Gregorio Buzzelli
gregoriobuzzelli.bsky.social
Gregorio Buzzelli
@gregoriobuzzelli.bsky.social
Postdoc researcher in Political Science at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
Political economy, technological change, political behavior
https://www.polito.it/personale?p=gregorio.buzzelli
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Rearmament challenges modern welfare states, pitting military vs. social spending.
In our new #OA article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Stefano Sacchi, Caroline de la Porte and I show that citizens prioritize the welfare state—though important divisions emerge
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off
The intensification of military conflict is leading to sharp increases in military spending across advanced democracies. As public budgets are constrained, the welfare state is a candidate for savi...
www.tandfonline.com
Reposted by Gregorio Buzzelli
I'm excited to share the schedule for the Politics of AI workshop I have the pleasure of co-hosting together with @benansell.bsky.social at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social next week.

Link: matthiashaslberger.github.io/ai/
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Very interesting and surprising results: the left cannot downplay contestation on cultural issues; socdem and radical left are two significantly different things

Great work! #OA
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Early policy action doesn’t depend on mass automation 🤖

"The implications for policy would be profoundly different—requiring us to focus less on job numbers and more on ensuring that technological change enhances rather than diminishes the quality of working life."
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October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Reposted by Gregorio Buzzelli
📚 In their intro to the Special Issue “Public Opinion and the Welfare State: Sources, Processes, and Consequences”, @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social,
Zhen Jie Im, Maria Grasso, and Franco Bonomi Bezzo review how attitudes toward the welfare state form and evolve 👇

🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Public opinion and the welfare state: sources, processes, and consequences
The legitimacy and resilience of the welfare state rest on sustained public support. This introduction reviews the literature on welfare attitudes and public opinion formation on the welfare state....
www.tandfonline.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Il 29 ottobre h13 all'Energy Center nuovo #Theseus colloquium sul tema della Space Displomacy!

@francesconicoli.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New review paper by @francesconicoli.bsky.social & myself in @globalsociety.bsky.social!

We explore how Industry 4.0 (IoT, AM, GAI) may affect future socio-economic patterns
🌱 Green transition
👷 Labour transformation
🌍 Production reshoring
⚖️ Market concentration
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Future Impacts of Industry 4.0 on Labour Markets and Production Reshoring, Concentration and Sustainability: A Prospective Literature Review
This paper presents a semi-systematic review of the forward-looking literature that investigates the socio-economic consequences of Industry 4.0 innovations. We select three relevant technologies (...
www.tandfonline.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by Gregorio Buzzelli
Mercoledì 17/9 a #Espanet2025 (Torino) abbiamo presentato il numero 3/2024 di @politichesociali.bsky.social:
“Addio #welfare all’italiana? Mutamento e resistenze tra investimento e protezione sociale”
Plenaria molto partecipata: grazie a tutte e tutti! 🙌
📸 Qualche momento dalla sessione ⬇️
September 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"In the short term, questions of politics and polity will be more important to protect liberal democracy from the far right. But economic and social policies will play an important role in shaping the conditions for far-right party support in the long run." 👇
I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters.

equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...
Threats to social status and support for far-right political parties
How economic threats to social status in the form of unemployment risk and rental market risk affects support for the far right in Europe.
equitablegrowth.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reposted by Gregorio Buzzelli
📊 @mhaslberger.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich, and Jasmine Bhatia explore how exposure to AI shapes social policy preferences in a UK survey experiment.

💡 Their key finding: when faced with AI, people want support, not just protection

🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Gregorio Buzzelli
☀️ Vol 17.3

Nicolas Bicchi & Javier Arregui look at five major datasets 📊 to review what interview-based studies has uncovered about how the #CounciloftheEU 🇪🇺 make decisions.

Is the future of expert interviews up for debate? 🤷

buff.ly/LO0Gxlr
📖#OA
Interview-based datasets for quantitative research on the Council of the EU: a systematic review and future developments | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Interview-based datasets for quantitative research on the Council of the EU: a systematic review and future developments - Volume 17 Issue 3
buff.ly
August 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Reposted by Gregorio Buzzelli
📢 È online il n. 1/2025 di Politiche Sociali/Social Policies!

Il focus di questo numero - curato da David Benassi e Andrea Ciarini - si intitola "Regimi di povertà territoriali. Specificità locali, modelli e analisi".

🔗https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/2284-2098/issue/9822
August 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Reposted by Gregorio Buzzelli
Benvenute e benvenuti nel nuovo canale social di Politiche Sociali/Social Policies!

Abbiamo deciso di continuare a condividere qui con lettrici e lettori aggiornamenti, articoli e iniziative della rivista.
July 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Do Italian parties care about digitalization—and how do they frame it?
In new #OA paper on Contemporary Italian Politics, Edoardo Bressanelli, Stefano Sacchi, Dario Pio Muccilli and I find a sharp rise in issue salience over the past decade, with marked ideological divides
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July 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Rearmament challenges modern welfare states, pitting military vs. social spending.
In our new #OA article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Stefano Sacchi, Caroline de la Porte and I show that citizens prioritize the welfare state—though important divisions emerge
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Guns versus butter’ in public opinion: the politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off
The intensification of military conflict is leading to sharp increases in military spending across advanced democracies. As public budgets are constrained, the welfare state is a candidate for savi...
www.tandfonline.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Oggi sul @mm-corriere-bot.bsky.social un articolo di Maurizio Ferrera e Stefano Sacchi sul dilemma tra riarmo e spesa sociale. In coda, due brevi approfondimenti sull’opinione pubblica, basati su dati dei progetti SCOaPP e Solid, a cura mia e di Davide Caprioglio 🧵
July 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📢 CfP ESPAnet Italia is open until June 15!

Don’t miss 👉

🔹 S17 – New takes on the triple transition by early-career researchers

🔹 S29 – Labour market transformations: production, inequality & politics

🔗 www.espanet-italia.net/index.php/ca...
@francesconicoli.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
SISP 2025 Last few days to apply!
Deadline next Sunday, May 25

@ndurazzi.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social
🚨CfP Political Science🤖

@ndurazzi.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social and I will chair a panel (11.3) on the political economy of tech change at the 2025 SISP Conference (Naples, 4-6 Sept): www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
We invite you to submit an abstract by May 25. See you in Naples!
May 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🚨CfP Political Science🤖

@ndurazzi.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social and I will chair a panel (11.3) on the political economy of tech change at the 2025 SISP Conference (Naples, 4-6 Sept): www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
We invite you to submit an abstract by May 25. See you in Naples!
April 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Automation ‘losers’ prefer the radical right, but have they become more authoritarian?

In a new panel-data study published on
@polstudies.bsky.social @francesconicoli.bsky.social Stefano Sacchi and I show poor ideological shifts among most replaceable workers
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of ‘Losers’ Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values - Gregorio Buzzelli, Francesco Nicoli, Stefano Sacchi, 2025
The exposure to the automation risk on the labour market is strongly correlated with support for the radical right. In this article, we investigate whether this...
journals.sagepub.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Short blog post on Sociology Lens about the relation between labour automation and precariousness, based on my recent paper in the International Journal of Social Welfare

#automation #labour #precariousness

www.sociologylens.net/article-type...
Technology and precariousness: the employment downgrading of Europe’s middle class - Sociology Lens Insights
Since the advent of the first industrial revolution, the growing automation of production processes has been accompanied by concerns (or hopes) regarding the displacement of human labour. Although sig...
www.sociologylens.net
April 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Gregorio Buzzelli
🗣️ we have a new paper and new dataset just out on the transition to the knowledge economy in advanced democracies - both OA, available here academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... and here www.knowledge-economy-index.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Just a few days left to send your session proposal to #ESPAnet Italia Conference 2025!

Deadline on March 10
📣 Call for Panel XVIII ESPAnet Italy Conference 2025

Join us at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Sept 16-18 2025) to discuss social policy in a world in transition: technology, climate, & demographic change. Submit your session proposal by March 10, 2025!

www.espanet-italia.net/index.php/ca...
March 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📣 Call for Panel XVIII ESPAnet Italy Conference 2025

Join us at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Sept 16-18 2025) to discuss social policy in a world in transition: technology, climate, & demographic change. Submit your session proposal by March 10, 2025!

www.espanet-italia.net/index.php/ca...
February 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
How does the perception of structural economic changes affect public opinion's support for EU unemployment insurance plans?

New paper (open access!) out on #EPSR
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 AM