Experimental Political Scientist

Publications

• Baujard, A., Brunetti, R., Lebon, I., & Marsilio, S. (2025). How people understand voting rules. Public Choice, accepted: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/gatwpaper/2408.htm 

• Marsilio, S. (2025). Nudging within political liberalism: A two-way justification for liberal democracies. Mind and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-025-00349-6 

• Marsilio, S. (2024). Changing the voting method: Voter satisfaction, status quo bias, and consequences. Doctoral Dissertation. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/87589 

• Marsilio, S. (2023). Nudge the voting method: Could a change in the voting design fit the definition of nudging? Nomopolis, 1, 92-120. https://doi.org/10.3917/nomop.001.0092 

• Marsilio, S. (2020). Architettare le Scelte. Riflessioni di Filosofia e Politica sulla Teoria dei Nudge. Rome, Italy: IF Press.

• Marsilio, S. (2018). Crematistica. Metafisica ed economia nella 'Politica' di Aristotele. Padova, Italy: Il Prato.

Upcoming

• Noh, Y., Shockley, B., & Marsilio, S. (Under Review). Elite cues, intergroup contact, and the politics of inclusion: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates.

• Shockley, B., Ewers, M., Thani, S., Qureshi, Z., & Marsilio, S. (Under Review). Nationals, neighbors, and new visas: Views on skilled migration and belonging in the UAE.

Drafts

• Marsilio, S., & Delemazure, T. (Working Paper). Status quo tendencies or status quo bias? Older Italian voters prefer alternative voting methods to their current system.

• Marsilio, S., & Delemazure, T. (Working Paper). Are alternative voting methods ideologically biased? A meta-analysis and new insights from the 2022 Italian election.

• Marsilio, S., Brunetti, R., & Baujard, A. (Working Paper). Does experiencing a voting method increase satisfaction with it? Evidence from a lab experiment.

• Marsilio, S., & Baujard, A. (Working Paper). Are alternative voting methods preferred to official single-choice systems? A meta-analysis and three new experiments.

• Marsilio, S., & Baujard, A. (Working Paper). Incumbent support and supporting the status quo: Testing alternative voting methods in the 2022 French presidential election.

Experiments

• Design, data collection, and analysis of a laboratory experiment
  (Strasbourg, May-June 2025)

• Design, data collection, and analysis of a laboratory experiment, online survey, interviews, and focus groups
  (Sharjah, September 2024)

• Data collection and analysis of GATE's laboratory experiment
  (Lyon, June 2023)

• Experimental design and data analysis of an online survey during the 2022 Italian National election
  (September 23-24, 2022)

• Data collection and analysis during of a framed-field experiment during the 2022 French Presidential election
  (Strasbourg, April 10, 2022)

Teaching

• 6 (quantitative module) + 6 (qualitative module) hours in the Advanced Research Methods course (ref. Bethany Shockley and Gokhan Savas) at AUS (Sharjah, September 2024-April 2025)

• 2 hours in the Political Philosophy course (ref. Roberta Sala) at UNISR (Milan, April 2024)

• 4 hours in the executive master Behavioral Economics e Nudging (ref. Francesco Pozzi) at IULM (Milan, March 2024)

• 4 hours in the Conflict and Political Legitimacy course (ref. Greta Favara) at Università Statale di Milano (Milan, September 2023)

• 2 hours in the Neuroethics course (ref. Sarah Songhorian) at UNISR (Milan, April 2021)

Visiting

• BETA (Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée) from April to June 2025 at the Université de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France)

• GATE (Groupe d'analyse et de théorie economique Lyon St-Etienne) from June 2023 to July 2023 at the Université Jean Monnet
  (Saint-Etienne, France) 

• CEVIPOL (Centre d'études de la vie politique) from September 2021 to September 2022 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
  (Bruxelles, Belgium) 

Speaker

• APSA (Vancouver, September 2025). Elite Cues, Intergroup Contact, and the Politics of Inclusion: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

• University of Cambridge (UK, July 2025). Fostering Acceptance of Skilled Migrants in the GCC: Insights from the UAE

• University of Vienna (Remote, September 2024). Status Quo Tendencies or Status Quo Bias? Older Italian Voters Prefer Alternative Voting Methods to Their Current System

• Paris School of Economics (France, July 2024). Political Orientation and Supporting the Status Quo

• University of Southampton (UK, June 2024). Status Quo Tendencies or Status Quo Bias?
  Older Italian Voters Prefer Alternative Voting Methods to Their Current System

• University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, September 2023). The Justification for Nudging: Two Types of Paternalism Within Political Liberalism

• Prague University of Economics and Business (Czech Republic, May 2023). Alternative Voting Methods and Nudge Theory: Can a Change be Justified as a 'Nudge'?

• Strasbourg Summer School (France, August 2022). Nudge Theory and Alternative Voting Methods

• 12th Braga Meetings (Portugal, June 2022). The Definition and Justification of Nudging

• Società Italiana di Neuroetica - SINe (Online, May 2022). The Definition and Justification of Nudging

• Manchester Center for Political Theory -MANCEPT (Online, September 2021). Grounding Rawls' Political Liberalism on Mill's Harm Principle: Toward Wider Political Inclusion?

• Manchester Center for Political Theory - MANCEPT (Online, September 2021). Nudge and Electoral Systems: A Reform Proposal to Better Represent the Real Intentions of Voters

Chair

• European Survey Research Association - ESRA23 (Milan, July 2023). Political Polarization, Voting, and Turnout: Insights from Survey Research

• UNISR (Milan, May 2023). Democracy and Ethics of Voting