Publications

Journal articles

(13) Bolin, N., McDonnell, D., Ammassari, S., Heinisch, R., Jungar, A.-C., Valbruzzi, M., Wegscheider, C., & Werner, A. (Forthcoming). The added value of youth wings: Do they nurture the members their parties want? Political Studies.

(12) Ammassari, S., McDonnell, D., Bolin, N., Werner, A., Valbruzzi, M., Wegscheider, C., Heinisch, R., & Jungar, A.-C. (Forthcoming). Party youth wings as forces of renovation: A study of young women members’ efficacy and ambition. Politics and Gender.

(11) Ammassari, S., McDonnell, D., Werner, A., Heinisch, R., Valbruzzi, M., & Wegscheider, C. (2026). More social, less material, more influenced by family ties: Why young women join political parties. European Journal of Political Research. [Link] [PDF]

(10) McDonnell, D., & Ammassari, S. (2026). The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century. Political Geography, 125, 1-21. [Link] [PDF]

(9) Ammassari, S., Martinez i Coma, F., & McDonnell, D. (2026). Young voters, abstainers, and unregistered: Generation Z turnout in a compulsory system. Political Studies, 74(1), 7-28. [Link] [PDF]

• Featured in The Australian, ‘Almost half of young Australians vote because they’re scared of a fine’.

(8) Ammassari, S. (2025). “Men’s parties”, but with more active women: Gender and party activism in the populist radical right. Comparative Political Studies, 59(5), 1083-1119. [Link] [PDF]

• Winner of the ECPR Extremism & Democracy Best Paper Prize 2023.

(7) McDonnell, D., Ammassari, S., Werner, A., Bolin, N., Valbruzzi, M., Ferrinho Lopes, H., Heinisch, R., Jungar, A.-C., & Wegscheider, C. (2025). Young radicals, moderates, and aligned: Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings. European Journal of Political Research, 64(4), 1759-1782. [Link] [PDF]

• Featured in The Australian, ‘Progressive party youth divisions more radical than conservatives’.

(6) Ammassari, S. (2025). Deterrent or stimulus? How perceived societal stigma affects participation in populist radical right parties. Political Studies, 73(1), 240-262. [Link] [PDF]

(5) McDonnell, D., Ammassari, S., Valbruzzi, M., Bolin, N., Werner, A., Heinisch, R., Jungar, A.-C., & Wegscheider, C. (2024). Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project. Party Politics, 31(6), 1049-1063. [Link] [PDF]

(4) Ammassari, S. (2024). Disaffected but efficacious: Why people join populist radical right parties. Government & Opposition, 59(3), 655-674. [Link] [PDF]

(3) Ammassari, S., McDonnell, D., & Valbruzzi, M. (2023). It’s about the type of career: The political ambition gender gap among youth wing members. European Journal of Political Research, 62(4), 1054-1077. [Link] [PDF]

(2) Ammassari, S. (2023). It depends on personal networks: Feelings of stigmatisation among populist radical right party members. European Journal of Political Research, 62(3), 723-741. [Link] [PDF]

(1) Ammassari, S., Fossati, D., & McDonnell, D. (2023). Supporters of India’s BJP: Distinctly populist and nativist. Government & Opposition, 58(4), 807-823. [Link] [PDF]