Acting Director, URGE
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Milan
Research Unit on European Governance URGE
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Via Real Collegio 30, 10024 Moncalieri (Turin), Italy
Tel: +39 011 670 5021
Fax: +39 011 670 5080
e-mail: stefano.sacchi_at_urge.it

University of Milan
Department of Labour and Welfare Studies
Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan, Italy
Tel: +39 02 503 21184
Fax: +39 02 503 21165 - 67
e-mail: stefano.sacchi_at_unimi.it

I am URGE's Acting Director, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Welfare and Labour Studies of the University of Milan, where I teach European Union Politics and Policies (undergraduate), EU Social and Employment Policy (graduate) and Methodology of Political and Social Science (graduate).
I was born in Turin in 1971 and hold a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pavia, and a Laurea in Economics from Bocconi University of Milan. I was Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, Department of Political Science.
I am a member of the Editorial Board of Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Italy’s leading political science journal.
My research interests lie in Comparative social policy analysis, European social policy and European integration. I am currently researching on social protection for non standard workers in Italy and Europe, the impact of European integration on domestic social policy governance in the EU Member States, and on the quality of democracy in Europe.

I have just completed a volume (written with two labour economists, Fabio Berton and Matteo Richiardi) on work flexibility and precariousness of employment in Italy: Flex-insecurity. Perché in Italia la flessibilità diventa precarietà. I am working on another book, on European integration and social policy governance in the EU Member States.

My most recent publications are:

In English

• ‘A More Social EU: Issues of Where and How’ (with M. Ferrera), in S. Micossi and G.L. Tosato (eds.), The European Union in the 21st Century. Perspectives from the Lisbon Treaty, Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, 2009.
• ‘Italy and Social Policy’, in S. Fabbrini e S. Piattoni (eds.), Italy in the European Union. Redefining national interest in a compound polity, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
• Italy: Between indifference, exploitation, and the construction of a national interest’, in J. Kvist e J. Saari (eds.), The Europeanization of Social Protection, Bristol: The Policy Press, 2007.

In Italian

• ‘L’indennità di terminazione: una proposta pratica contro la precarietà’ (with F. Berton and M. Richiardi), in C. Dell’Aringa and T. Treu (eds.), Le riforme che mancano, Bologna: il Mulino, 2009, pp. 187-203.
• 'Flex-insecurity. Perché in Italia la flessibilità diventa precarietà' (with F. Berton e M. Richiardi), Bologna, il Mulino, 2009.
• 'Flex-insecurity. Perché in Italia la flessibilità diventa precarietà' (with F. Berton e M. Richiardi), in Quaderni di Italianieuropei, 3/2009, pp. 20-27.
• 'Flessibilità del lavoro e precarietà dei lavoratori in Italia: analisi empiriche e proposte di policy' (with F. Berton and M. Richiardi), in Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche , 1, 2009, pp. 33-70.
• 'L'Europa e l'innovazione del welfare', in L. Guerzoni (ed.), La riforma del welfare. Dieci anni dopo la Commissione Onofri , Bologna: il Mulino, 2008.
• 'Un'Europa più sociale?' (con M. Ferrera), in S. Micossi e G.L. Tosato (eds.), L'Unione europea nel XXI secolo , Bologna, il Mulino, 2008.
  ‘Il metodo aperto di coordinamento delle politiche sociali’, in M. Ferrera e M. Giuliani (eds.), Governance e politiche nell’Unione europea, Bologna: il Mulino, 2008.

To download my Curriculum Vitae, click here.