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BOOKS (7)

• Ceron, Andrea (2022). Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham
• Ceron, Andrea (2019). Leaders, Factions and the Game of Intra-Party Politics. Routledge: Abingdon & New York (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea (2017). Social Media and Political Accountability: Bridging the Gap between Citizens and Politicians. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2017). Politics and Big Data: Nowcasting and Forecasting Elections with Social Media. Routledge: London (dissemination1) (dissemination2)
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, Stefano Iacus (2014). Social Media e Sentiment Analysis. L’evoluzione dei fenomeni sociali attraverso la Rete. Springer: Milano (dissemination)
• Mattioni, Renato, Andrea Ceron, Luigi Curini, Stefano Iacus, and Giuseppe
  Porro (2012). #Milano-Brianza in un tweet: lavoro, politica, partecipazione. Guerini
  e Associati: Milano.
• Ceron, Andrea (2012). Intra-party Politics and Party System. Factional Conflict, Cooperation and Fission within Italian Parties. PhD Dissertation. Università degli Studi di Milano: Milano (download and cite)

PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (50)

• Ceron, Andrea, and Paride Carrara (2023). Fact-checking, reputation, and political falsehoods in Italy and the US. New Media & Society 25(3): 540-558.
• Ceron, Andrea, Giovanni Pagano, and Margherita Bordignon (2022) Facebook as a media digest: user engagement and party references to hostile and friendly media during an election campaign . Journal of Information Technology & Politics, doi: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2157360.
• Ceron, Andrea, Alessandro Gandini, and Patrizio Lodetti (2022) Populists or influencers? The use of Facebook Videos by populist leaders. International Journal of Communication 16(1): 5226–5246.
• Ceron, Andrea, Paweł Baranowski, Simon Kruschinski, Uta Russmann, Jörg Haßler, Melanie Magin, Bene Márton, Daniel Jackson, and Darren Lilleker (2022) Patterns of Negative Campaigning during the 2019 European Election: Political Parties’ Facebook Posts and Users’ Sharing Behaviour across Twelve Countries. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, doi: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2115598.
• Ceron, Andrea, and Elisa Volpi (2022) How do parties react to defections? Electoral
  strategies after a valence loss. European Journal of Political Research 61(4): 1042-1059. (replication material) (dissemination1) (dissemination2) (dissemination3)
• Bene, Márton, Andrea Ceron, Vicente Fenoll, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, Anders Olof Larsson, Melanie Magin, Katharina Schlosser, and Anna-Katharina Wurst (2022) Keep Them Engaged! Investigating the Effects of Self-centered Social Media Communication Style on User Engagement in 12 European Countries. Political Communication 39(4): 429-453.
• Ceron, Andrea, Alessandro Gandini, and Patrizio Lodetti (2021) Still ‘fire in the (full) belly’? Anti-establishment rhetoric before and after government participation. Information Communication & Society 24(10): 1460-1476.
• Ceron, Andrea, and Elisa Volpi (2021) Breakups hurt: Party switching and perceived proximity between politicians and their party. Party Politics 27(4): 656-666. (replication material) (dissemination1) (dissemination2)
• Sieberer, Ulrich, Thomas M Meyer, Hanna Bäck, Andrea Ceron, Albert Falcó-Gimeno, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Martin Ejnar Hansen, Kristoffer Kolltveit, Tom Louwerse, Wolfgang C Müller, and Thomas Persson (2021) The Political Dynamics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies. British Journal of Political Science 51(2): 772-787. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Wiebke Drews (2020) Short-Term Issue Emphasis on Twitter During the 2017 German Election: A Comparison of the Economic Left-Right and Socio-Cultural Dimensions. German Politics, doi: 10.1080/09644008.2020.1836161
• Ceron, Andrea, Sergio Splendore, Thomas Hanitzsch, and Neil Thurman (2019) Journalists and editors: Political proximity as determinant of career and autonomy. The International Journal of Press/Politics 24(4): 487-507. (replication material) (supplementary file & alternative explanation) (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Sergio Splendore (2019) ‘Cheap Talk’? Second screening and
  the irrelevance of TV political debates. Journalism 20(8): 1108-1123.
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Fedra Negri (2019). Intra-party politics and interest
  groups: missing links in explaining government effectiveness. Public Choice 180(3-4): 407-427. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Zachary Greene (2019) Verba volant, scripta manent? Intraparty conferences and issue salience in France. Party Politics 25(5): 701-711.
• Ruiz-Soler, Javier, Luigi Curini, and Andrea Ceron (2019). Commenting on Political Topics Through Twitter: Is European Politics European?. Social Media + Society, doi: 10.1177/2056305119890882.
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2019). ISIS at its apogee: the Arabic discourse on Twitter and what we can learn from that about ISIS support and Foreign Fighters. SAGE Open, doi: 10.1177/2158244018789229.
• Ceron, Andrea, and Sergio Splendore (2018). Social TV, pluralismo televisivo e autorevolezza giornalistica. Problemi dell’Informazione 43(2): 181-206.
• Ceron, Andrea (2018). L’ISIS negli occhi delle comunità arabe: sostegno e critica misurati attraverso la sentiment analysis dei tweet. Gnosis 15(4): 75-81.
• Ceron, Andrea, and Luigi Curini (2018). E-Campaigning in the 2014 European Elections: The emphasis on valence issues in a two-dimensional multi-party system. Party Politics 24(2): 105-117. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Sergio Splendore (2018). From contents to comments: Social TV and perceived pluralism in political talk shows. New Media & Society 20(2): 659-675. (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Fedra Negri (2018). March Divided, Fight United? Trade Union Cohesion and Government Appeal for Concertation. West European Politics 41(1): 218-239. (replication material) (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Marco Mainenti (2018). When rotten apples spoil the ballot: The conditional effect of corruption charges on parties vote share. International Political Science Review 39(2) 242-255. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea (2018). A Sentiment Democracy? When (and when not) Politicians Follow their Followers. Journal of Language & Politics 17(2): 241-257.
• Ceron, Andrea, and Fedra Negri (2017). Trade Unions and Political Parties in Italy (1946–2014): Ideological Positions and Critical Junctures. South European Society
  & Politics 22(4): 491-508. (replication material) (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea (2017). Intra-party politics in 140 characters. Party Politics 23(1): 7-17. (replication material) (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea (2016). Inter-factional conflicts and government formation. Do party leaders sort out ideological heterogeneity?. Party Politics 22(6): 797-808. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Giovanna d’Adda (2016). E-campaigning on Twitter: The effectiveness of distributive promises and negative campaign in the 2013 Italian election. New Media & Society 18(9): 1935–1955. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2016). iSA: a fast, scalable and accurate algorithm for sentiment analysis of social media content. Information Sciences, 367–368: 105-124. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea (2016). Competing Principals 2.0? The impact of Facebook in the 2013 selection of the Italian Head of State. Italian Political Science Review, 46(3): 313-333. (replication material) (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2016). First and second level agenda-setting in the Twitter-sphere. An application to the Italian political debate. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 13(2): 159-174.
• Ceron, Andrea, and Fedra Negri (2016). The “social side” of public policies: monitoring online public opinion and its mobilization during the policy cycle. Policy & Internet, 8(2): 131-147. (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Vincenzo Memoli (2016). Flames and debates: do social media affect satisfaction with democracy?. Social Indicators Research, 126(1): 225-240. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea (2015). The Politics of Fission: Analysis of Faction Breakaways among Italian Parties (1946-2011). British Journal of Political Science 45(1): 121-139. (replication material) (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea (2015). Internet, news and political trust: The difference between social media and online media outlets. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20(5): 487-503. (replication material) (dissemination)
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2015). Using social media to forecast electoral results: A review of state-of-the-art. Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, 25(3): 239-262. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Marco Mainenti (2015). Toga Party: The Political Basis of Judicial
  Investigations against MPs in Italy (1983-2013). South European Society
  & Politics 20(2): 223-242. (replication material) (dissemination1) (dissemination2)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Fedra Negri (2015). Public policy and social media: How sentiment
  analysis can support policy-makers across the policy cycle. Rivista
  Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche 10(3): 309-338. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Vincenzo Memoli (2015). Trust in government and media slant: A cross-sectional analysis of media effects in 27 European countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics 20(3): 339-359. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea (2015). Brave rebels stay home. Assessing the effect of intraparty ideological heterogeneity and party whip on roll-call votes. Party Politics 21(2): 246-258. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Marco Mainenti (2015). Alla ricerca dell’Euroscetticismo sui social media: un confronto tra 12 stati membri in occasione delle elezioni europee 2014. Biblioteca della libertà 50(212): 61-76.
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2015). Using sentiment analysis to monitor electoral campaigns: method matters. Evidence from the United States and Italy. Social Science Computer Review 33(1): 3-20.
• Ceron, Andrea (2015). Changing politics, changing language. The effect of institutional and communicative changes on political language measured through content analysis of Italian intra-party debates. Journal of Language & Politics 14(4): 528-551.
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, Stefano Iacus, and Giuseppe Porro (2014). Every tweet counts? How content analysis of social media can improve our knowledge of citizens’ political preferences with an application to Italy and France. New Media & Society 16(2): 340-358. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea (2014). Gamson Rule not for All. Patterns of Portfolio Allocation among Italian Party Factions. European Journal of Political Research 53(1): 180-199. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea, and Luigi Curini (2013). Parties’ Influence during Government Policy Negotiations: Parliamentary Dynamics and Spatial Advantages in the First Italian Republic. Journal of Legislative Studies 19(4): 429-449. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea (2012). Bounded Oligarchy: How and When Factions Constrain Leaders
  in Party Position-taking. Electoral Studies 31(4): 689-701. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea (2011). Il governo Berlusconi alla prova delle due fiducie: coesione e divisione tra gruppi parlamentari a fine 2010. Polena 8(3): 9-33.
• Ceron, Andrea (2011). Correnti e frazionismo nei partiti politici italiani (1946-2010): una analisi quantitativa delle mozioni congressuali. Italian Political Science Review 41(2): 237-264. (replication material)
• Ceron, Andrea (2011). From Words to Facts: Wordfish, a Modern Technique to Estimate Policy Positions of Political Actors. Italian Political Science 6.
• Curini, Luigi, and Andrea Ceron (2007). Un’applicazione della teoria delle coalizioni alle elezioni tedesche del 2005: alcuni scenari. Quaderni di Scienza Politica 14 (2), 251-274.

BOOK CHAPTERS (9)

• Ceron, Andrea (2022). Preface. In A. Ceron (ed.), Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham (pp. xii-xiii).
• Ceron, Andrea (2022). Activated Public Opinion. In A. Ceron (ed.), Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham (pp. 132-135).
• Ceron, Andrea (2022). Sentiment Democracy. In A. Ceron (ed.), Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham (pp. 324-327).
• Ceron, Andrea, Margherita Bordignon, and Giovanni Pagano (2021). The 2019 EP Election in Italy: A ‘Titanic’ Victory for Salvini’s League. In J. Haßler, M. Magin, U. Russmann and V. Fenoll (eds.), Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham (pp. 151-168).
• Ceron, Andrea (2021). Opinione pubblica, sondaggi e «sentiment». In G. Mazzoleni (ed.), Introduzione alla comunicazione politica. Il Mulino: Bologna (pp. 251-267).
• Barisione, Mauro, and Andrea Ceron (2017). A Digital Movement of Opinion? Criticizing Austerity through Social Media. In M. Barisione and A. Michailidou (eds.), Social media and European politics: Rethinking power and legitimacy in the digital era. Palgrave Macmillan: London (pp. 77-104).
• Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2017). Social Media and Elections. In K. Arzheimer, J. Evans and M. Lewis-Beck (eds.), The Handbook of Electoral Behaviour. Sage: London (pp. 883-904).
• Ceron, Andrea, and Luigi Curini (2014). The Letta cabinet(s): Government formation and (in)stability in times of crisis: A spatial approach. In Italian Politics: Still Waiting for the Transformation 29(1): 143-159. Berghahn Books: Oxford.
• Ceron, Andrea, and Luigi Curini (2014). Il governo Letta: formazione del governo e (in)stabilità in tempo di crisi. In C. Fusaro and A. Kreppel (eds.), Politica in Italia: I fatti dell’anno e le interpretazioni. Il Mulino: Bologna.

EBOOKS (5)

• • Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2017). iHappy 2016. RCS: Milano.
  • Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2016). iHappy 2015. RCS: Milano.
  • Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2015). iHappy 2014. RCS: Milano.
  • Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2014). iHappy 2013. Wired Italia: Milano.
  • Ceron, Andrea, Luigi Curini, and Stefano Iacus (2013). iHappy 2012. Wired Italia: Milano.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Ceron, Andrea, Márton Bene, Vicente Fenoll, Jörg Haßler, Simon Kruschinski, Anders Olof Larsson, Melanie Magin, Katharina Schlosser, Anna-Katharina Wurst, Peter Maurer, and Darren Lilleker (2021). Engaging users through information or critique? ‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ for parties on Facebook during the 2019 European Election campaign. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2021 Democracy in Flux, 1-5.
• Ceron, Andrea, Vera Ventura, Stefano Iacus, Luigi Curini, and Dario Frisio (2016). Expo Milano 2015: Legacies in Tweets. Proceedings in System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2016, 398-405.

WORKING PAPER SERIES

• Greene, Zac, Andrea Ceron, Gijs Schumacher, and Zoltan Fazekas (2016). The Nuts and Bolts of Automated Text Analysis. Comparing Different Document Pre-Processing Techniques in Four Countries. Open Science Framework. November 1. osf.io/ghxj8.
• Ceron, Andrea (2016). Understanding Intra-Party Politics through Text
  Analysis of Social Media: Three applications to the Italian case. Centre for European Research CERGU – Working Paper Series 2016: 3.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Ceron, Andrea (2014). Françoise Boucek, Factional Politics. How Dominant Parties
  Implode or Stabilize. Party Politics 20(5): 814-815