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Name
  
Giovanni Sartori


Role
  
Political Scientist

Giovanni Sartori smiling and holding his eyeglasses with his left hand while wearing a striped sleeve and suit and necktie

Education
  
University of Florence (1946)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
Homo videns, The theory of democrac, Comparative constitutional engineering, Parties and Party Systems, Ingenieria Constitucional Comparada

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Giovanni sartori on homo videns


Giovanni Sartori ([dʒoˈvanni sarˈtori]; 13 May 1924 – 4 April 2017) was an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics.

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Biography

Giovanni Sartori delivering a speech while wearing a white sleeve, black coat and eyeglasses

Born in Florence 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 was a recipient of a Prince of Asturias Award (Social Sciences area) in 2005 and of the Karl Deutsch Award in 2009. of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), which honours a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research.

His article "Concept Misformation in comparative politics" published in The American Political Science Review is prominent in the field, leading Gary Goertz to write, "There are few articles in political science that deserve the predicate "classic," but Sartori's ... merits the label."

Sartori was also a regular contributor, as an op-ed writer, of the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. In 1971 he founded and edited the periodical Italian Political Science Review.

Sartori died at the age of 92 in Florence from throat cancer on 4 April 2017.

Selected publications

  • Democrazia e Definizioni. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1957.
  • (1970) "Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics." The American Political Science Review 64 (4): 1033-1053.
  • 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").

    • 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 Nohlen, 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.

    • References

    Giovanni Sartori Wikipedia
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