Giovanni Sartori
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Giovanni Sartori is an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics
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in 1924. Sartori began his academic career as a lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy. He founded the first Political Science academic post in Italy, and was Dean of the newly formed University of Florence's Department of Political Science. Sartori served as Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University
from 1979 to 1994 and was later appointed Professor Emeritus.
He is a recipient of a Prince of Asturias Award (Social Sciences area, 2005). In 2009 was the recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), that honours a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research.
Sartori is a regular contributor, as op-ed writer, of the leading Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera
". His article "Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics" is prominent in the field, leading Gary Goertz to write, "[t]here are few articles in political science that deserve the predicate "classic," but Sartori's ... merits the label."
Comparative politics
Comparative politics is a subfield of political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method. Arend Lijphart argues that comparative politics does not have a substantive focus in itself, but rather a methodological one: it focuses on "the how but does not specify...
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Biography
Born in FlorenceFlorence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
in 1924. Sartori began his academic career as a lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy. He founded the first Political Science academic post in Italy, and was Dean of the newly formed University of Florence's Department of Political Science. Sartori served as Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
from 1979 to 1994 and was later appointed Professor Emeritus.
He is a recipient of a Prince of Asturias Award (Social Sciences area, 2005). In 2009 was the recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), that honours a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research.
Sartori is a regular contributor, as op-ed writer, of the leading Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera
Corriere della Sera
The Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper, published in Milan.It is among the oldest and most reputable Italian newspapers. Its main rivals are Rome's La Repubblica and Turin's La Stampa.- History :...
". His article "Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics" is prominent in the field, leading Gary Goertz to write, "[t]here are few articles in political science that deserve the predicate "classic," but Sartori's ... merits the label."
Selected publications
- Democrazia e Definizioni. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1957.
- Parties and Party Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
- The Theory of Democracy Revisited. Chatham, N.J: Chatham House, 1987.
- Comparative Constitutional Engineering. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.
- La Terra Scoppia (Italy, 2003. The title means "the Earth explodes").
- "Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics." The American Political Science Review 64 (4): 1033-1053.
Books on Sartori
Three books deal with the work of Sartori:- Concepts and Method in Social Sciences. The tradition of Giovanni Sartori. David Collier and John Gerring, editors, New York: Routledge, 2009. This book is devoted to the use of concepts according to Sartori, the comparative method and his work, and includes an autobiographical essay and some more personal notes written by some of his former students, like Cindy Skach.
- La Scienza Politica di Giovanni Sartori. Gianfranco Pasquino, editor, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005. The chapters of this book are celebration notes by Italian scholars (Domenico Fisichella, Angelo Panebianco) that have had some kind of collaboration with Sartori.
- Para Leer a Sartori. José Ramón López Rubí Calderón, editor, Mexico, 2009. This book is in Spanish, featuring articles by Gianfranco Pasquino and Dieter NohlenDieter NohlenProfessor Dieter Nohlen is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emiratus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg...
, and is wider in scope. Besides, it seems, is more critical and more student-oriented. It covers the very Political Science part of Sartori's bulk of work, as well as the books that he has published dealing with such themes as multiculturalism, "videopolitics" and the environment.
External links
- Sartori's biography on ItaliaLibri
- Review of Pluralism, Multiculturalism and Foreigners: an Essay on Multiethnic Society
- Gianfranco PasquinoGianfranco PasquinoGianfranco Pasquino is an Italian political scientist, currently professor of political science at the University of Bologna. He is also a professor at the "Bologna Center" at Dickinson College and at the SAIS Bologna center of Johns Hopkins University...
. (2005). "The Political Science of Giovanni Sartori". European Political Science 4 (1), 33–41.