Democratic Representation in Europe
Diversity, Change, and Convergence
Edited by Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best
Author Information
Maurizio Cotta is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for the Study of Political Change at the University of Siena. He was Co-director of the Scientific Network, 'European Political Elites in Comparison: the long road to convergence' (EURELITE) funded by the European Science Foundation and is currently coordinator of the European 6th Framework programme Integrated Project INTUNE Integrated and United: A quest for Citizenship in an ever closer Europe. He has written extensively on parliaments, executives, and on Italian politics. He has co-edited Il gigante dai piedi di argilla. La crisi del regime partitocratico in Italia (1996), Party and Government (1996), The Nature of Party Government (2000), Parliamentary representatives in Europe 1848-2000 (2000), L'Europa in Italia (2005).
Heinrich Best is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Jena. He is also Director of the multidisciplinary collaborative Research Centre, 'Societal Developments after the End of State Socialism: Discontinuity, Tradition and the Emergence of New Structures' funded by the German Science Foundation, and was Co-director of the Scientific Network, 'European Political Elites in Comparison: the long road to convergence' (EURELITE) funded by the European Science Foundation. Professor Best's publication list entails 27 books and 105 journal and book contributions as primary author and editor. His recent publications include Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000 (OUP 2000); Elites in Transition: Elite Research in Central and Eastern Europe (1997); Functional Elites in the GDR: Theoretical Controversies and Empirical Evidence (2003).
Contributors:
Heinrich Best, Professor of Sociology at the University of Jena
Michael Rush, Emeritus Politics Professor at the University of Exeter
Maurizio Cotta, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for the Study of Political Change at the University of Siena
Pedro Tavares de Almeida, professor in the Departamento de Estudos Políticos of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Verona Christmas, PhD from the Institute of Education, London University and has been a Research Associate at the University of Jena, Germany since 1996
Ulrik Kiaer, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark
Daniel Gaxie, Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Laurent Godmer, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Marne-la-Vallée, Paris
Stefaan Fiers, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the teaching training programme in social sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Ineke Secker, Lecurer in Constitutional and Parliamentary History at Leiden University, the Netherlands
Mogens N. Pedersen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark at Odense.
Kjell A. Eliassen, Professor of Public Management and Director of the Centre for European and Asian Studies at the Norwegian School of Management - BI in Oslo and professor of European Studies at The Free University in Brussels.
Valerie Cromwell, an honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study in the University of London having been Director of the History of Parliament, 1991-2001.
Ilka Ruostetsari, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Finland.
Luca Verzichelli, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Siena. His main research interests are on political elite and parliamentary institutions in Europe
Gabriella Ilonski, Head of the Elite Studies Research Centre at the Institute of Political Science at Corvinus University Budapest
Juan J. Linz, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University
Carmen Ortega, Associated Professor of Political Science at the University of Granada
Miguel Jerez Mir, Professor of Political Science at the University of Granada.
Filippo Tronconi, PhD in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena.
