17 Facts About Giovanni Sartori

Giovanni Sartori was an Italian political scientist who specialized in the study of democracy, political parties and comparative politics.

Giovanni Sartori stayed on at the University of Florence, teaching History of Modern Philosophy and Doctrine of the State starting in 1946.

Giovanni Sartori became a lecturer in Modern Philosophy and in Political Science, and subsequently professor of Sociology.

Giovanni Sartori became full professor of Political Science and taught at Florence University from 1966 to 1976.

Giovanni Sartori taught at the European University Institute and then became professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

Finally, Giovanni Sartori served as Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University from 1979 to 1994 and was appointed professor emeritus.

Giovanni Sartori was President of the Committee for Conceptual and Terminological Analysis of IPSA, the International Sociological Association, and the International Social Science Council from 1970 to 1979.

Giovanni Sartori was founder and editor of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica from 1971 to 2003.

Giovanni Sartori was a regular contributor, as an op-ed writer, of the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

Giovanni Sartori died at the age of 92 in Rome from throat cancer on 4 April 2017.

Giovanni Sartori received multiple honors and awards throughout his career.

Giovanni Sartori has received doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Genoa, 1992; Georgetown University, Washington DC,1994; University of Guadalajara, 1997; University of Buenos Aires, 1998; Complutense University of Madrid, 2001; University of Bucharest, 2001; University of Athens.

Giovanni Sartori's interests were wide-ranging, but his lasting contributions were largely on political parties, constitutional design, and perhaps most significantly, concept analysis.

Giovanni Sartori was deeply interested in the formation, analysis, and use of political concepts.

Giovanni Sartori observed that political science, for better or worse, lacked the coordination in terminology that he presumed to exist in the physical and biological sciences.

Giovanni Sartori encouraged a more "intentional" use of concepts, with the objective of furthering a shared understanding of ideas.

Giovanni Sartori's Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis is a book that is seen as having as "outstanding, lasting significance to the field" on study on political parties.