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Marco Cappelluti is a second-year MPhil/PhD student at the Department of Political Science.
Biography
Marco is a second-year PhD candidate at the UCL Department of Political Science, where he holds a Clara Collet Scholarship. Prior to joining UCL, Marco completed a BSc in Economic and Social Sciences and a MSc in Politics and Policy Analysis from Bocconi University. He also spent an exchange semester at the Hertie School in Berlin. Marco interned at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies at Bocconi University (2020) and was a research assistant for the ERC LOSS project (2021-22).
Research title
Dimensions of Vulnerability: Economic Hardship and Far-Right Support in the EU.
Research summary
Marco’s primary research interests are at the intersection of political economy, political behaviour and comparative politics.
In his PhD project, Marco focuses on the economic determinants of far-right support in the European Union. Specifically, he explores how different sources of economic vulnerability - labor market risk, welfare retrenchment and public service scarcity - affect individual-level facets of support for far-right policy platforms.
Marco is also working on projects on the electoral consequences of economic and fiscal reforms in post-financial crisis EU, and on the effects of shocks to traditional morality on party rhetoric in the US.
Research interests
Political Economy. Political Behaviour. Comparative Politics. Economic Voting. Quantitative Methods. European Politics.
Research groups
Comparative Politics, Political Economy and Political Behaviour.
Teaching
TA for POLS0083 - Quantitative Data Analysis (Undergraduate), 2023-2024.