 Delia
Baldassarri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Office of Population Research and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. She holds a Ph.D in Sociology from Columbia University, and a BA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Trento.Delia Baldassarri's research interests are in social networks, social capital, cooperation and collective action, social and political inequality, public opinion and political decision-making, and organizational behavior. Her current research projects include a study of the role of social and spatial networks in economic development in Uganda; a research on inequality in political representation thay looks and interest groups, Congressional activity, and trends in American public opinion; and a formal analysis of social networks, group formation, and interpersonal influence. She is author of a book on cognitive heuristics and political decision-making (The Simple Art of Voting), and has written articles on formal models of collective action, social and organizational networks, political networks and interpersonal influence, political polarization, public opinion and voting behavior. |