Giovanni Sartori

Professor Giovanni Sartori is currently Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University after spending years at Stanford University and University of Florence. Giovanni Sartori is an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics. He is a recipient of a Prince of Asturias Award (Social Sciences area, 2005). In 2009, he was the recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), which honours a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research. Sartori is a regular contributor, as an op-ed writer, of the leading Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera".