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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI SOCIALI E POLITICI
VIA CONSERVATORIO, 7 – 20122 MILANO
Curriculum Vitae
Luigi CURINI
(Milan, 11th of September 1972)
e-mail : luigi.curini@unimi.it
Tel. +39 02 50321231
Fax +39 02 50321240
Personal Home Page: http://www.sociol.unimi.it/docenti/curini/
ACADEMIC CAREER
July 2010: promoted to Associate Professor level in Political Science in a nation-wide
concourse, awaiting formal appointment from home institution
Since January 2005: Assistant Professor in Political Science at Università degli Studi di
Milano
September 2002-2004: Research Fellow at Università degli Studi di Milano
January 2002-July 2002: Research Fellow at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di
Milano
EDUCATION
2006: ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of
Michigan
2005: ESRC Oxford Spring School on Panel Data Analysis, University of Oxford
2005: Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of
Essex
2003: ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of
Michigan
2002: Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of
Essex
2002: PhD in Institutions and Organizations, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di
Milano
1999: Master’s degree in Economics and International Relations, Graduate School in
Economics and International Relations (ASERI), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di
Milano
TEL. 02 503.21231 – FAX 02 503.21240 – e-mail: luigi.curini@unimi.it

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI SOCIALI E POLITICI
VIA CONSERVATORIO, 7 – 20122 MILANO
1997 Degree in Political Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Milano (110 cum laude)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
electoral competition, spatial theory of voting, quantitative methods, collective action,
deliberative democracy
TEACHING
since 2005: Political Science, undergraduate course, Facoltà di Scienze politiche -
Università degli Studi di Milano
since 2009: Government and Legislative Processes, graduate course, Facoltà di Scienze
politiche - Università degli Studi di Milano
since 2009: Quantitative methods for political science, PhD Program in Political Studies -
Università degli Studi di Milano
since 2006: Social capital and development, Master in "International Cooperation and
Development", Graduate School in Economics and International Relations (ASERI),
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
2004-2008: Collective Choices, PhD Program in Political Studies - Università degli Studi
di Milano
2005-2008: Theory and methods of comparative politics, graduate course, Facoltà di
Scienze politiche - Università degli Studi di Milano
RESEARCH GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
October-December 2009: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, grant
number S-09131, research on Italian and Japanese political systems (Tokyo Metropolitan
University and Waseda University)
2007-2010: Member of the Research Unit of the Università degli Studi di Milano in the
PRIN project: “Controllo di agenda e poteri di veto nel processo legislativo” financed by
the Italian Ministry for Research and Higher Education
2005-2007: Member of the Research Unit of the Università degli Studi di Milano in the
PRIN project: “Quale ruolo per le assemblee legislative?” financed by the Italian Ministry
for Research and Higher Education
2002-2005: Member of the Research Unit of the Università degli Studi di Milano in the
PRIN project: “Il Parlamento nella lunga transizione italiana” financed by the Italian
Ministry for Research and Higher Education
TEL. 02 503.21231 – FAX 02 503.21240 – e-mail: luigi.curini@unimi.it

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI SOCIALI E POLITICI
VIA CONSERVATORIO, 7 – 20122 MILANO
EDITORIAL RESPONSABILITIES
since 2010 Member of the editorial board of RISP – Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
since 2007 Member of the editorial board of IPS - Italian Political Science
SELECTED UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
since 2008 Member of the Informatics Committee of the Faculty of Political Science,
Università degli Studi di Milano
since 2005 Member of the Faculty of the PhD Program in Political Studies, Università
degli Studi di Milano
since 2005 Co-Founding member of the Standing Group on Politics and Rationality of the
Italian Political Science Association (SISP)
OTHER WORKING EXPERIENCE
1999-2003 Research Fellow at the Cabinet Office of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan
SELECTED CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
“Assessing the impact of electoral rules and government alternation on party cohesion. The
case of Italy (1988-2008)” (with Francesco Zucchini), at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Washington, September 2010
“Missing links in party-system polarization: the ‘reasons’ of the institutions and those of
the voters” (with Airo Hino), at the GLOPE II International Scholars' Conference, Waseda
University, Tokyo, December 2009
“Valence issues in the Italian legislative arena”, at the annual meeting of the Italian
Political Science Association, Rome, September 2009
“Italian spatial competition between 2006 and 2008: a changing party system?” (with
Stefano Iacus), at the annual meeting of the Italian Political Science Association, Pavia,
September 2008
“A simulation of 2006 Italian electoral results” (with Paolo Martelli) at the Conference on
Simulation and other quantitative approaches to the assessment of electoral systems,
Alessandria, June 2007
“Oportet ut scandala eveniant. Image strategies in electoral campaigning” (with Paolo
Martelli), at the ECPR General Conference, Budapest, September 2005
TEL. 02 503.21231 – FAX 02 503.21240 – e-mail: luigi.curini@unimi.it

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI SOCIALI E POLITICI
VIA CONSERVATORIO, 7 – 20122 MILANO
“The externalities of Social Capital”, at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Uppsala,
April 2004
BOOKS
SCIENTIFIC PUBBLICATIONS
I partiti politici durante la Prima Repubblica. Governi e maggioranze dalla Costituente a
Tangentopoli (with Paolo Martelli), Rome: Carocci, 2009
Il dilemma della cooperazione. Capitale sociale, sviluppo, cooperazione. Milan: V&P
Università, 2004
ARTICLES in REFEREED JOURNALS
“Government Survival the Italian Way: the Core and the Advantages of Policy Immobilism
during the First Republic”, European Journal of Political Research, in press
“Ideological proximity and valence competition. Negative campaigning through allegation
of corruption in the Italian legislative arena from 1946 to 1994” (with Paolo Martelli),
Electoral Studies, in press
“Usare con ‘cautela’: posizionamento dei partiti e sondaggi demoscopici. I pregiudizi
ideologici dell’elettorato italiano (e cosa possiamo imparare dalla loro esistenza)”, Polena,
n.2/2010, 47-69
“Experts' Political Preferences and Their Impact on Ideological Bias", Party Politics, Party
Politics, 16(3), 2010, 299-321
“Gli agent-based models: come modellare la complessità”, Quaderni di Scienza Politica,
n.3/2009, 517-531
“Electoral systems and government stability: a simulation of 2006 Italian policy space”
(with Paolo Martelli), AUCO Czech Economic Review, n.3/2009, pp.305-322
“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, pp.3-28
“Eight years of development: the Italian academic community of Political Scientists within
Universities and Departments”, Italian Political Science review, fall 2008, n.2
“A call for more structure in Collective Action Theory”, Sociologica vol.3/2007
“Un’applicazione della teoria delle coalizioni alle elezioni tedesche del 2005: alcuni
scenari”, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n.2/2007, pp.251-273
TEL. 02 503.21231 – FAX 02 503.21240 – e-mail: luigi.curini@unimi.it

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI SOCIALI E POLITICI
VIA CONSERVATORIO, 7 – 20122 MILANO
“Vox populi – vox dei? (Alcuni) limiti e (alcuni) paradossi della pratica deliberativa”,
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2/2006, pp.231-257
“Note sulla democrazia deliberativa”, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n.3/2004, pp.521-552
“Capitale sociale e rendimento istituzionale: il caso di un programma di microfinanza”,
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1/2003, pp.113-143
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Testing the theories of law making in a parliamentary democracy: a roll call analysis of
the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1988-2008)” (with Francesco Zucchini), in Thomas
König, George Tsebelis and Marc Debus (eds.), Reform processes and policy change: Veto
players and decision-making in modern democracies, 2010, Springer press, Studies in
Public Choice, 189-211
“On the externalities of social capital: between myth and reality”, in Derrick Purdue (ed.),
Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems, 2007, New York:
Routledge, 147-165
“Il ruolo della famiglia nel generare capitale sociale: un approccio di economia politica”
(with Simona Beretta) in P. Donati (ed.), Famiglia e capitale sociale nella società italiana,
2005, Turin: Edizioni S.Paolo
OTHERS
One of the editors of the Italian version of the book: “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)
TEL. 02 503.21231 – FAX 02 503.21240 – e-mail: luigi.curini@unimi.it