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Emanuele Ferragina
Full Professor, HDR
Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)
Associate Member of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford
Research Interest(s): Socioeconomic inequalities, Welfare regimes, Family policy, Political economy, Social capital, Artificial Intelligence, Comparative method
Discipline(s): Sociology
Subdiscipline(s): Political Economy
Biography
Emanuele Ferragina (HDR) is Full Professor of Sociology and member of the CRIS and LIEPP. Prior to joining Sciences Po in January 2015 he was a lecturer at University of Oxford, where he also obtained his doctorate. His fields of interest include international political economy, comparative social policy, labour market and family policy, the political economy of care and social reproduction, and the political economy of Italy.
Currently his research is focused on two broad topics. A first stream of research relates to the development of the ‘rising invisible majority’ concept and the liberalization of European labour markets. This work explores the connection between international political economy and the changing composition of European (and Italian) society, and illustrates how labour market and welfare state dynamics are key institutional channels that mediate this association in different countries. A second stream of research investigates how family policy expansion is related to the political economy of welfare state retrenchment, social reproduction and female employment/wages.
His contribution to the public debate has taken various forms. He was one of the founding members of the Think Tank Fonderia Oxford. He has published several articles in national newspapers and academic blogs, and popularized his research by participating to several talk shows in Italy and France. He published also two books for the general public. The first, Chi Troppo, Chi Niente (trans. Who Gets Too Much, Who Gets Nothing) argued that a stronger redistributive process is the best way to make Italy more efficient, and was awarded the Medal of the Italian Parliament. The second volume, La Maggioranza Invisible (trans. The Invisible Majority), discussed the transformations of Italian society and the rise of a majoritarian social group unheard from within politics and underrepresented at the institutional level.
PhD Candidates: Emanuele Ferragina welcomes perspective students willing to propose projects related to his research interests.
Thesis Supervision
- Andrew Zola, Welfare Attitudes and Common Sense through Crises: The Sociological Basis of the Political Economy
- Elisa Farnese
Editorial Activity
- Journal of European Social Policy (co-editor)
- Revue des politiques sociales et familiales
- Social Policy and Administration (International Advisory Board)
publications
- Emanuele Ferragina, Teva Marescaux. L’inégalité d’accès aux crèches dans le département le plus pauvre de France. Revue de la petite enfance , 2025, 146, pp.76-86. ⟨hal-04927481⟩
- Salvatore Citraro, Giovanni Mauro, Emanuele Ferragina. Burstiness in Emotions: A Case Study on Collective Affective Responses in Italian Soccer Fandoms. Luca Maria Aiello; Tanmoy Chakraborty; Sabrina Gaito. Social Networks Analysis and Mining. 16th International Conference, ASONAM 2024, Rende, Italy, September 2–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part I, Springer Nature, pp.56-69, 2025, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 303178541X, 9783031785412.