Arturo Bertero

Arturo Bertero

Ph.D. Student in Political Science, University of Milan

Talks and presentations

Presentation of my PhD project

June 11, 2024

In July 2024, I have finally presented the final version of my PhD project to professors and research groups of various universities. First, I presented at the SPSTrend research group, in my home university. Second, I presented at Bicocca university, where I was invited by Giulio Costantini (thanks!). Finally, I held a seminair for Cristiano Vezzoni’s class on Social and Political Attitudes (MA DAPS & CO, UniMi). It is now time to present at INSNA Sunbelt, where I will try to squeeze all my research output into a 15 mins presentation. You can find the full-version of the slides here!

CCA Days: Conspiracy theories are central to the complex system of predictors of Italian vaccine hesitancy

April 02, 2023

In June 2023 I presented at the CCA Days, a workshop jointly organized by NASP and Collegio Carlo Alberto. I had the pleasure of presenting research on Italian vaccine hesitancy. The literature on the topic usually conceives hesitancy as a dependent variable of regression models of limited sizes, adopting a reductionist approach. To mitigate this limitation, I try to study hesitancy as an emergent phenomenon whose state depends on the intricate relationships occurring between its predictors. In the results, I show that this behavior is strongly influenced by a restricted list of variables that I label empirical predictors. This can help design effective intervention strategies. Slides are available here

ECPR Conference: Modelling, estimating, simulating (II) (Bertero and Franetovic)

April 02, 2023

As a political scientist, ECPR is very important to me! In Toulouse, I presented a refined version of the work “Modelling, estimating, simulating”, which me and Gonzalo originally presented at SISEC. We were in the fantastic panel “Network of Political Beliefs”, chaired by Lorien Jasny and Claudia Zucca. It was an incredible pleasure to receive expert feedback and get in contact with extraordinary researchers from all over the world. Slides are available here!

SISEC Conference: Modelling, estimating, simulating. Formalizing attitudes towards inequality as a complex network (Bertero and Franetovic)

February 06, 2023

At the beginning of 2023, we presented at the conference of the Italian Society of Economic Sociology (SISEC). We modeled attitudes toward inequality as a complex system. We further estimated structural differences in these attitudes across different social groups; Finally, we simulated attitudinal change to show how they are likely to develop over time. Here are the slides!

Chilean Social Network Conference (CHISOCNET): How do people understand inequality in Chile? (Franetovic and Bertero)

January 02, 2023

In January 2023 Gonzalo Franetovic and I were pleased to present at CHISOCNET. We adopted network analysis on attitudes toward inequality to investigate how people understand this complex socio-political phenomenon in Chile. Results show that these attitudes are part of a single belief system and that people from lower social status positions have a more multidimensional understanding of inequality. You can find the slides here.

1st ISSP User Conference on Social Inequality: Overcoming the structuralist/individualist dichotomy (Franetovic and Bertero)

December 12, 2022

In December 2022 Gonzalo Franetovic and I were pleased to present at the 1st ISSP User Conference on Social Inequality. We showed how Exploratory Graph Analysis can be leveraged to isolate at least three dimensions of inequality beliefs in the vast majority of the ISSP countries. This represents an important finding since most of the literature was anchored to the structuralist/individualist dichotomy. The pdf of the presentation can be found here.