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Dr Mark Donovan - PhD, MSc, BA

Overview

Mark Donovan Position: Senior Lecturer Student case & Personal Tutor Co-ordinator Email: Donovan@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 208 74727
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74946
Extension: 74727
Location: Room 1.23a, 65-68 Park Place
Office hours: Monday, 12:30 - 13:30
Tuesday, 10:30 - 11:30

I am interested in political parties and party systems, elections and referendums, party system change and electoral reform. I am particularly interested in party system theory and in party and electoral politics in Italy, especially of the centre and right and I am currently writing a book on the Italian party system and its parties. More generally, I am interested in all aspects of Italian government and politics.

I have supervised two PhDs to completion, one on Italian foreign policy and one on the Northern League. I am currently supervising a PhD on women’s employment policy in Italy, 1996-2006.

 

Research Group

European Governance, Identities and Public Policies

Related Links

Modern Italy Journal
West European Politics Journal
Italian Politics Specialist Group of the PSA

Publications

 

Biography

Career profile

I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Russian and Soviet Studies from Portsmouth in 1977. After 8 years in employment, approximately half of which I spent in Germany, where I learnt German, I returned to the academic dimension of the real world, obtaining an MSc (Distinction) at the LSE (in West European Politics) in 1986. I then completed a PhD, also at the LSE, on the strategy of the Italian Christian Democratic Party. Since 1990, I have been in Cardiff. Between 1994-2000, I was Reviews Editor for West European Politics and from1999-2005 I was Joint Editor of Modern Italy, the flagship journal of the The Association of Modern Italy.

Memberships / External Activities

I am a member of the PSA (Political Studies Association), of its Specialist Group in Italian Politics, and of ASMI (Association for the Study of Modern Italy).

Teaching profile

In Year 1, I co-teach both Introduction to Government and Introduction to Political Science. In Year 2 I teach a triple module in Italian Government and Politics. At Masters level I co-teach a module on 'Public Opinion, Parties and Democracy', and am entirely responsible for the modules: 'Research Methods: Approaches to Knowledge', ‘State Crisis: Changing Governance in Italy’ and 'Parties, Party Systems and Democracy'.