GIANFRANCO PASQUINO (b. 9 April 1942), Italian

Address : Viale Silvani, 15, 40122 Bologna, Italy

home phone number 051-520764

Bologna Center Fax number 051-222896

E-mail gianfranco.pasquino@fastwebnet.it

Academic Career

1969-1973 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna ;
1973-1975 Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna and Associate Professor of Theory of Political Development, University of Florence
1975-- Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna
1981-- Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University

Past teaching appointments

1980, 1981, 1983, 1985 : Harvard Summer School
1982--83, Fall Term ; 1993-94, Spring Term : School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C.
1995-96, Fall Term ; 1996-97, Spring Term ; 1997-1998 Spring Term: College of Europe, Natolin Campus, Warsaw
1998 Spring Quarter, Visiting Professor University of California, Los Angeles,
1974-75, Fall Term : Lauro de Bosis Lecturer in the History of the Italian Civilization, Department of Government, Harvard University
1978-79, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
1999 Fall Term, Visiting Scholar, Instituto Juan March, Madrid.
2001 Spring Term, Fellow Christchurch College, Oxford

Courses taught : Comparative Politics of Western Europe ; Comparative Politics of Southern Europe ; Political Transitions and Democratization ; Eurocommunism ; Contemporary Italian Politics ; Political Development ; Terrorist Movements ; The Political Role of the Military ; The Politics of East Central Europe ; The European Union

1968-- Member, American Political Science Association
1979-81, President, Conference Group on Italian Politics
1983, Head of the Department of Politics, University of Bologna

Honors

1996 Honorary degree in Political Science, University of Buenos Aires
1971 Among the Founders of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. Managing editor from 1971 to 1977
1980-1983 Editor of the bimonthly journal Il Mulino
1987-co-editor of the quarterly Polis. Studi e ricerche su società e politica in Italia
Member of the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Political Research (1973-1998), Comparative Political Studies, Teoria Politica, Journal of Modern Italian Studies

Recent Publications

Author

Istituzioni, partiti, lobbies (1988)
Opposizione, governo-ombra, alternativa (1990)
La nuova politica (1992)
L'opposizione (1995, Spanish translation Alianza Editorial 1998)
Mandato popolare e governo (1995)
Lo Stato federale (1996)
La democrazia esigente (1997, Spanish translation Fondo de Cultura Economica 1999)
1945-1995 La politica in Italia (1997)
Corso di scienza politica (1997)
La classe politica (1999, Spanish translation, Acento Editorial, 2000)
Capire l'Europa (1999)
La transizione a parole (2000)
Il sistema politico italiano (Bononia University Press, 2002)
Sistemi politici comparati (Bononia University Press, 2004, tradotto in spagnolo e in portoghese)
Nuovo corso di scienza politica (Il Mulino, 2004)

Co-author

Euroministri. Il governo dell'Europa (1994)
Semi-presidenzialismo. Analisi delle esperienze europee (1996)
(con Donatella Campus) USA: elezioni e sistema politico (Bononia University Press, 2003)

Editor

Le società complesse (1983)
Manuale di scienza della politica (1986, Spanish translation Alianza Editorial 1988)
L'alternanza inattesa. Le elezioni del 27 marzo 1994 e le loro conseguenze politiche (1995)
La politica italiana, 1945-1995 (1995)
Il pensiero politico. Idee Teorie Dottrine. Ottocento e Novecento (1999)

Co-editor

Dizionario di Politica (1976, 1983, 1990 ; Spanish and Portuguese translations)
Italian Politics. Volume 7 (Pinter, 1992)
The End of Post-war Politics in Italy (Westview, 1993)
Italian Politics. Volume 8 (Pinter, 1993)
Ending the First Republic (Westview, 1995)
(con Donatella Campus) Maestri della scienza politica (Il Mulino, 2004)

Selected chapters in books in English
-"The Impact of Institutions on Party Government : Tentative Hypotheses", in F.G. Castles and R. Wildenmann, eds., Visions and Realities of Party Government (Berlin-New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1986), pp. 120-142
-"Party Government in Italy : Achievements and Prospects", in R.S. Katz, ed., Party Governments : European and American Experiences (Berlin-New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1986), pp. 202-242
-"Mid-stream and under Stress : the Italian Communist Party", in M. Waller and M. Fennema, eds., Communist Parties in Western Europe : Decline or Adaptation ? (Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1988), pp. 26-46
-"Programmatic Renewal and Much More : from the PCI to the PDS", in R. Gillespie and W.E. Paterson, eds., Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe (London : Frank Cass, 1993), pp. 156-173
-"Executive-Legislative Relations in Southern Europe", in R. Gunther, P. N. Diamandouros, and H.-J. Puhle, eds., The Politics of Democratic Consolidation. Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective (Baltimore-London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 261-283
-"Italy. A democratic regime under reform", in Josep M. Colomer, ed., Political Institutions in Europe (London : Routledge, 1996 ; Spanish version, Editorial Ariel : Barcelona, 1996), pp. 138-169
-"No Longer a 'Party State' ? Institutions, Power and the Problems of Italian Reform", in M. Bull and M. Rhodes (eds.), Crisis and Transition in Italian Politics, London : Frank Cass., 1997, pp. 34-53.

Elected to the Italian Senate in 1983;
re-elected in 1987;
re-elected from 1994 to 1996.
Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
In 1988 and in 1989, Parliamentary Observer for the plebiscite and the Presidential elections in Chile.
Editorial writer for the dailies Il Sole-24 Ore and l'Unità.
Contributor to La Rivista dei Libri.


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