Stefano Bartolini (born January 22, 1952) is an Italian

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

and professor at

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality, established by its founding member states to contribu ...

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, Italy. He is the author of many books and publications.

Activities

Bartolini is the editor of the Italian political science journal, ''Italian Political Science Review''. Bartolini's research in political science includes research on electoral changes in Europe during the 1980s, which found that gains and losses at the party level did not translate into large changes at the bloc level. In terms of aggregate scores, the gains of parties within a bloc, whether left-wing or right-wing, were offset by the losses of other parties within the same bloc. According to Bartolini, the integration of Europe reverses the centuries-long process of national boundary construction. This provides "exit options" for individuals who had previously been bounded to their nation of birth.

Awards

In 1990, Bartolini was honored with the

Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research Stein may refer to: Places Austria * Stein, a neighbourhood of Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria * Stein, Styria, a municipality in the district of Fürstenfeld, Styria * Stein (Lassing), a village in the district of Liezen, Styria * Stein ...

for his work ''Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability: the Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985'' (coauthored with

Peter Mair Peter Mair (3 March 1951 – 15 August 2011) was an Irish political scientist. He was a professor of comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. Career Peter Mair was born in Rosses Point, County Sligo, Ireland, an ...

). In 2001, Bartolini received the Gregory Luebbert Award for best book in Comparative Politics (for ''The Class Cleavage'', 2000).

Publications

Books

*1978. ''Progetto per l'Europa'', S. Bartolini et al, Torino, EDA. *1981. ''Riforma Istituzionale e sistema politico''. La Francia Gollista, Bologna, Il Mulino. *1984. ''Party Politics in Contemporary Europe'' (co-edited with P. Mair), London, Frank Cass. *1986. ''Manuale di Scienza Politica'', Bologna, Il Mulino, (with M. Cotta, L. Morlino, A. Panebianco et G. Pasquino) (Spanish edition: Manual de ciencia política, Madrid, Alianza Universidad Textos, 1991). *1990. ''Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability. The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985'', (with P. Mair) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. *1995. ''Maggioritario ma non troppo. Le elezioni politiche del 1994'', (co-edited with R. D'Alimonte), Bologna, Il Mulino. *1997. ''Maggioritario per caso. Le elezioni politiche del 1996'', (co-edited with R. D'Alimonte), Bologna, Il Mulino. *1998. ''Party and Party Systems. A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature on Parties and Party Systemns in Europe since 1945'', (with S. Hug and D. Caramani), London, Sage Publications, 708 pp. *2000. ''The Class Cleavage. The Electoral Mobilisation of the European Left 1880-1980'', Cambridge (Mass.), Cambridge University Press.

References

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