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Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot (Sciences Po Bordeaux)
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Edited by Donatella Campus and
Gianfranco Pasquino
Campus and Pasquino 2009
First published by the ECPR Press in 2009
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The Contributors
IAN BUDGE is Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, where he founded the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis in 1968. He has been President of the European Consortium in Political Research between 197983. Among his recent publications, (with Klingemann et al.), Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electorates and Governments 19451998 (2001), Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate (with Michael D. McDonald) (2005); The New British Politics (Ian Budge, David McKay, Kenneth Newton and John Bartle) (2007).
DONATELLA CAMPUS is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. She is the author of Lelettore pigro. Informazione politica e scelte di voto (Mulino, 2000); Lantipolitica al governo (Mulino, 2006); Comunicazione Politica: Le nuove Frontiere (2008).
HANS DAALDER is Professor Emeritus at the University of Leiden. He has been one of the founders of the European Consortium of Political Research, of which he has been President between 1976 to 1979. Recently he edited Comparative European Politics. The Story of a Profession (1997; new paperback edition 1999).
DOMENICO FISICHELLA is a former Professor of Political Science at the University La Sapienza of Rome. He served in the Italian Senate (19942008) where has been Deputy Speaker for ten years. He was Minister of Cultural Affairs. Among his publications, Istituzioni politiche. Struttura e pensiero (1999); Denaro e democrazia. Dallantica Grecia alleconomia globale (2000); Politica e mutamento sociale (2002); Elezioni e democrazia. Unanalisi comparata (2003).
GIORGIO FREDDI is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bologna. He has been President of the European Consortium of Political Research. Among his publications, Lanalisi comparata di sistemi burocratici pubblici (1968); Tensioni e conflitto nella magistratura (1978); Controlling Medical Professionals. The Comparative Politics of Health Governance (1989); Scienza dellamministrazione e politiche pubbliche (1989).
DIETER FUCHS is Professor of Political Science at the University of Stuttgart. Among his recent publications, Citizens and the State (con Hans-Dieter Klinge-mann) (1995); The Democratic Culture of Unified Germany, in Pippa Norris (ed.), Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Government (1999); Participa-tory Democracy and Political Participation. Can participatory engineering bring citizens back in? (with Thomas Zittel) (2006). Eurosceptisism. Images of Europe among Mass Publics and Political Elites (with Raul Magni-Berton and Antoine Roger) (2008).
HANS-DIETER KLINGEMANN is Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin. Among his recent publications: Public Information Campaigns (con A. Roemmele) (Sage Publications, 2001); Mapping Policy Preferences (con I. Budge et al) (Oxford University Press, 2001); Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, eds. 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior (2009); The comparative Study of Electoral Systems (2009).
URSULA HOFFMANN-LANGE is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bamberg. Among her publications Social and Political Structures in West Germany. From Authori tarianism to Postindustrial Democracy