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POLS PhD students' publications

Below the list of scientific publications of the PhD students in Political Studies, Cohorts 32°-38° (published in 2020-2023).
The full list of research outputs of each PhD student/graduate is available in the repository https://air.unimi.it/

2023

Shahzad-van der Zwan, Gul-i-Hina (2023), "Chinese Linkage and Democracy in Pakistan", in: Mihr, A., Sorbello, P., Weiffen, B. (eds) Securitization and Democracy in Eurasia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-166594_23

2022 

Aslan, R.G. (2022), "Agency problems in the private pension system of Turkey: pension sector employee perspectives", Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRFM-07-2021-0120

Corda, T. (2022). "Constraining compliance? Reconsidering the effect of domestic veto players on sanctions success", Defence and Peace Economics, ahead of print. DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2022.2158288

Icardi, E. (2022), "Perché limitare l'eccessiva ricchezza individuale? Ragioni e problemi del limitarianesimo", Biblioteca della libertà, n. 233, pp. 1-27, DOI 10.23827/BDL_2022_1.

Mandelli, M. (2022), "Understanding eco-social policies: A proposed definition and typology", Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, vol. 28, n. 3, pp. 333–348.

Mandelli, M. (2022), "Mapping eco-social policy mixes for a just transition in Europe", European Trade Union Institute, Working Paper 2022.15, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute, ISSN: 1994-4446 (print version), ISSN: 1994-4454 (electronic version).

Jessoula, M. and Mandelli, M. (2022), "Eco-Social Mobilization at the Supranational Level? The Case of 'The Right to Energy for All Europeans' Coalition", in: Hvinden, B., Schøyen, M.A. and Leiren, M. (eds.), Social Policy and Climate Change: Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 220-239.

Sabato, S., Mandelli, M. and Jessoula, M. (2022), "Towards an EU Eco-Social Agenda? From Europe 2020 to the European Green Deal", in: Hvinden, B., Schøyen, M.A. and Leiren, M. (eds.), Social Policy and Climate Change: Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 199-219.

Shahzad-van der Zwan, Gul-i-Hina (2022), "Chinese linkage in Asia", Asian Studies, The Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), Volume 1: 640-649.Doi:10.5117/9789048557820/ICAS.2022.074

2021

Bazzan, G. (2021), Effective Governance Designs of Food Safety Regulation in the EU. Do Rules Make the Difference?, London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82793-9.

Bekana, D.M. (2021), "Capitalist Diversity and Change: Recombinant Governance and Institutional Entrepreneurs", International Journal of Public Administration, 44(2): 177-180, https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2019.1668808.

Casiraghi, M.C.M. (2021), "Weak, politicized, absent: The anti-mercenary norm in Italy and the United Kingdom 1805-2017", Journal of Global Security Studies, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz076.

Casiraghi, M.C.M. and Curini, L. (2021), "When the worlds of preferences collide: Determinants of MP's attitudes on the Italian Questione Romana 1861-1870", Parliamentary Affairs, published ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsab032.

Casiraghi, M.C.M. (2021), 'You're a populist! No, you're a populist!' The rhetorical political analysis of a popular insult in the UK 1970-2018, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, published ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148120978646.

Casiraghi, M.C.M. (2021, forthcoming), "Parties and mercenaries: Political attitudes in Italy and the United Kingdom during the Cold War 1945-1991", Journal of Cold War Studies.

Corda, T. (2021), "Not All Plain Sailing: The Highs and Lows of Iran's Scramble for the Horn of Africa", in C. Branco and F. Leandro, Geopolitics of Iran, London: Palgrave Macmillan.Singapore, pp. 485-529. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-3564-9_19

Corti, F. (2021) The Politicization of Social Europe: Conflict Dynamics and Welfare Integration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Hemerijck, A. and Corti, F. (2021) "Re-balancing Social Europe after conservative reflex", in A. Hemerijck and M. Matzaganis, Stress-Testing the Welfare State: Seven Lessons from the Great Recession, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Vesan, P., Corti, F. and Sabato, S. (2021) "The European Commission's entrepreneurship and the social dimension of the European Semester: from the European Pillar of Social Rights to the Covid-19 pandemic", in Comparative European Politics, published ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-020-00227-0.

Ferrera, M, Madama, I. & Corti, F. (2021, forthcoming), "Social rights as resources of power in the multi-level structure of the EU: a proposal for conceptualization starting from the Youth Guarantee", Social Policies.

Huseynli, I. (2021), "Academic Freedom and University: The Case of Azerbaijan", in V. Frangville, A. Merlin, J. Sfeir, P.E. Van Damme(eds.), La liberté académique: principes, enjeux et menaces, Brussels: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 133-143.

Lavorio, A. (2021), "Geography, Climate Change, National Security: The Case of the Evolving US Arctic Strategy", The International Spectator, 56 (1): 111–125, https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2020.1823695.

Mandelli, M., Sabato, S., Jessoula, M. (2021), "EU Economic Governance and the Socio-Ecological Transition: Towards a More Sustainable European Semester?", Politiche Sociali, Social Policies, n. 3/2021, pp. 619-638.

Sabato, S. and Mandelli, M. (2021), "Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into the European Semester: A governance conundrum for the von der Leyen Commission?", in Vanhercke, B., Sapsova, S. and Fronteddu, B. (eds.), Social Policy in the European Union: state of the play 2020: Facing the Pandemic, Brussels: European Social Observatory and European Trade Union Institute, pp. 113-132.

Sabato, S., Mandelli, M. and Vanhercke, B. (2021), "The Socio-Ecological Dimension of the EU Recovery: From the European Green Deal to the Recovery and Resilience Facility", Social Cohesion Learning Series, EUROsociAL Collection, n. 24, Madrid: EUROsociAL Programme.

Testini, F. (2021, forthcoming), "Genealogical solutions to the problem of critical distance: the case of punishment in transitional scenarios", Res Publica: A Journal of Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy.

Testini, F. (2021, forthcoming), Quel che rimane. Un'introduzione a Bernard Williams, Pisa: ETS.

Vignoli, V. (2021), "The Barking Dogs. Junior Coalition Partners and Military Operations Abroad in Italy", Italian Review of Political Science/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 51 (1): 25-41, https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2020.10.

Curini L. and Vignoli, V. (2021), "Committed moderates and uncommitted extremists: ideological leaning and parties' narrative over military interventions in Italy", Foreign Policy Analysis, 17 (3), https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orab016

Coticchia F. and Vignoli, V. (2021, forthcoming), "Italian foreign policy: Still the days seem the same", in J. Joly and T. Haesebrouck, Foreign Policy Change in European Union Countries since 1991, Palgrave: London.

2020

Bacchetta, S. (2020), "Reasons for Agreeing, Reasons for Complying: The Paris Agreement and the Compliance Issue", Rivista di estetica, 75, 72-83, https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.7285.

Bekana, D.M. (2020),"The Impact of Intergovernmental Transfers on Fiscal Behaviour of Local Governments in Ethiopia", ATAP Working Paper 19, Brighton, https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/15770.

Bekana, D.M. (2020), "Employment creation for youth in urban areas of developing countries: the Ethiopian experience", in Farazmand A. (ed) Global Encyclopaedia of Public Administration, Public Policy and Governance, Cham: Springer.

Bekana, D.M. (2020), "Policies of Gender Equality in Ethiopia: The Transformative Perspective", International Journal of Public Administration, 43(4): 312-325, https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2019.1628060.

Bekana, D.M. (2020), "Does governance quality promote innovation in sub-Saharan Africa? An empirical study across 37 countries", Innovation and Development, 10(1): 21-44, https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930X.2018.1562603.

Bekana, D.M. (2020), "Innovation and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Why institutions matter? An empirical study across 37 countries", Journal of Economic Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1177/0976747920915114.

Bliznakovski, J. and Petar T. (eds.) (2020), Ние наспроти другите: Симболички поделби во Северна Македонија (Us vs. Them: Symbolic Divisions in North Macedonia), Skopje: Center for Research of Nationalism and Culture.

Bliznakovski, J. (2020) "Наша, но не и ваша држава": Симболички поделби меѓу Македонците и Албанците во македонската политика ("Ours, but not yours state: symbolic divisions between Macedonians and Albanians in the politics of North Macedonia"), in J. Bliznakovski and Petar T. (eds.) Ние наспроти другите: Симболички поделби во Северна Македонија (Us vs. Them: Symbolic Divisions in North Macedonia), Skopje: Center for Research of Nationalism and Culture, pp. 119-139.

Bliznakovski, J. (2020), "Vote Buying/Selling (Western Balkans)", in A. Ledeneva (ed.) The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, London: UCL Press, https://www.in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vote_buying_/_Vote_selling_(Western_Balkans).

Bliznakovski, J. (2020), "Party Soldiers (Western Balkans)", in A. Ledeneva (ed.) The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, London: UCL Press, https://www.in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Party_soldiers_(Western_Balkans).

Casiraghi, M.C.M. and Testini, F. (2020), "Appeals to authority in political rhetoric: Machiavelli in the Italian Parliament 1945-1994", Parliamentary Affairs, published ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaa005.

Carteny, G. (2020), "L'evoluzione del bipartitismo taiwanese, tra fratture politiche e incentivi istituzionali" ["The Evolution of Taiwanese Bipartisanship, between Political Fractures and Institutional Incentives"], OrizzonteCina, 11(1): 16-23, https://doi.org/10.13135/2280-8035/5406.

Ceron, M., Palermo, C. M., & Salpietro, V. (2020), "Limiti e prospettive della gestione europea durante la pandemia da Covid-19", Biblioteca Della Libertà, 55(228), https://doi.org/10.23827/BDL_2020_2_3.

Corti, F. and Vesan, P. (2020), "Social democracy, Social Europe and the 'post-Third way agenda': From the European Pillar of Social Rights to the Great Lockdown", Constellations, 27(4): 608-620, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12534.

Vandenbroucke, F., Keune, M., Ferrera, M. and Corti, F. (2020), "The rationale for and the nature and content of European social rights", Working paper EUSOCIALCIT Horizon project, https://www.eusocialcit.eu/published-our-working-paper-on-the-nature-and-rationale-for-european-social-rights/.

Testini, F. (2020), "Testing pragmatic genealogy in political theory: The strange case of John Rawls'", European Journal of Political Theory, published ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885120909777.

Testini, F. (2020), "Profile: Bernard Williams", Aphex: Portale Italiano di Filosofia Analitica, 22, http://www.aphex.it/index.php?Profili=557D03012200740321050403777327.

Coticchia, F. and Vignoli, V. (2020), "Populist Parties and Foreign Policy: The Case of Italy's Five Star Movement", The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22(3): 523-541, https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148120922808.

Vignoli, V. (2020), "Where Are the Doves? Explaining Party Support for Military Operations Abroad in Italy", West European Politics, 43(7): 1455-1479, https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1667164.

Coticchia, f: and Vignoli, V. (2020), "Italian Political Parties and Military Operations Abroad: An Empirical Analysis of Voting Patterns", Government and Opposition, 2020, 55(3): 456-473, https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2018.35.

Vignoli, V. (2020), "Constructing a Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database: Challenges of Data Indexing, Classification, and the Value of a Comparative Agenda", in Deschaux-Dutard (ed.) Methods in defence studies. A pluridisciplinary handbook, London and New York: Routledge.

Zuccarelli, G. (2020), "Illegal Immigration and Refugeehood at the Time of Covid-19: Rethinking Amnesties and Closed Borders", Biblioteca della libertà, 228: 1-26, https://doi.org/10.23827/BDL_2020_2_7.

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