Mark N. Franklin is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor Emeritus at Trinity College Connecticut (USA). In retirement he was the inaugural holder of the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has also held retirement positions at Nuffield College Oxford (England) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). He has published twenty books and over one hundred refereed articles and chapters regarding elections, voters, parties, public policy and relevant methodological topics.
