21 Sep 2017 UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova to Open Cultural Heritage Preservation Conference at Bocconi The Fall Meeting of the Global Consortium for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (25 and 26 September) will address the theme of sustainable conservation practices in the aftermath of war
18 Sep 2017 The Psychology of Voting and Protesting A model by Passarelli and Tabellini introduces the psychological variable and studies its effects
19 Sep 2017 How the Choice of Candidates Changes Under Different Electoral Systems There is a relation between the competitiveness of districts and the quality of candidates, explains a paper by Nannicini and Galasso
15 Sep 2017 How Voter Turnout Varies, and Why To understand it better requires studying the relationship between the distribution of votes and the overall distributuion of power, as Massimo Morelli, Salvatore Nunnari and Helios Herrera explain in a paper
20 Sep 2017 How TV News Reporting Affects Voter Decisions Percoco and Graziano analyze reactions to the choice of stories to be reported. More reporting on crime leads to an increased probability of rightwing voting
14 Sep 2017 Experts and Loyalists Are the Candidates That Get onto the Electoral Lists A paper by Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini explains how political candidates are selected