Welcome to my home page. I am a PhD Graduate in Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I started my PhD program here at Boulder in the Fall of 2003. I defended my dissertation on August 6, 2009.
Please take a look at my research interests (with my research statement) and my teaching pages (with my teaching portfolio).

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In Political Science, I specialized in the sub-fields of Comparative Politics and International Political Economy.
My thesis deals with the political reaction to internal and external migration in EU municipalities. Take a look at its second chapter , which deals with the effects on different mixes of nationalities/ethnicities on citizens’ satisfaction with their municipality in the UK. I presented that paper at the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago. Read the conference version here.
The third chapter of my thesis deals with the effects of migration on the electoral performances of the ethno-regionalist “Northern League” party in Italy. I have presented it in paper format at the 2009 Midwest Political Association meeting in Chicago. Read the old version here.
My last empirical chapter deals with the political reaction to migration in Austria at the municipal level, with particular focus on the performances of the anti-migrants parties FPÖ and BZÖ. I presented it in paper format at the 2009 American Political Science Association conference in Toronto.
My IPE research deals with the political ramifications of international debt. I presented a paper on that subject at the 2007 MPSA meeting in Chicago. As soon as time will allow me to, I intend to explore the topic more accurately.
If you are looking for my full research resume, publications and writing sample (available for download in PDF format), please take look at my research pages.
If you are looking for my teaching portfolio, syllabi, and assignment examples, please log onto my teaching pages.
I have also co-authored a paper on Tiebout mobility with Prof. Kenneth Bickers and Prof. Robert Stein: ‘Assessing the Micro-Foundations of the Tiebout Model’ on Urban Affairs Review 52(1), 2006. Another paper co-authored with Prof. Bickers, ‘Tiebout Mobility Under Conditions of Electoral Competion’ has been conditionally accepted for publication on Urban Affairs Review.