Fabrizio Tonello

Fabrizio Tonello (born 1951 in Venice) is Senior Scholar at University of Padua where he still teaches. He has taught Political Science, American History and Public opinion sciences. He has been Visiting Fellow of Columbia University in New York and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh (PA).

He previously taught at the Communication studies department of University of Bologna and at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste.

Selected Publications 1996, Da Saigon an Oklahoma City, Limina 1999, La nuova macchina dell'informazione, Feltrinelli 2003, La politica come azione simbolica, Franco Angeli 2005, Il giornalismo americano, Carocci 2006, Il giornalismo francese, Carocci (with Elisa Giomi) 2006, La fabbrica dei mostri book coupled with DVD Una storia americana, Feltrinelli 2007, Il nazionalismo americano, UTET 2010, La Costituzione degli Stati Uniti, Bruno Mondadori/Pearson

2012, L'età dell'ignoranza – È possibile una democrazia senza cultura?, Bruno Mondadori 2013, Moral Panic: The Issue of Women and Crime in Italian Evening News, "Sociologica", n.3 (with Elisa Giomi) 2017, Desolation Row. From Democracy to Oligarchy 1976-2016, Fondazione Feltrinelli 2018, We are sliding into uncharted territory, and we are alone in this. A New Look At Political Disorientation, "Review of International American Studies", vol. 11, n.2 2019, Democrazie a rischio, Bruno Mondadori/Pearson 2020a, Nazionalismo, in: Enciclopedia Italiana. Decima appendice, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana 2020b, Oligarchia, in: Enciclopedia Italiana. Decima appendice, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana 2022, How American Democracy Is Quickly Slipping Away, "Michigan Quarterly Review", vol. 62, n.4 2025, L'America in 18 quadri. Dalle piantagioni a Silicon Valley, Laterza