Biography
As a Max Weber Fellow, Andrea is analysing the relationship between democracy and state capacity, and more specifically, the institutional pathways to effective democratic governance, focusing on the disaggregated characteristics of these two core political science concepts.
Before joining the EUI, Andrea was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, an Associate Member of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Researcher at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER).
Andrea’s research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and global development. He studies the state and political regimes, their measurement, their interaction, and their relationship with human development, especially in challenging situations like fragile Global South contexts, increasing instability in the Global North, and major crises like COVID-19. His work is ultimately driven by the desire to understand better how strong, democratically governed states that are well-equipped to respond to today’s and tomorrow's challenges can flourish.
Andrea completed his PhD at the Sapienza University of Rome in October 2021, with a dissertation titled ‘On the Measurement of State Capacity: Quantitative Questions and Conceptual Considerations’.