Doctoral thesis
CIGNA, L. M. (2024). Unions matter: the new politics of welfare and social concertation (PhD dissertation, European University Institute). Open access.
Peer-reviewed articles
Cigna, L., Di Carlo, D., & Durazzi, N. (2025). The comparative political economy of the green transition: economic specializations and skills regimes in Europe. Regulation & Governance.
Ronchi, S., & Cigna, L. (2024). Non è un Paese per investimenti sociali? Una reinterpretazione della traiettoria di riforma del welfare e della politics del" social investment" in Italia. Social Policies, 11(3), 553-571.
Cigna, L., & Fabris, B. L. (2024) Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy. Social Policy & Administration (first view).
Cigna, L. (2023). Bread or roses? Trade unions, female employment and the expansion of work-family policies. Journal of European Public Policy (first view).
Cigna, L., Fischer, T., Abuannab, E. H., Heins, E., & Rathgeb, P. (2023). Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level. Social Policy and Society, 1-17.
Velotti, L., & Cigna, L. M. (2023). The caring classes: A socio-demographic and occupational analysis of caring values. The Sociological Review (first view).
Cigna, L. (2022). Looking for a North Star? Ideological justifications and trade unions’ preferences for a Universal Basic Income. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 28(2), 129-146.
Cigna, L. (2018). Digital inequality in theory and practice: old and new divides in the broadband era. Revista Interaçoes, (34), pp.47-63.
Edited books
Cigna, L. (2021). Forza Lavoro! Come cambia il lavoro al tempo della pandemia. Quaderni n. 37, Fondazione Feltrinelli.
Book chapters and reviews
Cigna, L. (2025). The Future of Social Policy (1st Edition). By Bent Greve, London: Routledge, 2025. 110 pp. £39.99 (paperback), £145.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-03-284728-3
Cigna, L., Fischer, T., Abuannab, E. H., Heins, E., & Rathgeb, P. (2025). International organisations in the eco-social transformation: strategies, policies and programmes. In The Eco-Social Polity? (pp. 297-311). Policy Press.
Cigna, L. (2022). The Routledge handbook of the welfare state. Greve, B. London: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780367659875; £27.99 (Pbk).
Cigna, L. and Coloccia, A. (2021). Fine del mese o fine del mondo? Il dibattito sull’ILVA di Taranto tra disuguaglianze ambientali e giustizia sociale. In Puttini, S. and Donati, N. (eds), E se domani – Sud. Scenari n. 27, Fondazione Feltrinelli.
Cigna, L. (2019). Educazione finanziaria e secondo welfare: alla ricerca di un nesso. In Maino F. and Ferrera M. (eds.), Nuove alleanze per un welfare che cambia. Quarto Rapporto per il Secondo Welfare, Torino: Giappichelli, pp. 153-180.
Cigna, L. (2018). Innovazione sociale e migranti: buone pratiche di inclusione nel mezzogiorno. Quaderni di Economia Sociale, (2), pp.43-48.
Working Papers and Reports
Cigna, L. (2024). Reversing dualism: why trade unions are shifting from dualization ‘consenters’ to de-dualization ‘protagonists’. Unpublished manuscript.
Cigna, L., Di Carlo, D. (2024). The Comparative Politics of economic policy in Europe: how corporatist and pluralist economies adjust in hard times. Unpublished manuscript.
Cigna, L., Lopez Uroz, N. (2024). Does corporatism help the green transition? Business fragmentation and the political economy of agriculture in the Netherlands. Unpublished manuscript.
Cigna, L. (2021). Welfare bilaterale e territori: la bilateralità artigiana prima e dopo la crisi Covid-19. Mefop Working Paper n.47/2021.
Cigna, L. (2020). Welfare bilaterale e territori: verso una tassonomia delle prestazioni. Mefop Working Paper n.45/2020.
ITUC (2019). Adequacy and sustainability of pension systems in the context of demographic ageing. Thematic Report for the G20 Employment Working Group in Japan. ITUC, Brussels.
ITUC (2019). Organising and Collective Bargaining in Non-Standard Forms of Work. Thematic Report. ITUC, Brussels.