Bio
Vincent Della Sala is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
Professor of Political Science, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
Director, Centro Jean Monnet, University of Trento.
Professor Della Sala was an associate professor of political science at Carleton University and assistant professor of political science at Brock University. Della Sala served as a lecturer in politics at the University of Durham. His main areas of research currently focus on geopolitics in Eurasia and on the role of narratives in politics as well as gambling policy. He received his PhD in politics from the University of Oxford.
Della Sala has published numerous articles in journals including West European Politics and Journal of Common Market Studies and Governance.
Courses
- Comparative Politics
This is a survey course in comparative politics that provides an overview of major theoretical approaches and issue areas in the field of comparative politics. It exposes students to a wide range of themes through reading of foundational work each week. The course starts by introducing competing theoretical approaches adopted by scholars of the field, including the state-centric, comparative historical, rational choice, and institutional perspectives. Using these approaches, the course then proceeds to examine issue areas such as political economy of developed and developing countries, democracy and authoritarianism, voting and parties, nationalism and ethnic politics, and the international context of domestic politics.
