Federico Vegetti

random political research things

research

peer reviewed journal articles

(2025) "Public responsiveness and the macro-origins of immigration opinions across Western Europe." European Political Science Review (with Steven Van Hauwaert) Accepted, forthcoming

(2025) "Perceived victimhood in Italian politics: political ideology, populism, and economic grievance." South European Society & Politics (with Giuliano Bobba, Moreno Mancosu, Antonella Seddone) [Link] [PDF]

(2024) "Investigating Media Populism Worldwide." Journalism Studies (with Giuliano Bobba, Moreno Mancosu, Alessandro Nai, Antonella Seddone) [Link OA]

(2023) "Migrant penalty in the European labor markets: the interplay between individual characteristics and the regional context." Frontiers in Sociology (with Maurizio Avola, Giorgio Piccitto) [Link OA]

(2023) "The general election of 2022: the return of bipolarity?" Contemporary Italian Politics (with Luana Russo) [Link OA]

(2022) "Perceived Exposure and Concern for Misinformation in Different Political Contexts: Evidence From 27 European Countries." American Behavioral Scientist (with Moreno Mancosu) [Link] [PDF]

(2022) "Belief in conspiracy theories and attitudes toward political violence." Italian Political Science Review (with Levente Littvay) [Link OA] [Replication Material]

(2021) "'In conspiracies we trust': Interpersonal/institutional trust and beliefs in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic." Italian Political Science (with Moreno Mancosu, Antonella Seddone, Giuliano Bobba) [Link OA]

(2021) "Losers get sick? The effects of electoral defeat on perceptions of pandemic risk." Italian Journal of Electoral Studies (with Giuliano Bobba, Moreno Mancosu, Franca Roncarolo, Antonella Seddone) [Link OA]

(2020) "'Is It the Message or the Messenger?': Conspiracy Endorsement and Media Sources." Social Science Computer Review (with Moreno Mancosu) [Link] [PDF] [Replication Material]

(2020) "Il Barometro dell’Odio nello Sport. L’hate speech online nelle conversazioni sportive su Facebook e Twitter." Problemi dell'informazione (with Giuliano Bobba, Moreno Mancosu, Antonella Seddone) [Link]

(2020) "What you can scrape and what is right to scrape. A proposal for a tool to collect public Facebook data." Social Media + Society (with Moreno Mancosu) [Link OA]

(2020) "The impact of political sophistication and motivated reasoning on misinformation." Political Communication (with Moreno Mancosu) [Link] [PDF] [Replication Material]

(2019) "Work Values and the Value of Work: Different Implications for Young Adults’ Self-Employment in Europe." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (with Martin Lukes, Manuel Feldmann) [Link OA]

(2019) "The Political Nature of Ideological Polarization: The Case of Hungary." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science [Link] [PDF]

(2019) "Left–Right Categorization and Perceptions of Party Ideologies." Political Behavior (with Daniela Širinić) [Link] [PDF] [Replication Material]

(2019) "Perceived economic self-sufficiency: A country-and generation-comparative approach." European Political Science (with Jale Tosun and many, many more) [Link] [PDF] [Replication Material]

(2017) "The Elite Is Up to Something: Exploring the Relation Between Populism and Belief in Conspiracy Theories." Swiss Political Science Review (with Bruno Castanho Silva, Levente Littvay) [Link] [PDF] [Replication Material]

(2017) "The impact of the economic crisis on latent and early entrepreneurship in Europe." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal (with Dragos Adascalitei) [Link] [PDF]

(2017) "Sorting your way out: perceived party positions, political knowledge, and polarization." Acta Politica (with Zoltán Fazekas, Zsombor Méder) [Link] [PDF]

(2014) "From Political Conflict to Partisan Evaluations: How Citizens Assess Party Ideology and Competence in Polarized Elections." Electoral Studies [Link] [PDF]

(2014) "Availability or disengagement? How Italian citizens reacted to the two-faced parliamentary grand coalition supporting the Monti government." Polis (with Monica Poletti, Paolo Segatti) [Link] [PDF]

(2013) "When responsibility is blurred. Italian national elections in times of economic crisis, technocratic government, and ever-growing populism." Italian Political Science Review (with Monica Poletti, Paolo Segatti) [Link] [PDF]

books

(2020) "The Electoral Implications of Political Polarization." ISBN: 978-88-255-3027-8. Aracne Editrice [PDF]

book chapters

(2025) "Motivated Reasoning" In Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication, eds. Alessandro Nai, Max Grömping, Dominique Wirz. Edward Elgar Publishing (with Moreno Mancosu) [Link]

(2024) "La relazione tra populismo e teorie del complotto" In Capire il populismo, eds. Mattia Zulianello, Petra Guasti. UTET Università (with Moreno Mancosu) [Link]

(2023) "L’inciviltà politica nella campagna elettorale 2022: percezione e reazione degli elettori" In Svolta a destra? Cosa ci dice il voto del 2022, ITANES. Il Mulino (with Giuliano Bobba, Antonella Seddone, Augusto Valeriani) [Link]

(2023) "Le elezioni politiche del 2022: un ritorno al bipolarismo?" In Politica in Italia. I fatti dell’anno e le interpretazioni. Edizione 2023, ed. Federica Genovese, Salvatore Vassallo. Il Mulino (with Luana Russo) [Link]

(2023) "Sfide nei collegi ed effetto maggioritario." In Il bipolarismo asimmetrico. L’Italia al voto dopo il decennio populista, ed. Salvatore Vassallo, Luca Verzichelli. Il Mulino (with Luana Russo) [Link]

(2022) "Teaching Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs." In Teaching Undergraduate Political Methodology, eds. Mitchell Brown, Shane Nordyke, Cameron Thies. Edward Elgar Publishing [Link]

(2022) "C come cospirazione. Attitudini populiste e teorie del complotto ai tempi del covid." In Dalla pandemia all'infodemia. La disinformazione ai tempi del Covid-19, ed. Maria Giovanna Sessa. Feltrinelli (with Antonella Seddone, Giuliano Bobba, Moreno Mancosu) [Link]

(2021) "Ideological Polarisation." In Consequences of Context. How the Social, Political, and Economic Environment Affects Voting, eds. Hermann Schmitt, Paolo Segatti and Cees van der Eijk. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / ECPR Press [Link] [PDF]

(2021) "Mappare la competizione tra partiti ai tempi del Covid-19." In Come siamo cambiati? Opinioni, orientamenti politici, preferenze di voto alla prova della pandemia, eds. Nicola Maggini e Andrea Pedrazzani. Feltrinelli [Link] [PDF]

(2019) "La rappresentazione dello spazio politico all'epoca della (presunta) morte di sinistra e destra." In L'apocalisse della democrazia italiana: alle origini di due terremoti elettorali, eds. Hans Schadee, Paolo Segatti e Cristiano Vezzoni. Il Mulino (with Hans Schadee, Paolo Segatti) [Link] [PDF]

(2019)"Il movimento elettorale 2013-2018." In L'apocalisse della democrazia italiana: alle origini di due terremoti elettorali, eds. Hans Schadee, Paolo Segatti e Cristiano Vezzoni. Il Mulino (with Riccardo Ladini) [Link] [PDF]

(2019) "L’economia e il terremoto elettorale del 2018." In L'apocalisse della democrazia italiana: alle origini di due terremoti elettorali, eds. Hans Schadee, Paolo Segatti e Cristiano Vezzoni. Il Mulino (with Paolo Segatti) [Link] [PDF]

(2019) "Una domanda di più democrazia o di democrazia invisibile?" In L'apocalisse della democrazia italiana: alle origini di due terremoti elettorali, eds. Hans Schadee, Paolo Segatti e Cristiano Vezzoni. Il Mulino (with Hans Schadee, Paolo Segatti) [Link] [PDF]

(2018) "Deregulation and its effects on job security and employability during the Great Recession. An European multilevel analysis." In Job Quality in the Era of Flexibility. Experiences in a European Context, eds. Tommy Isidorsson and Julia Kubisa. Routledge (with Dragos Adascalitei) [Link] [PDF]

(2014) "Hungary: The stability of Fidesz’s domain." In The European Parliament Elections of 2014, eds. Lorenzo De Sio, Vincenzo Emanuele and Nicola Maggini. CISE - Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali [Link (en)] [Link (it)] [PDF (en)] [PDF (it)]

policy reports

(2024) "Weathering the crisis: How job retention schemes preserved employment and incomes during the pandemic." Eurofound (with Dragos Adascalitei, Tina Weber, Michael Christl, Silvia De Poli) [Link]

working papers that will never get published but are cool

Federico Vegetti. "Ideological Bipolarization - Or the effect of stereotyping on the perception of ideological positions." (presented at the ISPP Annual Conference, 2014) [PDF]

Federico Vegetti, Zoltán Fazekas. "Party polarization and ideological thinking in Europe" (presented at the ECPR Joint Session and at the MPSA Annual Meeting, 2013) [PDF]

posters

Martin Mölder, Federico Vegetti. "What do they talk about when they play punk? A quantitative analysis of punk rock lyrics from 1977 to 2015." (presented at CEU Data Stories, 2017) [PDF]

Levente Littvay, Federico Vegetti. "IRT invariance test and cross-country-longitudinal assessment of attitudes towards entrepreneurship during the economic crisis in the EU." (presented at the MPSA Annual Meeting, 2015) [PDF]

Apollonia Goll, Mascha Rauschenbach, Federico Vegetti. "The SEED (Science Speed Dating) Project. An innovative method to foster interdisciplinary research projects." (presented at the EARLI SIG 4 Higher Education Conference, 2012) [PDF]

theses

The Electoral Consequences of Ideological Party Polarization in Europe. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Mannheim. Defended on November 22, 2013.

I dilemmi degli elettori di sinistra nell'Italia del 2008 (Left-wing voters' dilemmas in 2008's Italy). M.A. Thesis, University of Milan. 2009. [PDF]

Tra Stephen King E Joe R. Lansdale: Romanzi di formazione americani (From Stephen King to Joe R. Lansdale: American coming-of-age novels). B.A. Thesis, University of Milan. 2005. [PDF]