Curriculum Vitae LUCA PINTO

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1 Curriculum Vitae LUCA PINTO PERSONAL DETAILS Place and date of birth: Rome (Italy), Citizenship: Italian ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT present Research Fellow Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali Scuola Normale Superiore Project: Unconventional Central Banks: Making Monetary Policy in Hard Times Supervisor: Prof. Manuela Moschella Research Fellow Department of Political and Social Sciences University of Bologna Project: Parties in Parliament. Cohesion and voting behaviour in the XVI Italian Legislature Supervisors: Prof. Aldo di Virgilio, Prof. Daniela Giannetti EDUCATION PhD in Political Studies Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences University of Milan Dissertation: Patterns of Party Cooperation: The Role of Past Experience in the Formation of Pre-Electoral Coalitions, Party Mergers, and Government Coalitions Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Curini, Examination Committee Chair: Prof. Peter Mair Visiting Student MIT Italy Exchange Program Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA Host: Prof. James Snyder jr Master s Degree in Comparative Politics (with honours) Department of Political and Social Sciences University of Milan Dissertation: Content analysis in the construction of the political space: the case of the 2006 political elections in Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Martelli Bachelor s Degree in Political Science (with honours) Department of Political and Social Sciences University of Milan Dissertation: Political space and government stability. An application of coalition theories to the Italian case. Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Curini 1

2 OTHER TRAINING th ECPR Standing Group Summer School Political Parties and European Politics European University Institute, Firenze 2007 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection University of Essex, Colchester, UK. Courses: Mathematics for Social Scientists (part 1 and 2); Theory of Regression; Analysis of Time Series Data RESEARCH EXPERIENCE present Project of Relevant National Interest - PRIN 2010 How political representation has changed in Italy. Voting decisions in the electoral cycle Member of the local unit of the University of Bologna, working on the study of candidates and representation, under the supervision of Prof. Aldo Di Virgilio. Research assistant in the implementation of the Italian Comparative Candidate Survey, under the framework of the international project Comparative Candidate Survey, coordinated by the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) present Researcher at the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo, Bologna, for the analysis of electoral results Member of the local unit of the University of Bologna for the implementation of the Eurovision Debate experiment, coordinated by the Universities of Koblenz-Landau and Mainz and aimed to study the effect of the EP debate on individual attitudes and behaviors among university students Coder of the Italian party policy positions for EUvox 2014, a voting advice application for the 2014 elections of the European Parliament Visiting Scholar at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Deutschland; Host: Prof. Hermann Schmitt. Research activity aimed at the inclusion of the Italian case in the Comparative Candidate Survey project. RESEARCH INTERESTS - Legislative studies - Party politics - Comparative politics - Quantitative research methods GRANTS AWARDED 2012 Three-month scholarship to conduct research at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Deutschland. (awarded by the Marco Polo Project, University of Bologna) 2

3 PhD scholarship by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research 2008 Six-month scholarship to spend a visiting period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA (awarded by the MIT-Italy Consortium) TEACHING EXPERIENCE present Teaching Assistant Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Bologna - Political Science (Prof. Aldo Di Virgilio; Prof. Daniela Giannetti) - Statistics (Prof. Giancarlo Gasperoni) Key areas of responsibility: preparing and grading exams, supervising students, guest lecturer Teaching Assistant Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan - Analysis of Political Institutions (Prof. Paolo Martelli) - Political Science (Prof. Alberto Martinelli) - Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences (Prof. Luigi Curini) Key areas of responsibility: preparing and grading exams, supervising students, guest lecturer PUBLICATIONS Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals 1. Candidacy rules and party unity: The impact of multiple candidacies on legislative voting behaviour in Italy. Acta Politica, forthcoming (with A. Di Virgilio). 2. Debating Europe: Effects of the Eurovision debate on young voters." Comunicazione politica 16(3), 2015, pp (with A. Ferreri, R. Ladini and A. Pedrazzani). 3. Candidates in the 2013 Italian General Election: Evidence from the Italian Candidate Survey. Italian Political Science Review 45(3), 2015, pp , doi: /ipo (with A. Di Virgilio, D. Giannetti and A. Pedrazzani). 4. Setting parliamentary calendars: How parties allocate time for plenary debates on bills. Political Studies, doi: / (with D. Giannetti and A. Pedrazzani). 5. The time path of legislative party switching and the dynamics of political competition: The Italian case ( ). The Journal of Legislative Studies 21(3), 2015, pp Party Competition in the 2013 Italian Elections: Evidence from an Expert Survey." Government and Opposition 50(1), 2015, pp (with A. Di Virgilio, D. Giannetti and A. Pedrazzani). 7. More than Post-election Cabinets: Uncertainty and the Magnitude of Change during Italian Government Bargaining. International Political Science Review, 2014, doi: / (with L. Curini). 8. Breaking the Inertia: Government Formation under the shadow of a Core Party. The Italian case throughout the First Republic. Party Politics 19(3), 2013, pp (with L. Curini). 9. Patterns of party switching in the Italian Chamber of Deputies Italian Political Science Review 42(1), 2012, pp (with A. Di Virgilio and D. Giannetti). 3

4 Book Chapters 1. From Citizens to Members of Parliament: The Elected Representatives in the Parliamentary Arena. In Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement. Organisazion, Communication and Ideology, edited by F. Tronconi, Farnham: Ashgate, 2015, pp (with A. Pedrazzani). 2. The Electoral Base: The Political Revolution' in Evolution. In Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement. Organisazion, Communication and Ideology, edited by F. Tronconi, Farnham: Ashgate, 2015, pp (with A. Pedrazzani). 3. Le basi sociali del voto. In Voto amaro. Disincanto e crisi economica nelle elezioni del 2013, edited by ITANES, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013, pp (with M. Maraffi and A. Pedrazzani). 4. L'attività del Parlamento nell'anno del governo tecnico. In Politica in Italia. Edizione 2013, a cura di A. Di Virgilio e C. Radaelli, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013, pp Versione inglese: The Work of Parliament in the Year of the Technocratic Government. In Italian Politics. Technocrats in Office, edited by A. Di Virgilio e C. Radaelli, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp (with A. Pedrazzani). 5. Gli elettori del Movimento 5 stelle. In Il partito di Grillo, edited by P. Corbetta e E. Gualmini, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013, pp (with A. Pedrazzani). Other Publications 1. Analisi dei flussi elettorali in 12 città. In Tripolarismo e destrutturazione. Le elezioni regionali del 2015, edited by S. Bolgherini and S. Grimaldi, Bologna: Fondazione di ricerca Istituto Cattaneo, 2015, pp (with A. Pedrazzani). 2. The Study of Political Candidates." Italian Political Science, 10(1), 2015 (with A. Pedrazzani). 3. Emilia-Romagna e Calabria: stesso vincitore, dinamiche diverse. Il Mulino, 1, 2015, pp (with A. Pedrazzani and R. Vignati). 4. Orfani delle Stelle. Il voto «grillino» a Roma e in Sardegna. Il Mulino, 3, 2014, pp (with M. Regalia). 5. Euroscettica sarà lei! Il volto della nuova Europa. In L'Italia e l'europa al bivio delle riforme. Le elezioni europee ed amministrative del 25 maggio 2014, edited by M. Valbruzzi e R. Vignati, Bologna: Fondazione di ricerca Istituto Cattaneo, 2014, pp (with M. Regalia). 6. Il successo e i dilemmi del Movimento Cinque Stelle. Il Mulino, 4, 2012, pp (with R. Vignati). 7. Exploring the Determinants of Party Mergers in Italy and the UK. GSSEPS Working Paper Series 3, Book Reviews 1. N. Conti e F. Marangoni (eds.), The Challenge of Coalition Government: The Italian Case, Routledge, Polis 2, 2015, pp , doi: / Conference Proceedings 1. Il voto differenziato tra Camera e Senato. In Sondaggi ed elezioni. Le regole del gioco e della comunicazione, edited by I. Diamanti e L. Ceccarini, Firenze: Società Italiana di Studi Elettorali (SISE), 2013, pp (with A. Pedrazzani). 4

5 Conference Papers 1. Economic crisis and lawmaking. The impact of crisis on legislative agenda in Italy ( ). Paper presented at the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP), Milan, July 01-04, 2015 (with A. Pedrazzani and A. Pellegata). 2. Candidates in 2013 Italian General Election. Evidence from the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS). Paper presented at Convegno annuale della sezione della SISP Partiti Opinione Pubblica Elezioni (POPE), Siena, January 22-23, 2015 (with A. Pedrazzani). 3. Candidates in 2013 Italian general election: evidence from the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS). Paper presented at the XXVIII SISP conference, Perugia, September 11-13, 2014 (with A. Di Virgilio, D. Giannetti, A. Pedrazzani and P. Segatti). 4. "Determinants of time allocation for plenary debates on bills." Paper presented at the 8th ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, September 3-6, 2014 (with D. Giannetti and A. Pedrazzani). 5. The impact of multiple candidacies on legislative voting behavior in Italy ( ). Paper presented at the 4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Edinburgh, June 19-21, 2014 (with A. Di Virgilio). 6. The Impact of Cabinet Reshuffles on Government Survival in West European Governments. Paper presented at the 4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Edinburgh, June 19-21, 2014 (with D. Giannetti and A. Pedrazzani). 7. Pro and Anti EU Attitudes in Legislative Debates Over Fiscal Compact and ESM? A Comparative Textual Data Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches in France, Germany and Italy. Paper presented at the 7th ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux, September 4-7, 2013 (with A. Pedrazzani). 8. The Sub-National Approach to Legislative Politics. Evidence from Three Italian Regional Councils Between Paper presented at the 3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Barcelona, June 20-23, 2013 (with A. Di Virgilio). 9. Economic crisis and attitudes towards the EU: A textual data analysis of parliamentary debates in Italy. Paper presented at the International Workshop Politics and Policies in Times of Economic Crisis, Siena, June 13-14, 2013 (with A. Pedrazzani). 10. Marriages or Flirts? Explaining the Duration of Party Affiliation in the Italian Parliament Paper presented at the 41st ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, March 11-16, 2013 (with D. Giannetti). 11. Il voto differenziato tra Camera e Senato. Paper presented at the XI Convegno internazionale SISE Sondaggi ed elezioni. Le regole del gioco e della comunicazione, Pordenone, March 13-14, 2013 (with A. Pedrazzani). 12. More than post-election cabinet(s): sources of uncertainty affecting cabinet bargaining delays. The case of Italy ( ). Paper presented at the XXVI SISP conference, Rome, September 13-15, 2012 (with L. Curini). 13. Time-path of legislative party switching: Italy Paper presented at the 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Berlin, June 21-23, 2012 (with A. Di Virgilio and D. Giannetti). 14. Breaking the Inertia: Government Formation under the shadow of a Core Party. The Italian case during the First Republic. Paper presented at the XXIV SISP conference, Venice, September 16-18, 2010 (with L. Curini). 5

6 15. The dynamics of pre-electoral coalition formation. Paper presented at the 2nd Italian Doctoral Conference in Political Studies, Gargnano (BS), June 29 - July 01, Party Mergers in Italy and the UK: An Empirical Analysis. Paper presented at the 18th ECPR Standing Group Summer School Political Parties and European Politics, EUI, Florence, September 08-20, Peer review - International Political Science Review - Political Research Quarterly - Political Studies - South European Society and Politics - Research and Politics Affiliations: - Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) - European Political Science Association (EPSA) - Standing Group on Parliaments, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) LANGUAGE SKILLS Italian: native speaker. English: proficient user (2007: TOEFL IBT with evaluation 107/120). German and Spanish: basic knowledge. COMPUTER SKILLS OS: Proficient user of MS Windows, good command of Linux e MAC OS. Office Automation: Proficient user of MS Office, good command of Open Office. Statistical software: Proficient user of SPSS, STATA and R. Updated