DEMOPE (Democracy under Pressure) is a project funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (PRIN 2020), which aims to study the effect of crises on democracy. It involves scholars from five Italian universities: Milano, Bologna, Siena, Trieste, Lecce.

Official Website: http://demope.it/

Team: Andrea Ceron (Principal Investigator), Elisabetta De Giorgi (head of Trieste unit), Francesco Marangoni (head of Siena unit), Luca Pinto (head of Bologna unit), Federico Russo (head of Lecce unit), Paride Carrara, Sabrina Cavatorto, Elena Esposito, Fabio Fossati, Fabio Franchino, Daniela Giannetti, Tamara Grechanaya, Giuseppe Ieraci, Elena Irrera, Andrea Pedrazzani, Alessandro Pellegata, Alessia Vatta, Francesco Zucchini