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The 2019 EP Election in Italy: A ‘Titanic’ Victory for Salvini’s League
Published in Political Campaigning and Communication, 2021
Ceron, A. and Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., “The 2019 EP Election in Italy: A ‘Titanic’ Victory for Salvini’s League”, Political Campaigning and Communication, 2021.
Recommended citation: Ceron, A. and Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., "The 2019 EP Election in Italy: A 'Titanic' Victory for Salvini's League", Political Campaigning and Communication, 2021.
Disinformation
Published in Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, 2022
Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., "Disinformation", Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, 2022.
Recommended citation: Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., "Disinformation", Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, 2022.
Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign
Published in Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 2022
Ceron, A. and Pagano, G. and Bordignon, M., "Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign", Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 2022.
Recommended citation: Ceron, A. and Pagano, G. and Bordignon, M., "Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign", Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 2022.
Misinformation
Published in Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, 2022
Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., "Misinformation", Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, 2022.
Recommended citation: Bordignon, M. and Pagano, G., "Misinformation", Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, 2022.
Generational gap and post-ideological politics in Italy (POSTGEN): A generation-aware analysis of ideological destructuring and political change in the Italian case
Published in Italian Political Science, 2023
De Sio, L. and Legnante, G. and Tuorto, D. and Vezzoni, C. and Angelucci, D. and Boldrini, M. and Bordignon, M. and Curini, L. and De Angelis, A. and Di Cocco, J. and Leofreddi, A. and Maggini, N. and Mannoni, E. and Marolla, F. and Pagano, G. and Pennucci, N. and Piacentini, A. and Piacentini, F., "Generational gap and post-ideological politics in Italy (POSTGEN): A generation-aware analysis of ideological destructuring and political change in the Italian case", Italian Political Science, 2023.
Recommended citation: De Sio, L. and Legnante, G. and Tuorto, D. and Vezzoni, C. and Angelucci, D. and Boldrini, M. and Bordignon, M. and Curini, L. and De Angelis, A. and Di Cocco, J. and Leofreddi, A. and Maggini, N. and Mannoni, E. and Marolla, F. and Pagano, G. and Pennucci, N. and Piacentini, A. and Piacentini, F., "Generational gap and post-ideological politics in Italy (POSTGEN): A generation-aware analysis of ideological destructuring and political change in the Italian case", ITALIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2023.
Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning
Published in Regulation & Governance, 2024
Franchino, F. and Migliorati, M. and Pagano, G. and Vignoli, V., "Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning", REGULATION & GOVERNANCE, 2024.
Recommended citation: Franchino, F. and Migliorati, M. and Pagano, G. and Vignoli, V., "Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning", Regulation & Governance, 2024.
More Than Words: The Visual Rhetoric of Radical Right Populism on Social Media
Published in Conference paper, 2024
An ongoing study investigating how populist radical right parties achieve distinct visual consistency in their social media campaigns. The paper combines computer vision, multimodal captioning, and topic modeling to identify the mechanisms—such as systematic bundling of visual themes—that underpin this consistency.
Recommended citation: with Curini, L.
Identifying Delegation and Constraints in Legislative Texts: A Computational Method Applied to the European Union
Published in Working paper, 2024
We advance a computational approach to identify and measure delegation and executive constraints in European Union legislative texts, combining a rule-based with domain-specific linguistic features.We advance a computational approach to identify and measure delegation and executive constraints in European Union legislative texts, combining rule-based logic with natural language processing techniques, including named entity recognition.
Recommended citation: with Franchino, F., Migliorati, M., and Vignoli, V.
Democratic Rhetoric in Autocratizing Regimes
Published in Conference paper, 2024
We investigate how autocratizing leaders manipulate democratic language to sustain regime legitimacy, and how this rhetorical strategy is conditioned by international exposure and domestic institutional quality. The paper leverages word embeddings and embedding regression to trace semantic drift in political speeches.
Recommended citation: with Corda, T.
A Supranational Alliance: The Empowerment of the European Commission from 1958 to 2019
Published in Working paper, 2024
We develop legislative games of empowerment to demonstrate that a supranational alliance between the European Commission and the European Parliament is at the core of the conferral of policy authority to the EU executive. Levearging a machine-annotated corpus of EU directives and regulations from 1958 to 2019, we show that parliamentary involvement and ideological proximity are key drivers of this process, with important implications for EU legitimacy.
Recommended citation: with Franchino, F., and Migliorati, M.
research
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.
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.
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.
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Political Science (Teaching Assistant)
Undergraduate course, University of Milan, 2021
Teaching assistant for the undergraduate political science course taught by Prof. Luigi Curini across multiple academic years (2021–2022 to 2025–2026). Duties included supporting lectures, grading, and assisting students.
Data Management and Database Concepts (Lab)
Lab instructor, University of Milan, MA in Public & Corporate Communication (DAPS&CO), 2023
Led lab sessions on data management and database concepts for graduate students in public and corporate communication during the winter semester of academic year 2022–2023.
Multivariate Analysis for Social and Political Scientists
Adjunct professor, University of Milan, MA in Public & Corporate Communication (DAPS&CO), 2023
Taught Multivariate Analysis for Social and Political Scientists for graduate students in public and corporate communication during the spring semester of academic years 2022–2023 and 2023–2024..
Introduction to R
Adjunct professor, University of Milan, MA in Public & Corporate Communication (DAPS&CO), 2023
Taught Introduction to R for graduate students in public and corporate communication in academic years 2023–2024, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026.