Piero Stanig

I am Associate Professor of Political Science (with tenure) at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

My research agenda spans comparative politics and political economy, and my work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Public Economics, Electoral Studies, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the American Journal of Political Science, among others. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. My Erdős Number is 5.

I am a member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Roberto Franceschi; and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Politics. I was also a member of the Advisory Council of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance for many years. The methodology currently adopted by the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index is based on the advice Andrew Gelman and I were commissioned to provide.

My recent work focuses on two themes: the politics of the globalization backlash and in general the political consequences of structural economic changes; and the effects of extreme weather events related to climate change on environmental concern and on voting behavior. My paper with Italo Colantone on globalization and the Brexit referendum is currently the most cited paper in the American Political Science Review over the past three years. My work has received considerable attention in the international media and is required reading in syllabi in top universities across the world.

I am the recipient (with Massimo Anelli and Italo Colantone) of a CARIPLO Foundation grant to study how trade unions mediate the economic and political consequences of automation and robotization in manufacturing.

My book in Italian, Fallimento Lockdown, with Gianmarco Daniele, was published in September 2021.

Before coming to Bocconi, I taught methodology, political science, and political economy at the LSE and at Hertie in Berlin. I was a doctoral fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at NYU, where I taught courses on political and bureaucratic corruption.

Education

• Phd Columbia University in the City of New York (2001 — 2008)
• Laurea Università degli Studi di Trieste (1994 — 2000)