Marco Giani, PhD

Bio. 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 hold 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.

Selected publications

Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process, British Journal of Political Science (in press)

How Parents Invest in their Children's Cultural Capital throughout Schooling: Comment, American Journal of Sociology 130(5), 2025

Education and the Paradox of Perceived Discrimination, World Politics 78(2), 2025 with M Gelepithis

Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms, American Journal of Political Science 68(2), 2024 with V Bove and R Di Leo

Wait and See? Public Opinion Dynamics after Terrorist Attacks, Journal of Politics 85(3), 2023 with M Epifanio and R Ivandic

Global Racist Contagion following Donald Trump's Election, British Journal of Political Science 51(3), 2021 with P-G Méon

Fear without Prejudice in the Shadow of Jihadist Threat, Comparative Political Studies 54(6), 2021

Terrorist Attacks and Minority Perceived Discrimination, British Journal of Sociology 72(2), 2020 with L Merlino

Electoral Competition through Issue Selection, American Journal of Political Science 59(1), 2015 with E Aragonès and M Castanheira

In progress

The Recruitment Crisis in European Militaries, Cambridge University Press (under contract, Elements in Defense studies) with V Bove and R Di Leo

Equal in Private, Unequal in Public? Coeducation and Sexism in the Soviet Union, r&r Journal of Politics with K Krakowski

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