Marco Cellini

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS), Research Fellow

LUISS Guido Carli, Political Science, PhD Candidate

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Phd in Political Science, with interest in researches related to democracy, globalization and poverty. Currently a Research Fellow at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS)
Address: Rome, Latium, Italy

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For the few and under specific conditions. Participatory budgeting in Milan: evidence from an online survey on PB participants in Italy’s second largest city

by Maria Cristina Antonucci and Marco Cellini

Contemporary Italian Politics, 2022

Participatory budgeting (PB) has become one of the most widely employed and extensively debated i... more Participatory budgeting (PB) has become one of the most widely employed and extensively debated instruments in the field of participatory democracy. Its supporters have highlighted its ability to increase political participation and the empowerment of citizens. Critics have warned of its (lack of) capacity to be inclusive and to fulfil promises of greater transparency and effective empowerment of citizens. The present article, through the analysis of data collected among participants in the PB process in Milan, draws a picture of the average PB participant in order to understand the extent to which PB succeeds in including a representative cross-section of Milan population. The article finds that PB participants are on average older, richer, better educated, and more politically active than the average Milan resident, highlighting the failure of the city’s PB to engage representative cross-sections of the population. The article concludes by stressing the urgency of the need to reform practices of participatory democracy in order to make them more inclusive and therefore better able to achieve citizen empowerment.

Rifugiati nell’Unione Europea: dall’allarmismo emergenziale alla gestione comune

The refugees’ flows have alighted the European political debate boosting nationalistic forces in ... more The refugees’ flows have alighted the European political debate boosting nationalistic forces in almost all countries. The aim of this paper is to show that the actual number of asylum seekers does not really allow to talk about a ‘refugee crisis’. It argues, however, that the current European Union institutions and procedures are highly insufficient to manage successfully refugees’ inflows and asylum requests. A European foreign policy could have helped to prevent refugees’ inflows from war-thorn areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya and Syria. Once the problem is there, the procedures centred on the Dublin Convention are inadequate and the paper provides a few radical suggestions that are made for an EU-centred refugees and asylum seekers management and policy.

CNR-IRPPS Democrazia e diseguaglianza, un'analisi empirica

In this paper I analyze the relation between democracy and income inequality. The literature revi... more In this paper I analyze the relation between democracy and income inequality. The literature review shows the presence of four main theoretical lines that explain differently this relation, from time to time as: a linear relation in which democracy affects income inequality; a linear relation in which economic inequality affects democracy; a non-linear relation, which takes the form of the so-called inverted “U”; no statistical relation between democracy and income inequality. Our theoretical model expects that an increase in the quality of democracy within a state reduces, through two channels, the level of income inequality. First channel is a direct one and corresponds to the request of redistributive policies. Second channel is an indirect one and is represented by the increase in the quality of education. The econometric analysis using both a static and a dynamic approach shows empirical evidence supporting the existence of a non-linear and negative relation between democracy a...

Populism as a New Revolt of the Masses. What Implications for Democratic Politics

By Archibugi D., (2018) In &quot;Legitimacy, Democracy and Disagreement&quot;. Essays in ... more

Paths Towards Democracy-The Role of Unobserved Heterogeneity to Analyze the Effect of Political Protests

There is a growing interest in understanding if and to what extent collective action affects the ... more There is a growing interest in understanding if and to what extent collective action affects the democratic process. Nevertheless, the empirical literature faces a main challenge: the role of elites in shaping countries’ paths towards democracy is intrinsically unobservable and is generally not adequately modeled. Ignoring such unobserved heterogeneity creates several problems if the empirical analysis aims at investigating the role of protests in driving countries towards more democracy. The present work proposes an empirical strategy that aims at correcting two types of biases created by unobserved heterogeneity, sample selection bias and endogeneity, while also offering the possibility to destructure unobserved heterogeneity into a finite number of types. The strategy relies on a multivariate finite mixture model that allows to estimate more efficiently our parameters of interests, but at the same time, it shows several paths towards democracy that are pursued by countries in the...

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