My latest books: (1) "Corruption, Ideology, and Populism. The Rise of Valence Political Campaigning" (Palgrave) (2) "Politics and Big Data. Nowcasting and Forecasting Elections with Social Media" (Routledge); (3) "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: (1) "Intra-party Politics and Interest Groups: Missing Links in Explaining Government Effectiveness" (Public Choice);  (2) "The integrity of the 2016 US Presidential election: exploring the possible impact of ideology on experts" (Party Politics); (3) "ISIS at its apogee: the Arabic discourse on Twitter and what we can learn from that about ISIS support and Foreign Fighters"(Sage Open); (4) "Intensity of government–opposition divide as measured through legislative speeches. Analyses of Japanese parliamentary debates, 1953–2013" (Government and Opposition)

My latest articles: "Game of Thrones: Italian Style" (IREF),"How Islamic State’s destruction of ancient Palmyra played out on Arabic-language Twitter" (The Conversation), "The Economics of Donald Trump’s Twitter Account" (IREF),  "L'equivoco dei competenti" (La Lettura / Corriere della Sera); "Machiavelli e la politica dei nostri giorni" (Italia Oggi)
Full Professor (Professore Ordinario) 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, 10-13, room 319
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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