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Matteo Mandelli

Assistant Professor

Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)

Research Interest(s): Eco-social policies; Just Transition; European Green Deal; Socio-Environmental Conflicts; European Studies; Environmental Politics; Comparative Welfare States.

Discipline(s): Political Science

Research Group(s): Socio-fiscal Policies; Environmental Policies; The Transformations of Capitalism; The State as a Producer of Public Policies

Biography

Matteo Mandelli is an Assistant Professor in Political Science with tenure track at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE).

He obtained his PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan in September 2023. He then joined Sciences Po as a postdoctoral researcher first at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policy (LIEPP) and subsequently at the CEE, where he was part of the project “Open Society Hub for the Politics of the Anthropocene” hosted by the Central European University. He is also part of the LIEPP team with the consortium project WELRISCC. He was visiting scholar at Maynooth University, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Hertie School in Berlin. 

Over the years, he has collaborated with renowned European think tanks – including the Green European Foundation, the European Trade Union Institute and the European Social Observatory, where he is Associate Researcher. He is also a member of the advisory board of the European Commission’s European Fair Transition Observatory.

He is co-founder and board member of the Sustainable Welfare and Eco-social Policy Network. At Sciences Po, he serves as one of the coordinators of the Socio-Ecological Transitions (SET) initiative and he is a member of the steering committee of the Atelier interdisciplinaire de recherches sur l'environnement (AIRE).

Current Research

His primary research interest lies in the role of the welfare state in addressing the ecological crisis and advancing the green transition, paying particular attention to the distributive politics involved. His work focuses on identifying and analysing eco-social policies and risks, as well as tracing the political conflicts and coalitions that shape policymaking processes at the intersection of social and environmental policies. He primarily employs qualitative policy analysis and process tracing, with an empirical focus on the European Union and its Member States. Overall, his research contributes to understanding the political obstacles to and opportunities for advancing a just transition in Europe.

Teaching

publications

For the full list of publications, see Google Scholar & Researchgate profiles

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