Professor of Political Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of social and political sciences ​
Via Conservatorio, 7 - 20122 Milan, Italy
Tel. +39 02 50321231  Fax. +39 02 50321240
Office hours: Wednesday 14:30-17:30, Room 319 
The office-hours will be held on-line. Plz write directly to the teacher to make an appointment
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Visiting Professor at Waseda University, School of political science and economics
10F, Building 3, 1-6-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050 Japan
My latest books: "Corruption, Ideology, and Populism. The Rise of Valence Political Campaigning" (Palgrave); "Politics and Big Data. Nowcasting and Forecasting Elections with Social Media" (Routledge); "L’arte di fare (e disfare) i governi: da De Gasperi a Renzi 70 anni di politica italiana" (Egea)
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My latest scientific articles: "Committed moderates and uncommitted extremists: ideological leaning and parties’ narratives on military interventions in Italy" (Foreign Policy Analysis);"Short-term issue emphasis on Twitter during the 2017 German election" (German Politics); "Proximity between citizens and journalists as a determinant of trust in the media. An application to Italy" (Journalism Studies);  "The spatial determinants of the prevalence of antielite rhetoric across parties" (West European Politics)

My latest op/eds on press:  "Trump, la resistenza, e il virus della delegittimazione" (Italia Oggi); "Il centrodestra e la lunga traversata del deserto" (Formiche); "Joe Biden è in un vicolo cieco" (Italia Oggi); "Vietate le posizioni non conformi" ( Italia Oggi); "Tanta passione fa male. Evviva la politica fredda" (La Lettura / Corriere della Sera); "The Riddle of Populism and Ideological Polarization: the Difficulty to Live Without Both"(IREF)