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Paolo Bellucci

Professor of Comparative Political Behaviour, Political Sociology, Research Methods in Political Science

Department of Political Science
University of Siena
Via Mattioli, 10
I-53100 Siena (Italy)
Tel.: +39-0577-235285/235299
Fax: +39-0577-235292
E-mail: paolo.bellucci@unisi.it

Paolo Bellucci – Laurea in Sociology (Rome), Master in Political Science (Iowa) – has been a researcher at the European University Institute (1981-1984) and at Censis Foundation (1984-1988), researcher and professor of Political Science at the University of Molise (1988-2004). Since 2005 he is professor of Comparative Political Behaviour in the doctoral programme of the University of Siena and teaches Research Methods and Political Sociology at the undergraduate level. He has been visiting professor at CIRCaP-University of Siena (2000-2001) and at the Department of Government, University of Essex (2004). He serves in the Board of Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP), of ITANES (Italian National Election Study), in the International Advisory Board of the British Election Study (University of Essex) and is chairman of the SISP standing group on Public Opinion and Political Behaviour.
He has conducted comparative research on electoral behaviour, and studies on political participation, the relationship between politics and bureaucracy, the politics of defence.

Recent publications:

2011 Votare in Italia: 1968-2008. Dall’appartenenza alla scelta, editor, with P. Segatti, Bologna, Il Mulino.
2009 Political Parties and Partisanship. Social Identity and Individual Attitudes, editor, with J. Bartle, London and New York, Routledge.
2008 Why Berlusconi’s landslide return? “Politische Vierteljahresschrift”, 49,4:605-617
2008 ITANES. Il ritorno di Berlusconi. Vincitori e vinti nelle elezioni del 2008, Editor, with P. Segatti, Bologna, il Mulino.
2008 La metodologia della ricerca politica e sociale, “Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica” vol. 38, pp. 119-125
2008 The parliamentary elections in Italy, April 2006, “Electoral Studies”, Vol. 27, N. 1, 185-190.
2007 Changing Models of Electoral Choice in Italy. ‘Modern Italy’, vol. 12, pp. 55-72.
2007 Intermediation through secondary associations: the organizational context of elec-toral behaviour, with M. Maraffi e P. Segatti, in R. Gunther, J. Montero, H. J. Puhle (Eds.), Democracy, Intermediation and Voting on Four Continents, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
2006 Tracing the cognitive and affective roots of ‘party competence’: Italy and Britain, 2001, ‘Electoral Studies’, vol. 25, pp. 534-568
2006 All’origine della popolarità del governo in Italia. “Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica”, vol. 36, pp. 479-503
2006 Modelling Electoral Choice in the Twenty-First Century, editor, with P. Whiteley. Special Issue, ‘Electoral Studies’, Vol. 25, N. 3, 2006: Elsevier.
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Click here to download the replication dataset (SPSS) of Bellucci and Lewis-Beck European Journal of Political Research article: A Stable Popularity Function? Cross-National Analysis

Post Mortem: una valutazione delle stime del modello Approval-Partisanship per le elezioni regionali 2010.
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Elezioni regionali 2010: un esercizio di previsione elettorale. Read

Click here to read Election Cycles and Electoral Forecasting in Italy 1994-2008