Andrea Vindigni is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at the Institute of International Economic (IIES) at Stockholm University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toulouse, and has been a post-doctoral fellow at MIT. His research interests focus on the political economy of a broad class of institutions. In particular, he has written on the political determinants of job protection legislation, on the political economy of democratic constitutional choice, on the effects of wars on political institutions and democratic transitions, and more recently on the political and economic origins of state power and of military dictatorships.
Articles
WARFARE, TAXATION, AND POLITICAL CHANGE: EVIDENCE FROM THE ITALIAN RISORGIMENTO (with Mark Dincecco and Giovanni Federico), Journal of Economic History (2011)
We examine the relationships between warfare, taxation, and political change in the context of the...
Persistence of Civil Wars (with Daron Acemoglu and Davide Ticchi), Journal of the European Economic Association (2010)
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration....
Endogenous Constitutions (with Davide Ticchi), Economic Journal (2010)
We present a theory of the choice of alternative democratic constitutions, a majoritarian or a...
A Theory of Military Dictatorships (with Daron Acemoglu and Davide Ticchi), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (2010)
We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the...
Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States (with Daron Acemoglu and Davide Ticchi), Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming (2010)
We present a theory of the emergence and persistence of inefficient states based on patronage...
Unpublished Papers
Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3509, May 2008. (2008)
This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the...
War and Endogenous Democracy (with Davide Ticchi), IZA Discussion Paper No. 3397, March 2008. (2008)
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century...
On Wars and Political Development. The Role of International Conflicts in the Democratization of the West (with Davide Ticchi), Princeton University, Research Program in Political Economy, Working Paper, 2006. (2006)
The revised version of this paper has a new title: "War and Endogenous Democracy"