Name
VANNONI, Matia
Position and Affiliated Institution
Associate Professor in Public Policy, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London
Degree
Ph.D in Political Science
Education and Academic Employment
| Education | |
| 2005-2009 | Bachelor’s Degree in Society, Politics and European Institutions, Sociology Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy |
| 2009-2012 | Master’s Degree in European and International Studies, School of International Studies, University of Trento, Trento, Italy |
| 2012-2013 | MSc European Studies (Research), European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK |
| 2013-2017 | MPhil/PhD Political Science, School of Public Policy, UCL, London, UK |
| Academic Employment | |
| 2016-2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Bocconi University, Milano, IT |
| 2018-2022 | Assistant Professor in Public Policy, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London, London, UK |
| 2022-Present | Associate Professor in Public Policy, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London, London, UK |
Research Topic
Political economy, public policy, computational linguistics
Fields of Research Interest
Business and government, Populism and bureaucracy, Policy Process
Academic Publications
- 2025: Politically Connected Firms: Trade, Competition and Rent-seeking, Governance (with David Coen)
- 2024: More Laws, More Growth? Theory and Evidence from U.S. States, Journal of Political Economy (with Elliott Ash and Massimo Morelli)
- 2023: A Costly Commitment: Populism, Government Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy, American Journal of Political Science (with Luca Bellodi and Massimo Morelli)
- 2021: Business Lobbying in the European Union, Oxford University Press (with David Coen and Alex Katsaitis)
- 2020: Measuring Discretion and Delegation in Legislative Texts: Methods and Application to U.S. States, Political Analysis (see online version) (with Elliott Ash and Massimo Morelli)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Senior Editor for Journal of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press)
- Computational Institutional Science Lab Lead, Syracuse University
- Political Economics of Reforms, Institutional Complexity and Legislative
- Evaluation Studies (PERICLES) Fellow
- The Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI) Affiliate
HONORS
- Leverhulme Research Fellow
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
