Comunicazione politica (ComPol) - founded in 2000 and published by Il Mulino since 2009 - is the Italian journal of political communication. It has established among the scholarly community as the only journal that studies, analyzes and discusses the relations between mass media and politics. It focuses primarily on the Italian political context, but the scholarship is closely linked to the best International theory and research.
ComPol aims to favor the inter-disciplinary development of Italian political communication scholarship by publishing contributions from political scientists, sociologists, mass communication and new media researchers, linguists, historians, and from other disciplines, that analyze the deep transformations that have taken place in the last decades in the political arena and in the electoral dynamics.
The journal pays special attention also to the ongoing developments in the world of professions related to political communication: political marketing and consultancy, public affairs, polls, media management, and the like, with the intent to stimulate exchange and discussion between academic research and professional work in politically sensitive environments.
ComPol articles are all peer-reviewed. The journal provides suitable room to the debate on emerging political communication topics in Italy and internationally, and is an indispensable instrument for both scholars and practitioners.
Editor in chief Gianpietro Mazzoleni Co-editor in chief Franca Roncarolo Scientific board Paolo Bellucci, Patrizia Catellani, Lidia de Michelis, Ilvo Diamanti, Stefano Gensini, Giorgio Grossi, Paolo Mancini, Marco Maraffi, Rolando Marini, Carlo Marletti, Nando Pagnoncelli, Gianfranco Pasquino, Mario Rodriguez, Barbara Spinelli International scientific board Kevin Barnhurst, Peter Dahlgren, Daniel Dayan, Michael Delli Carpini, Wolfgang Donsbach, Robert M. Entman, Dan C. Hallin, Shanto Iyengar, Philippe Maarek, Eric Neveu, Patricia Moy, Félix Ortega Gutiérrez, Barbara Pfetsch, Winfried Schulz, Liesbet Van Zoonen, Silvio Waisbord Editorial board Francesco Amoretti, Mauro Barisione, Sara Bentivegna, Federico Boni, Marco Cacciotto, Donatella Campus (book review editor), Fausto Colombo, Guido Legnante, Paolo Natale, Edoardo Novelli Editorial staff Anna Sfardini, Marinella Belluati, Rosanna De Rosa, Marco Mazzoni, Sergio Splendore, Cristian Vaccari.
The journal is indexed by: Articoli italiani di periodici accademici (AIDA), JournalSeek, Essper, Catalogo italiano dei periodici (ACNP), Google Scholar.
The journal is rated "A", by the Italian academic research evaluation agency (Anvur), for the following scientific areas: 14 c1 (Sociologia generale, giuridica e politica), 14 c2 (Sociologia dei processi culturali e cominicativi) e 14 d1 (Sociologia dei processi economici, del lavoro, dell'ambiente e del territorio).
