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Ph.D. Programs 2011 call (XXVI cycle)

Ph.D. Program in Political Systems and Institutional Change / PSIC

The doctoral program in Political Systems and Institutional Change at IMT is a multidisciplinary course that uses a comparative perspective to analyze the historical, political, sociological, legal and economic features of institutions. Special attention is devoted to processes of institutional change. The Ph.D. program aims at forming political analysts able to: plan and manage collaborative and integrated processes at the international level; analyze and assess policies and institutional settings at supranational, national and regional levels; and to confront the specific problems of countries in transition towards democracy and a market economy. Comprehensive scholarships and funding are available for the Ph.D. program in Political Systems and Institutional Change.
Coordinator
People who held Lectures and Seminars at IMT
Giovanni Orsina
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli" - Roma
PEOPLE who have held Lectures

William Peter Baehr, Lingnan University
Pierluigi Barrotta, Università di Pisa
Elisabetta Brighi, University of Oxford
R. Kenneth Carty, University of British Columbia
Stefan Collignon, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Domenico Colucci, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Juan Eugenio Corradi, New York University
Micheal Cox, London School of Economics and Political Science
Sybe De Vries, Universiteit Utrecht
Giampiero M. Gallo, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Giovanni Giorgini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Marco Giuliani, Università degli Studi di Milano
Leigh Hancher, Universiteit van Tilburg
Christopher Hill, University of Cambridge
Martino Maggetti, Universität Zürich
Giandomenico Majone, Visiting Distinguished Professor at EU Center and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs in the University of Pittsburgh
Luca Mezzetti, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Giuseppe Morbidelli, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli"
Stefania Panebianco, Università degli Studi di Catania
Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh
Viviene Schmidt, Boston University
Elliot Stern, Tavistock Institute, London
Peter Stoett, Concordia University
Anthonie Van Den Brink, Universiteit Utrecht
Alberto Vannucci, Università di Pisa
Antonio Varsori, Università degli Studi di Padova
Andrea Vindigni, IMT Alti studi, Lucca
Claudius Wagemann, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Vladislav Zubok, Temple University


PEOPLE who have held Seminars

Alberto Alesina, Harvard University, Cambridge
Rainer Arnold, University of Regensburg
David Art, EUI - European University Institute, Florence
Ciro Avitabile, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Colin Bennet, University of Victoria
Suzanne Berger, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Alberto Bisin, New York University
Lucia Bonfreschi, LUISS Guido Carli, Roma
Federica Casarosa, Università degli Studi di Trento
Tiago Cavalcanti, University of Cambridge
Giuseppe Cecere, Università La Sapienza, Roma
Stefan Collignon, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
Jason W. Davidson, University of Mary
Pierre Dehez, Università Catholique de Louvain
Francesco di Iorio, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Federico Etro, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Manuel Fernandez Bagues, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Iris Geva May, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
Giampiero Giacomello, Università di Bologna
Marco Guerrazzi, Università di Pisa
Gaye Gungor, EUI -European University Institute, Firenze
Jolyon Howorth, University of Bath - Yale University
Bert-Jaap Koops, TILT - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society
Massimiliano Landi, Singapore Management University
Nikolaos Lavranos, European University Institute, Florence
Miodrag Lekic, LUISS Guido Carli, Roma
Carl Levy, University of London
Stevan Lilic, Belgrade University School of Law
Nicola Lugaresi, Uppsala University - Department of Information Technology
Paolo Masella, EUI - European University Institute, Firenze
Abraham Newman, Georgetown University
Luca David Opromolla, Banco de Portugal, Lisboa
John Padgett, University of Chicago
Angelo Panebianco, IIT/CNR, Pisa
Eugenio Pizzimenti, Università di Bologna
Charles Raab, University of Edimburg
Thomas Richter, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
Maria Stella Righettini, Università degli Studi di Padova
Gerard Roland, University of California
Howard Rosenthal, New York University
Alberta Sbragia, University of Pittsburgh
Fabiano Schivardi, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Vivien Schmidt, Boston University
Enrico Spolaore, University of Leicester
John Sutton, London School of Economics
Alessandro Torre, Università degli Studi di Bari
Mindia Vashakmadze, EUI - European University Institute, Firenze
Christine Vodovar, LUISS Guido Carli, Roma
Gisela Waisman, Stockholms Universitet
Scientific Board
Stefan Collignon
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Pisa

Bruno Dente
Politecnico di Milano - Milano

Sergio Fabbrini
Università degli Studi di Trento - Trento

Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Università degli Studi di Torino - Torino

Leonardo Morlino
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli" - Roma
Upcoming Seminars and Events
From May 22, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
Political Order in Multicultural Societies
  • Flavia Monceri
    Università degli Studi del Molise
From May 24, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
EARLY LEAD EXPOSURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND EARNINGS: EVIDENCE FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL NEGLIGENCE
Between 1984 and 1989 more than 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals, containing high concentrations of lead, were brought to the city of Arica (north of Chile). Initially, the chemical waste was located several kilometers from the city. The rapid expansion of Arica in the early 1990s, which included the construction of social housing projects meters away from the waste deposit, put at risk a large number of families. For more than a decade, individuals living in the vicinity of the contaminated areas were exposed to critical levels of lead. The medical literature suggests that even minimum lead exposure might have long-term consequences on individual's behavior and cognitive ability. However, there is little evidence on the direct effects on academic achievement and (fortunately) the literature rarely examines cases in which large number of individuals have been affected by lead exposure. In this paper we examine the effects of lead exposure on academic achievement studying the case of Arica. We analyze longitudinal data from a large population of individuals living and attending primary and secondary schools in Arica between 2004 and 2008. Our data include longitudinal information on proximity to the polluted areas (from individual's place of residence), levels of lead exposure, comprehensive sets of controls, and multiple nationally-representative academic test scores. Our findings indicate significant and negative effects of household's proximity to contaminated areas on student's academic performance. We also estimate the effect of blood lead levels on student academic performance finding significantly negative effects. Finally, combining these estimates with those obtained from regressions of annual earnings on student's academic performance we provide an estimate of the effect of lead exposure on life-time earnings.
  • Sergio S. Urzua
    University of Maryland
From May 28, 2012, 14:30 To 16:00, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
Peer Effects in Education, Sport, and Screen Activities: Local Aggregate or Local Average?
We develop two different social network models with different economic foundations. In the local-aggregate model, it is the sum of friends' efforts in some activity that affects the utility of each individual while, in the local-average model, it is costly to deviate from the average effort of friends. Even though the two models are fundamentally different in terms of behavioral foundation, their implications in terms of Nash equilibrium are relatively close since only the adjacency (social interaction) matrix differs in equilibrium, one being the row-normalized version of the other. We test these alternative mechanisms of social interactions to study peer effects in education, sport and screen activities for adolescents in the United States using the AddHealth data. We extend Kelejian’s (2008) J test for spatial econometric models helping differentiate between these two behavioral models. We find that peer effects are not significant for screen activities (like e.g. video games). On the contrary, for sport activities, we find that students are mostly influenced by the aggregate activity of their friends (local- aggregate model) while, for education, we show that both the aggregate performance at school of friends and conformism matter, even though the magnitude of the effect is higher for the latter.
  • Eleonora Patacchini
    Università degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza
From May 31, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
Is Democracy necessarily based on Relativism?
  • Giovanni Giorgini
    Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
From June 4, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes
Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if there is consistent evidence suggesting that voters punish corrupt incumbents, it is unclear whether this translates into increased support for challengers and higher political participation. We provide experimental evidence that information about copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout, challengers' votes, and erodes voters' identification with the party of the corrupt incumbent. Our results suggest that while flows of information are necessary, they may be insufficient to improve political accountability, since voters may respond to information by withdrawing from the political process. We conclude with a discussion of the institutional contexts that could allow increased access to information to promote government accountability.
  • Ana L. De La O
    Yale University
From June 7, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
Facts, Values, and Risk Assessment
  • Pierluigi Barrotta
    Università di Pisa
From June 11, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
  • Paola Giuliano
    University of California
From June 18, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
  • Mario Chacon
    NYU Abu Dhabi Faculty
From June 21, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
Beijing 1955. European Intellectuals and Politicians discovering Mao's China
  • Luca Polese Remaggi
    Università degli Studi di Salerno
From June 25, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30
Investment Decisions in Retirement: the Role of Stock Market Return Expectations
  • Marco Angrisani
    RAND Corporation
From June 28, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
When Will Parties Comply with Electoral Results?
  • Svitlana Chernykh
    University of Oxford
From July 2, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
  • Sascha O. Becker
    University of Warwick
From July 5, 2012, 14:00 To 15:30, Ex Boccherini − Conference Room
Sham Constitutions
  • Mila Versteeg
    University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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