Books
The Politics and Ideology of Legislative Speeches, London: Taylor & Francis, forthcoming, 2018
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Corruption, Ideology, Populism. The rise of valence political campaigning, London: Palgrave, forthcoming, 2017
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L’arte di fare (e disfare) i governi: da De Gasperi a Renzi 70 anni di politica italiana (with Luca Pinto), Milan: Egea, 2017
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Politics and Big Data. Nowcasting and Forecasting Elections with Social Media (with Andrea Ceron & Stefano M. Iacus), London: Routledge, 2017
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Why Policy Representation Matters: The Consequences of Ideological Congruence between Citizens and their Governments (with Willy Jou & Vincenzo Memoli), London: Routledge, 2015 (dataset & instruction files)
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Social Media e Sentiment Analysis. L'evoluzione dei fenomeni sociali attraverso la Rete (with Andrea Ceron & Stefano M. Iacus), Milan: Springer, 2013
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I partiti nella Prima Repubblica. Maggioranze e governi dalla Costituente a Tangentopoli (with Paolo Martelli), Rome: Carocci, 2009 (book review in “Bullettin of Italian Politics")
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Il dilemma della cooperazione. Capitale sociale, sviluppo, cooperazione, Milan: V&P Università 2004
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Papers in peer-reviewed journals
Nash Optimal Party Positions: The nopp R Package (with Stefano M. Iacus), Journal of Statistical Software, forthcoming
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The conditional impact of winner/loser status and ideological proximity on citizen participation (with Willy Jou), European Journal of Political Research, 55, 2016, 767-788 (dataset & instruction files)
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iSA: a fast, scalable and accurate algorithm for sentiment analysis of social media content (with Andrea Ceron & Stefano M. Iacus), Information Sciences, 367–368 (1), 2016, 105–124
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E-Campaigning in the 2014 European Elections: The emphasis on valence issues in a two-dimensional multi-party system (with Andrea Ceron), Party Politics, DOI: 10.1177/1354068816642807 (dataset & instruction files)
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First and second level agenda-setting in the Twitter-sphere. An application to the Italian political debate (with Andrea Ceron & Stefano M. Iacus), Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 13(2), 2016, 159-174
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Using social media to forecast electoral results: A review of state of the art (with Andrea Ceron & Stefano M. Iacus), Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, 25(3), 2016, 239-261 (dataset & instruction files)
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An Italian Leitmotiv? Corruption and Competence in the Debates of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1946-2014), South European Society and Politics, 20(4), 2015, 509-531 (dataset & instruction files)
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Legislative committees as uncertainty reduction devices in multiparty parliamentary democracies (with Francesco Zucchini), West European Politics, 38(5), 2015, 1042-1061
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More than Post-election Cabinets: Uncertainty and the Magnitude of Change during Italian Government Bargaining (with Luca Pinto), International Political Science Review, 37(2), 2016, 184-197
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The conditional ideological inducement to campaign on character valence issues in multiparty systems. The case of corruption, Comparative Political Studies, 48(2), 2015, 168–192 (dataset & instruction files)
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How Moderates and Extremists find Happiness: Ideological Orientation, Citizen-Government Proximity, and Life Satisfaction (with Willy Jou & Vincenzo Memoli), International Political Science Review, 35(2), 2014, 129-152 (dataset & instruction files)
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Italian Law-Making Archive: A new tool for analysis of the Italian legislative process (with Enrico Borghetto, Marco Giuliani, Alessandro Pellegata, & Francesco Zucchini), Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 3(2012): 481-502 (link to the dataset ILMA)
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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Winner-Loser Debate: the role of policy preferences and past experience (with Willy Jou & Vincenzo Memoli), British Journal of Political Science, 42(2), 2012, 241-261 (dataset & instruction files)
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Fortuna e abilità in 65 anni di Serie A, Rivista di Diritto ed Economia dello Sport, Vol.VII, 1, 2011, 127-146 (dataset & instruction files)
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Gli agent-based models: come modellare la complessità, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 3, 2009, 517-531
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Electoral systems and government stability: a simulation of 2006 Italian policy space (with Paolo Martelli), AUCO Czech Economic Review, 3, 2009, 305-322
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La vicenda Tambroni, la questione dell’antifascismo e la nascita del «centro-sinistra». Un caso di narrazione analitica (with Paolo Martelli), Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1, 2008, 3-28
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A call for more structure in Collective Action Theory, Sociologica, vol.3, 2007
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Un’applicazione della teoria delle coalizioni alle elezioni tedesche del 2005: alcuni scenari (with Andrea Ceron), Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 2, 2007, 251-273
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Vox populi-vox dei? (Alcuni) limiti e (alcuni) paradossi della pratica deliberativa, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2, 2006, 231-257
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Note sulla democrazia deliberativa: giochi, preferenze, consenso, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 3, 2004, 521-552
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Capitale sociale e rendimento istituzionale: il caso di un programma di microfinanza, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XXXIII, 1, 2003, 113-143
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Statistical programs
Nopp. An R-package to estimate Nash Optimal Party Positions (with Stefano M. Iacus), Version: 1.0.8.
Chapters in Books
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Social Media and Elections (with Andrea Ceron & Stefano M. Iacus), in Kai Arzheimer,
Jocelyn Evans & Michael Lewis-Beck (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour, 2017, Sage, 883-904 |
Il governo Letta: formazione del governo e (in)stabilità in tempo di crisi (with Andrea Ceron), in Amie Krepel & Carlo Fusaro (eds.), Politica in Italia: I fatti dell'anno e le interpretazioni. 2014, Bologna, il Mulino, 151-169
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The Letta Cabinet(s) Government Formation and (In)stability in Times of Crisis: a Spatial Approach (with Andrea Ceron), in Amie Krepel & Carlo Fusaro (eds.), Italian Politics: Still Waiting for the Transformation, 2014, 143-159, Berghahn Books
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Testing the law making theories in a parliamentary democracy: a roll call analysis of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1988-2008) (with Francesco Zucchini), in Thomas König, George Tsebelis & Marc Debus (eds.), Reform processes and policy change: Veto players and decision-making in modern democracies, 2010, Springer, 189-211 (dataset & instruction files)
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On the externalities of social capital: between myth and reality, in Derrick Purdue (ed.), Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems, 2007, Routledge, 147-165
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Ebooks & popular books
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Other
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Expo Milano 2o15: Legacies in Tweets (with Vera Ventura, Stefano M. Iacus, Andrea Ceron & Dario G. Frisio), International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Proceedings in System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2016, 398:405
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Forecasting elections with social media? Yes, we can. Almost…(Andrea Ceron & Stefano M. Iacus.), Politics in Spire, The Oxford University Politics Blog, 2015
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The cohesion of committees is key in determining their legislative effectiveness, Democratic Audit UK, London School of Economics & Political Science, 2015
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Nowcasting (and forecasting) politics through social media? A personal view , Italian Political Science, 9(1), 2014
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Eight years of development: the Italian academic community of Political Scientists within Universities and Departments, Italian Political Science, 2, 2009
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Co-editor of the Italian version of : Principles of Comparative Politics, W.R. Clark, M. Golder and S.N. Golder, 2009, Washington DC: Sage (Italian title: Principi di Scienza Politica, 2011, Milan, McGraw-Hill)
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Expert survey of 2008 Italian General Election (with Kenneth Benoit) (Detailed respondent data – Summary data). Every time you use the survey for your own research, please quote it as: Curini, Luigi & Stefano M. Iacus (2008). Italian spatial competition between 2006 and 2008: a changing party system?, paper presented at the XXII Congress of the Italian Political Science Society (SISP), Pavia, 5-8 September
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Work in progress
Looking for the agenda setter in Japanese politics (with Airo Hino)
ISIS and heritage destruction: A sentiment analysis proposal (with Emma Cunliffe)
The power of the Prime Ministers (with Andrea Ceron and Fedra Negri)
An automated content analysis of the Japanese legislative speeches: 1953-2013 (with Airo Hino) (a space-invader video!)
Journalists and the public opinion (with Sergio Splendore)
The power of Italian Presidents (with Andrea Ceron)
From where it all began: Italy between 1918 and 1922 (with Andrea Ceron)
ISIS and heritage destruction: A sentiment analysis proposal (with Emma Cunliffe)
The power of the Prime Ministers (with Andrea Ceron and Fedra Negri)
An automated content analysis of the Japanese legislative speeches: 1953-2013 (with Airo Hino) (a space-invader video!)
Journalists and the public opinion (with Sergio Splendore)
The power of Italian Presidents (with Andrea Ceron)
From where it all began: Italy between 1918 and 1922 (with Andrea Ceron)
