in 2007, Teaching Assistant at the Luiss University (Rome) in 2008, Teaching Assistant at the University of Roma Tre from 2008 to 2015, Contract Lecturer in European Political and Economic Structures at Accademia Italiana (Rome) in 2010, Research Assistant at the University of Oxford (Coordinator Prof. Giovanni Capoccia) in 2011, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Roma Tre in 2012, Research Assistant at the University of Roma Tre in 2013. From 2013 to 2015 he was a member of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) Secretariat. Over the past years, he has mainly focused his attention on the broad subjects of political parties and party systems, the analysis of democratization processes and the breakdown of non-democratic regimes. His main line of research is currently related to the study of autocratization processes, with specific reference to the diffusion of competitive authoritarian regimes, and a focus on the Balkan region and the Middle East.

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2943-9853