Refereed Journal Articles:
- 2022 “COVID-19 infection induces higher trust in strangers”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, August 2, 2022 (with Davide Morisi)
- 2022. “Commitment through Sacrifice: How longer fasting during Ramadan strengthens religiosity and political Islam”. American Sociological Review (with Ozan Aksoy)
- 2021. “The Politics behind the Veil”. European Sociological Review, 37, 1, pp. 67–88 (with Ozan Aksoy)
- 2020. “Does information about toughness decrease fighting? Experimental evidence”. PLoS ONE, (with Aron Szekely)
- 2019. “Sharing Compromising Information as a cooperative strategy”, Sociological Science May 8, 2019, (with Wojtek Przepiorka)
- 2019. “At the root of the North-South cooperation gap in Italy: Preferences or beliefs?”. The Economic Journal, 129(619), pp.1139-1152 (with Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, and Marco Casari)
- 2016. “Behind the Veil: the Strategic Use of Religious Garb”. European Sociological Review (with Ozan Aksoy)
- 2016. “Income and Trustworthiness”. Sociological Science, (with John Ermisch)
- 2016. “Amoral Familism, Social Capital, or Trust? The Behavioural Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide”, (with technical appendix).The Economic Journal, 126 (594), pp. 1318-1341 (with Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Marco Casari, and Francesca Pancotto)
- 2014a. “Signs and (counter)signals of trustworthiness”. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, 2014, Vol. 106, pp. 281-297 (with Aron Szekely)
- 2014b. “Natural and strategic generosity as a signal of trustworthiness”. PLoS ONE 9(5): e97533. (With Wojtek Przepiorka)
- 2014c. “Thick as thieves: homophily and trust among deviants”, Rationality & Society, 26 (1), 3-45 (with Jennifer Flashman)
- 2013. “It takes two to cheat: an experiment on derived trust”, European Economic Review, vol. 64, November, pp. 129-146 (with Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Marco Casari)
- 2012. “The LL-game. The curious preference for low quality and its norms”, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, (with Gloria Origgi), Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 3-23
- 2011. “The Sicilian Mafia, 20 years after publication”, Sociologica. Italian Journal of Sociology online, 2/2011, 1-11
- 2011. “Response” to “Roundtable on Codes of the Underworld”, Global Crime, 12, 150-159
- 2010. “Do strong family ties inhibit trust?”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 75, 3, 365-376 (with John Ermisch)
- 2009. “Why are there so many Engineers among Islamic Radicals?”, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, L (2), 201-230 (with Steffen Hertog)
- 2009. “Tinker, tailor, engineer, jihadi…”, New Scientist, 13 June, 26-27, 2009 (with Steffen Hertog)
- 2009. “Measuring People’s Trust”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 172 (2009), part 4, 749-769 (with John Ermisch et al.)
- 2009 “Protección extralegal, mafias y economía”, Revista Gobierno, No. 1. Bogotá, Universidad de los Andes – Escuela de Gobierno Alberto Lleras Camargo
- 2006. “What Makes People Tip: Motivations and Predictions”, le Libellio d’AEGIS, 2, 3 Automne, 2-10
- 2006. “La valeur de l’incompetence: de la mafia tout court à la mafia universitaire. Une approache méthodologique”, edited and translated by Hervé Dumez, Gérer & Comprendre, numéro 85, 23-27
- 1996. “The rethoric of reform revealed (or if you bite the ballot it may bite back)”, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, I (3), 357-376 (with Steven Warner)
- 1994. “Inscrutable markets”, Rationality & Society, 6, 3, 353-368
- 1994. “Godfather’s gossip”, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, XXXV, 2, 199-223
- 1991. “In the beginning was the Word: the symbols of the mafia” Archives Européennes de Sociologie, XXXII, 1, 53-77
- 1988. “Fragments of an economic theory of the mafia”. Archives Européenes de Sociologie, XXIX, 1, 127-145
-1999. reprinted in G. Fiorentini and S. Zamagni (eds.), The Economics of Corruption and Illegal Markets. Cheltenam: Edward Elgar Publishing - 1984. “Decision mechanisms: educational choices in Italy”. Social Science Information, 2, 275-323
- -1985. Italian edition: “La razionalità economica nelle decisioni scolastiche individuali”. Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 1, 27-52
Chapters in books:
- 2017. “Why is Italy disproportionally corrupt? A conjecture” in Basu, K. And T. Cordella, eds., Institution, Governance and the Control of Corruption, Palgrave
- 2015. “What makes people tip”. In C. López-Guerra and Julia Maskivker (eds.) Rationality, Democracy, and Justice The Legacy of Jon Elster. Cambridge University Press, pp.97-114 Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 168-194
- 2006. “Epilogue to the paperback edition”. In Gambetta (ed.), Making sense of suicide missions, paperback Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 301-333
- 2006. “Trust’s odd ways”. In J. Elster, O. Gjelsvik, A. Hylland and K. Moene (eds.) Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour Essays in Honour of Ole-Jørgen Skog, Oslo: Unipub Forlag/Oslo Academic Press, pp. 81-100
- 2006. ‘Two Types of Corruption and the Self-fulfilling Nature of the Beliefs about Corruption’, in M. Kreutner (ed.), The Corruption Monster: Ethik, Politik und Korruption. Wien: Czermin Verlag, 2006, pp. 137-44
- 2005. “Can we make sense of suicide missions?” In Gambetta (ed.), Making sense of suicide missions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 259-299
- 2005. “Deceptive mimicry in humans”. In S. Hurley and N. Chater (eds.), Perspective on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Cambridge: MIT Press, vol II, pp. 221- 241
- 2004. “Italy: lofty ambitions and unintended consequences of the 1994 electoral reform”. In J.M.Colomer (ed.), Handbook of Electoral System Choice. London-New York: Palgrave (with Steven Warner)
-2004 Spanish translation in J.M.Colomer, Còmo votamos: los sistemas electorales del mundo: pasado, presente y futuro, Barcellona: Gedisa - 2002. “Corruption: An Analytical Map”. In S. Kotkin and A. Sajo (eds.), Political Corruption of Transition: A Sceptic’s Handbook, Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 33 56
-2004 Reprinted in W. Jordan and E. Kreike (eds.), Corrupt histories. University of Rochester Press, pp.3-28 - 2001. “Trust as type identification”. In C. Castelfranchi and Yao-Hua Tan, Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies. Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers, pp. 1-26 (with Michael Bacharach)
- 2001. “Trust in signs”. In K. Cook (ed.) Trust and Society, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp.148-184 (with Michael Bacharach)
- 1998. “Claro!’ An essay on discursive machismo”. In J.Elster (ed.), Deliberative Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-43
-2001. Spanish translation, in J.Elster (ed.) Democracia Deliberativa. Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa - 1998. “Concatenations of mechanisms”. In P.Hedstrοm and R. Swedberg (eds.), Social mechanisms. An analytical approach to social theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 102-24
- 1998. “Civisme et corruption”. In Robert Darnton and Olivier Duhamel (eds.) Démocratie, Paris: Edition du Rocher
- 1997. “Comment on ‘Corruption and development’ by Susan Rose-Ackerman”. In B.Pleakovic and J.Stiglitz (eds.) Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics
- 1997. The World Bank, pp.58-61
- 1995. “Conspiracy among the many: the mafia in legitimate industries” (with Peter Reuter). In G.Fiorentini &
- S.Peltzman (eds.), The economics of organized crime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.116-136
-2000. Reprinted in N.Fielding et al. (eds.), The economic dimensions of crime. London: MacMillan Press and New York: St.Martin’s Press - 1994. Introduction to the second edition of La mafia siciliana, Torino: Einaudi, pp. x-xxx
- 1989. “Il sapore agrodolce del riduzionismo”. In L.Ricolfi and L.Sciolla (eds.) La razionalità nelle scienze sociali. Milano: F.Angeli, 153-159
- 1988. “Mafia: the price of distrust”. In Gambetta (ed.) 1988a, 158-175
-1989. Italian translation: “Mafia: il prezzo della sfiducia”. In Gambetta 1989a, 203-226
-1990. Spanish translation: “La Mafia: el precio de la desconfianza”. Zona Abierta, 54/55, 115-136
-2005. Reprinted in G. Grabher and W. W. Powell (eds.), Networks. Cheltenam: Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. I, pp 201-218 - 1988. “Can we trust trust?” In Gambetta (ed.) 1988a, 213-237
-1989. Italian translation: Possiamo fidarci della fiducia? In Gambetta 1988a, 275-307
-2001. German translation in M.Hartman and C.Offe (eds). Vertrauen. Frankfurt: Campus
-2003, 2010. Reprinted in E. Oström and T.K. Ahn (eds.), Foundations of Social Capital. Cheltenam: Edward Elgar Publishing
-2008 Reprinted in Reinhard Bachmann and Akbar Zaheer (eds.) Landmark Papers on Trust, Vol I, ch. 5, pp. 133-157, Cheltenam: Edward Elgar Publishing
Other articles:
- 2022. “Explaining Europe’s reaction“, Project Syndicate (with Stephen Holmes)
- 2021. “Freedom in the veil“, Project Syndicate (with Ozan Aksoy)
- 2016. “Extremism’s strange bedfellows“, Project Syndicate (with Steffen Hertog)
- 2009. “‘Heroic impatience’: the Baader-Meinhof Gang 1968-1977”, Areté, 29, 11-34 (published in the US in The Nation, 22 March 2010)
- 2007. ‘Mimicry, fiducia, società: incontro con Diego Gambetta’, Quaderni pluridisciplinari, 0, 1, 184-92
- 2006. “Who Do Taxi Drivers Trust?”, Contexts (by the American Sociological Association), 5, 29-33 (with Heather Hamill)
- 2004 “Reason and Terror”, The Boston Review, Spring, 32-36, (published in the UK by Areté, 14, 2004)
- 2002. Displaying the skeletons in one’s cupboard. Why norms breed corruption. APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter, 13, 1, 6-8
- 1999. “Primo Levi’s last moments”, The Boston Review, summer 1999
(translated into Italian in Belfagor, LIV, 3, 1999;
in Spanish in Revista de Occidente, 2004, and in Nuestra Memoria, Fundacion Memoria del Holocausto, 2005)
Articles and Chapters only in Italian
- 1994. “La protezione mafiosa”, Polis, VIII, 2, 107-119
- 1993. “La protezione mafiosa”. Storia e Dossier, July
- 1993. “Alleanza necessaria”. L’Indice, December
- 1990. “La mafia elimina la concorrenza. Ma la concorrenza può eliminare la mafia?” Meridiana, III, 7/8
- 1989. “Anatomia della tangente”. Meridiana, 4, 237-247
- 1988. “Apologia della proporzionale”. Biblioteca della Libertà, 23, 95-106
- 1987. “Mafia and Antimafia”. L’Indice, June
- 1987. “Mafia: i costi della sfiducia”. Polis, 2, 283-305
- 1984. “Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes e la riduzione dell’orario di lavoro: chi aveva ragione?” Micros, 2, 47-9 (new series)
- 1981. “Il lavoro fra gli studenti delle scuole medie inferiori”. Quaderni di Sociologia, 1, 114-144 (with Ermanna Moretti)
- 1979. “Il doppio lavoro nella situazione internazionale”. In L. Gallino (ed.), Lavorare due volte. Torino: Book Store, 303-319
- 1979. “I redditi dei doppi-lavoristi”. In L.Gallino (ed.), Lavorare due volte. Torino: Book Store, 143-180 (with F.Garelli)
- 1978. “Le dimensioni dell’occupazione impiegatizia manifatturiera in Italia”. Quaderni di Sociologia, 3-4 185-214