My major interests are related to the spatial theory of voting, with a special emphasis on the Italian case. I am also interested in exploring the empirical implications of theoretical models. I have written several papers about problems of collective action and cooperation, including the relationship between deliberative process and game theory. I am co-director, with Paolo Martelli, of the Standing Group Politics&Rationality of the SISP (Italian Political Science Society) and I am a member of the Editorial Boards of IPS (Italian Political Science) and RISP (Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica – Italian Review of Political Science).

Selected publications

• Curini Luigi, Willy Jou, and Vincenzo Memoli. “Satisfaction with Democracy and the Winner-Loser Debate: the role of policy preferences and past experience”, British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming (link to the dataset)

• Curini Luigi, and Luca Pinto. “Breaking the inertia: government formation under the shadow of a core party. The Italian case throughout the First Republic”, Party Politics,  forthcoming (link to the dataset)

• Curini Luigi. “Negative campaigning in no-cabinet alternation systems: ideological closeness and blames of corruption in Italy and Japan using party manifesto data”, Japanese Journal of Political Science, forthcoming (link to the dataset)

• Curini Luigi. “Government Survival the Italian Way: the Core and the Advantages of Policy Immobilism during the First Republic”, European Journal of Political Research, 50, 2011, 110-142 (link to the dataset)

• Curini Luigi. “Fortuna e abilità in 65 anni di Serie A”, Rivista di Diritto ed Economia dello Sport, Vol.VII, 1, 2011, 127-146 (link to the dataset)

• Curini Luigi, and Paolo Martelli. “Ideological proximity and valence competition. Negative campaigning through allegation of corruption in the Italian legislative arena from 1946 to 1994”, Electoral Studies, 16(3), 2010, 299-321 (link to the dataset)

• Curini Luigi. “ ‘Usare con cautela’: posizionamento dei partiti e sondaggi demoscopici. I pregiudizi ideologici dell’elettorato italiano (e cosa possiamo imparare dalla loro esistenza)”, Polena, 2, 2010, 47-69

• Curini Luigi, and Francesco Zucchini. “Testing the theories of law making in a parliamentary democracy: a roll call analysis of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1988-2008)”, in Thomas König, George Tsebelis and Marc Debus (eds.), Reform processes and policy change: Veto players and decision-making in modern democracies, Springer press, Studies in Public Choice, 2010 (link to the dataset)

• Curini Luigi. “Experts' Political Preferences and Their Impact on Ideological Bias", Party Politics,  16(3), 2010, 299-321 (link to the dataset)

• Curini Luigi. “Gli agent-based models: come modellare la complessità”, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n.3/2009, 517-531

• Curini Luigi, and Paolo Martelli. I partiti nella Prima Repubblica. Governi e maggioranze dalla Costituente a Tangentopoli, Rome: Carocci, 2009 (book review in “Bullettin of Italian Politics”)

• Curini Luigi, and Paolo Martelli. “Electoral systems and government stability: a simulation of 2006 Italian policy space”, AUCO Czech Economic Review, n.3/2009, 305-322

• Curini Luigi, and Paolo Martelli. “La vicenda Tambroni, la questione dell’antifascismo e la nascita del «centro-sinistra». Un caso di narrazione analitica”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1/2008, pp.3-28

• Curini Luigi. “Eight years of development: the Italian academic community of Political Scientists within Universities and Departments”, IPS, fall 2008, n.2

• Curini Luigi. “A call for more structure in Collective Action Theory”, Sociologica vol.3/2007

• Curini Luigi, and Andrea Ceron. “Un’applicazione della teoria delle coalizioni alle elezioni tedesche del 2005: alcuni scenari”, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n.2/2007, pp.251-273

• Curini Luigi. “The ideology of Italian political experts in comparative perspective”, IPS (Italian Political Science review), spring 2007, n.0

• Curini Luigi. “On the externalities of social capital: between myth and reality”, in Derrick Purdue (ed.), Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems, (2007), Routledge, chapter 9

• Curini Luigi. “Vox populi – vox dei? (Alcuni) limiti e (alcuni) paradossi della pratica deliberativa”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2/2006, pp.231-257

• Curini Luigi. Il dilemma della cooperazione. Capitale sociale, sviluppo, cooperazione, Milan: V&P Università 2004

• Curini Luigi. “Note sulla democrazia deliberativa” Quaderni di Scienza Politica, n.3/2004, pp.521-552

• Curini Luigi. “Capitale sociale e rendimento istituzionale: il caso di un programma di microfinanza” Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XXXIII, 1, 2003, pp.113-143.