My interests

Spatial theory of voting, electoral competition, legislative behaviour, valence models of political competition, Italian politics, quantitative methods, automated content analysis, collective action, deliberative democracy, complexity theory. I am co-director, with Paolo Martelli, of the Standing Group Politics&Rationality of the SISP (Italian Political Science Society) and I am a member of the Editorial Boards of IPS (Italian Political Science) and RISP (Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica – Italian Review of Political Science). I am Co-founder of the Centre for the Observation of Legislatures (COoL), Department of Social and Political Studies, Università degli Studi di Milano. I am also Co-founder of the project: “Voices from the Blogs” (http://voicesfromtheblogs.com/), an on-line platform which allows automatic collection and analysis of a large set of textual data from a variety of internet sources

My publications

· Curini Luigi, and Andrea Ceron. “Parties’ influence during government policy negotiations: parliamentary dynamics and spatial advantages in the First Italian Republic”, Journal of Legislative Studies, forthcoming (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi, and Francesco Zucchini. “Assessing the impact of government alternation on legislative party unity: The case of Italy (1988-2008)”, West European Politics, forthcoming (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi, and Beatrice Magni. “Filosofi e polis. Spunti da una narrazione analitica sull’allegoria platonica della Caverna”, Filosofia Politica, forthcoming ( math appendix)

· Curini Luigi, and Luca Pinto. “Breaking the inertia: government formation under the shadow of a core party. The Italian case throughout the First Republic”, Party Politics, DOI:10.1177/1354068811407582 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi, and Airo Hino. “Missing links in party-system polarization: How institutions and voters matter”, The Journal of Politics, 74(2), 2012, 460-473 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi, Willy Jou, and Vincenzo Memoli. “Satisfaction with Democracy and the Winner-Loser Debate: the role of policy preferences and past experience”, British Journal of Political Science, 42(2), 2012, 241-261 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi, Francesco Marangoni, and Filippo Tronconi. “Rebels with a cause – but which one? Defections from legislative party unity in Italy and their individual and institutional determinants”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 3, 2011, 385-409 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi. “Negative campaigning in no-cabinet alternation systems: ideological closeness and blames of corruption in Italy and Japan using party manifesto data”, Japanese Journal of Political Science, 12(3), 2011, 399-420 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi. “Government Survival the Italian Way: the Core and the Advantages of Policy Immobilism during the First Republic”, European Journal of Political Research, 50, 2011, 110-142 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi. “Fortuna e abilità in 65 anni di Serie A”, Rivista di Diritto ed Economia dello Sport, Vol.VII, 1, 2011, 127-146 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi, and Paolo Martelli. “Ideological proximity and valence competition. Negative campaigning through allegation of corruption in the Italian legislative arena from 1946 to 1994”, Electoral Studies, 16(3), 2010, 299-321 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi. “ ‘Usare con cautela’: posizionamento dei partiti e sondaggi demoscopici. I pregiudizi ideologici dell’elettorato italiano (e cosa possiamo imparare dalla loro esistenza)”, Polena, 2, 2010, 47-69

· Curini Luigi, and Francesco Zucchini. “Testing the theories of law making in a parliamentary democracy: a roll call analysis of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1988-2008)”, in Thomas König, George Tsebelis and Marc Debus (eds.), Reform processes and policy change: Veto players and decision-making in modern democracies, Springer press, Studies in Public Choice, 2010 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi. “Experts' Political Preferences and Their Impact on Ideological Bias”, Party Politics, 16(3), 2010, 299-321 (link to the dataset)

· Curini Luigi. “Gli agent-based models: come modellare la complessità”, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 3, 2009, 517-531

· Curini Luigi, and Paolo Martelli. I partiti nella Prima Repubblica. Governi e maggioranze dalla Costituente a Tangentopoli, Rome: Carocci, 2009 (book review in “Bullettin of Italian Politics”)

· Curini Luigi, and Paolo Martelli. “Electoral systems and government stability: a simulation of 2006 Italian policy space”, AUCO Czech Economic Review, 3, 2009, 305-322

· Curini Luigi, and Paolo Martelli. “La vicenda Tambroni, la questione dell’antifascismo e la nascita del «centro-sinistra». Un caso di narrazione analitica”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1, 2008, 3-28

· Curini Luigi. “Eight years of development: the Italian academic community of Political Scientists within Universities and Departments”, IPS, fall 2008, n.2

· Curini Luigi. “A call for more structure in Collective Action Theory”, Sociologica, vol.3, 2007

· Curini Luigi, and Andrea Ceron. “Un’applicazione della teoria delle coalizioni alle elezioni tedesche del 2005: alcuni scenari”, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 2, 2007, 251-273

· Curini Luigi. “The ideology of Italian political experts in comparative perspective”, IPS (Italian Political Science review), spring 2007, n.0

· Curini Luigi. “On the externalities of social capital: between myth and reality”, in Derrick Purdue (ed.), Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems, (2007), Routledge, chapter 9

· Curini Luigi. “ Vox populi-vox dei? (Alcuni) limiti e (alcuni) paradossi della pratica deliberativa”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2, 2006, 231-257

· Curini Luigi. Il dilemma della cooperazione. Capitale sociale, sviluppo, cooperazione, Milan: V&P Università 2004

· Curini Luigi. “Note sulla democrazia deliberativa: giochi, preferenze, consenso”, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 3, 2004, 521-552

· Curini Luigi. “Capitale sociale e rendimento istituzionale: il caso di un programma di microfinanza”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XXXIII, 1, 2003, 113-143

Under Review

· Parties’ corruption emphasis in CMP data (with Paolo Martelli)

· Happiness and Ideological Proximity (with Willy Jou and Vincenzo Memoli)

· Italian Law-Making Archive (with Enrico Borghetto, Marco Giuliani, Alessandro Pellegata, and Francesco Zucchini)

Work in Progress

· The determinants of committee cohesion (with Francesco Zucchini)

· An automated content analysis of the Japanese legislative speeches: 1953-2009 (with Airo Hino and Atsushi Osaki) (a space-invader video!)

· A dyadic analysis of legislative behaviors in the Italian Parliament (with Francesco Marangoni and Filippo Tronconi)

· Positive and Negative Valence Competition in the Italian legislative arena (with Paolo Martelli)

· Explaining party ideological stances: from simulation to real elections. A comparative analysis using CSES survey data (with Stefano Iacus)

· Duration of cabinet bargaining rounds in the Italian context (with Luca Pinto)

· Party Preferences in the European Electoral Cycle (with Mauro Barisione)

Others

· 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, L. and S. 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

· 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)