Analyst for the British case, Gianfranco Baldini is associate professor of Political Sciences at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Bologna. He is deputy-director of the research foundation “Istituto Carlo Cattaneo” of Bologna, where he is co-director of the series ‘Elections, governments, democracy’ and coordinator of the annual publication “Politics in Italy.”

Some of his more recent publications include: Politica in Italia. Edizione 2009, Il Mulino, 2009 (curated with A. Cento Bull); Elections, Electoral Systems and Volatile Voters, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2009 (with A. Pappalardo); La Francia di Sarkozy, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007 (cured with M. Lazar).

gianfranco.baldini2@unibo.it