Political Sciences

Think Diverse, the Podcast About a More Inclusive World

Catherine De Vries, Dean for Inclusion and Diversity, hosts stories of research that helps make the world more welcoming. Zachary Parolin starts off with surprising facts about poverty

As Voters Feel the Heat, Support for European Green Parties Increases

Piero Stanig and coauthors from the International Institute of Applied System Analysis and the University of Bologna show, for the first time, a causal effect of local climate extremes on support for Green parties in affluent and cool parts of Europe

Six New Faculty Members Broaden Bocconi's Horizons

Half of them will be in the founding core of the upcoming Department of Computing Sciences. Cultural phenomena and accounting are the research interests of the others

Twitter Reveals Our Emotions Throughout the Pandemic

The CIVICA Research EmoMap project, coordinated by Nicoletta Balbo, brings together scholars from Bocconi University, Hertie School and Central European University to analyze the formation and evolution of emotions during such a stressful time

Machine Learning to Predict If You'll Leave Your Partner

Research on couple dissolution shows that a ML approach can advance demographic research, detecting complex patterns in relatively small datasets

2021 Must Read Articles, In Case You Missed Them

A recap of this year's most read stories. Contrary to what you might think, they were not only about COVID