Comunicazione Politica (ComPol) – founded in 2000 and published by Il Mulino since 2009 – is sponsored by the Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione politica (Italian Association of Political Communication). It is well established among the academic and scientific community as the leading Italian journal that studies, analyzes and discusses the relationships between media and politics. The journal welcomes all research methods, comparative perspectives and analytical articles that deal with emerging political communication topics in Italy and worldwide. ComPol aims at promoting the interdisciplinary development of political communication scholarship by publishing contributions from political scientists, sociologists, mass communication and new media researchers, linguists, historians, and scholars from other disciplines. It features research on the deep transformations that have taken place in the electoral and political arenas in the last decades. 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 aim of stimulating the discussion between academic research and professional work in crucial political environments. COMPOL publishes articles both in Italian and in English, encouraging submissions also from international scholars. All articles undergo under blind peer-review. 

Editor in chief Augusto Valeriani Co-Editors Guido Legnante, Rita Marchetti Editorial Board Marinella Belluati, Mauro Bertolotti, Roberta Bracciale, Giuliano Bobba, Fabio Bordignon, Emiliana De Blasio, Domenico Fruncillo, Fabio Giglietto, Matteo Gerli, Laura Iannelli, Moreno Mancosu, Antonio Martella, Marco Mazzoni, Melissa Mongiardo, Paolo Natale, Elena Pavan, Rossella Rega, Christian Ruggiero, Rossana Sampugnaro, Anna Stanziano, Sergio Splendore Scientific Board Francesco Amoretti (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Sara Bentivegna (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Giovanni Boccia Artieri (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo), Leticia Bode (Georgetown University), Shelley Boulianne (Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society), Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology), Marco Cacciotto (political startegist), Donatella Campus (Università degli Studi di Bergamo), Patrizia Catellani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Luigi Ceccarini (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo), Cristopher Cepernich (Università degli Studi di Torino), Giovanna Cosenza (Università degli Studi di Bologna), Shannon McGregor (Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Paolo Mancini (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Rolando Marini (Università per Stranieri di Perugia), Giampietro Mazzoleni (Università degli Studi di Milano), Lorenzo Mosca (Università degli Studi di Parma), Edoardo Novelli (Università Roma Tre), Franca Roncarolo (Università degli Studi di Torino), Patricia Rossini (University of Glasgow), Michele Sorice (Sapienza Università di Roma), Carlo Sorrentino (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Yannis Theocaris (Technical University of Munich), Cristian Vaccari (University of Edinburgh), Zizi Papacharissi (University of Chicago).

The journal is published on behalf of Associazione Italiana di Comunicazione Politica.