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Gianfranco Pasquino
Senior Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies
About
Gianfranco Pasquino is Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Bologna. Pasquino was Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna from 1969-2012. He was a member of the Italian Senate from 1983-1992 and from 1994-1996. He served as a parliamentary observer for the plebiscite (1988) and presidential elections (1989) in Chile. He has been awarded five honorary degrees in Political Science, and is a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Pasquino has also been Fellow of Christchurch and St Antony’s at Oxford. For several years he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Enciclopedia Italiana and President of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (2010-2013). Since 2005 he is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He received the Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society (CONGRIPS) Life Achievement Award (2016). You can follow him here: https://gianfrancopasquino.com/ or on twitter @GP_ArieteRosso. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals, policy forums and news outlets. Pasquino is often invited to participate in TV talk shows. Pasquino is very proud of his MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS (1967).
- Libertà Inutile: Profilo Ideologico dell'Italia Repubblicana, UTET (2021)
- Italian Democracy: How it Works, Routledge (2020)
- Minima Politica: Sei Lezioni di Democrazia, UTET (2020)
- Deficit Democratici: Cosa Manca ai Sistemi Politici alle Istituzioni e ai Leader, Università Bocconi (2018)
- L'Europa in Trenta Lezioni, UTET (2017)
- La Costituzione in trenta lezioni, UTET (2016)
- Dizionario di Politica, with N. Bobbio and N. Matteucci (editors), UTET (2016) Spanish and Portuguese translations also available
- The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics, E. Jones and G. Pasquino (editors), Oxford University Press (2015)
- A Changing Republic: Politics and Democracy in Italy, with M. Valbruzzi (authors), Epoké (2015)
- Cittadini senza scettro, Università Bocconi Editore (2015)
- La Repubblica di Sartori, editor, in Paradoxa 8:1 (2014)
- Italy: Partito Democratico, in The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union, J. de Waele, F. Escalona, M. Vieira (editors), Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
- For a Fistful of Votes: the 2006 Italian Elections, J. Frosini and G. Pasquino (authors), CLUEB (2006)
In the News
Italy government totters ahead of €200bn EU COVID relief.
Gianfranco Pasquino wrote in EUObserver, 01/15
First elections since coronavirus test Italian government stability.
Gianfranco Pasquino quoted in Reuters, 9/9
Beyond Salvini: The rise of Eurosceptic Giorgia Meloni.
Gianfranco Pasquino quoted in EUObserver, 9/8
Italy pulls out all the stops to tackle coronavirus outbreak.
Gianfranco Pasquino quoted in Global Times, 2/25
The ideal of western liberal democracy and real democracies.
Senior Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies Gianfranco Pasquino wrote in Chinese Political Science Review, 6/3