Maestri of Political Science

This new volume analyses more original contributions by grandparents and granduncles of current political science. It is of major interest because it is less about biographies than substantive discussion, including on topics that have become even more prominent in our research agenda, such as the global age, political order, the centrality of political economy, the crisis of civil society, or the theory of democracy. In times of change, it is worth revisiting the foundations of what we knew and need to rescript. -- Josep Colomer, Georgetown University

It is often argued and lamented that junior researchers have less time and fewer opportunities to familiarise themselves with the classics of political science and with the overall breadth of the discipline. The third volume in this series adds ten further influential scholars to those already analysed in the 2009 and 2011 volumes. The series begins to delineate a reflexive self-portrait of post-WWII political studies that offers a compact but comprehensive and thorough guide for new generations of scholars. -- Stefano Bartolini, European University Institute

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.