Ilaria Madama is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. Her main research areas are EU social governance and comparative social policy, with an interest in the political and institutional dynamics behind the development in the fields of minimum income protection, social inclusion and family policy. Among her recent publications: All in, against all odds. Path-shift in family policy via cross-party agreement: the case of the Single Universal Allowance reform in Italy (2023, with E. Mercuri, in Social Policy and Administration).