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dIrEctor
Stefano Bartolini has directed the RSCAS since September 2006. He has taught at the University
of Bologna (1976 and 2004), the European University Institute (1979 and 1994), the University
of Florence (1985), the University of Trieste (1990), and the University of Geneva (1991). He was
awarded the UNESCO Stein Rokkan Prize for the Social Sciences in 1990 and the Gregory Luebbert
APSA Prize in Comparative Politics in 2001. His research interests have focused on Western
European political development, comparative methodology, political institutions and European
integration. His most recent books include The Class Cleavage. The Electoral Mobilisation of the
European Left 1880–1980 (Cambridge, 2000); Maggioritario finalmente? La transizione elettorale
1994–2001 (Bologna, 2002) and Restructuring Europe. Centre Formation, System Building and Political
Structuring between European Integration and the Nation State (Oxford, 2005).
FAculty
Jean Blondel, professor emeritus at the EUI, won the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science 2004.
He became professor of political science at the EUI in 1985 and was an external professor from
1994 to 2000. He set up the Department of Government at the University of Essex in 1964 and
co-founded the European Consortium of Political Research. His field is comparative politics. He
was recently awarded honoris causa doctorates from the University of Macerata (2007) and the
University of Siena (2008).
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