Cristina Santilli

Biographic Data

ID296801
NAMECristina Santilli
GIVEN NAMESCristina
FAMILY NAMESantilli
SIGNATURESANTILLI C
AFFILIATIONSLund University
ORCID0000-0001-5685-488X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Civil Society Elites in the Italian Third Sector

    Open AccessCristina Santilli, Cecilia Santilli et al.BOOKCivil Society Elites in the…2025

    This book series focuses on the third sector-the sphere of society that is distinct from the family, the market economy, and political power/the state.The third sector has been historically institutionalized in different ways across countries and is subject to different scholarly traditions.Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research addresses contemporary themes related to this societal sphere and its components.This series has three main editoria…

  • The Organisational Landscape

    Open AccessCristina Santilli, Cecilia Santilli et al.CHAPTERCivil Society Elites in the…2025

    This chapter examines the organisational landscape of elite civil society organisations in Italy at the national level, revealing a clear hierarchical structure dominated by a few top-tier organisations. These elite CSOs control the majority of resources and are primarily engaged in service provision, solidarity efforts, volunteering, and international aid, reflecting the broader orientation of the civil society sector. Two longstanding, broad-sp…

  • Between Policy-oriented Criticism and Structural Opposition — Civil Society Advocacy in the Age of Populism

    Open AccessCristina Santilli, Cecilia Santilli et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Politics…2025Cited by: 1References: 12

    The paper aims to understand how established civil society organizations (CSOs) react to populist governance and what factors influence the strategies adopted. Populist governance is often characterized by avoidance of intermediary institutions, such as CSOs, and repression/obstruction of oppositional civil society, which might challenge the position of established CSOs. The paper focuses on how established CSOs in Italy and Sweden have reacted t…

  • Reshaping Alliances and Redrawing Boundaries

    Cristina Santilli, Cecilia Santilli et al.ARTICLEMobilization An International…2022Cited by: 1

    Many conflicts in Italian politics have focused on migration policy. After the national elections in 2018, this conflict cut across all societal spheres and levels of governance and administration. On the one hand, tightening migration policies and criminalizing pro-migrant civil-society actors created a conflict between the government and many civil-society actors. On the other hand, civil-society and public-sector actors formed new alliances an…

  • Trajectories of Civil Society Leaders in Italy

    Open AccessCristina Santilli, Roberto ScaramuzzinoARTICLESAGE Open2021

    The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between individual leaders’ career trajectories and organizational structure and identity in Italian civil society organizations (CSOs) active at national level. The analysis in this qualitative study draws on two sets of data, semi-structured interviews with leaders on their career trajectories and their understanding of what it takes to become a leader of a CSO and short biographies of leader…

  • I rom che raccolgono il ferro a Roma

    Open AccessCristina SantilliARTICLEANUAC2017Cited by: 1

    L'articolo analizza come le interpretazioni e percezioni intorno alle strategie produttive di famiglie rom residenti in alcuni 'campi' di Roma, basate sulla raccolta e riciclaggio di materiali di scarto, vengono viste come formali e illegali da parte di attori coinvolti nella di ricerca-intervento che qui si presenta. I dati provengono dall'osservazione etnografica svolta presso una Unità della Polizia Municipale di Roma e dall'analisi di documen…