Biography

Stefano Bartolini was born in 1952 and graduated in Political Science from the University of Florence. From 2006 to 2013 he was Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.

Previous to his directorship, he was 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).

Recent research output

• BARTOLINI, Stefano (2023), Cleavages and divides in voting and political theory, Contribution to book
• BARTOLINI, Stefano (2022), Rule-making rules : an analytical framework for political institutions, Book
• BARTOLINI, Stefano (ed/s), POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; MARCEGAGLIA, Emma; MILIBAND, David; WEILER, Joseph H. H. (2013), Institutions and democratic governance, Other
• BARTOLINI, Stefano (2013), Introduction [by Richard Portes, director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS)], Video
• BARDI, Luciano; KATZ, Richard (2019), The future of party democracy : cartel parties and their challengers at the European level – a panel in honour of Professor Peter Mair, Video
• BARTOLINI, Stefano (2016), I rischi del 'pan-istituzionalismo', Contribution to book