Matia Vannoni is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy, King's College London. From November 2016 to August 2018, Matia was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Bocconi University, where he worked on a project which used advanced text analysis (based on computational linguistics) to study delegation, legislative complexity and economic growth.

Matia completed his PhD at UCL (awarded in February 2017). He also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Trento and an MRes from the LSE.

Matia is on research leave in 2024. No office hours will be held in that time.

 

Research

Matia has been working on several topics including the business and government in the European Union, public policy and public opinion in tobacco control and the representation and transparency in local democracies. He has been involved in several cross-country research projects, funded by the European Research Council, the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council. Matia's research has featured in several journals, such as JPART, PSJ, EJPR and JEPP, and his manuscript (with David Coen and Alexander Katsaitis) is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Teaching

• Policy Process and Public Policy Internship
• Evaluating Public Policy 

PhD Supervision

Matia is interested in supervising on the following topics:

• Public policy
• Quantitative political economy (econometrics, no formal theory)
• Text analysis and computational linguistics
• Business and politics

Please get in touch before applying.