Welcome to my website! I am an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.       

Before joining King's (2018), I was a Postdoc at the London School of Economics. I held visiting positions at University of Cambridge (2025), University College London (2017), and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2013).

I have a PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles (2017) and a BA from the Università di Firenze (2008). In between, I worked for UNICEF and the European Commission. 

I study social cleavages and political attitudes in Europe with an interdisciplinary approach, using causal inference on observational data.

Please write me at  marco.giani@kcl.ac.uk.

Equal in Private, Unequal in Public? Coeducation and Sexism in the Soviet Union

RR, with Krzysztof Krakowski 

Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values 

British Journal of Political Science,  55 2025 

[Working paper] [Data and code] 

How Parents Invest in their Children's Cultural Capital throughout Schooling: Comment

American Journal of Sociology, 130(5) 2025 

[Working paper] 

Education and the Paradox of Perceived Discrimination

World Politics,  78(2) 2025 with Margarita Gelepithis 

[Working paper] [Data and code] 

Military Culture and Institutional Trust 

American Journal of Political Science,  68(2) 2024 with Vincenzo Bove and Riccardo Di Leo

[Working paper] [Data and code] 

Wait and See? Public Opinion Dynamics after Terrorist Attacks

Journal of Politics 85(3), 2023 with Mariaelisa Epifanio and Ria Ivandic 

[Working paper] [Data and code] 

Global Racist Contagion following Donald Trump's Election

British Journal of Political Science,  51(3) 2021 with Pierre-Guillaume Méon 

[Working paper] [Data and code] 

Fear without Prejudice in the Shadow of Jihadist Threat

Comparative Political Studies,  54(6) 2021 

[Working paper] [Data and code] 

Terrorist Attacks and Minority Perceived Discrimination

British Journal of Sociology,  72(2) 2020 with Luca Merlino

[Working paper] [Data and code] 

Electoral Competition through Issue Selection

American Journal of Political Science,  59(1) 2015 with Enriqueta Aragonès and Micael Castanheira 

[Working paper] [Supplementary Appendix]  

“It Could Have Been Me”: Homeland Terrorism, Counterfactual Thinking, and Political Trust among Immigrants

WP with Vincenzo Bove, Amélie Godefroidt and Davide Sansone

The Clock on Compassion: How Settlement Misperceptions Shape Support for Refugee Policy

WP with Krzysztof Krakowski and Silvana Târlea