Project-based continuous collaboration contract (Contratto di collaborazione a progetto, or Co.co.pro.) is a non-standard form of employment contract established in Italy in 2003 that gradually replaced the earlier coordinated and continuous collaboration contract (Contratto di collaborazione...

We present an exploratory machine learning analysis of populist votes at municipality level in the 2018 Italian general elections, in which populist parties gained almost 50% of the votes. Starting from a comprehensive set of local characteristics, we use an algorithm based on BIC to obtain a...