In July 2023, Gonzalo Franetovic presented at ESRA a second version of the Overcoming project. We show that inequality beliefs present more than two dimensions in the vast majority of the ISSP countries. You can find the slides here!
In June 2023 I presented at the CCA Days, a workshop jointly organized by NASP and Collegio Carlo Alberto. I had the pleasure of presenting research on Italian vaccine hesitancy. The literature on the topic usually conceives hesitancy as a dependent variable of regression models of limited sizes, adopting a reductionist approach. To mitigate this limitation, I try to study hesitancy as an emergent phenomenon whose state depends on the intricate relationships occurring between its predictors. In the results, I show that this behavior is strongly influenced by a restricted list of variables that I label empirical predictors. This can help design effective intervention strategies. Slides are available here
As a political scientist, ECPR is very important to me! In Toulouse, I presented a refined version of the work “Modelling, estimating, simulating”, which me and Gonzalo originally presented at SISEC. We were in the fantastic panel “Network of Political Beliefs”, chaired by Lorien Jasny and Claudia Zucca. It was an incredible pleasure to receive expert feedback and get in contact with extraordinary researchers from all over the world. Slides are available here!
At the beginning of 2023, we presented at the conference of the Italian Society of Economic Sociology (SISEC). We modeled attitudes toward inequality as a complex system. We further estimated structural differences in these attitudes across different social groups; Finally, we simulated attitudinal change to show how they are likely to develop over time. Here are the slides!
In January 2023 Gonzalo Franetovic and I were pleased to present at CHISOCNET. We adopted network analysis on attitudes toward inequality to investigate how people understand this complex socio-political phenomenon in Chile. Results show that these attitudes are part of a single belief system and that people from lower social status positions have a more multidimensional understanding of inequality. You can find the slides here.
In December 2022 Gonzalo Franetovic and I were pleased to present at the 1st ISSP User Conference on Social Inequality. We showed how Exploratory Graph Analysis can be leveraged to isolate at least three dimensions of inequality beliefs in the vast majority of the ISSP countries. This represents an important finding since most of the literature was anchored to the structuralist/individualist dichotomy. The pdf of the presentation can be found here.