Maurizio Cotta
Professor of Political Science
Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences
University of Siena
Via Mattioli, 10 – 53100 SIENA (Italy)
Phone: +39 0577 233586
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)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Perspectives on National Elites on European Citizenship. A South European View (with N. Conti and P. Tavares de Almeida, London 2011), Il sistema politico italiano (Il Mulino 2008), Scienza Politica (Il Mulino 2008), Democracia, partidos e Elites Politicas (Lisbona, 2008), Political Institutions of Italy (with L. Verzichelli, Oxford University Press 2007), Democratic representation in Europe (Oxford University Press 2007), L'Europa in Italia (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005). 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).
Articles and chapters in collective books
Citizenship in the European polity: questions and explorations (con P. Isernia) in C. Moury & L. de Sousa (eds.), Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe. Governing Change, London, Routledge 2009, pp. 71-94; Europe à la carte. European citizenship and its dimensions from the perspective point of national elites, (with F. Russo) in H. Best, G. Lengyel and L. Verzichelli (eds.), The Europe of Elites. A Study into the Europeanness of Europe’s Political and Economic Elites, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 14-42.
Domestic Elites in the Trasformation of the "European Polity": the Case of Italy in “Comparative Social Research” vol 23 (2006), F. Engelstad and T. Gulbrandsen (eds.) Comparative Studies of Social and Political Elites, pp. 137-170; European Citizenship and the National Elites of Southern Europe (coauthored with N. Conti and P. Tavares de Almeida) in “South European Society and Politics” (2010) Vol.15, 1 – 10; Southern Europe a Distinctive and More Pro-European Region in the EU ? (coauthored with N. Conti and P. Tavares de Almeida) in “South European Society and Politics” (2010) Vol.15, 121 – 142; Sloznaya monogosostavnaya model grazdanctva ? ievropeiskoie grazdanstvo v glasach nazionalnich elit (Un modello composito di cittadinanza. La cittadinanza europea nelle visioni delle elites nazionali) in “Sravitelnaya politika (politica comparata)” (2010), Vol.1, 209 – 224; Political Elites and a Polity in the Making: The Case of the EU. In “Historical Social Research”, (2012) vol. 37 , pp. 167-192.
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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.
Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences
University of Siena
Via Mattioli, 10 – 53100 SIENA (Italy)
Phone: +39 0577 233586
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)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Perspectives on National Elites on European Citizenship. A South European View (with N. Conti and P. Tavares de Almeida, London 2011), Il sistema politico italiano (Il Mulino 2008), Scienza Politica (Il Mulino 2008), Democracia, partidos e Elites Politicas (Lisbona, 2008), Political Institutions of Italy (with L. Verzichelli, Oxford University Press 2007), Democratic representation in Europe (Oxford University Press 2007), L'Europa in Italia (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005). 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).
Articles and chapters in collective books
Citizenship in the European polity: questions and explorations (con P. Isernia) in C. Moury & L. de Sousa (eds.), Institutional Challenges in Post-Constitutional Europe. Governing Change, London, Routledge 2009, pp. 71-94; Europe à la carte. European citizenship and its dimensions from the perspective point of national elites, (with F. Russo) in H. Best, G. Lengyel and L. Verzichelli (eds.), The Europe of Elites. A Study into the Europeanness of Europe’s Political and Economic Elites, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 14-42.
Domestic Elites in the Trasformation of the "European Polity": the Case of Italy in “Comparative Social Research” vol 23 (2006), F. Engelstad and T. Gulbrandsen (eds.) Comparative Studies of Social and Political Elites, pp. 137-170; European Citizenship and the National Elites of Southern Europe (coauthored with N. Conti and P. Tavares de Almeida) in “South European Society and Politics” (2010) Vol.15, 1 – 10; Southern Europe a Distinctive and More Pro-European Region in the EU ? (coauthored with N. Conti and P. Tavares de Almeida) in “South European Society and Politics” (2010) Vol.15, 121 – 142; Sloznaya monogosostavnaya model grazdanctva ? ievropeiskoie grazdanstvo v glasach nazionalnich elit (Un modello composito di cittadinanza. La cittadinanza europea nelle visioni delle elites nazionali) in “Sravitelnaya politika (politica comparata)” (2010), Vol.1, 209 – 224; Political Elites and a Polity in the Making: The Case of the EU. In “Historical Social Research”, (2012) vol. 37 , pp. 167-192.
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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.
