02935 - Laboratory (Lab 4)

Course contents

The workshop aims to provide the tools to present in public research related to political and social phenomena. Building on the knowledge and methodological skills already accumulated by students, the objective of the workshop is to develop, through in-class exercises, the ability to present research and empirical analyses. To this end, the workshop focuses on the empirical analysis of the insurgency and criminality (with particular reference to organized crime), whose peculiarities related to methodological and epistemological problems will be addressed in the lessons. The first part of the course will be based on lectures (with reference to the texts mentioned in the bibliography section) and oral presentations by students that summarize the highlights of existing research conducted on the abovementioned phenomena. In the second part of the course, exercises will be held to design and produce a presentation with computer support or a presentation in the form of "poster". The seminars and exercises will be conducted individually and / or small groups

Readings/Bibliography

Sample readings include:

Weinstein, J., “Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment”, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 49 No. 4, (2005), pp. 598-624.

Varese, F. e Shortland, A. “The Protector's Choice. An Application of Protection Theory to Somali Piracy", British Journal of Criminology, 2014, doi: 10.1093/bjc/azu046.

Gambetta, D., “La mafia elimina la concorrenza. Ma la concorrenza può eliminare la mafia?”, Meridiana, Vol.3 n.7/8, (1989-1990), pp. 319-336.

Costalli, S. e Moro F.N., “La violenza nelle guerre civili: un’analisi quantitativa della violenza in Bosnia-Erzegovina”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, XLI, 41 (2011), pp.5-26.

Catino, M. "How Do Mafias Organize? Conflict and Violence in Three Mafia Organizations", European Journal of Sociology, 55, 2 (2014), pp. 177-220

Pischedda, C., "L’uso della violenza indiscriminata come controguerriglia", in Costalli e Moro, a cura di, La Guerra nello Stato, Vita e Pensiero, Milano

Kalyvas, S.,. “New and Old Civil Wars: A Valid Distinction?”, World Politics, 54, 1, (2001), pp. 99-118

Catino, M. e Moro, F.N., "La protezione mafiosa nei mercati legali. Un framework analitico ed evidenze empiriche in Lombardia", Stato e Mercato, 108 (2016), pp. 311-352

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars, with students working together and individually to produce presentations

Assessment methods

Assessment will be based on the presentation in class and on overall class participation

Office hours

See the website of Francesco Niccolò Moro