Michele is a Research Associate/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Previously, he worked as Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Michele obtained his PhD in Political Science from the King’s College London, and holds a BA in Political Science and MAs in Management of Public Administrations and European Affairs.

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Michele is particularly interested in public support for European integration and the responsiveness of non-majoritarian institutions and of the EU policy-making process. His current project is about decision-making in the European Council. 

Research interests

• European Union
• Public opinion
• Non-majoritarian institutions
• European Council
• Quantitative text analysis

Latest publications

Koop C. & Scotto di Vettimo, M. (2024). Non-majoritarian institutions, media coverage, and ‘reinforced accountability’. Governance, 37(2), 599–617.

Devine, D., Valgarðsson, V., Smith, J., Jennings, W., Scotto di Vettimo, M., Bunting, H., & McKay, L. (2024), Political trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis of 67 studies. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(3): 657–679.

Koop, C. & Scotto di Vettimo, M. (2023), Do the media scrutinise central banking? Evidence from the Bank of England. European Journal of Political Economy, 77, 102296.

Scotto di Vettimo, M. (2022), Measuring public support for European integration using a Bayesian IRT model. European Union Politics, 23(2): 171–191.