Pinotti Wins a UniCredit & Universities Post-Doc Research Grant

With the research project The Political Consequences of Organized Crime: Theory, Empirical Evidence and Policy Responses, Paolo Pinotti (Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management) is one of three recipients of a UniCredit & Universities Post-Doc Research Grant.

Having won a competition aimed at young researchers of any nationality, employed at any European university within the UniCredit perimeter, Pinotti's project will be funded with € 10,000 per-year for a maximum of two years.

The projects is supposed to provide "two main contributions to our knowledge of organized crime", Pinotti says: "first, I will examine the channels through which criminal organizations are able to influence the activity of politicians and public officials; second, I will provide a rigorous evaluation of the effectiveness of the main counter-policy adopted by the Italian government against mafia infiltrations into local administrations, namely the forced dismissal of city councils".

The other recipients of the grant are Universität Bonn's Sebastian Ebert and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München's Iris Kesternich.