LIVIO DI LONARDO

LIVIO DI LONARDO

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and a Research Affiliate at the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy.. I received my Ph.D. in Politics from New York University in 2017. I study the causes and the consequences of the use of violence and the threat of violence in politics, both at the international and the national political stage. More specifically, I am interested in deterrence theory, foreign intervention, the politics of counterterrorism, and the interference of organized crime in the political process. I am also interested in the functioning of democratic institutions, especially elections.


Research interests

Political economy, international relations, national security, terrorism and counterterrorism.


Selected Publications

Di Lonardo, Livio
The partisan politics of counterterrorism: reputations, policy transparency, and electoral outcomes
POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND METHODS, 2019

Di Lonardo, Livio
Valence uncertainty and the nature of the candidate pool in elections
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL POLITICS, 2017

Di Lonardo, Livio; Sun, Jessica S.; Tyson, Scott A.
Autocratic stability in the shadow of foreign threats
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 2020

Di Lonardo, Livio; Tyson, Scott A.
Political instability and the failure of deterrence
THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 2022

Di Lonardo, Livio; Dragu, Tiberiu
Counterterrorism policy in an uncertain world
JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 2021

Colantone, Italo; Di Lonardo, Livio; Margalit, Yotam; Percoco, Marco
The political consequences of green policies: evidence from Italy
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 2024