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LIVIO DI LONARDO

LIVIO DI LONARDO
Assistant Professor
Department of Social and Political Sciences

Courses a.y. 2023/2024

30317 POLITICAL SCIENCE AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS
30334 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
30487 POLITICAL REGIMES
30504 INTERNATIONAL POLITICS LAB

Courses previous a.y.

Biographical note

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and a Research Affiliate at the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy.. I received my Ph.D. in Politics from New York University in 2017. I study the causes and the consequences of the use of violence and the threat of violence in politics, both at the international and the national political stage. More specifically, I am interested in deterrence theory, foreign intervention, the politics of counterterrorism, and the interference of organized crime in the political process. I am also interested in the functioning of democratic institutions, especially elections.


Research interests

Political economy, international relations, national security, terrorism and counterterrorism.


Selected Publications


Di Lonardo, Livio
Valence uncertainty and the nature of the candidate pool in elections
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL POLITICS, 2017

Di Lonardo, Livio; Sun, Jessica S.; Tyson, Scott A.
Autocratic stability in the shadow of foreign threats
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 2020

Di Lonardo, Livio; Tyson, Scott A.
Political instability and the failure of deterrence
THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 2022

Di Lonardo, Livio; Dragu, Tiberiu
Counterterrorism policy in an uncertain world
JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 2021

Colantone, Italo; Di Lonardo, Livio; Margalit, Yotam; Percoco, Marco
The political consequences of green policies: evidence from Italy
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, Forthcoming