Research Fellow in the project The Evolution of Policy Mood in Italy, University of Siena, Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences.

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1 July 2015 Alessandro Pellegata Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC) University of Siena Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 10, Siena Personal homepage: Personal Information Place and date of birth: Magenta (MI), 17 November 1981 Nationality: Italian Present Appointment July ongoing Research Fellow in the project The Evolution of Policy Mood in Italy, University of Siena, Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences. Previous Academic Positions and Activities June 2011 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of May 2015 Milan (Italy) (April) Expert coder of the positions of the Italian parties that contested European election of May 2014 on issues regarding EU integration and EU policies for the voting advice application EUvox2014 ( (Feb-Apr) Research assistant in the project The effects of democratization on social welfare: a comparative analysis of new democracies co-financed by the Italian Ministry for Research and Higher Education (PRIN 2008, Protocol 2008WPTS99_001, Principal Investigator: prof. Giovanni Carbone), University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences (Sep-Dec) Research assistant in the project Agenda control and veto powers in the Italian legislative process. co-financed by the Italian Ministry for Research and Higher Education (PRIN 2007, Protocol 2007SCRWT4_001, Principal Investigator: prof. Marco Giuliani, University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences. Education 2010 Ph.D. in Political Studies at the Graduate School in Social Economic and Political Sciences, University of Milan (Italy). Dissertation title: Government Alternation and its Implications on Democratic Performance. Supervisor: prof. Francesco Zucchini (Aug-Dec) Visiting Student at the Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data for uses allowed by law Page 1

2 Ann Arbor, MI (Jul) 16 th Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies, University of Oslo, Norway (course attended: Research Design) (Jul-Aug) 40 th Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex, Colchester, UK (courses attended: Mathematics for Social Sciences; Theory of Regression; Analysis of time series data: non-stationarity, volatility, VARs and cointegration) Master Degree in Political Science, University of Milan (Italy). Research Experience 2010 present Member of the research project The economic, social and political consequences of democratic reforms. A quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis. Co-financed by the European Research Council (Grant agreement no , Ideas, European Commission 7 th Framework Program, Principal Investigator: prof. Giovanni Carbone) Member of the research unit of the University of Milan in the project Institutional agenda setting: Actors, time, information. co-financed by the Italian Ministry for Research and Higher Education (PRIN 2009, Protocol 2009TPW4NL_002, Principal Investigator: prof. Marco Giuliani) Member of the research unit of the University of Milan in the project Agenda control and veto powers in the Italian legislative process. co-financed by the Italian Ministry for Research and Higher Education (PRIN 2007, Protocol 2007SCRWT4_001, Principal Investigator: prof. Marco Giuliani). Teaching Experience Courses 2015 Lecture on Democracy, electoral competition and control of corruption in comparative perspective held for the 5 edition of the Master in Analysis, Prevention and Contrast of the Organized Crime and Corruption, University of Pisa, 7 February present Teaching assistant for undergraduate course Politics, Institutions and Development (University of Milan, Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences) Teaching assistant for undergraduate course Geopolitics (University of Milan, Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences) Teaching assistant for undergraduate course Political Science (University of Milan, Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences). Orientation 2012 Volpe Alessandro. Italian Law-Making Archive (ILMA). Un Portale per l Analisi di Dati sul Sistema Legislativo Italiano. Master Degree in Computer Science, University of Milan. I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data for uses allowed by law Page 2

3 Research Grants and Awards 2011 Winner of the Carlo Maria Santoro Prize for the best paper presented by a young scholar at the XXIV Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), IUAV University, Venice (Italy), September Title of the paper: Throw the Rascals Out : Gli Effetti dell Alternanza di Governo sul Controllo della Corruzione Politica Post-doctoral Fellowship (two plus two years) co-financed by University of Milan, Regione Lombardia and European Social Fund to conduct the research project entitled Government Alternation: Distinctive Element of Representative Democracies and Factor of their Performance at the Department of Social and Political Sciences under the supervision of professor Marco Giuliani Nominated by the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences Steering Committee to participate at the selection for the ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for the best PhD dissertation in Political Science Scholarship financed by Cariplo Foundation and conferred by the University of Milan for a research period spent at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (August-December 2008) Three-years scholarship financed by the Italian Minister of Higher Education to attend the PhD program in Political Studies at the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences of the University of Milan Scholarship conferred by the University of Milan for the formation of young promising scholars at the Department of Social and Political Sciences under the supervision of professor Marco Giuliani. Research Interests The effects of electoral competition and government alternation on political performance and democratic quality; democracy and democratization; causes and consequences of political corruption; legislative studies; quantitative methods in political research. Publications Articles in peer-reviewed journals 2015 Pellegata, A. and V. Memoli. Can corruption Erode Confidence in Political Institutions among European Countries? Comparing the Effects of Different Measures of Perceived Corruption, in Social Indicators Research, first published online on July , DOI: /s Pellegata, A. Assessing the Complex Relationship between Government Alternation and Ideological Congruence, in International Political Science Review, first published online on July , DOI: / Mesiti, M., A. Pellegata and P. Perlasca. Making the Analysis of the Italian Legislative System Easy: The ILMA Web Portal, in Journal of Information I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data for uses allowed by law Page 3

4 Technology and Politics 12(1): Memoli, V. and A. Pellegata. Corruption and EU Institutions: The Italians Opinion, in Perspective on European Politics and Society 15(2): Pellegata, A. Constraining Political Corruption: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Democracy, in Democratization 20(7): Borghetto, E., L. Curini, M. Giuliani, A. Pellegata and F. Zucchini) Italian Law- Making Archive (ILMA): A New Tool for the Analysis of the Italian Legislative Process, in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 42(3): Pellegata, A. L alternanza dove non te l Aspetti. L Impatto dell Alternanza di Governo sul Controllo della Corruzione Politica nelle Democrazie Consensuali in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 42(1): Chapters in edited books 2011 Pellegata, A. Cacciare i Mascalzoni: Alternanza Politica e Corruzione, in Gianfranco Pasquino and Marco Valbruzzi (Eds.). Il Potere dell Alternanza. Teorie, Ipotesi e Ricerche sulle Alternanze di Governo. Bologna: Bononia University Press, pp Working papers and other publications 2014 Pellegata, A. Challenges and Traps for Italy s New Renzi Government, Front Page, online section of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 1 April Available from: Pellegata, A. Democracy, Government Alternation and Political Corruption, GSSEPS Working Paper Series, 6/2009. Available from: Works Under Review and in Progress - (with S. Splendore) Media and Corruption: The Other Way Round. Exploring Mocro Determinants of Journalists Perceptions and Accountability and Professional Autonomy. (Revise and resubmit by an international peer-reviewed journal) - (with V. Memoli) Corruption and Satisfaction with Democracy: The Mediating Role of Electoral Disproportionality and Personal Vote. (Under review by an international peerreviewed journal) - (with G. Carbone) The Africa Leadership Change Dataset. (Under review by an international peer-reviewed journal) - (with G. Carbone) Leadership Changes and Social Welfare in sub-saharan Africa. (Under review by an international peer-reviewed journal) - (with A. Pedrazzani and L. Pinto) Economic crisis and lawmaking. The impact of crisis on legislative agenda in Italy ( ). (First draft) - (with E. Borghetto) Exploring Bill Winnowing in the Italian Chamber of Deputies ( ). (First draft) I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data for uses allowed by law Page 4

5 Selected Conference Proceedings 2014 (with G. Carbone) Multiparty Elections, Leadership Turnovers and Social Welfare in sub-saharan Africa, 4 th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Edinburgh (UK), June 2014 and XXVIII Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy), September (with E. Borghetto) Exploring Bill Winnowing in the Italian Chamber of Deputies ( ), XXVII Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, University of Florence, Florence (Italy), September (with V. Memoli) Electoral Systems, Corruption and Satisfaction with Democracy, XXVII Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica, University of Florence, Florence (Italy), September 2013 and 3 rd General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona (Spain), June (with V. Memoli) Can Corruption Erode Confidence in Political Institutions Among European Countries? Comparing the Effects of Different Measures of Perceived Corruption, XXII World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain), 8-12 July Assessing the Degree of Political Responsiveness in Contemporary Democracies. The Complex Relationship between Government Alternation and Ideological Congruence, 2 nd General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin (Germany), June Government Alternation: A New Explanatory Factor of the Quality of Democracies, I IPSA-ECPR Joint Conference, University of Sao Paulo (Brasil), February Throw the Rascals Out: Gli Effetti dell Alternanza di Governo sul Controllo della Corruzione Politica, XXIV Annual Conference of Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), IUAV University, Venice (Italy), September The Effects of Government Alternation on the Capacity of Political Systems to Constrain Corruption, 3 rd ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland), 30 August 01 September The Effects of Democracy on the Quality of Governance. Evidence on the Capacity of Political Systems to Constrain Corruption, XIII Annual Conference of Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), LUISS University, Rome (Italy), September Invited talks and seminars 2014 Consolidating Democratic Transitions. Problems of Organization and Representation, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), July Permanent Seminar of Political Theory, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia (Italy), 8 April How Do the Electoral Systems and the Party Systems Affect the Satisfaction with Democracy?, King s College, London (UK), 1 February I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data for uses allowed by law Page 5

6 Datasets - Co-manager of the Italian Law-Making Archive (ILMA) developed by the Centre for the Observation of Legislatures (COoL). Available at - Government Alternation in contemporary democracies. - (with G. Carbone) Africa Leadership Change (ALC). Personal Skills and Competences Languages: ITALIAN (Native speaker); ENGLISH (Excellent); SPANISH (Elementary) Statistical software: SPSS, STATA (advanced level); R (basic level); Database management system: MySQL Workbench (basic level); PhpMyAdmin (basic level); Affiliations International Political Science Association (IPSA); European Political Science Association (EPSA); Italian Political Science Society (SISP); European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR). Professional Activity Manuscript Referee: Democratization; International Political Science Review; Italian Political Science Review-Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. Conference Panel Discussant or Chair: - Democratization, 4 th Annual Conference European Political Science Association (EPSA), Edinburgh Organization of conference, seminars and workshop: - Workshop Open data: What they are and how to reuse them, University of Milan, Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences, 26 February Service Activity University Service Examiner for the admission of new students (TEC: Test delle conoscenze in ingresso) in the undergraduate courses at the Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Milan. I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data for uses allowed by law Page 6