CV Gianfranco Baldini, February 2025
Nationality: Italian, Born Modena, 19 July 1970
Gianfranco.baldini2@unibo.it
2008-Associate Professor Political Science
University of Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences (national Scientific qualification as Full Professor obtained April 2017);
2022- University of Surrey, Centre for Britain and Europe, Research Associate
2023- Co-Editor Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review of the European Union
(position assumed after competitive selection by UACES, University Association for Contemporary European Studies https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14685965/homepage/annualreview.html
2024 European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR, Executive Committee Member
https://ecpr.eu/executive-committee
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Salerno, 2005-2008,
Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Political Science, University of Salerno, 2002-2005
Other Research and Teaching positions
Dickinson Center for European Studies, Bologna, Adjunct Professor, Italian Politics (2019)
Istituto Cattaneo Research Foundation, Scientific Committee, Member (2010-)
Center for the Study of the European Project, funded by Carisbo Foundation; member of editorial board 2008-2013
Itanes (Italian National Electon Study), Scientific Committee, member 1998-2002
Visiting Fellowship/Professorship
2023- Visiting Professor, 1 week, Toyo University, Tokyo
2021; September, 4-day German federal Election Monitoring Observation (Berlin) funded by International Association for the Study of German Politics
2017, Queen Mary University, London, Erasmus Visiting Professor, 1 week (January)
2015 6-month fellowship Crick Centre, Sheffield University
2014, University of Lyon, Invited Visiting Professor, 20-hour course on ‘The Eurosceptic Challenge’
2013, DAAD Fellowship, 1 month, Frankfurt University
2014, University of Lyon, Invited Visiting Professor, 20-hour Course ‘Challenges to Representative politics in Europe’
2013, University of Trier, Erasmus Visiting Professor, 1 week (June)
2012, University of Lyon, Erasmus Visiting Professor, 1 week
2010, April, Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, Visiting Professor BCSP Programme
2009-12 Johns Hopkins Bologna Center, Research Associate
2004 January One-Month, Visiting Fellow, York University, Department of Politics
2001-02 Research Associate, Post- Doctoral: TM Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the CEVIPOF, Paris (Research network «Political Representation and Party Choice in the European Union» coordinated by Prof. Hermann Schmitt, University of Mannheim, local responsible Colette Ysmal)
Prizes:
1999: Celso Ghini National Award by the SISE (Italian Electoral Studies Society) for the best Italian PhD dissertation on Electoral studies.
(2019 short-listed for the BJPIR (British Journal of Politics and IR) John Peterson Best Paper Prize
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/bpi/videos/virtual-issues/best-paper-prize)
EDUCATION:
1999-2001 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia, University of Bologna
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Florence, 1998.
MSc European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1996.
B.A. University of Bologna, Faculty of Political Science, 1994.
Recent funds obtained from external sources
2024 Uaces Annual Conference, Trento, organization of Annual Lecture
2022 PRIN (Italian Ministry for University Research, UNIBO PI), (National Research funded Projects; funds also obtained in 2002, 2003, 2007, 2015)
2019/2020 5,200 € conference on Populism and European Identity (2020, hold October 2021 due to Covid restrictions), co-sponsored by UNIBO (Institute for Advances Studies); Dickinson Centre, Bologna
2018 Political Quarterly: 2,000 £ Selected best proposal for a Special Section (Conference on Brexit, organized University of Bologna, June 2018, in cooperation with British Embassy in Italy
Unibo, University
2014 PI 4.000 € University of Bologna Research Networks (FARB)
PhD and Post-Doc supervision
Post-Doc Unibo, Chiara Fiorelli, November 2021-23
Unibo, Consortium with University of Pisa, Andrea Pareschi, 2018-19
PhD External Examiner: UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA, April 2017, University of Milan, October 2015
PhD Supervisor: Lucia Picarella, UNISA, 2005-08, Ferdinando Lombardi Vallauri, Unibo, 2024-
Other Departmental Services
ERASMUS exchange, local coordinator (Bordeaux, London Metropolitan University 2010-16); Reading (2015-), Surrey (2017-); Departmental Library steering committee (member 2014-2019); committee on internal funding for Research and Teaching activities, Responsible 2021-
EDITORIAL Boards
2024-Italian Journal of Electoral Studies, Member of Editorial Board 2023- Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review, Co-Editor
2021-23 Il Mulino, rivista di cultura e politica, member of Editorial board
2015- Pifo Politische Italien-Forschung (PIFO), Occasional Papers Series, Member of International Advisory Board https://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/f03/departments/dps/political-italian-studies-pifo/pifo-occasional-papers-1
2007-19 Series founder and Editor «Elections, government, democracy», Il Mulino
2013- Editorial Boards Italian Politics (previously co-ordinator of Editorial board 2006-)
2002-11 Polis ‘Journal on Society and Politics in Italy’ (Member Editorial Board (2006-11) Chief Editorial Assistant (2004-05), supervising committee of five members; Editorial Assistant (2002-03)
Review activity for following journals: European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Party Politics, Government and Opposition, International Political Science Review, Italian Political Science Review, Contemporary Italian Politics, Political Studies Review, Politics and Governance, Regional & Federal Studies, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, Journal of Political Ideologies, Contemporary European History; Quaderni di Sociologia; Publishers: ECPR Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Il Mulino, UTET, Mondadori and various others.
Research dissemination
SISP, Italian Political Science Association. Comparative Politics section. Convenor 2019-2021; I have given lectures and seminars on my research in more than 20 Italian Universities, since 2000.
Media activity: frequent comments on Italian media (SKY TV; Radio Rai, Radio 24, and many others). My work has been quoted in ‘The Guardian’ as well as in several other international outlets. I have been a TED Speaker in Rovigo, 2017, on Time and Politics; blogs for Italian and international websites
Teaching (current)
Democracy and Populism in Europe (post-graduate, in English, 8 CFU), Italian Politics (undergraduate, 10 CFU) Brexit Seminar (4 CFU),
RESEARCH interests:
Political parties, electoral systems and electoral behaviour; Regionalism and Federalism; Comparative politics (especially Western Europe: France, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain); Local Politics (Italy and comparative); Political Communication; European Union
Professional membership
Italian Political Science Association
Italian Electoral Studies Society
Link to publications
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/gianfranco.baldini2/pubblicazioni
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RgrzygYAAAAJ&hl=it
