Associate Professor
Department of Social and Political Sciences
Courses a.y. 2020/2021
20672 COMPARATIVE POLITICS: INSTITUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT30317 POLITICAL SCIENCE AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS40291 POLITICAL SCIENCES
Biographical note
Piero Stanig is Assistant Professor of Political Science at
Università Bocconi in Milan, Italy.
His research agenda spans comparative politics, comparative political economy, and statistical methodology. His work appears in the Journal of Public Economics, Electoral Studies, and the American Journal of Political Science. Piero received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Before coming to Bocconi, he taught methodology, political science, and political economy at the
LSE for three years and at the
Hertie School of Governance for another three. He was a pre-doctoral fellow at the
Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at
NYU, where he taught courses on political and bureaucratic corruption. He is also a member of the
Advisory Council of the
Ibrahim Index of African Governance.
Academic CV
Assistant Professor of Political Science. Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University 2009.
Research areas
Comparative politics, comparative political economy, quantitative methodology.
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Regulation of Speech and Media Coverage of Corruption: An Empirical Analysis
of the Mexican Press." Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science.
"Political Polarization in Retrospective Economic Evaluations During Recessions
and Recoveries." 2013. Electoral Studies32(4):729-745.
"Church-State Separation and Redistribution" (with John Huber). 2011. Journal
of Public Economics 95(7-8):828-836.