Linguistic precision matters, but the term 'hard right' isn’t the real threat to clarity. Federico Taddei argues that the real problem lies in how journalists and scholars misuse or oversimplify the categories political science has worked long and hard to define
PhD Candidate, Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies (NASP) Graduate School, Università degli Studi di Milano
Federico is pursuing a PhD in Public Opinion, Political Communication, and Political Behaviour.
He currently serves as the Students' Representative for the 40th cohort of the Political Studies (POLS) programme.
He holds a Master’s degree in Public and Corporate Communication (LM-59) specialised in Data Analytics for Politics, Society, and Complex Organisations (awarded cum laude, July 2024), and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science (L-36), with a specialisation in Political History and Culture (110/110, July 2022), both from the University of Milan.
Federico's research interests lie at the intersection of party politics, political extremism, and electoral behaviour, with a particular focus on the radical, extreme, and far right in Europe.
He investigates how far-right actors operate within democratic systems, the structural conditions that facilitate or constrain their success, and the institutional responses to their presence in the political arena.
His work draws on theoretical frameworks, as well as quantitative and computational methods, and he has a strong interest in the use of natural language processing and social network analysis to examine party manifestos, discourses, and organisational patterns.
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