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Maurizio Cotta

Professor of Political Science
Department of History, Law, Political and Social Science
Faculty of Political Science – University of Siena
Via Mattioli, 10 – 53100 SIENA (Italy)

Phone: +39 0577 235286
Fax: +39 0577 235292
E-mail: cotta@unisi.it

SHORT CV – is currently professor of political science in the University of Siena and Director of the PhD programme in Comparative and European Politics and of the Master programme “Politics in Europe”. – Visiting professor University of Texas at Austin (1989-90): Sciences Politiques Paris (December 1992-January1993) and European University Institute of Fiesole (1992-1993); Norwegian School of Management (January1994/5/6) visiting research fellow Yale University (1980-1981) and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (Fall 2000). – Formerly member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (1994-2000). Chairman of the Italian Political Science Association (2001-..) – His main research interests are in the field of the comparative study of political elites and political institutions and of Italian politics. He is currently working on a research on the Europeanisation of Italian politics. He is co-director with H. Berst (University of Jena) of the European Science Foundation Network “EURELITE – European Political Elites in Comparison: The Long Road to Convergence)

PUBBLICATIONS
Books – Scienza politica (coauthored with D. della Porta and L. Morlino), Bologna, Il Mulino 2001. – The Nature of Party Government (co-editor with J, Blondel), London, Palgrave, 2000. – Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000. Legislative Recruitment and careers in Eleven European Countries. (co-editor with H. Best), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. – Parliament and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe (coeditor with U. Liebert), London, Pinter, 1990. – Party and Government. An Inquiry into the Relationship between Governments and Supporting parties in Liberal Democracies (co-editor with J. Blondel), London Macmillan 1996.
-Il gigante dai piedi di argilla. Il governo di partito e la sua crisi nell’Italia degli anni novanta (co-editor with P. Isernia), Bologna, Il Mulino 1996. – Classe politica e parlamento in Italia: 1946-1976, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1979, pp.376.

Articles and chapters in collective books – Defining Party and Government, in J. Blondel and M. Cotta (eds.), 2000. – Conclusion. From the Simple World of party Government to a more complex view of party-government relationships, in J. Blondel and M. Cotta 2000. – Elite Transformation and Modes of Representation since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Some Theoretical Considerations (coauthored with H. Best), in H. Best and M. Cotta (eds.), 2000. – Between Professionalisation and Democratisation: A Synoptic View on the Making of the
European Representative (coauthored with H. Best), in H. Best and M. Cotta (eds.) 2000.
-Parliamentary Elite transformations along the Discontinuous Road of Democratisation: Italy 1861-1999 (coauthored with A. Mastropaolo and L. Verzichelli), in H. Best and M. Cotta (eds.), 2000. – The Political Dynamics of European Change, in H.Peeter and M. Tonveronachi (eds), Europe in Transition, Tilburg University Press 1997 pp. 16-29. – Znovu o reprezentaci: teorie a empire, in “Politologicka revue” 2, 1997, pp. 66-86. – Italien: Von “beschränkten” Koalitionen zu alternierenden Regierungen?, (with L. Verzichelli) in W.Müller and K.Strøm (eds), Koalitions-regierungen in Westeuropa, Wien, 1997. pp.547-625. – Coalitions, Alliances, Fusions and Party Splits during the Transition and Post-Transition Stages, in G. Pridham and P. Lewis (eds.), Stabilising Fragile Democracies. New Party Systems in Southern and Eastern Europe, London Routledge 1995. – Building Party Systems after the Dictatorship: the East European Cases in a Comparative Perspective, in G. Pridham and T. Vanhanen (eds.), Democratization in Eastern Europe. Domestic and international perspectives, London, Routledge 1994, pp. 99-127. – The Rise and Fall of the ‘Centrality’ of the Italian Parliament. Transformations of the Executive-Legislative Subsystem after the Second World War, in G. Copeland and S. Patterson (eds.), Parliaments in the Modern World, Changing Institutions, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press 1994, pp. 59-84. – Elite Unification and Democratic Consolidation in Italy: an Historical Overview in J. Higley and R. Gunther (eds.) Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. – European Integration and the Italian Political System, in F. Francioni (ed.), Italy and EC Membership Evaluated. London, Pinter 1992.