formerly SPS/11 Sociology of Political Phenomena

Deepens, also from a gender perspective, the modes of socialization, participation and representation, particularly in the transformations of democracies. It analyzes the social, cultural and communicative processes and conflicts in which the political sphere and its public institutions take shape, the asymmetries of power and the construction of elites and leaderships, the processes and patterns of decision-making, political institutionalization and administrative action, also with reference to the dimensions of political ecology and international relations. The research activities that characterize this area are concerned with theories, concepts and methods of empirical research for the analysis of historical processes of construction, legitimation and change of political power, at the local, regional, national and supranational levels and their differentiation from other social powers.