Giovanni Capoccia

Giovanni Capoccia is Professor of Comparative Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Corpus Christi College. He obtained his Doctorate in Political Science at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy. Before his present post, he was Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and in 2006-2007 he was the Rita E. Hauser Fellowship at Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. [cite web |url=http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows/capoccia_giovanni.php |title=Corpus Christi College - Professor Giovanni Capoccia |publisher=Oxford University |accessdate=2008-03-15] [cite news |title=Radcliffe recognizes its 2006-07 fellows |url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/06.08/39-radcliffefellows.html |work=Harvard University Gazette |date=June 8 2006 |accessdate=2008-03-15] [cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/awards/posts/fellowships06.html |title=Past awards - Fellowships 2006 |publisher=British Academy |accessdate=2008-03-15]

Capoccia's recent research has focused on the analysis of causes and consequences of the strategies adopted by democratic governments to control extremist dissent. He recently completed a comparative study on inter-war Europe, which provided the material for several journal articles and a monograph entitled "Defending Democracy" (Johns Hopkins University Press 2005 [paperback 2007] ). [cite book |last=Capoccia |first=Giovanni |title=Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe |year=2007 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=0801880386] His current project, for which he has received funding from the British Academy, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, the Research Development Fund of Oxford University, and the Nuffield Foundation, focuses on the analysis of responses to extremist dissent in contemporary Western European democracies. The resulting monograph, entitled "Militant Democrats", is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press and will be completed in 2008. [cite web |url=http://government.politics.ox.ac.uk/Projects/Setting-the-Boundaries.asp |title=CSDG - Setting the Boundaries |publisher=Oxford University |accessdate=2008-03-15 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060201022735/http://government.politics.ox.ac.uk/Projects/Setting-the-Boundaries.asp |archivedate=2006-02-01]

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* [http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/staff.asp?action=show&person=125 Giovanni Capoccia] at Oxford University