Jabarkan Pendidikan dari Pratikno

SMPP Bojonegoro (sekarang SMA Negeri 2 Bojonegoro)

S1 (Drs.) Ilmu Pemerintahan, Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, 1985.

S2, M.Soc.Sc. pada Development Administration, Birmingham University, Inggris, 1990.

S3, Ph.D. pada Political Science, Flinders University, Australia, 1997.

Profesor Ilmu Politik, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, Desember 2008.

Dekan Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Politik, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (2008-2012).

Moderator for Final Presidential Debate, in Indonesia, held by Commission of General Election and broadcasted by all national TV station in Indonesia, July 2009.

Lecturer at Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (1986-now).

Chief Manager of Postgraduate Program on Local Politics and Regional Autonomy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta Indonesia (2003-2008).

Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2001-2004).

Member of Expert Team for Ministry of Home Affairs, Republic of Indonesia.

Member of Academic Board for the cooperation between Universitas Gadjah Mada and Agder University College, Kristiansen, Norway (1998-2003).

Indonesian Counterpart for the cooperation between Universitas Gadjah Mada and National University of Singapore and some other Universities in Asia and Australia (2001-2008).

Manager for the cooperation between Postgraduate Program on Local Politics and Regional Autonomy Universitas Gadjah Mada and the Department of Asian Studies, Flinders University of South Australia (2003).

Indonesian Counterpart for the cooperation between Institute Development Studies, Brighton, UK; Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India; Lahore University of Management Science, Pakistan, and Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia (2004-2006).

Manager for the cooperation between the Faculty of Social and Political Science Universitas Gadjah Mada with the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Carribean Studies/ the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal, Land, en Volkenkunde (KITLV, Leiden) (2007-2011).

Permanent Indonesian Counterpart for Asia Barometer, Tokyo University and Chuo University, Japan. (2004-2009).

Board for the cooperation between Center for East and South East Asian Sosial Studies (CESSAS) Universitas Gadjah Mada with Oslo University, Norway and Colombo University, Sri Lanka (2007-2009).