Organization - Executive Committee

Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence (Italy) and director of the Research Centre on Southern Europe. He was visiting professor or fellow at Stanford University (USA), Nuffield College (Oxford, UK), Institute d’études politiques (Paris, France), Hoover Institution (USA), Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences (Juan March, Madrid, Spain), Yale University (USA). His publications include more than hundred articles in Italian, French, English, Spanish, and German mainly on authoritarianism and democratic theory. He is also the author of several books such as Come cambian los regimenes politicos (Madrid 1985), Democracy Between Consolidation and Crisis. Parties, Groups, and Citizens in Southern Europe (Oxford, 1998), Democrazie e Deocratizzazioni (Bologna 2003).

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Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick. He was chair of the Political Studies Association of the UK (2002-05) and was president until 2008, since then serving as a vice-president. He was President of the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association 2004-06. He was elected a member of the executive committee of the International Political Science Association in 2006. He has taught at Warwick since 1971 and was chair of the Department of Politics and International Studies, 1990-97. He was Marshall-Monnet fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, 1999.

His main areas of expertise are pressure groups, government-business relations, agriculture and food policy and economic policy including globalisation. His books include Business and Politics in Britain (2nd edition, 1993); The Common Agricultural Policy (1997); Pressure Groups and British Politics (2000); Economic Policy in Britain (2002); Agriculture in the New Global Economy (with William Coleman and Timothy Josling, 2005); and Managing Your Academic Career (with Philippa Sherrington, 2006). His main areas of teaching are research methods, economic policy-making and crop biology.

Marian Sawer is former head of the Political Science Program and now Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University. From 2002 to 2008 she led the Democratic Audit of Australia, using the audit framework developed by International IDEA in Stockholm. The capstone book, Australia: The State of Democracy, was launched in October 2009.  She is a former Chair of IPSA Research Committee 19 on Gender, Politics and Policy and has published widely on issues of women’s political representation, women’s policy machinery and women’s movements. She has done applied work on equal opportunity and gender policy monitoring both for government and for United Nations agencies.
 
Another research interest has been competing liberal ideologies and her books in this area include The Ethical State? (2003). She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1994 for services to women and to political science and was elected two years later to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.  She is a former President of the Australasian Political Studies Association and in 2009 was presented with its Lifetime Achievement Award. She was elected as member of the IPSA Executive Committee in 2006.

Hyug Baeg Im is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He is Dean at the Graduate School of Policy Studies and Director at Institute for Peace Studies and Director of BK21 Globalizing Korean Political Science Corps.

He received B.A. in political science from Seoul National University, M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He was visiting professor at Georgetown University (1995-1996), Duke University (1997), Stanford University (2002-2003) and visiting fellow at International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington DC (1995-1996). He was vice-president of The Korean Political Science Association (2006) and Korean Association of International Studies (2005). He served as a presidential adviser of both Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun presidency.

Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot is professor of political science and director of Sciences Po Bordeaux (University of Bordeaux). He received a doctorate and habilitation in comparative politics and public policy from the University of Bordeaux, and a doctorate honoris causa in political science from the University of Stuttgart. He was a visiting scholar at the Universities of Chicago, Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Harvard, and a visiting professor at the Universities of Colorado (Boulder), Barcelona (UAB), Madrid (UAM), Silesia (Katowice), Stuttgart, and Laval. He is a former research fellow of the Fulbright Scholar Program (1989) and of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (1996). He served on the executive committee of the International Social Science Council (2000-2004). He was a member of the executive committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (1997-2003) and the chairman of its workshop committee (2000-2003). From 2003 to 2009 he was the chairman of the research committee on comparative study of local government and politics (RC 05) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Co-editor of the ECPR Press Series, he authored numerous professional articles and contributions to edited books, and has written and (co-) edited a number of books and major studies.