Matteo Mandelli

Matteo Mandelli is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), where he is working on a project titled “Democracy and Ecological Transformations” under the supervision of Charlotte Halpern and Bruno Palier. This 22-months project is funded under the Open Society Hub for the Politics of the Anthropocene (OHPA), hosted at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna.

He obtained his PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan in September 2023. Following this, he joined Sciences Po, where he undertook a project within the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public (LIEPP). Over the years, he has collaborated with various European think tanks – including the Green European Foundation, the European Trade Union Institute and the European Social Observatory – and he was visiting scholar at Maynooth University (Ireland) and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

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).

Research interests

His primary research interest is the role of the welfare state in addressing the ecological crisis and the green transition, with particular attention to the distributive politics involved. His work has concentrated on defining and identifying eco-social policies and risks, as well as examining related political conflicts and policymaking processes within the European Union and its Member States, overall contributing to the debate on advancing a just transition from the perspective of political studies.

Project: Democracy and Ecological Transformations (2024-2026)

Teaching

Mapping the Social Risks of Environmental Transitions, with Anne-Laure Beaussier, Tom Chevalier & Bruno Palier. 24-hours elective exploratory research seminar open to Master’s students in the École d'Affaires Publiques. Sciences Po Paris, France.

Publications

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

Selected list of recent publications:

• Zimmermann, K., Mandelli, M. & Gerstenberg, A. (2024) Eco-social policies in a multilevel setup: from Brussels to Berlin. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft - Journal of Political Science.
• Sabato, S. & Mandelli, M. (2024) Towards an EU framework for a just transition: welfare policies and politics for the socio-ecological transition. European Political Science, 23, pp. 14-26.
• Mandelli, M. (2023) Harnessing welfare state theories to explain the emergence of eco-social policies. European Journal of Social Security, 25(4), pp. 347-366.
• Mandelli, M. (2022) Understanding eco-social policies: A proposed definition and typology. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 28(3), pp. 333–348.
• Mandelli, M. (2022) Mapping eco-social policy mixes for a just transition in Europe. Working Paper, n. 15/2022. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute. ISSN 1994-4446.

Conferences

Selected list of conferences:

• ESPAnet Annual Conference. Tampere University, Finland. 28-30 August 2024.
• International Conference of Europeanists. Sciences Po Lyon, France. 3-5 July 2024.
• ISA World Congress of Sociology. Hybrid conference. June 25-July 1, 2023.
• ILERA European Congress. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. 8-10 September 2022.
• International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). University of Pisa, Italy. 14–17 June 2022.
• International conference on public policy by the International Public Policy Association. Hybrid conference. 5-9 July 2021.
• The International Degrowth and ISEE Joint Conference. Virtual conference. 5-8 July 2021.
• European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) 2019 General Conference. University of Wrocław, Poland. 4–7 September 2019.