Jean F. P. Blondel

Professor Jean F. P. Blondel was a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the European University Institute. He was the co-founder and first Executive Director of the European Consortium for Political Research. He worked to transform European political science from a fragmented, nationally confined, and professionally underdeveloped discipline by establishing an international enterprise that now has over two hundred fifty member departments and over four thousand affiliated scholars. He was the winner of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science 2004. He has been awarded honoris causa doctorates from the University of Salford, the University of Essex, the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, the University of Turku, the University of Macerata (2007) and the University of Siena (2008). His main publications were Voters, Parties, and Leaders, (Penguin, 1963 with numerous editions), Comparative Legislatures (Prentice-Hall, 1973), World Leaders (Sage, 1980), Government Ministers in the Contemporary World (Sage, 1985), Political Leadership (Sage, 1987), Comparative Government (2nd ed. Prentice-Hall and Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995), Governing Together, co-editor with F. Muller-Rommel (Macmillan, 1993), Party and Government, co-editor with M. Cotta (Macmillan, 1996). People and Parliament in the European Union, with R. Sinnott and P. Svensson (OUP, 1998). Democracy, Governance and Economic Performance, co-editor with I. Marsh and T. Inoguchi (United Nations University Press, 1999), The Nature of Party Government : a comparative European perspective, co-editor with M. Cotta (St. Martin's Press, 2000), Cabinets in Eastern Europe, co-editor with Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Macmillan, 2001).