- Giovanni Sartori
Giovanni Sartori (born
May 13 ,1924 ) is an Italianpolitical scientist specializing in the study ofcomparative politics .Biography
Born in
Florence , in 1946 he was awarded aLaurea from theUniversity of Florence ,Italy . In the same University, he served as Dean of the newly formed Department of Political Science from 1969 to 1972. Sartori served as Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities atColumbia University from 1979 to 1994, and was later appointedProfessor Emeritus . He contributes regularly as op-ed comentator of the leading Italian Newspaper "Corriere della Sera ". He is a recipient of aPrince of Asturias Award .Sartori has made lasting contributions to the fields of democratic theory,
party systems and constitutional engineering. In particular, Sartori devised the most widely used classification system for party systems. He suggested that party systems should be classified by the number of relevant parties and the degree of fragmentation (as caused by differing ideology). He is also an advocate of applying the knowledge acquired through the study of political science to the design of political institutions, in order to improve their performance. 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 "calssic," but Sartori's ... merits the label." [Goertz, Gary. "Concept Formation". Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. p. 69]Selected publications
* "Democrazia e definizioni". Bologna: Il Mulino, 1957.
* "Parties and Party Systems". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-521-29106-2.
* "The Theory of Democracy Revisited". Chatham, N.J: Chatham House, 1987. ISBN 0-934540-49-7.
* "Comparative Constitutional Engineering". Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. ISBN 0-333-62967-1.
* "Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics" "The American Political Science Review": Vol. LXIV, no. 4References
See also
*
Concept stretching External links
* [http://www.italialibri.net/autori/?GiovanniSartori&id=165 Sartori's biography on ItaliaLibri]
* [http://www.italialibri.net/opere/?Pluralismo,%20multiculturalismo%20e%20estranei&id=163 Review of "Pluralism, Multiculturalism and Foreigners: an Essay on Multiethnic Society" ]
* Pasquino, Gianfranco. (2005). " [http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/eps/journal/v4/n1/full/2210003a.html&filetype=pdf The political science of Giovanni Sartori] ". European Political Science 4 (1), 33–41.
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