Simone Cremaschi

I am a political scientist researching the political economy of inclusion and the provision of public goods in liberal democracies. I work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bocconi University’s Department of Social and Political Sciences and Dondena Centre.
research. My work examines political conflicts over material resources — such as competition for access to public services along ethnic and territorial lines, and the exploitation of migrant labor in globalized agriculture — and how narratives, collective memory and local political culture shape these struggles, enabling political mobilization. I combine diverse methods and types of evidence, often involving extensive qualitative fieldwork and design-based causal inference, while also developing new approaches to integrate the two.
impact. My research is published or forthcoming in leading political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Comparative Political Studies, and has been featured in major media outlets like the Financial Times, the New York Times and The Guardian. My PhD received the IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Award for the best dissertation on migration, integration, and social cohesion in Europe. All my publications are available on this site.
vita. I received my PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute and have spent visiting periods at Columbia University, the WZB Berlin, ETH Zurich with the Immigration Policy Lab, and Bocconi University. My research has been generously funded by the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Leiden University, and Fondazione Roberto Franceschi. I have collaborated on social and research dissemination projects with civil society organizations such as Fondazione Roberto Franceschi, Associazione Naga, and Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. For more details, see my curriculum vitae.
contacts. To get in touch, please email me at simone.cremaschi@unibocconi.it.
recent publications
- Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic ShocksAmerican Political Science Review, 2025
- Geographies of Discontent: Public Service Deprivation and the Rise of the Far Right in ItalyAmerican Journal of Political Science, 2024
- The Political Legacies of Wartime Resistance: How Local Communities in Italy Keep Anti-fascist Sentiments AliveComparative Political Studies, 2024