Simone Paci

Research

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Published

  • With Great Powers: A Practical Guide to Agentic AI for Social Science Research
    Simone Paci . Notes on the Future of Quantitative Social Science (R. Alexander, ed.; CRC Press), 2026. [Link] [More →]
    Forthcoming AIResearch Methodology
  • Is Research Safe in the AI Revolution? LLMs Fall Short of Expert Benchmarks in Scientific Evidence Evaluation
    Simone Paci . Chinese Political Science Review, 2026. [Link]
    Published AIResearch Methodology
  • Applications of GPT in Political Science Research
    Simone Paci, Kyuwon Lee, Jeongmin Park, Hye Young You, and Sylvan Zheng . PS: Political Science, 2025. [Link]
    Published AIResearch Methodology
  • Filling the Tax Gap: How Private Donations Compensate A Faltering Fiscal Contract
    Simone Paci . American Journal of Political Science, 2025. [Link]
    Published Taxation
  • Status-Seeking and Nation-Building: The "Piedmont Principle" Revisited
    Simone Paci, Nicholas Sambanis, and William C. Wohlforth . Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2020. [Link]
    Published Historical Political Science

Working Paper

  • Emancipation or Protection? The Public Policy Effects of Patriarchy
    Simone Paci, Beatrice Montano, and Chiara Superti [Link] [More →]
    Under Review Gender
  • Tax Thy Neighbor: How Italian Mayors Increase Taxation in their Hometowns
    Simone Paci [Link] [More →]
    Under Review Taxation
  • Demand and Fear: When do female emancipation shocks persist?
    Simone Paci, Beatrice Montano, and Chiara Superti [Link] [More →]
    Working Paper Gender
  • Global Government GenAI Observatory (G3O): A Database of AI Adoption by 700,000 Public Institutions
    Simone Paci, Nathan Feldman, and Lowry Pressly [Link] [Website] [More →]
    Working Paper AI
  • Transitional Justice and Taxation in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Simone Paci and Monika Nalepa . UNU-WIDER Working Paper. [Link] [More →]
    Working Paper TaxationHistorical Political Science

In Progress

  • Data Centers and the Emerging Contentious Politics of AI
    Simone Paci and Emily Russell [More →]
    In Progress AI
  • Taxation at the Edge of Morality: A Statewide RCT on California Tobacco Excise Enforcement
    Simone Paci and Julian Gerez [Link] [More →]
    In Progress Taxation
  • To Privatize or to Centralize? An Empirical Analysis of Subnational Tax Collection Strategies
    Simone Paci, Giacomo Marcolin, and Silvia Vannutelli [More →]
    In Progress Taxation
  • Transitional Justice and Trust in Institutions
    Simone Paci and Monika Nalepa [More →]
    In Progress Other

Dormant

  • (A)Voiding the Fiscal Contract: How Tax Noncompliance by the Rich Constrains Redistribution
    Simone Paci [More →]
    Dormant Taxation
  • For Whom the Bell Tolled: Political Engagement, Taxes, and Welfare in Post-WWI Italy
    Simone Paci [More →]
    Dormant TaxationHistorical Political Science