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Rossella Borri is research assistant at the Laps (Laboratory for Political and Social Analyses) at the University of Siena. She has extensively published on far-right parties and sovereignism in Europe and in a comparative perspective.<br /><br />Lukas Brenner is a political scientist and lecturer at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. His research focuses on the study of populist phenomena, with a particular interest in explaining the rise of populism in the current century and the development of populist radical right parties in Europe.<br /><br />Alice Cavalieri is a research fellow at the University of Trieste. Her main research interests concern public budgeting and policy changes in European countries. Her first book, Italian Budgeting Policy (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming in 2023.<br /><br />Riccardo Emilio Chesta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Institute for Advanced Studies in Florence. His research interests are in social theory, sociology of expertise, social movements and political sociology. He has published The Contentious Politics of Expertise (Routledge, 2020) and together with Donatella Della Porta and Lorenzo Cini Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age (BUP, 2022).<br /><br />Nikolaus Freimuth is Student of History at Goethe-University Frankfurt and also studied at Paris Sorbonne IV and Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna. He currently writes his master’s thesis on the history of free radio in the 1970s and 1980s in a transnational and intermedial perspective.