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Carlo Prato
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Social scientist @ Columbia University | Formal Political Theory | Early memories: the fall of the Berlin Wall and that header by Claudio Caniggia | carloprato.com
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Call for Submissions: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging

Columbia, June 4-5, 2026

Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi)

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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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A prophecy from “The Makers of American Wine,” 2012.
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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April 25, 1945 marks the end of the Nazi occupation of Italy. We honor those who chose to resist and those who died fighting.

The Benedicta massacre occurred between April 6 and 11, 1944, a few miles from my hometown. It’s the largest mass killing of the Italian Resistance, taking over 150 lives.
April 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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This headline is ambiguous
November 16, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Speaking of the fact that higher polarization -> weaker congressional leaders

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Using a multistage model of collective decision making, we study how partisan polarization in legislatures affects the initial choice and future revision of procedural rules. We analyze how a legislature allocates proposal power over policy decisions under uncertainty about the future polarization in policy preferences among legislators. Our notion of polarization encompasses both intra- and interparty heterogeneity in policy preferences. We show that majority procedures are partisan and self-enforcing, that is, survive future revisions even though they concentrate proposal power in the hands of a few (nonmedian) majority party members. This leads to systematic promajority policy bias. Increased polarization, however, may not increase the concentration of proposal power within the majority party. The model provides a unified analytical framework to evaluate a long-standing debate about the foundations of partisan influence in the US Congress.
October 31, 2023 at 1:45 AM
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In my free time, I despair about the fate of UC Sampdoria. Look at their jersey though—so beautiful
September 22, 2023 at 1:59 AM