Professor Martin Bull

Professor of Politics / Deputy Chair of Senate

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Professor Martin Bull is Professor of Politics in the School of Humanities, Languages and the Social Sciences at the University of Salford, Deputy Chair of University Senate, Chair of the Academic Audit & Governance Committee, Member of University Council and Nominations & Governance Committee. Outside Salford he is Academic Director of Europe's largest political science association, the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR). Formerly, at Salford, he was Founding Head of the School of English, Sociology, Politics & Contemporary History (1999-2002), as well as the last Head of the old Department of Politics and Contemporary History (1997-98). Before Salford he lectured at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has been a Visiting Fellow/Professor/Lecturer at several institutions: European University Institute (Florence), London School of Economics, Wayne State University (Detroit), University of Nottingham,  University of Clermont Ferrand II, Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin), as well as having been a Leverhulme Trust Fellow. He was educated at the universities of Nottingham and Oxford and at the European University Institute, Florence. He is Editor of European Political Science and Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences and is former Editor of Modern Italy. He also serves on the editorial boards of West European Politics, Southern European Society and Politics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies and Modern Italy.

Due to the combination of his management role in the European Consortium for Political Research and his responsibilities for academic governance in the University, Prof. Bull does not currently have teaching responsibilities.

Prof. Bull’s research interests are in the fields of: Contemporary Italian politics, southern European politics, the European Union, democratization, political corruption, the European left, west European communism and party political change.

BA (Politics) 1^st Class, University of Notthingham (1976)

MA (Status), University of Oxford (1987)

Ph D (Politics), European University Institute, Florence (1987)

Prof. Bull is a member of the UK Political Studies Association, the American Political Science Association and the Conference Group on Italian Society and Politics.

Prof. Bull is author of Contemporary Italy: a Research Guide (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996) and Italian Politics: Adjustment under Duress (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005) (with J. Newell). He has edited or co-edited several books including Corruption in Contemporary Politics (London: Palgrave, 2003) (with J. Newell), Italy: a Contested Polity (London: Routledge, 2009) (with M. Rhodes) and Maestri of Political Science  (Essex: ECPR Press) (with G. Pasquino and D. Campus). He has co-edited several special issues of journals including, ‘Forty Years of European Political Science’, European Political Science, Vol. 9, Supplement 1, November 2010 (with J. Briggs, L. de Sousa and J. Moses). His recent chapter and article publications include: ‘The Europeanisation of National Institutions Reassessed: A Comparison of Regional Policies in Germany and Italy’, Comparative European Politics, 11 (2), March 2013 (with J. Baudner); ‘The Italian Transition that Never Was’, Modern Italy, 17 (1), 2012; ‘Negatività nel nome di liberalism. Rittrati dell’Italia nell’Economist’, Comunicazione Politica, XII (1), 2011 (with J. Newell); ‘Southern Europe and the “Trade Off”: Architects of European Disunion’, in J. Hayward and R. Wurzel (eds), European Disunion. Between Sovereignty and Solidarity (Palgrave, 2012).