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L’era del postpopulismo

Il postpopulismo è un’idea controversa. Politologi e filosofi litigano su come definirlo. Economisti e sociologi litigano su quali ne siano le cause. Rispetto alle definizioni, potremmo cavarcela dicendo che il populismo è un po’ come il carisma: nessuno sa bene che cosa sia, ma tutti lo riconoscono quando lo incontrano. …
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Public Choice - 200 (2024)

Persuasion and gender: experimental evidence from two political campaigns

We investigate differential responses by gender to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. We implemented a survey and a field experiment during two mayoral elections in Italy. Eligible voters were exposed to a positive or negative campaign by an opponent. The survey experiment used on-line videos and slogans. The field experiment …
Tommaso Nannicini, Vincenzo Galasso
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Rivista Eco

Dal populismo al post-populismo: che Europa sarà?

Con il populismo l’idea di Europa, di una sovranità sovranazionale, è finita sotto accusa. Soprattutto in Italia, abbiamo visto versioni di varia natura del fenomeno. Ma l’ondata populista potrebbe presto esaurirsi, per lasciar spazio a una nuova fase, quella del post-populismo. Non è il caso di farsi cogliere impreparati.
Tommaso Nannicini

Journal of Comparative Economics

Historical Roots of Political Extremism: The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy

The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing political affliations and forming political identities. In this paper we study how these traumatic events …
Joint with Nicola Fontana and Guido Tabellini

American Journal of Political Science

Positive Spillovers from Negative Campaigning

We study the effect of negative advertising in electoral races with more than two candidates with a large scale field experiment.
Joint with Vincenzo Galasso and Salvatore Nunnari

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy - 3 (2011), 144-174

Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test

Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians’ rents than proportional representation.
Joint with Stefano Gagliarducci and Paolo Naticchioni

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The Importance of Betting Early

We evaluate the impact of timing on decision outcomes when both the timing and the relevant decision are chosen under uncertainty. Sports betting provides the testing ground, as we exploit an original dataset containing more than one million online bets on games of the Italian Major Soccer League.
Joint with Alessandro Innocenti and Roberto Ricciuti