Ilaria Madama, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan (Italy), where she teaches International political economy and the welfare state (MA program in Global politics and society, in English), and The EU political system and its social model (BA program in Political science, in Italian). Her main research areas are EU social governance and comparative social policy, with an interest in the political and institutional dynamics behind the development and reform of benefits, regulations and services across European countries in the fields of minimum income protection, social inclusion and work-life balance.

Among her recent publications:

1. All in, against all odds. Path-shift in family policy via cross-party agreement: the case of the Single Universal Allowance reform in Italy (2023, with E. Mercuri, in Social Policy and Administration);
2. Welfare and Labour (2023, with C. De La Porte, in M. Moschella, L. Quaglia, A. Spendzharova (eds.) European political economy. Theoretical Approaches, Issue Areas, and Policy Challenges. Oxford, Oxford University Press);
3. What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: evidence from the Italian Jobs Act (2022, with M. Giuliani, in Policy Studies);
4. Researching Social Europe on the Move (2022, with C. De La Porte, in M. Yerkes, K. Nelson and R. Nieuwenhuis (eds.), Social Policy in Changing European Societies Research Agendas for the 21st Century Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 136-153;
5. Fighting poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU (Routledge, 2018, co-edited with M. Jessoula);
6. Innovating long-term care policy in Italy from the bottom (2019, with F.Maino, and F. Razetti in Journal of Regional Research);
7. The right(s) and minimum income in hard times: Southern and Eastern Europe compared (with M. Natili, M. Jessoula and M. Matsaganis, in European Societies, 2019).