Dr. Angelo Vito Panaro

• 2024- present Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany
• 2021-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
• 2021 Ph.D. in Political Science, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
• 2019-2024 Adjunct Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences/Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy
• 2019 Visiting Fellow, Research Center of Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM), University of Bremen, Germany
• 2018 Visiting Fellow, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria
• 2016 M.A. in Economics, Department of Economics, Bocconi University, Italy
• 2012 B.A. in Political Science, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

• Authoritarian regimes
• Regime changes
• Comparative welfare states
• Politics of social policy
• Global social redistribution
• Socio-economic inequalities
• EU social policy

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Panaro, A. V. (2025) All that is left is all that matters: the politics of social spending in authoritarian regimes, Democratization, 1–26.
• Berten J., Grabo K., Kaasch A., Martens K., Meier S., Moore M., Panaro A.V. (2025) Global social policy ideas in the COVID-19 crisis: Ideational change and continuity in the ILO, the OECD, the WHO, and the World Bank, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. 1-15
• Vaccaro A., Panaro A.V. (2024) It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes, Contemporary Politics. Online First.
• Panaro A.V. (2024) Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post-Soviet countries, Review of Policy Research. Online First.
• Cassani A., Panaro, A.V., Szymański A., Zamęcki L. (2024) Democratic backsliding and resilience in extraordinary times: Poland and Italy during the Covid-19 crisis, Italian Political Science, 18(1) 57-77
• Panaro, A.V., Vaccaro A. (2023) Income inequality in authoritarian regimes: the role of political institutions and state capacity, Italian Political Science Review, 53(2), 161-178
• Panaro A.V. (2021) Determinants of health and education equality: evidence from post-Soviet states, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 42(1/2), 124-140

Articles

• Bao F., Berten J., Panaro A.V. et al. (2025) A crisis of multilateralism in times of polarization?, Global Social Policy, 25 (2) online first
• Bao F., Berten J., Panaro A.V. et al. (2025) Migration, refugees, and forced displacement as issues of global social policy, Global Social Policy, 25 (1), 202-230.
• Bao F., Berten J., Panaro A.V. et al. (2024) Adopting a gender lens to tackle gender disparities, Global Social Policy, 24 (3), 507-533.
• Berten J., Babirye M., Panaro A.V., et al. (2024) Recalibrating investment at the global level, Global Social Policy,24 (2), 336-362.
• Berten J., Besche-Truthe F., Panaro A.V., et al. (2024) How inequalities and the climate crisis are entangled, Global Social Policy, 24 (1), 117-146.
• Berten J., Besche-Truthe F., Panaro A.V., et al. (2023) Ready for the future?, Global Social Policy, 23 (3), 535-574.

Book chapters

• Shahini V., Panaro A.V., Jessoula M. (2024) The Politics of Minimum Income Protection in the EU: The long road to a Council Recommendation, In: Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S. (eds) Social policy in the European Union: State of play 2023, An ambitious implementation of Social Pillar, Brussels, ETUI and OSE Publications.
• Panaro, A.V. (2023) Delivering on Legitimation Strategies: Creating Access for CSOs in Authoritarian Regimes, In: Grömping Max and Teets Jessica (eds) Lobbying the Autocrats: Dynamics of policy advocacy in non-democracies, University of Michigan Press
• Valbruzzi M., Martelli R., Panaro A.V., and Soliman S. (2019), Che Programmi Avete per le Elezioni Europee? Un’analisi dei programmi elettorali dei partiti, In: L’Italia sovranista e la sfida all’Europa. Le elezioni europee ed amministrative 2019, Istituto Carlo Cattaneo – Fondazione di Ricerca

Reviews

• Panaro, A.V. (2023) Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa, Ferdinand Eibl, Oxford University Press (2020), ISBN 978-0-19-883427-4, Democratization, 30 (3), 540-541
• Panaro, A.V. (2019) Autocratization in Post-Cold War Political Regimes, Andrea Cassani and Luca Tomini (eds), Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan, (2019), ISBN 978-3-030-03124-4, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 5(2), 349-350

Working papers

• Shahini V., Panaro A.V. (2023) Analysing the Implementation of the EPSR Through the European Semester, EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 33. Oslo: Oslo Metropolitan University
• Panaro A.V., Shahini V., Jessoula M. (2023) The politics of minimum income schemes reforms in seven European countries, EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 31. Oslo: Oslo Metropolitan University
• Shahini V., Panaro A.V. (2023) Ensuring workers’ right to fair pay and decent standard of living: the minimum wage initiatives in a multilevel governance framework, EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 24. Oslo: Oslo Metropolitan University
• Panaro A.V., Shahini V., Jessoula M. (2022), A supranational social protection floor for all? The politics of minimum income protection in the European Union, EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 17. Oslo: Oslo Metropolitan University
• Panaro A.V., Shahini V., Jessoula M. (2022), The Social Dimension of the European Union: Grand Strategies, Governance Framework and Policy Development in the EU (2000-2020), EUROSHIP Working Paper No. 10. Oslo: Oslo Metropolitan University

Policy Reports

• Kinzelbach K., Lindberg S.I., Lott L., Panaro A.V. (2025) Academic Freedom Index 2025 Update, FAU Erlangen Nürnberg and V-Dem Institute.
• Panaro A.V., Shahini V., Jessoula M. (2023) Closing gaps in social citizenship: What more can Europe do?, EUROSHIP Policy Brief No.3, Oslo: Oslo Metropolitan University.
• Zamęcki L., Szymanki A., Cassani A., Panaro A.V., Tomini L. (2022), De-democratisation at the times of Covid-19, Report from the Excellence Initiative – Research University Project, University of Warsaw.
• Valbruzzi M., Erittu E., Panaro A.V. (2018), Che Programmi Avete per le Elezioni? Analisi delle Proposte Politiche dei Partiti, Istituto Carlo Cattaneo – Fondazione di Ricerca.

Open Pieces

• Panaro A.V. (2025) What determines public social spending in authoritarian regimes?, Social Policy Worldwide.
• Interview on the State of Academic Freedom (May 2025) German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
• Panaro A.V. (2025) 2024 elections: a stress test for democracy, the Loop – European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Political Science Blog.
• Panaro A.V. (2022), Recent protests in Kazakhstan expose the fragility of the autocratic regime, the Loop – European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Political Science Blog.
• Panaro A.V. (2020), Trump exploited social media platforms to question the election outcome. Their swift response has helped safeguard American democracy, the Loop – European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Political Science Blog.