Stein Rokkan Chair: Comparative Politics & Democracy Research

The European University Institute invites applications for the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political and Social Sciences in Florence, Italy. The chair welcomes candidates across career stages within the full professor rank who show a distinguished record in scholarship and in postgraduate teaching and doctoral supervision.

We particularly value work that examines political cleavages, state-building, democracy's roots, and uses robust historical or comparative