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., & Lopez-Uroz, N. (2026). The limits of green concertation: business fragmentation and the political economy of the agricultural transition in the Netherlands. New Political Economy.
Cigna, L., Konstantinakos, O., & Russo, L. (2026). Learning under pressure: Welfare state responses to Covid-19 in Southern Europe. Journal of European Social Policy.
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. 58 (7), 1119-1132.
Cigna, L. (2023). Bread or roses? Trade unions, female employment and the expansion of work-family policies. Journal of European Public Policy. 31 (5), 1320-1345.
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. 72 (6), 1211-1239.
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. (2025). The Political Economy of Growth and Skills in the Green Transition. LUISS Institute for European Analysis and Policy; LUHNIP Working Paper; 2025/01.
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 (on request)
Cigna, L., Alvariño Vazquez, M. (2025). Leapfrogging into the knowledge economy? Growth models, Government power, and post-industrial recalibration in least-likely cases.
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.