Refereed Journal Articles:

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