Paolo R. Graziano is Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua, Italy, and Associate Fellow at the European Social Observatory in Brussels. He has published three books and edited several volumes and special issues on topics such as Europeanization, welfare state politics, European social policy, political consumerism, European governance. His most recent book – ‘Sustainable Community Movement Organisations’ – will be published in 2016 (Il Mulino, in Italian) and his work has appeared in the following journals, among others: Comparative European Politics, European Journal for Political Research, European Political Science, Global Social Policy, Governance, International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Regional and Federal Studies, Social Policy and Administration, The Annals of the America Academy of Political and Social Science.