Davide Orsitto is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Rights and Global Politics at the DIRPOLIS institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. His PhD project is entitled ‘’Varieties of Equality’’ and focuses on how advanced economies’ welfare states conceptualize and pursue the principle of equality differently. Other research interests include political polarization, populism and the job-market relations in light of automation processes.