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)

My latest articles on press: "Moriremo pentastellati?" (Italia Oggi); "Rivalutiamo il compromesso. E' una palestra di tolleranza" (La Lettura / Corriere della Sera)"; ​"So different, yet so alike (to Donald Trump?) The 2019 Democratic Primaries on Twitter" (IREF)
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, 13:00-16:00, 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