Campus, Pasquino and Bull 2011
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The Contributors
EUGENIA BARONCELLI is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna (Italy), where she teaches Politics of the World Economy, and has previously worked at the World Bank (Washington DC). She is the author of a book on the political roots of globalisation Alle radici della globalizzazione (2010). Her current research interests include the political economy of democratic transitions and EU-World Bank relations.
MARTIN BULL is Professor of Politics at the University of Salford and Academic Director of the European Consortium of Political Research. His research interests lie in comparative, Southern European and Italian politics, and his recent publications include, Italy A Contested Polity (2009), edited with Martin Rhodes.
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 (2000); Comunicazione politica: Le nuove frontiere (2008); Antipolitics in Power (2010). She is the editor (with G. Pasquino) of Masters of Political Science (2009). She has also published several articles on elections and political communication.
DANIELE CARAMANI is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He translated from English into Italian, Stein Rokkans State Formation, Nation-Building and Mass Democracy in Europe, edited by Peter Flora et al. (2002). For his book The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe (2004) he has been awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences. He has also authored the entry Rokkan, Stein for The Encyclopedia of Political Science.
ROBERT ELGIE is Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD from the London School of Economics. He is the author of Political Institutions in Contemporary France (2001) and is the co-editor, with Andrew Appleton, of the journal French Politics (Palgrave Macmillan). He has published extensively on the theme of semi-presidentialism, recently, Semi-Presidentialism: Sub-Types And Democratic Performance (2011), has written several articles in journals such as the Journal of Democracy and edited or co-edited four books on this subject.
JOCELYN EVANS is Professor of Politics at the University of Salford. He is the author of Voters and Voting (2004) and has recently edited, with Kai Arzheimer, Electoral Behavior (2008) in the Sage Library of Political Science, as well as authoring numerous articles on various aspects of voting and party competition in Northern Ireland, France and Europe. He is co-editor of Parliamentary Affairs, and series editor for Palgrave Macmillans French Politics, Society and Culture series. He is currently working on a series of forecast models for French and European elections, as well as a project on candidate profile effects on voter choice.
DANIELA GIANNETTI is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. Her research interests focus on rational choice theory of political behaviour and institutions. She recently co-edited two books: Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments (2009, with Kenneth Benoit) and A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform: Evaluating the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan