Books By Maurizio (, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for the Study of Political Change at the Universit Cotta - Author

Maurizio Cotta is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for the Study of Political Change at the University of Siena. He was Co-director of the Scientific Network, 'European Political Elites in Comparison: the long road to convergence' (EURELITE) funded by the European Science Foundation and is currently coordinator of the European 6th Framework programme Integrated Project "INTUNE Integrated and United: A quest for Citizenship in an ever closer Europe " He has written extensively on parliaments, executives, and on Italian politics. He has co-edited Il gigante dai piedi di argilla. La crisi del regime partitocratico in Italia (1996), Party and Goverment (1996), The Nature of Party Goverment (2000), Parliamentary representatives in Europe 1848-2000 (2000), L'Europa in Italia (2005). Heinrich Best is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Jena. He is also Director of the multidisciplinary collaborative Research Centre, 'Societal Developments after the End of State Socialism