Mark Newman Franklin (born January 29, 1942) is a political scientist specializing in voting and elections. Since September 2006, Franklin had been the inaugural Stein Rokkan Professor of Comparative Politics at the

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...

(EUI) until he retired in 2011. He is the founder of the Public Opinion and Participation Section of the European Union Studies Association, and was the President of the European Politics and Society section of the

American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, ...

. He was John R. Reitemeyer

Professor Emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

International Politics International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the Scientific method, scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities betwe ...

Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...

until he retired in 2007 and

Local Affiliate In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or al ...

at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He got his BA and MA from

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. In 1970, he competed his PhD at the

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

Works

*''Electoral Change'' (1992) *''Choosing Europe? The European Electorate and National Politics in the Face of Union'' (1996), with Cees van der Eijk *''Voter Turnout''(2004) *''The Economy and the Vote: Economic Conditions and Elections in Fifteen Countries'' (2007), with Cees van der Eijk *''Elections and Voters'' (2009), with Cees van der Eijk

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Franklin, Mark N 20th-century political scientists 21st-century political scientists Cornell University alumni 1942 births Living people