Research
Research Projects
Visual Politics
We study how political actors use images on platforms like Instagram to shape narratives, focusing on populist radical right parties, and visual consistency in campaign communication.
In progress
- More Than Words: The Visual Rhetoric of Radical Right Populism on Social Media (Conference paper)
with Curini, L.
Presented at: EPSA 2025 - LLM Workshop Talking to machines
- More Than Words: The Visual Rhetoric of Radical Right Populism on Social Media (Conference paper)
EU Legislative Texts: Constraints and Delegation
This research investigates how legislative texts can be systematically mined to shed light on legislative-executive relations, focusing on patterns of delegation and constraint that structure the chain of authority from voters to bureaucrats. By analyzing legislative texts, we provide new insights into how legislators confer powers on executive actors and impose limits on their actions—revealing the formal architecture of political authority embedded in EU legislation.
In progress
- Identifying Delegation and Constraints in Legislative Texts: A Computational Method Applied to the European Union (Working paper)
with Franchino, F., Migliorati, M., and Vignoli, V.
Under review - A Supranational Alliance: The Empowerment of the European Commission from 1958 to 2019 (Working paper)
with Franchino, F., and Migliorati, M.
Under review
- Identifying Delegation and Constraints in Legislative Texts: A Computational Method Applied to the European Union (Working paper)
Democratic Rhetoric in Autocratizing Regimes
We examine how the semantics of liberal-democratic concepts shift in speeches from regimes undergoing autocratization, using embedding regression to track rhetorical change over time and across contexts.
In progress
- Democratic Rhetoric in Autocratizing Regimes (Conference paper)
with Corda, T.
Presented at: EPSA 2025
- Democratic Rhetoric in Autocratizing Regimes (Conference paper)