(October 2007)

MARK NEWMAN FRANKLIN

Department of Political and Social Science

               Office phone +39 055 468-5653

European University Institute

Email: mark.franklin(at)eui.eu

50016 San Dominico di Fiesoli
Italy (on leave from Trinity College Connecticut)

Alt. email: mark.franklin(at)trincoll.edu
Home page: http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mfrankli

 

 

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EDUCATION

1970

Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University (Ithaca, New York).

1968

M.A. from the University of Oxford.

1964

B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (majoring in economics) from the University of Oxford (Balliol College).

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2006-

Stein Rokkan Professor of Comparative Politics, European University Institute

1998-

John R. Reitemeyer Professor of International Politics, Trinity College, Hartford, CT (on leave, 2001-2, 2006-7; Professor Emeritus 2007-).

1989-1999

Professor of Political Science, University of Houston (on leave 1998-99).

1969-1989

Lecturer (then Senior Lecturer, then Reader) in Government, University of Strathclyde, Scotland (on leave 1987-88, 1984-85 and 1974-75 ).

1987-1988

Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.

1984-1985

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa.

1974-1975

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.

1967-1968

Visiting Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford.

1964-1967

Teaching Assistant (latterly Chief Assistant) Department of Government, Cornell University.

RESEARCH, ADMINISTRATIVE AND EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS

2007-

Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

1995-

External Examiner, University of Amsterdam (subsequently Associated Professor and Honorary Fellow).

1998-2006

Affiliate, Harvard University Center for European Studies.

 

1999-2003

Chair of the Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut.

 

2001-2002

Visiting Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, Harvard University Center for European Studies.

 

1996-1998

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Houston.

 

1990-1999

Visiting Professor of Government, University of Strathclyde. Reappointed 1993 and 1996.

 

1990-1996

Director of the Social Science Data Lab, University of Houston.

 

1984-1987

Scientific Director, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg.

 

1984-1985

Fulbright Scholar, University of Iowa.

 

1976-1977

Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Edinburgh Centre for Applications Software and Technology.

 

1975-1977

Acting Director, Social Statistics Laboratory of the School of Arts and Social Studies, University of Strathclyde.

 

1974-1975

Senior Study Director, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago.

 

1971-1972

Visiting Charg_ de Recherche, Department of Political Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland

 

1968-1969

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

 

1967-1969

Newton Farr Dissertation Fellow, Cornell University.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2001-2002

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.

 

1996-1999

John and Rebecca Moores Scholar, University of Houston.

 

1987-1988

Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.

 

1984-1985

Fullbright Scholar, University of Iowa.

 

1967-1969

Newton Farr Dissertation Fellow, Cornell University.

 

1962

Powell Prize for English Essays, Balliol College, Oxford.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political institutions
Voting and elections
Government formation and legislative behavior
Political economy, international political economy
Foreign policy-making and public attitudes to foreign affairs
Science policy-making and the sociology of science
American government and politics
European government and politics (especially Britain, France, Germany, and the European Union)
Research design and methodology (qualitative and quantitative)
Professional development (graduate and post-graduate)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE        

A. INTRODUCTORY UNDERGRADUATE

Introduction to Comparative and International Politics (lectures at Trinity and Houston, 1993-)
Basic Class in British Politics (lectures and tutorials at Strathclyde, 1970-89)
Introduction to Data Structures (service lectures, University of Strathclyde Department
    of Computer Science, 1970-77)
Government and Politics of the USA (lectures and tutorials at Strathclyde, 1972-4).
Political Institutions of Britain, France, the USA and the USSR (tutorials at Oxford, 1968).

B. ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATE

Perceptions of Conflict (senior seminar at Trinity, 2000-)
Building a New Europe (senior seminar at Trinity, 1998-1999; third year seminar 2004-)
British Government and Politics (lectures at Houston, 1990-1998)
Politics and Institutions of the EC/EU and Member Countries (lectures at Trinity, Houston, Iowa,
    and Strathclyde, 1970-)
The Study of Political Behavior (lectures at Iowa and Strathclyde, 1975-89)
Electoral Behavior (seminars/lectures at Strathclyde and Trinity College 1983-89; 2004-)
Introduction to Research Methods (Lectures and Labs at Trinity, Houston and Strathclyde, 1970-).

C. GRADUATE LEVEL

Decision-making in government - cases in the making of NAFTA and the Single European Market
    (summer school at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1994)
Research Methods I (EUI 2007-; Alternate years, University of Houston, 1990-1998)
Research Methods II (EUI, 2007-; Alternate years, University of Houston, 1990-1998)
Comparative Elections Seminar (Alternate years, EUI, 2006-; Alternate years, Houston, 1990-1998)
Quantitative Approaches in Studying Economics, Politics and Society (joint seminar with the EUI
    department of economics, 2007)
Research Design for Quantitative Analysis (EUI 2008-)
Gateway Seminar in Comparative Politics (Alternate years, Houston 1992-1998)
Graduate Research Seminar (Strathclyde, 1975-1983; 1988-89)
Introduction to Survey Research (lectures and labs at Chicago, 1975; Strathclyde 1988)
Legislative Behavior Seminar (Strathclyde and Chicago, 1975-83)
Scope and Methods of Political Science (lectures and labs at Strathclyde, 1969-83).
The Professional Political Scientist (Seminars at Houston, 1995.
Getting Published in International Refereed Journals (Seminar at Amsterdam, 1998-9).

D. HONORS AND MASTERS THESES SUPERVISED

Seventy or more, mainly in the areas of British and European electoral and Parliamentary behavior.

E. PH.D. DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED

Fourteen, on Anglo-American voting behavior, British legislative behavior, mass participation, comparative politics (established democracies), political economy, and international relations topics.

F. EXTERNAL EXAMINER

University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science, 1995, 2003.

 

UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

A. AT THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, 2006-

Member of the Research Computing Committee, 2006-

EUI Official Representative to the European Consortium for Political Research, 2007-

B. AT TRINITY COLLEGE, 1998-2006

Member of the Global Education Advisory Committee, 2003-; Institutional Review Board, 2000-; Social Science Chairs' Committee, 2000-3; College Chairs' Committee, 1999-2003; Faculty Research Committee, 2004-5, 2002, 1999-2000; Faculty Conference, Spring 1999

Advisor to the (student) Model United Nations Planning Committee, 2000-1.

C. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, 1989-1998

Member of the UH Graduate and Professional Council; member of the subcommittee on graduate admissions (1996-8). Member of the UH Task Force on Doctoral Programs (1996-7). Chairman of the UH Department of Political Science Graduate Studies Cttee (1996-8). Member of the UH College of Social Sciences Computer Services Cttee (1993-6). Chairman of the UH College of Social Sciences Data Lab Management Cttee (1990-6). Member of the UH Department of Political Science Recruitment Cttee (1990-92), Graduate Studies Cttee (1990-92, 1994-95), and Executive Cttee (1995-97).

Participated in Model United Nations conferences (1991 and 1994). Served as advisor for AISEC (international organization of Business School students) and as 'facilitator' at their annual conference (1996).

D. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE 1979-89

Department of Government Tutor for Admissions, Tutor for Second and Third Year Studies, Tutor for Postgraduate Studies, and Convener of the Visiting Speakers Seminar (at various times). University of Strathclyde Faculty of Arts and Social Studies member of the Board of Study (1985-88 and 1971-74); member of the Admissions Cttee, the Student Progress Cttee, the Faculty Administration Cttee, the Cttee for Junior Year Abroad and Exchange Studies, and the Management Cttee for Social Statistics Laboratory (at various times). University of Strathclyde Computer Services member of the Working Party on Selection of Computer Hardware (1986-7, 1981-3, 1976-7 and 1971-2).

Faculty Advisor for the University of Strathclyde International Relations Society (1980-84). Keynote Speaker at the University of Strathclyde Student Association Burns Night Supper (1986).

 

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PUBLICATIONS

A.

2008

2007

BOOKS (or go to Articles, Chapters, Reports)

Elections and Voters with Cees van der Eijk (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) forthcoming.

The Economy and the Vote: Electoral Responses to Economic Conditions in 15 Countries, with Wouter van der Brug and Cees van der Eijk (New York: Cambridge University Press) 234pp.


2004


Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies Since 1945
(New York: Cambridge University Press) 277pp,


2002


The Future of Election Studies,
edited with Christopher Wlezien (Oxford: Pergamon) 176pp. Reprint of a Special Issue of Electoral Studies (21:2) 359-364.

 


1996


Choosing Europe? The European Electorate and National Politics in the Face of Union,
with Cees van der Eijk et al. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) 516pp.


1993


Parliamentary Questions,
edited with Philip Norton for the Study of Parliament Group (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 215 pp.


1992


Electoral Change: Responses to Evolving Social and Attitudinal Structures in Western Nations,
with Thomas T. Mackie et al. (Cambridge 1992: Cambridge University Press) 430 pp.


1988


The Community of Science in Europe: Preconditions for Research Effectiveness in European Community Countries
(Aldershot: Gower) 358 pp.


1986


New Directions in Coalition Research,
edited with Eric C. Browne (Special Issue of Legislative Studies Quarterly)178 pp.


1985


The Decline of Class Voting in Britain: Changes in the Basis of Electoral Choice 1964-1983
(Oxford: Oxford University Press) 208 pp.


1980


A User's Guide to the SCSS Conversational System,
with Norman H. Nie et al. (New York: McGraw Hill) 599 pp.


1974


The New Statistical Package for the Social Sciences: Preliminary Documentation,
edited (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Centre for Applications Software and Technology) 307pp.


1973


A Data Archiving, Editing, Describing and Analysing Language
(Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Centre for Applications Software and Technology) 247 pp.

 

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B.
2008
JOURNAL ARTICLES (or go to Books, Chapters, Reports)
"One Electorate or many? Differences in party preference formation between new and established European democracies" with Wouter van der Brug and Gabor Toka, Electoral Studies (27) in press.
2007
"The Endogenous Economy: 'Real' Economic Conditions, Subjective Economic Evaluations, and Government Support" with Cees van der Eijk, Froukje Demant and Wouter van der Brug. Acta Politica (42) 1-22.

2006

"Rethinking the dependent variable in electoral behavior - on the measurement and analysis of utilities" with Wouter van der Brug and Cees van der Eijk. Electoral Studies (25) 423-446.

 

2004

"The Generational Basis of Turnout Decline in Established Democracies" with Michael Marsh and Patrick Lyons Acta Politica (39) 115-151.

 

2003

"The Voter Turnout Puzzles" Analise Social (38) 321-338 (translation into Portugese of a 2002 conference paper). View conference paper

 

2002

"Learning From the Danish Case: a Comment on Palle Svensson's Critique of the 'Franklin Thesis.'" European Journal of Political Research (41) 751-757.

 

"Reinventing Election Studies" with Christopher Wlezien, Electoral Studies (21:2) 359-364.

 

2001

"How Structural Factors cause Turnout Variations at European Parliament Elections," European Union Politics (2:3) 309-328.

 

1999

"Understanding Cross-National Turnout Differences: What Role for Compulsory Voting?" British Journal of Political Science (29) 205-216.

 

1998

"Separated Powers, Divided Government and Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections" with Wolfgang Hirczy de Mino, American Journal of Political Science (42) 316-326.

 

"Social Representation in the European Elections of 1994" with Pippa Norris, European Journal of Political Research (33) 185-210.

 

1997

"The Responsive Public: Issue Salience, Policy Change, and Preferences for European Unification," with Christopher Wlezien, Journal of Theoretical Politics (9) 347-63.

 

"Economic Perceptions and Vote Choice: Disentangling the Endogeneity," with Christopher Wlezien and Daniel Twiggs, Political Behavior (19) 7-17.

 

"Are American Voters Choosing a Divided Government?" Chronicle of Higher Education XLIII:19 (January 17th) B7. Reprinted in a 1997 edited volume.

 

1996

"What Voters Teach Us About Europe-Wide Elections; What Europe-Wide Elections Teach Us About Voters" with Cees van der Eijk and Michael Marsh, Electoral Studies (15) 149-166. Reprinted in a 1998 edited volume.

 

"Up and Down with the Greens: Ecology and Politics in Britain, 1989-1992," with Wolfgang R_dig and Lynn Bennie, Electoral Studies (15) 1-20.

 

1995

"On the Durability of Green Politics: Evidence from the 1989 European Election Study," with Wolfgang Rudig, Comparative Political Studies (28) 409-439.

 

"The Undoing of Winston Churchill: Mobilization and Conversion in the 1945 Realignment of British Voters," with Matthew Ladner, British Journal of Political Science (25) 429-452.

 

1994

"Uncorking the Bottle: Popular Opposition to European Unification in the Wake of Maastricht," with Michael Marsh and Lauren McLaren, Journal of Common Market Studies (33) 455-472.

 

"Two Faces of Tactical Voting," with Richard Niemi and Guy Whitten, British Journal of Political Science (24) 549-557.

 

"Attitudes Toward Europe and Referendum Votes," with Michael Marsh and Christopher Wlezien, Electoral Studies (13) 117-121.

 

"Referendum Outcomes and Trust in Government: Popular Support for Europe in the Wake of Maastricht" with Cees van der Eijk and Michael Marsh, West European Politics (18) 101-117. Reprinted in a 1995 edited volume.

 

1993

"People Who Live in Glass Houses: A Response to Evans and Heath," with Richard Niemi and Guy Whitten, British Journal of Political Science (23) 549-553.

 

1992

"Constituency Characteristics, Individual Characteristics, and Tactical Voting in the 1987 British General Election," with Richard G. Niemi and Guy Whitten, British Journal of Political Science (22) 229-240.

 

"The Green Voter in the 1989 European Elections," with Wolfgang Rudig, Environmental Politics (1) 129-159. Reprinted in a 1993 edited volume.

 

1991

"Getting out the Vote: Social Structure and the Mobilization of Partisanship in the 1989 European Elections" European Journal of Political Research (19) 129-148 .
"European Community Politics and Electoral Representation: Evidence from the 1989 European Elections" with Cees van der Eijk, European Journal of Political Research (19) 105-128. Reprinted in translation in a 1994 edited volume.

 

1990

"Whatever Happened to the English Constitution?" Talking Politics (2).
"La Comunidad Cientifica en Europa" Mundo Cientifico (98). Translation of a 1989 article.

 

1989

"La Communaut_ Scientifique en Europe" La Recherche (20). Reprinted in translation.

 

1987

"Converse and Pierce on Electoral Behavior in France," with Thomas T. Mackie, Legislative Studies Quarterly (12) 227-235.

 

"Dissent in the British House of Commons: A Response to Norton's Rejoinder," with Alison Baxter and Margaret Jordan, Legislative Studies Quarterly (12) 152-156.

 

"The Falklands Factor" Contemporary Record (1).

 

1986

"Who Were the Rebels? Correlates of Dissent in the British House of Commons, 1970-74," with Alison Baxter and Margaret Jordan, Legislative Studies Quarterly (11) 143-159 .

 

"Editors' Introduction," with Eric C. Browne, Legislative Studies Quarterly (11) 470-483.

 

1985

"Assessing the Rise of Issue Voting in British Elections Since 1964" Electoral Studies (4) 37-56. Reprinted in a 1992 edited volume.

 

1984

"A Critique of the Consumption Cleavage Approach in British Voting Studies," with Edward C. Page, Political Studies (33) 521-536.

 

"Reassessing the Importance of Size and Ideology in the Formation of Governing Coalitions in European Parliamentary Democracies," with Thomas T. Mackie, American Journal of Political Science (28) 671-692.

 

"How the Decline of Class Voting Opened the Way to Radical Change in British Politics" British Journal of Political Science (14) 437-462.

 

1983

"Familiarity and Inertia in the Formation of Governing Coalitions in Parliamentary Democracies," with Thomas T. Mackie, British Journal of Political Science (13) 275-298.

 

1982

"Demographic and Political Components in the Decline of British Class Voting" Electoral Studies (1) 195-220.

 

1980

"In Defence of (Careful) Barefoot Empiricism: a Response to Weatherford," with Anthony Mughan, American Political Science Review (74) 462-465.

 

1978  

"The Decline of Class Voting in Britain: Problems of Analysis and Interpretation," with Anthony Mughan, American Political Science Review (72) 523-534.

 

"Computer Tips on Hierarchical File Operations and Wild Code Checking: Notes for SPSS Users," with Stephen K. Tagg. SSRC Survey Archive Bulletin (10).

 

1977

"Early Day Motions as Unobtrusive Measures of Backbench Opinion in Britain," with Michael Tappin, British Journal of Political Science (7) 49-69.

 

1975

"Towards a Generalized Solution to the Problem of Handling Complex Data Structures in Social Science Research" European Political Data (8).

 

"Interactive SPSS is Coming ... Coming ... On" SPSS Newsletter (7).

 

1973

"Aspects of Coalition Payoffs in European Parliamentary Democracies," with Eric C. Browne, American Political Science Review (67) 453-469. Reprinted in a 1973 volume.

 

"An Interactive Version of the Statistial Package for the Social Sciences: Preliminary System Specifications" European Political Data (9).

 

"Computers and the Modern Member of Parliament" The Parliamentarian (LIV).

 

1972

"Towards the Development of a 'Language' for Controlling Package Programs in the Social Sciences" European Political Data (5).

 

"An Inventory of Comparative Data on Party Systems in Europe," with Frank Aarebrot, European Political Data (5).

 

1971

"A Demand-Driven File of British Political History," with William Miller and Richard Rose. Historical Methods Newsletter (IV). Reprinted in the Social Science Research Council Newsletter (14) 1972.

 

"A Non-Election in America? Predicting the Results of the 1970 Mid-Term Election for the United States House of Representatives" British Journal of Political Science (1) 508-513.

   Book reviews in the American Political Science Review, Party Politics, and other journals.

 


C.

2007


CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES (or go to Books, Articles, Reports)

"Effects of Space and Time on Turnout in European Parliament Elections" in Wouter van der Brug and Cees van der Eijk (eds.) European Elections and Domestic Politics: Lessons from the Past and Scenarios for the Future, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.

 

 

"EU support and Party Choice" with Wouter van der Brug and Cees van der Eijk, in van der Brug and van der Eijk (2007).

 

"The Sleeping Giant: Potential for Political Mobilization of Disaffection in Europe" with Cees van der Eijk, in van der Brug and van der Eijk (2007).

 

"European Elections, Domestic Politics and European Integration" with Wouter van der Brug , Cees van der Eijk, et al., in van der Brug and van der Eijk (2007).

 

“European Election Studies,” in Yvesd Deloye and Michael Bruter (eds.) Encyclopaedia of European Elections (London: Palgrave Macmillan) 151-153.

 

2005

"European Elections and the European Voter" in Jeremy Richardson (ed.) European Union: Power and Policy-Making, 3rd Edition (London: Longman) in press. Revision of a 2001 article.

 

 

"Enquetes sur les Elections Europeennes" in Yves Deloye (ed.) Dictionnaire des Elections Europeennes, Paris: Editions Economica (reprinted in translation). View English language version

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