Costanzo Ranci is Full Professor of Economic Sociology at the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. He is also the director of LPS Social Policy research Lab established in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Polyetchnic of Milan. He is co.funder and co-chair of the Transforming Care international research network.
He has served as a consultant for the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Italian government, the Italian Social Security Institute, the Lombardy Region, and many other institutions. He was visiting scholar at the University of California – Berkeley, the Universitad Autonoma of Barcelona, the University of Lausanne, Harvard University, the University of Vienna. He has published several books and scientific articles on topics such as welfare, social vulnerability, and long-term care policies. His current research focuses on the following topics: middle-class insecurity, social investment policies, long-term care policies, school segregation and inequalities.
Recent publications:
2025 Research Handbook on Social Care Policy (edited with T. Rostgaard), Edward Elgar.
2024 “COVID-19 hits care homes: A cross-national study of mortality rates” (with Estévez-Abe, M.), Journal of European Social Policy, 34(5), 511-525.
2024 “Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context”. (with Parma, A., and Agasisti, T.). In British Educational Research Journal, 50(3), 1396-1419.
2023 “Trapped in a Blind Spot: The Covid-19 crisis in nursing homes in Italy and Spain” (with M León, M Arlotti, D Palomera), Social Policy and Society, 22 (3), 495-514
2023 Family and State Responsibility for Care for Older People (with Arlotti M. and E. Pavolini). In M. Daly, B. Pfau-Effinger, N. Gilbert, and J. D. Besharov (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over the
2022 “Urban Policy in Times of Crisis: The Policy Capacity of European Cities and the Role of Multi-Level Governance” (with R Cucca), Urban Affairs Review, 58 (6), 1493-1522
2022 “COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?” (with M Daly, M León, B Pfau-Effinger, T Rostgaard), Journal of European social policy 32 (1), 48-59
