Leonardo Morlino is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at LUISS, Rome.He was President of the International Political
Science Association (IPSA) (2009–2012) and visiting professor at several
Universities, such as Yale University, Oxford University, Institut des Sciences
Politiques, Paris, Juan March Foundation, Spain, Stanford University, Wissenschaftszentrum,
Berlin, UNAM, Mexico. He is the author or co-author of
more than 40 books and more than 200 journal essays and book chapters published
in English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese, Mongolian, and
Japanese. His most recent books include: Equality,
Freedom, Democracy. Europe after the Great Recession (2020), How Economic Crisis Changes Democracy.
Evidence from Southern Europe (Palgrave, 2017, with F. Raniolo), The Quality of Democracies in Latin America
(International IDEA, 2016), Changes for
Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2011). He was also one of the three
editors of the International Encyclopaedia
of Political Science (8 vol., Sage, 2011), which won the Darthmouth Medal -
Honorable Mention - for reference publishing in all domains of knowledge, and
of the Handbook of Political Science
(3voll. Sage, 2020).