BY TOPICS

1988a. (editor) Trust: Making and breaking cooperative relations, Oxford: B. Blackwell 
– 1989a. Le strategie della fiducia : indagini sulla razionalità della cooperazione, Einaudi, Italian edition

1988. “Can we trust trust?” In Gambetta (ed.) 1988a, 213-237

2001. “Trust in signs”. In K. Cook (ed.) Trust and Society, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp.148-184 (with Michael Bacharach)

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)

2005. Streetwise. How taxi drivers establish customers’ trustworthiness. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (with Heather Hamill)

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

2009. “Measuring People’s Trust”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 172 (2009), part 4, 749-769 (with John Ermisch et al.)

2010. “Do strong family ties inhibit trust?”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 75, 3, 365-376 (with John Ermisch) [see 2023 for a follow up]

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)

2014c.“Thick as thieves: homophily and trust among deviants”, Rationality & Society, 26 (1), 3-45 (with Jennifer Flashman)

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)

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)

2022 “COVID-19 infection induces higher trust in strangers”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, August 2, 2022 (with Davide Morisi)

2023 “Trust and Strength of Family Ties: New Experimental Evidence”. Social Psychology Quarterly, first published online March 31 (with John Ermisch, Sergio Lo Iacono, Burak Sonmez)

1994. “Inscrutable markets”, Rationality & Society, 6, 3, 353-368

2001. “Trust in signs”. In K. Cook (ed.) Trust and Society, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp.148-184 (with Michael Bacharach)

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

2009. “Signaling”, in P. Hedström and P. Bearman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology, Oxford University Press, pp. 168-194

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) 

2016. “Behind the Veil: the Strategic Use of Religious Garb”. European Sociological Review (with Ozan Aksoy)

2020. “Does information about toughness decrease fighting? Experimental evidence”. PLoS ONE, (with Aron Szekely) 

2021. “The Politics behind the Veil”. European Sociological Review, 37, 1, pp. 67–88 (with Ozan Aksoy)

2022. “Commitment through Sacrifice: How longer fasting during Ramadan strengthens religiosity and political Islam”. American Sociological Review, Volume 87, Issue 4 (with Ozan Aksoy)

1988. “Fragments of an economic theory of the mafia”. Archives Européenes de Sociologie, XXIX, 1, 127-145

1988. “Mafia: the price of distrust”. In Gambetta (ed.) 1988a, 158-175

1991. “In the beginning was the Word: the symbols of the mafia” Archives Européennes de Sociologie, XXXII, 1, 53-77

1993.The Sicilian mafia. The business of private protection, Harvard University Press
– 1992 and 1994. La mafia siciliana. Un’industria della protezione privata,  Torino: Einaudi, Italian editions (German 1994, Spanish 2007 and Polish translations 2009, see main publication lists

1994. “Godfather’s gossip”, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, XXXV, 2, 199-223

1994. Introductions 1 and 2 to La mafia siciliana, Torino: Einaudi, pp. x-xxx (in italian)

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 University Press, pp.116-136

2009. Codes of the underworld. How criminals communicate, Princeton: Princeton University

2011. “The Sicilian Mafia, 20 years after publication”, Sociologica. Italian Journal of Sociology online, 2/2011, 1-11

1998. “Civisme et corruption”. In Robert Darnton and Olivier Duhamel (eds.) Démocratie, Paris: Edition du Rocher

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

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

2017. “Why is Italy disproportionally corrupt? A conjecture” in Basu, K. And T. Cordella, eds., Institution, Governance and the Control of Corruption, Palgrave

EDUCATIONAL DECISIONS
1981. “Il lavoro fra gli studenti delle scuole medie inferiori”. Quaderni di Sociologia, 1, 114-144 (with Ermanna Moretti).

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

1987. Were they pushed or did they jump? Individual decision mechanisms in education, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pdf available) – 1990. Italian edition, Per amore o per forza? Bologna: Il Mulino

1996. Le scelte scolastiche individuali. Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier (IRES-Piemonte Series), (with Luciano Abburrà and Renato Miceli)

2005. editor, Making Sense of Suicide Missions, Oxford: Oxford University Press
– El Sentido De Las Misiones Suicidas, (2009), Fondo de Cultura Econòmica, Spanish edition

2005. “Can we make sense of suicide missions?” In Gambetta (ed.), Making sense of suicide missions. Oxford University Press, pp. 259-299

2006. “Epilogue to the paperback edition”. In Gambetta (ed.), Making sense of suicide missions, paperback: Oxford University Press, pp. 301-333

2009. “Tinker, tailor, engineer, jihadi…”, New Scientist, 13 June, 26-27, (with Steffen Hertog)

2016. Engineers of Jihad. The curious connection between education and violent extremism, Princeton: Princeton University Press (with Steffen Hertog)
– Ingegneri della Jihad. I sorprendenti legami fra istruzione ed estremismo, (2017), Milan EGEA, Italian edition

2024: Fight, Flight, Mimic. Identity Mimicry in Conflict, Oxford University Press (edited with Thomas Hegghammer)

1994. La retorica della riforma. Fine del sistema proporzionale in Italia. Torino: Einaudi (with Steven Warner)

1996. “The rhetoric 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)

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

1998. “Claro!’ An essay on discursive machismo”. In J.Elster (ed.), Deliberative Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-43

2012. “The LL-game. The curious preference for low quality and its norms”, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 3-23, (with Gloria Origgi)

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