Stefano Bartolini

Stefano Bartolini

Stefano Bartolini (born January 22, 1952 in Italy ) is an Italian political scientist . He is a professor at the European University Institute , Florence.

Life

Stefano Bartolini graduated in political science from the University of Florence and worked at the University of Bologna in 1976. In 1979 he was a substitute professor at the European University Institute. Bartolini 1985 returned to the University of Florence in 1985. In 1990 he was professor at the University of Trieste , then in 1991 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Geneva.

Bartolini also conducted research at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . Until 2006, Stefano Bartolini was a professor at the University of Bologna and a part-time professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute of Florence. Today he holds the Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute , Florence.

Bartiolini is the editor of Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , an Italian political science journal, and is a member of the scientific editorial board. There he deals with European Western politics and election studies.

research

In his research, Bartolini focused on the European political development of the West and the comparative methodology. Bartolini wrote works on French and Italian politics, on presidentalism and thematized the Reformation of the position of institutions within the political process. Other focal points of research were political parties , European electoral history and voting behavior.

His current academic interests are the contemporary changes in political electoral competition and their underlying historical mobilization, the consequences for European unification, and the effects on domestic political development.

Explanations of the work

• Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability. The Stabilization of European Electorates, (1885-1985), 1990.

In this work Stefano Bartolini and other contributors ( Hans Daalder Larry , Giovanni Sartori , Ashutosh Varshney and others) describe the role of political actors in nations and states, because they represent the core of a democracy . But more and more people's trust, be it western or non-western states, is declining. Using a few examples, e.g. B. Countries like Turkey or India it becomes clear that the risk that democracy is endangered, the greater the less the people participate in the political process. Nevertheless, politicians are important as administrative forces or as an organizational body. Because only if politicians fulfill their comprehensive, responsible duties, see themselves as representatives of the people's will and are in contact with the people, which is no longer a problem in our media world, democratic elections are possible and the people can express their concerns indirectly through the ballot box, which then must or should be implemented by politicians in the electoral term. Popular sovereignty is an essential element of a functioning democracy. The elections are an important aspect here, Bartolini explains the importance of a balance and the strength relations of the parties and party camps of a party system over longer periods; d. that is, it makes a distinction between intrablock and interblock.

• Intrablock: change between the parties of a political-ideological camp (e.g. from the bourgeois camp to the socialist camp).
• Interblock: Comprehensive change of party camp (e.g. change between right and left).
• Center Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring Between the Nation State and the European Union, 2005.
• Center arrangement, system building and political structuring between the nation state and the European Union, 2005.

This work represents a new theory of European integration and reflects the historical development of Europe . Bartolini writes of the boundary definitions or shifts and their changes, which have the consequence that the state and the basic structures that have been known to us over the past 500 years slowly but surely change and possibly lead to an imbalance for the first time or, on the other hand, economic ones and cultural differences would thus be resolved.

Stefano Bartolini asks himself the following questions in his research:

• Is the EU an attempt at state order?
• Is it an attempt at the center formation with no nation building?
• Is it a process of centering without democratization ?

As a result, these theories and questions have to be revised terms that have to be redefined in this context in order to be able to better describe this topic of the “transformation process” in Europe.

Main objectives:

• A critical differentiation between domestic politics and international relations .
• Combine the situation, interests and motivations of the actors with small results.
• Relate structural characters with constantly changing work processes.

Teaching

Bartolini teaches on the following topics:

• Logic of Comparative Research
• Party / politics
• Key concepts in the social and political sciences
• comparative methodology
• Comparative research

Awards

In 1990 Bartolini was honored for his work and research in political science and was awarded the UNESCO Stein Rokkan Prize for the social sciences .

Publications

• Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability. The Stabilization of European Electorates, (1885-1985), 1990.
• On Time and Comparative Research, Journal of Theoretical Politics , 1993.
• Il voto maggioritario. Le origini elettorali del Parlamento diviso, Rivista italiana di Scienza Politica , 1994.
• Maggioritario ma non troppo, Bologna , 1995.
• Exit Option, Boundary Building, Political Structuring , 1998.

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