This book is the third volume in the series Maestri of Political Science. Like its two predecessors, this book fills a gap in the growing reflective literature on political science, but adopting a different focus to the usual thematic or subject-specific debates by capturing the people behind the contributions, their careers and their intellectual journeys: Hannah Arendt, Karl Deutsch, Carl Friedrich, Jane Mansbridge, C. Wright Mills, Guillermo O'Donnell, Carole Pateman, Adam Przeworski, Robert Putnam and Kenneth Waltz. These intellectual biographies, moreover, are written by authors who have read and studied their subjects' work - and been influenced by it themselves in their own intellectual development. The premise of this volume, like its predecessors, is not just that our founding 'giants' should not be forgotten, but that we should recognise the extent to which our achievements today derive from standing on their shoulders
Martin Bull is Professor of Politics and Associate Dean for Research & Innovation at the University of Salford. Former Director of the European Consortium of Political Research (2013-201) he is a specialist of Italian and comparative politics. His most recent work includes: 'The Italian Communist Party in the 1980s and the Denouement of the Party System', Journal of Modern Italian Studies, No. 2, 2023; 'The Italian Government Response to Covid-19 and the Making of a Prime Minister', Contemporary Italian Politics, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2021; and 'The Radical Left since 1989: Decline, Transformation and Revival', in Eleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener (eds), 1989 and the West: Western Europe since the End of the Cold War (London: Routledge, 2020). He was Editor-in-Chief of the Italian Political Science Review (2019-2022) and currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and Founding Editor of the ECPR's political science blogsite, The Loop.
Gianfranco Pasquino is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bologna and Senior Adjunct Professor at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei, his most recent books are Italian Democracy. How It Works (Routledge 2020), Libertà inutile. Profilo ideologico dell'Italia repubblicana (UTET 2021), Tra scienza e politica. Una autobiografia (UTET 2022) and Il lavoro intellettuale (UTET 2023). He has co-edited The Oxford Handbookeonardi of Italian Politics (Oxford University Press 2015) and the Dizionario di Politica (UTET-De Agostini 2016, 4a ed., revised) and co-authored (with Riccardo Pelizzo), The Culture of Accuntability. A Democratic Virtue (Routledge 2022).
