Gianfranco Pasquino (born 9 April 1942) is an Italian political scientist.
Born in Trana, he is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bologna and Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS-Europe (Bologna). He studied at the University of Turin under Norberto Bobbio and specialized under Giovanni Sartori at the University of Florence. In his professional life, he has been associated with the University of Florence, Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles and the School of Advanced International StudiesinWashington, DC and Fellow of Christchurch and St Antony's at Oxford and Life Fellow of Claire Hall, Cambridge.
Pasquino was the editor of the journal "Il Mulino" between 1980 and 1984, and "Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica" between 2001 and 2003. He was a senator in the Italian Senate between 1983 and 1992 and 1994 and 1996 as a representative of the Independent Left and the Alliance of Progressives, respectively. He has three honorary degrees from the Universities of Buenos Aires, La Plata, the Catholic University of Cordoba. In 2005 he was elected member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei). He was also on the Committee on Italian, European and International Criminal Procedure – Ibrerojur (coordinated by Bruna Capparelli).[1]
Among his many publications, he has co-edited Masters of Political Science (2009); the Dizionario di Politica (2016 4th edition) and The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (2015) and is the author of Partiti, istituzioni, democrazie (2014); Cittadini senza scettro. Le riforme sbagliate (2015); L'Europa in trenta lezioni (2017). Most recently he has contributed to the Routledge Handbook of European Politics (2015) and several articles to the International Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2016).
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