1. DO PARTIES STILL ORIENT VOTERS IN TIMES OF CRISIS? EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF PARTISAN CUEING EFFECTS IN 2013 ITALY LORENZO De SIO, ALDO PAPARO, JOSHUA A. TUCKER and TED BRADER
Lorenzo De Sio is Assistant Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. His main interests are in elections, public opinion and voting behaviour, both in Italy and in comparative perspective, with a specific focus on models of voting behaviour and party competition. A member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian National Election Studies (ITANES), he is the coordinator of the Italian
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Center for Electoral Studies (CISE, LUISS Rome), and a member of the Methods Working Group for the “True European Voter” international research project. Besides his two books in Italian, his scientific publications include articles appearing in Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, South European Society and Politics, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California – Irvine, and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute.
Aldo Paparo is a PhD student in comparative politics at SUM, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, in Florence. He is a member of the Italian Center for Electoral Studies (CISE). His major research interests are electoral systems, party systems and voting behavior, with a particular emphasis on local levels. His PhD thesis project deals with the relationship between local elections results and national level variables, such as the national electoral cycle. He has published in Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale and has co-edited the first Cise Dossier: Le Elezioni Comunali 2012 (CISE, 2012).
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