Dissertation: A new model of leader competition. Supervisor: Prof. Luca Verzichelli

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1 Nicola Martocchia Diodati (Updated December 2017) Personal Data Place of Birth: Tradate, Italy Date of Birth: 13 November 1989 Current Positions Since 2014 Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and Sociology Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze, Italy (with scholarship) Dissertation: A new model of leader competition. Main goals of the dissertation: Defining a new utility model; formalising a new game-theory-based model of party competition; presenting a new Machine Learning-based method to detect parties strategies day-after-day departing from online newspaper articles. Supervisor: Prof. Luca Verzichelli Teaching Assistance Since 2016 Teaching Assistant in Methods for Social Research Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milano, Milano Italy 2015 Teaching Assistant in Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy Since 2013 Since 2012 Teaching Assistant in Political Science Department of Social and Political Science, University of Milano, Milano Italy Teaching Assistant in Political Institutions and Decision Making Department of Social and Political Science, University of Milano, Milano Italy 1

2 Education Spring 2017 Dec 2013 Dec 2011 Visiting Researcher Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation / School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Project: Detecting different kind of political strategies from newspaper articles through Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing. Host: Prof. Shay Cohen Master s Degree in Public and International Communication Faculty of Economic, Political and Social Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano, Italy 110/110 summa cum laude Thesis: A political-economic analysis pre-electoral coalition formation. Supervisor: Prof. Guido Merzoni Bachelor s Degree in Political Science Faculty of Economic, Political and Social Sciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy 110/110 summa cum laude Thesis: The Selection and Replacement Mechanisms of PD s Elite Supervisor: Prof. Luciano M. Fasano Method Schools Jul 2016 Jun / Jul 2016 Feb 2016 Lisbon per Machine Learning School Istituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon Course topics: - Machine Learning for classification; - Sequence models; - Learning structured prediction; - Syntax and Parsing for Natural Language Processing; - Deep learning; - Programming in Python ICPSR Summer Program Michigan University, Ann Arbor Followed courses on: - Mathematical Modelling (Game Theory & Rational Choice Theory) - Regression, Advance Issues - Programming in R - Introduction to L A TEX ECPR Winter School in Quantitative Methods Bamberg University, Bamberg Followed course on Advanced Discrete Choice Modelling 2

3 Jul 2015 Apr 2013 ECPR Summer School in Quantitative Methods Ljubljana University, Ljubljana Followed courses on: - Introduction to Programming for Social Scientists - Analysing Political and Social Sequences Oxford University Spring School in Quantitative Methods Oxford University, Oxford Followed a course on Presenting Statistical Results Effectively with R Publications PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2017 Passing Time, Changing Minds? The Determinants of Faction Membership after a Party Fusion, Government & Opposition, DOI: /gov (with Bruno Marino) Masters of their fate? Explaining MPs re-candidacy in the long run: The case of Italy (1987?2013), Electoral Studies, 48(1), 2017, (with Luca Verzichelli) Changing Patterns of Ministerial Circulation: The Italian Case in a Long-term Perspective, West European Politics, 40(6), 2017, (with Bruno Marino) What difference does it make? Explaining PD s electorate and electorate voting behaviour in 2013, Italian Political Science Review, 47(1), 2017, (with Luciano Fasano) Dal PD nascenti di Veltroni al PD secondo Matteo di Renzi. Trasformazione di un partito politico, Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 24(1), 2017, CONTRIBUTION TO BOOKS 2017 Machine Learning in Natale, P. and Airoldi, M. (eds), 2017, Web & social media. Le tecniche di analisi, Milano: Maggioli Editore, (with Paolo Natale, Luciano Fasano and Francesco Capuzzi) L ultimo partito. Dieci anni di Partito Democratico, Torino: Giapichelli Editore, (with Luciano Fasano) L Assemblea Nazionale del PD in Pasquino, G. and Venturino, F. (eds), 2014, Il Partito Democratico secondo Matteo, Bologna: BUP,

4 RESEARCH NOTES AND WORKING PAPERS 2017 (with Bruno Marino and Luca Verzichelli) From Leaders to Personalities? Evidence from an Expert Survey on the Personalisation of Politics in Western Europe ( ), CIRCaP Occasional Papers, No. 4/ (with Luca Verzichelli) Selezione e carriera dei governanti italiani. Nuove prospettive di ricerca, CIRCaP Occasional Papers, No. 2/ Monza e Legnano: da punti di partenza uguali a risultati diversi. I risultati e i fussi elettorali in A. Paparo (eds.), 2017, Comunali 2017, Roma: Cise, (with Bruno Marino) Comunali 2016, chi sale e chi scende nelle grandi città in V. Emanuele, N. Maggini and A. Paparo (eds.), 2016, Cosa succede in città? Le elezioni comunali 2016, Roma: Cise, (with Bruno Marino and Vincenzo Emanuele) Comunali 2016, l analisi dell offerta politica nei comuni capoluogo in V. Emanuele, N. Maggini and A. Paparo (eds.), 2016, Cosa succede in città? Le elezioni comunali 2016, Roma: Cise, Regionali 2015: in Puglia una cronaca annunciata con conseguenze nazionali in A. Paparo and M. Cataldi (eds.), 2015, Dopo la luna di miele: Le elezioni comunali e regionali fra autunno 2014 e primavera 2015, Roma: Cise, (with Bruno Marino) Puglia: cronaca di una vittoria annunciata? in A. Paparo and M. Cataldi (eds.), 2015, Dopo la luna di miele: Le elezioni comunali e regionali fra autunno 2014 e primavera 2015, Roma: Cise,

5 Papers Presented at Conferences and Seminars 2017 (with Luca Verzichelli and Bruno Marino) Boost or Brake? The Effect of Candidate Selection and Intra-Party Personalisation of Politics on MPs Political Careers in Italy ( ), 2017 Milan Party Congress Research Group Workshop, June (with Luca Verzichelli and Bruno Marino) The Effect of Candidate Selection and Personalisation of Politics on MPs political careers in Italy ( ), 2017 Nottingham ECPR Joint Session of Workshop, April (with Benedetta Carlotti and Bruno Marino) Prime Ministers Unchained. Explaining Prime Ministers? Inaugural Speeches in Coalition Governments in Italy and Germany, 2016 Amsterdam Text Analysis Workshop, June (with Bruno Marino) The Same Old Story? Explaining Italian MPs Career Changes Between 1987 and 2013, EPSA Conference, Bruxelles, June 2016 / IPSA Conference, Poznam July More than a feeling? How non-policy variables affect voting behviour, Scuola Normale Superiore, 13 April (with Luciano Fasano) An inter-faction coalition theory for merging parties, University of Bologna, 26 January (with Bruno Marino) Sacred Europe? The influence of religion on Italian citizens attitudes toward Europe, at 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Giardini Naxos, September (with Bruno Marino) What difference does it make? Explaining PD s electorate and electorate voting behaviour in 2013, at Italian Political Science Association General Conference, Arcavacata di Rende, September More than a feeling? How different partisanship concepts influence voters decisions, at Italian Political Science Association General Conference, Arcavacata di Rende, September (with Bruno Marino) Out of Touch? The Definition and Operationalization of Intra-Party Democracy in Western European Parties, at ECPR General Conference, Montréal, August Leader, Policies e Voti. Da Bersani a Renzi la trasformazione dell offerta politica del PD, at Italian Political Science Association General Conference, Perugia, September

6 Research Activities 2017 Research collaborator for the first European Expert Survey on Personalisation of Party Politics. Fall 2013 Spring 2013 Winter 2012 Research collaborator for Italian Law-Making Archive Department of Political Science, University of Milano Research consultant on Italian Parliamentary Rules Evolution Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University Research internship Centre for the Study of Political Change, University of Siena Invited Lectures Dec 2017 Mar 2017 Feb 2017 Nov 2016 Mar 2013 Feb 2013 Machine Learning for Social Sciences Lecture on machine learning and elections. Course of Methods for Social Research, University of Milano. Hosts: Paolo Natale. What do parties say? Lecture on machine learning, natural language processing and elections. Laboratory OsservaMI, University of Milano. Hosts: Luciano M. Fasano, Paolo Natale. Voting: who and why. Lecture on voting behaviour. Course of Political Science, University of Milano. Host: Luciano M. Fasano. Analysing survey data. Introduction to data analysis and R. Course of Methods for Social Research, University of Milano. Host: Paolo Natale. Winsets and Veto players. Lecture on decision making and veto theory. Course of Political Institutions and Decision Making, University of Milano. Host: Luciano M. Fasano. With who? Lecture on coalition theories. From Riker to Schofield. Course of Political Institutions and Decision Making, University of Milano. Host: Luciano M. Fasano. 6

7 Skills Language Italian: English: French: Computing Stats: Publishing: Other: Mothertongue Proficiency Basic Knowledge R, Stata, SPSS (basic), Python (basic) L A TEX Office, OpenOffice Refereeing I have been reviewer for the following peer-reviewed journals: Journal of Contemporary European Research, Italian Political Science Review, Party Politics, South European Society and Politics, Polis. Il sottoscritto è consapevole che: - è soggetto alle sanzioni previste dal codice penale e dalle leggi speciali in materia qualora rilasci dichiarazioni mendaci, formi o faccia uso di atti falsi od esibisca atti contenenti dati non più rispondenti a verità (art. 76 D.P.R , n. 445); - decade dai benefici eventualmente conseguenti al provvedimento emanato sulla base della dichiarazione non veritiera qualora dal controllo effettuato dall Amministrazione emerga la non veridicit del contenuto della dichiarazione (artt. 71 e 75 D.P.R , n. 445). Nicola Martocchia Diodati 7

Ceccobelli Diego Terni Italian Italian. PhD in Political Science. Master in Political Science. Bachelor in Mass Communication

Ceccobelli Diego Terni Italian Italian. PhD in Political Science. Master in Political Science. Bachelor in Mass Communication Curriculum Vitae Personal Information Surname Forename Place of birth Date of birth Citizenship Nationality Ceccobelli Diego Terni 17-05-1986 Italian Italian CURRENT POSITION: QUALIFICATION AWARDED: Year