Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor
Assistant Professor

Lucio Baccaro is in the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) group at MIT Sloan. His research focuses on how internal decision-making processes within associations (trade unions) affect collective choices, on deliberation as a coordination mechanism, and on participatory governance institutions involving state bureaucracies, the traditional social partners (labor and capital), and non-governmental organizations. He has conducted field research in Italy, Ireland, South Africa, and South Korea. Professor Baccaro is also developing a project trying to understand the determinants of multinational companies' responses to civil society activism. Prior to joining the faculty at MIT Sloan, he spent several years at the International Labour Organization in Geneva.

Professor Baccaro’s publications include "Institutional Determinants of Unemployment in OECD Countries: Does the Deregulatory View Hold Water?" (with Diego Rei), forthcoming in International Organization; "Centralized Wage Bargaining and the 'Celtic Tiger' Phenomenon" (with Marco Simoni), forthcoming in Industrial Relations; "Social Pacts as Coalitions of the Weak and Moderate: Ireland, Italy, and South Korea in Comparative Perspective" (with Sang-Hoon Lim), forthcoming in the European Journal of Industrial Relations; "Civil Society Meets the State: Towards Associational Democracy?" SocioEconomic Review, April 2006; "What is Alive and What is Dead in the Theory of Corporatism," British Journal of Industrial Relations, 41(4), Dec. 2003; "The Construction of 'Democratic' Corporatism in Italy," Politics & Society, 30(2), June 2002; "'Aggregative' and 'Deliberative' Decision-Making Procedures: A Comparison of Two Southern Italian Factories," Politics and Society, 29(2), June 2001; and "Centralized Collective Bargaining and the Problem of 'Compliance': Lessons from the Italian Experience," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 53, No. 4 (July 2000).