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Mark N. Franklin |
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Until he retired in 2007,
Mark Franklin was the Reitemeyer Professor of
International Politics at Trinity College Connecticut
(a position he held for nine years), having previously
taught at the Universities of Houston, Texas (for nine
years) and the University of Strathclyde, Scotland
(for twenty years). In retirement he has held
positions at the European University Institute
(Florence, Italy), Nuffield College (Oxford, England)
the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
(Waasenaar, the Netherlands), the University of Sydney
(Australia) and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (Cambridge MA, USA). From 2007 to
2018 he was also a Project Director at the Robert Schumann Centre for
Advanced Studies (RSCAS)
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sity and in 1984-5 he was a
Fulbright Scholar at the University of Iowa. He also
has held visiting appointments at the Australian
National University and at the universities of
Amsterdam (Netherlands), Chicago (Illinois), Edinburgh
(Scotland), Geneva (Switzerland), Oxford (England)
the University of Sydney and Sciences Po (Paris,
France). |
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Dr. Franklin's main
teaching and research interests lie in British,
European and American government and political
economy, political methodology, and the attitudes and
behavior of elites and mass publics. In 2008 he was
awarded a 2.4 Million Euro three-year FP7 grant by the
European Union's DG
Research to direct a collaborative infrastructure
design study "Providing an Infrastructure for Research
on Electoral Democracy in the European Union" (PIREDEU).
Coordinated at the RSCAS,
the collaboration involved fifteen institutions in 9
EU countries and collaborators in all of the (then) 27
EU countries. As part of this project a feasibility
study was conducted in connection with the 2009
elections to the European Parliament - the European
Election Study 2009 - which has been followed up
by a successor study of the European
Parliament elections of 2014. Another outcome of
the PIREDEU project was the formation of a Consortium for European Research
with Election Studies (CERES) whose primary
objective is to promote the study of electoral
democracy Europe-wide. |
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Professor Franklin was
founding organizer of the Computer Group of the
European Consortium for Political Research in 1973, of
the Public
Opinion and Participation Section of the European
Union Studies Association in 2003, and was
founding Convener of the European
Union Politics Group of the American Political
Science Association from 1994 until its merger with
the European
Politics and Society Section (of which he is
past chair) in 2001. He has published twenty books
(five of them single-authored), including Elections
and Voters
(Palgrave 2009) The Economy and the Vote (Cambridge 2007); Voter
Turnout (Cambridge 2004); The
Future of Election Studies (Pergamon 2002); Choosing
Europe? (Michigan 1996); Electoral
Change (Cambridge 1992; ECPR "Classic in
Political Science" 2009); The Community of
Science in Europe (Gower: 1987) and The
Decline of Class Voting in Britain (Oxford
1985). |
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He has published numerous
chapters, monographs and reports, together with some
sixty articles in the American Journal of
Political Science, the American
Political Science Review, the British
Journal of Political Science, Comparative
Political Studies, Electoral Studies, the European Journal
of Political Research, European Union Politics, the
Journal of Theoretical Politics, Legislative
Studies Quarterly, Political Behavior,
Political Studies, West European Politics, and other journals. |
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Dr. Franklin has been
co-editor of
the international Journal of Elections, Public
Opinion and Parties and is a past or present
member of the editorial boards of that journal, Comparative
European Politics, Electoral Studies, the European Journal of
Political Research, European Union Politics,
Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Social Science
Quarterly.
He has been a Director of the European
Election Studies project since 1987, has served as an advisor for
the British, Canadian, French and Italian Election
Studies (he currently chairs the Advisory Board of the
British Election Study) and was the founding Chair of
the Consortium for European Research with Election
Studies (CERES). He has been an invited
nominator for Macarthur awards and for Guggenheim
fellowships, and a selector for Fulbright fellowships
and National Science Foundation dissertation awards. |
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