Stefano Bartolini
Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Stefano.Bartolini@eui.eu
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 - 792 / 796
Fax [+39] 055 4285 730
Secretary: Sarah Beck
Office: Convento, SD018 1st floor
Stefano Bartolini was born in 1952 and graduated in political science from the University of Florence.
He has been assistant professor at the University of Bologna (1976) and at the European University Institute (1979), associate professor at the University of Florence (1985), full professor at the University of Trieste (1990), the University of Geneva (1991), the European University Institute (1994) and the University of Bologna (2004).
He is a member of the editorial board of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, and a member of the scientific board of West European Politics, Swiss Review of Political Science, Acta Politica, Electoral Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Comparative Political Studies.
He has been awarded the best book prize of the European Politics section of the APSA (2002), the Gregory Luebbert APSA Prize in Comparative Politics (2001), and the UNESCO Stein Rokkan prize for the Social Sciences (1990).
His present academic interests are the relationships between the process of European integration and the key features of the European nation-state experience.
His research interests have focused on Western European political development, comparative methodology, political institutions and European integration.
Stefano Bartolini's most recent contributions to books are: New Modes of European Governance: An Introduction in the book New Modes of Governance in Europe: Governing in the Shadow of Hierarchy, edited by Adrienne Héritier and Martin Rhodes (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Taking 'Constitutionalism and 'Legitimacy' Seriously in the book EU Federalism and Constitutionalism: The Legacy of Altiero Spinelli edited by Andrew Glencross and Alexander H. Trechsel (Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 2010).
His most recent books are: a new edition of Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates, 1885-1985 co-authored with Peter Mair (Colchester, ECPR, 2007), Restructuring Europe: centre formation, system building and political structuring between the nation state and European integration (Oxford, OUP, 2005), Maggioritario finalmente? La transizione elettorale 1994-200 (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002), and The Class Cleavage; The Electoral Mobilisation of the European Left 1860-1980 (Cambridge, CUP, 2000).
He has published research on French and Italian politics, presidentialism and institutional reform, political parties, and European electoral history and electoral behaviour.