Peer-reviewed publications

• “Voter mobilization in the echo chamber: Broadband internet and the rise of populism in Europe.” European Journal of Political Research, 2020 (with Max Schaub)
  – Replication files available on EJPR or here.
  – The study featured on different news outlets, including Süddeutsche Zeitung and Il Sole 24 Ore

• “An Asymmetrical ‘President-In-Power’ Effect.” American Political Science Review, 113(2): 614-620, 2019 (with John Jost and Vishal Singh)
  -Replication data available at APSR Dataverse

• “Who is afraid of a change? Ideological differences in support for the status quo in direct democracy.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, 2019 (with Andrea De Angelis and Celine Colombo)
  -Replication data available at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/morisi

• Anxiety, fear, and political decision making. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press, 2019 (with Markus Wagner)

• “Taking Cues from the Government: Heuristic versus Systematic Processing in a Constitutional Referendum“, West European Politics, 43(4): 845-868, 2019 (with Andrea De Angelis and Celine Colombo)
  – Replication data available at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LFLPHH

• “Risks and opportunities of direct democracy. The effect of information in Colombia’s peace referendum.” Politics & Governance, 7(2), 2019 (with Juan Masullo)

• “Choosing the risky option: Information and risk propensity in referendum campaigns.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 82 (3): 447-469, 2018
  -Replication data available at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/morisi

• “When campaigns can backfire: National identities and support for parties in the 2015 UK general election in Scotland.” Political Research Quarterly, 71 (4): 895-909, 2018
  -Replication data available at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/morisi
  - The study featured on The Times

• “Learning from the other side: how social networks influence turnout in a referendum campaign.” Italian Political Science Review, 48 (2): 155-175, 2018 (with Carolina Plescia)
  - The paper has received two awards for the Preregistration Challenge (Center for Open Science), and for the 2016 Italian Constitutional Referendum Research Preacceptance Competition (ITANES).
  

• “Voting under uncertainty: the effect of information in the campaign for the Scottish independence referendum“. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 26(3): 354-372, 2016
  – The study featured on different news outlets, including The Guardian, The Independent and The Herald Scotland
  

Working papers

• Schaub, M., and D. Morisi (2019) “Voter mobilization in the echo chamber: Broadband internet and the rise of populism in Europe.” Carlo Alberto Notebooks, ISSN 2279-9362, N. 584, March 2019.

• Morisi, D. (2017) “Biased but moderate voters: How information depolarizes political attitudes”. CVAP Working Paper Series 3/2017.

• Morisi, D. (2016) “Shaping voting intentions: the effect of information in the Scottish independence referendum”, SPP Working Paper 521, University of Strathclyde.

• Morisi, D. (2014) “Shaping voting intentions: an experimental study on the role of information in the Scottish independence referendum”, EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2014/88, 2014.
  – Published also as a working paper by BLUE Lab, University of Edinburgh.
  – The study has featured on several UK newspapers, including the Guardian, the Independent, and the Herald Scotland

• Craufurd Smith, R., Tambini, D., and Morisi, D. (2012) “Regulating media plurality and media power in the 21st century”. Media policy brief, 7. The London School of Economics and Political Science

Book chapters

• Karremans, J., Malet, G. and Morisi, D. (2019). “Italy – The End of Bipolarism: Restructuration in an Unstable Party System”. In Hutter, S. and Kriesi, H. (Eds.), European Party Politics in Times of Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 118-138.

• Grandi, Roberto, and Cristian Vaccari (Eds.) (2004). Cofferati anch’io. Un anno di campagna elettorale a Bologna, Milano: Baldini Castoldi Dalai. (Contributed to some chapters.)

Other publications

• “Media Pluralism Monitor 2016. Monitoring Risks for Media Pluralism in the EU and Beyond. Country report: Italy“, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom. (Contributed on the data collection)

• “Measuring media pluralism in the convergence era: The case of News Corp’s proposed acquisition of BSkyB”, Media@LSE, Electronic MSc Dissertation Series, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012.
  (The thesis has been selected among the best dissertations of the Media and Communication Department at the LSE.)

• “Public communication and participatory processes of local government”, MA dissertation published by the Municipality of Bologna, 2008.
  (The thesis has received two national awards in October 2008: a Special University Dissertation Award by the National Board of the Italian Journalists, and the third prize in the Best Dissertation in Public Communication Competition, awarded by the Italian Association of Public Communication.)

 Media

• My research has featured in the following media outlets:
  The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Herald Scotland, La Repubblica, Huffington Post Italy

• Several articles published in the following blogs:
  LSE Europp Blog, The Monkey Cage, LSE Media Policy Blog, The Plot Blog, EUI Times, Medialaws

Reviewer for:

• I have been a reviewer for several academic journals, including American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Party Politics, West European Politics, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, Italian Political Science Review

• See my profile on Publons.