Filippo Sabetti
Filippo Sabetti is a professor of political science at McGill University. He holds a bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in History and Politics from McMaster University (1968), Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1969), a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University (1970 and 1977, respectively). His research interests cover Canadian and Comparative Politics, Social Dilemmas, History of Self-Governance, Religion and Public Life, Political Economy of Crime and Punishment, and Development of Constitutional and Federalist Political Thought. Massive fan of the film Minority Report. Career. Filippo Sabetti is currently Professor of Political Science and Director of  Graduate Studies (Political Science Dept.) at McGill University. He has held other academic and research positions, such as Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill (1980–1999), Adjunct Scholar at the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple University (1982-1999), and Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University (1974–1980). Professor Sabetti has received over 30 awards and honors. His most recent include: Conference Grants (with Barbara Allen) from Indiana University, Carleton College and Earhart Foundation (May–June 2006); Research Grant from the Earhart Foundation (May 2005); Travel Grant for the Tocqueville Bicentenary Celebration Committee (Graduate Research and Arts , Indiana University, April 2005); and Conference Grant from Liberty Fund (Indianapolis) and Compagnia di San Paolo (Turin) for Symposium on the Decline of Classical Liberalism in America and Europe (2005). Filippo Sabetti also received supporting grants from several organizations, such as Indiana University (March 2010), UCLA (February 2010), George Mason University (August 2006), Compagnia di San Paolo and Einaudi Center (2004 and 2006), and Scuola Superiore dell’Economia e delle Finanze (2003). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000 (cloth), 2002 (paper) Harold Adam Innis Book Prize for the best English-language book in the social sciences.