CURRICULUM VITAE
CARLES BOIX
406 Robertson Hall Phone (609) 258-2139 Princeton University E-mail: [email protected] Princeton, NJ 08544
EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Political Science. Harvard University. June 1995.
Master in Public Administration (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University): June 1990.
B.A. in History (University of Barcelona, Spain): June 1986.
B.A. in Law (University of Barcelona, Spain): June 1985.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs. School of Politics and Public Affairs and Department of Politics. Princeton University. Since January 2011.
Distinguished Researcher and Director of the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group at the University of Barcelona. Since January 2017.
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs. School of Politics and Public Affairs and Department of Politics. Princeton University. July 2006-December 2010.
Professor. Department of Political Science. The University of Chicago. July 2005-June 2006.
Associate Professor. Department of Political Science. The University of Chicago. July 2001 - June 2005.
Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science. The University of Chicago. July 1999 - June 2001.
Assistant Professor. Departments of Political Science and Economics, The Ohio State University. September 1995-June 1999.
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Visiting Professor at Center for Advanced Social Studies, Juan March Foundation, Madrid, Fall 1997.
Visiting Professor at the Departments of Political Science and of Economics. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. 1996-97, Spring 1998.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2017 CHOICE’s outstanding academic title award by ACRL to Political Order and Inequality
2016 Corresponding Member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
2015 American Political Science Association Heinz Eulau Award for Best Article Published in the American Political Science Review in 2014 to “Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality.”
2012 Premi de Periodisme Catalunya Oberta.
2010 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2004-05 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.
2004-05 German Marshall Foundation Fellowship.
2004 American Political Science Association William Riker Award for Best Book on Political Economy to Democracy and Redistribution.
2004 Society for Comparative Research Mattei Dogan Award for Best Book in Comparative Research to Democracy and Redistribution.
2002 Award for Best Essay given by Idees and the Centre d’Estudis en Temes Contemporanis - Barcelona to L’obertura catalana.
2000 American Political Science Association Heinz Eulau Award for Best Article Published in the American Political Science Review in 1999 to “Setting the Rules of the Game. The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies”.
2000 Spanish Political Science Association Award for Best Book in Political Science published in the previous five years to Partidos políticos, crecimiento e igualdad.
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1999 American Political Science Association William Riker Award for Best Book on Political Economy to Political Parties, Growth and Equality.
1995 Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in Politics completed at Harvard.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2019 Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads. Technological Change and the Future of Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2015 Political Order and Inequality. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2012 Cartes Ianquis. Un passeig sense servituds per Catalunya i el món. Barcelona: A Contravent.
2007 Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. Co-editor with Susan Stokes. New York: Oxford University Press.
2003 Democracy and Redistribution. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Translation to Chinese: Beijing University Press, 2011.
2002 L’obertura catalana. Estratègies polítiques del catalanisme en un món interdependent. Barcelona: Idees Assaig.
2002 Partits polítics i sistemes electorals. Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Electronic book for one-semester course in Catalonia’s virtual university. (www.uoc.edu)
2000 Per què la democràcia funcioni. La importància del capital social. Edition and translation to Catalan of Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work. Barcelona: Proa.
1998 Political Parties, Growth, and Equality. Conservative and Social Democratic Strategies in the World Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
1996 Partidos políticos, crecimiento e igualdad. Estrategias económicas conservadoras y socialdemócratas en democracias avanzadas. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
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Refereed Articles
2020 “From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s.” Jointly with Francesc Amat, Jordi Muñoz and Toni Rodon. Journal of Politics 82 (October): 1559-75
2019 “Endogenous Parliaments: The Domestic and International Roots of Long-Term Economic Growth and Executive Constraints in Europe” Jointly with Scott Abramson. International Organization. 73(4): 793-837.
2014 Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality. American Political Science Review 108 (February): 1-21. Jointly with Frances Rosenbluth.
2013 A Complete Dataset of Political Regimes, 1800-2007. Jointly with Michael K. Miller and Sebastian Rosato. Comparative Political Studies. December.
2013 The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government. Institutions and Power- Sharing in Dictatorships. Journal of Politics 75 (April): 300-316. Jointly with Milan Svolik.
2011 Democracy, Development and the International System. American Political Science Review 105 (November): 809-828.
2010 Electoral Markets, Party Strategies and Proportional Representation. American Political Science Review 104 (May): 404-413.
2010 Origins and Persistence of Inequality. Annual Review of Political Science 13: 489– 516.
2009 The Conditional Relationship between Inequality and Development. PS: Political Science and Politics 42(4): 645-649.
2008 Economic Roots of Civil Wars and Revolutions in the Contemporary World. World Politics 60 (April).
2003 Endogenous Democratization. World Politics 55 ( July): 517-49. Jointly with Susan Stokes. (Published in Chinese in: Open Times, 2008, no. 194: 130-151.)
2003 Are You Being Served? Political Accountability and Governmental Performance. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. 19 (Fall): 445-90. Jointly with Alícia Adserà and Mark Payne.
2002 Trade, Democracy and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness. International Organization 56 (Spring): 229-62. With Alícia Adserà.
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2001 Democracy, Development and the Public Sector. American Journal of Political Science 45 (January): 1-17.
2000 Partisan Governments, the International Economy and Macroeconomic Policies in OECD Countries, 1964-93. World Politics 53: 38-73.
2000 Must We Choose? European Unemployment, American Inequality and the Impact of Education and Labor Market Institutions. In European Journal of Political Economy 16 (November): 611-638. Jointly with Alícia Adserà.
2000 Las bases sociales y políticas de la abstención en las elecciones generales españolas: recursos individuales, movilización estratégica e instituciones electorales. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 90 (April-June): 98-125. Jointly with Clara Riba.
1999 Setting the Rules of the Game. The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies. American Political Science Review 93 (September): 609-624.
1998 Social Capital: Explaining Its Origins and Effects on Governmental Performance. British Journal of Political Science, October, pp. 686-693. With Daniel Posner.
1997 Political Parties and the Supply Side of the Economy: The Provision of Physical and Human Capital in Advanced Economies. American Journal of Political Science, 41(3), pp. 814-845.
1997 Privatizating the Public Business Sector in the Eighties: Economic Performance, Partisan Responses and Divided Governments. British Journal of Political Science, 27, pp. 473-496. (Reprinted in Vincent Wright and Luisa Perrott, eds. 1999. The International Library of Comparative Public Policy. Privatization and Public Policy. Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar. 2 vols.)
1997 Debemos elegir? Desempleo europeo, desigualdad americana y las instituciones del mercado laboral. Cuadernos Económicos del ICE. With Alícia Adserà.
1993 Hacia una administración pública eficaz: modelo institucional y cultura profesional en la prestación de servicios públicos. Gestión y análisis de políticas públicas, 1.
1993/94 Introduction and edition of a set of papers on comparative political economics, “Modelos político-institucionales de política económica,” in Hacienda Pública Española, vol. 126-127.
1993 Crecimiento económico y modernización institucional del Sector Público. Ekonomiaz. Revista de Economía, 26, pp. 16-43. With Miguel A. Lasheras and Jesús
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Ruiz-Huerta.
1991 Partisan Voting in the Spanish 1986 NATO Referendum: An Ecological Analysis. Electoral Studies, 10, pp. 18-32. With James E. Alt.
1990/91 Promesas y límites del policy analysis en los Estados Unidos. Documentación Administrativa, 224-225, pp. 155-182.
Book Chapters / Non-Refereed Papers
2020 “Catalonia and the right to self-determination.” In The Case of the Catalans: Why so many Catalans no longer want to be part of Spain (edited by Clara Ponsatí). Edinburgh: Luath Press. Chapter 6.
2020 “The Formation and Development of Liberal Democracies.” (Jointly with Will Horne and Alex Kerchner) Oxford Handbook of Political Representation. New York: Oxford University Press.
2020 “Electoral Realignments Across the Atlantic.” In Who Gets What? The New Politics of Insecurity (edited by Frances Rosenbluth and Margaret Weir). New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 9, pp. 213-236.
2017 “Chapter 38: Causal Models of Democratization.” In Sage Handbook of Political Sociology. Jointly with Michael K. Miller. Sage Press.
2015 “Prosperity and the Evolving Structure of Advanced Economies.” In The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (edited by Pablo Beramendi, Silja Hausermann, Herbert Kitschelt and Hans- Peter Kriesi). Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2.
2012 El auge de la socialdemocracia. In Adam Przeworski and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, eds. Democracia y socialdemocracia. Homenaje a José María Maravall. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales. Pages 195-240.
2011 Redistribution Policies in a Globalized World. In Marion Jansen & Marc Bachetta, ed. Making Globalization Socially Sustainable. Geneva: WTO-ILO. Chapter 8.
2011 War, Wealth and the Formation of States. Jointly with Bruno Codenotti and Giovanni Resta. In Norman Schofield, ed. Political Economy and Institutions, Springer-Verlag.
2009 Authoritarian Regimes and Political Institutions. In Enriqueta Aragonés, Carmen Beviá, Norman Schofield & Humberto Llavador, eds., The Political Economy of Democracy. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA. Chapter 6, pages 105-124.
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2009 The Nature of Federal Bargains: A Comment on Rodden’s “Federalism and Inter- Regional Redistribution”. In Albert Solé-Ollé, Núria Bosch, Marta Espasa, eds., Regional Fiscal Flows and the Stability of Federations. London: Edward Elgard.
2008 Civil Wars and Guerrilla Warfare in the Contemporary World. Toward a Joint Theory of Motivations and Opportunities. In Stathis Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro and Tarek Masoud, , ed., Order, Conflict and Violence. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 8, pages 197-218.
2008 Constitutions and Democratic Breakdowns. In José M. Maravall and Ignacio S. Cuenca, eds. Controlling Governments. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 8, pages 247-301. Jointly with Alicia Adsera.
2007 Emergence of Parties and Party Systems. In Carles Boix and Susan Stokes, ed. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics.
2007 Kempo to Democracy no Hokai (“Constitutions and Democratic Breakdowns”). In Hideko Magara & Masanobu Ido, eds., Kyohiken-Player to Seisaku Tenkan (Veto Players and Policy Change), Waseda University Press, 2007. Pages 82-117.
2006 Between Protectionsim and Compensation: The Political Economy of Trade. In Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles and Michael Wallerstein, eds. Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution. Princeton University and Russell Sage Foundation.
2006 Political Institutions and Fiscal Policy. The Political Economist. Winter.
2006 The Roots of Democracy. Policy Review. March.
2004 The Institutional Accommodation of an Enlarged Europe. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Berlin.
2004 The Public Sector. In Shahid Yusuf, M. Anjum Alraf and Kaoru Nabeshima, eds. Global Change and East Asian Policy Initiatives. World Bank and Oxford University Press: Washington, D.C. Chapter 6.
2000 Capital social y democracia. Revista de Ciencia Política 1. Jointly with Daniel Posner.
1999 La unió econòmica i monetària i l’ocupació a Catalunya. In Carles Boix, Ramon Caminal, Joan M. Esteban, Jordi Gual and Pedro Videla, Catalunya dins l’euro, Barcelona, Antoni Bosch ed., chapter 3. Jointly with Jordi Gual.
1997 Debemos elegir? Desempleo europeo, desigualdad americana y las instituciones del
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mercado laboral. Cuadernos Económicos del ICE. With Alícia Adserà.
1997 Searching for Competitiveness: The Spanish Public Sector in the 1980s and 1990s. In J. E. Lane, ed. Reforming the Public Sector, Sage, chapter 11.
Work in Progress
Working papers
2020 “The Struggle for Political Emancipation and the Formation of Modern National Identities.”
2020 “Family, Gender Norms, and Social Class: The Political Incorporation of Women in Sweden (1921-1960).” Jointly with Zsuzsana Magyar and Jordi Muñoz.
2020 “Democratizing from Within: British Elites and the Expansion of the Franchise.” Jointly with Chitralekha Basu, Sonia Giurumescu and Paulo Serôdio.
2020 “The Rise of Swedish Social Democracy.” Jointly with Zsuzsana Magyar.
2020 “Democracy Distorted: The Role of Malapportionment in Modern Representation.” Jointly with Pablo Beramendi, Marc Guinjoan and Melissa Rogers.
2020 “Development, Inequality, and the Survival of Democracy.” Jointly with Pablo Beramendi.
2020 “Elite Networks and Political Conflict in Postcolonial States,” Jointly with Manuel Vogt.
2020 “The Long Shadow of the Cross: Religon and Voting under France’s Third Republic.” Jointly with Christophe Levêque and Filip Kostelka.
2020 “Anglicans, Dissenters and Electoral Behavior in 19th-century Great Britain.” Jointly with Guillem Riambau.
2020 “The (Moral) Quality of Politicians.” Jointly with Amaney Jamal.
2019 “Parliamentary Unity in the Quasi-State of Nature: Evidence from the French Belle Epoque (1898-1914) .” Jointly with Christophe Levêque and Filip Kostelka.
2019 “Realignment on the British Left: From Liberalism to Socialism.” Jointly with Chitalekra Basu and Jordi Muñoz.
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2016 “Commerce, War and the Growth and Decline of Proto-Parliamentary Representation in Medieval and Modern Europe.” Jointly with Scott Abramson.
Book Reviews & Miscellaneous
2020 “Critical Dialogue. A Review of ‘Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century’ by Torben Iversen and David Soskice.” Perspectives on Politics 18 (June): 545-550.
2017 “Critical Dialogue. A Review of Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay” Perspectives on Politics 15 (June).
2016 Review of Amel Ahmed “Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System.” In The Journal of Politics, 78, No. 3 (July).
2011 Review of Richard Posner, “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.” In The Journal of Economics.
2010 Preface to “Quién Gobierna?” (Spanish Edition of Robert Dahl’s Who Governs?). Madrid: CSIC.
2002 Review of Simon Hug, “Altering Party Systems” (Michigan University Press). In Western European Politics.
2001 Review of Ton Noterman, “Money, Markets, and the State: Social Democratic Policies Since 1918.” (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). In American Political Science Review 95: 244-45.
1997 Spain's Economy in the Last Forty Years: Between Growth and Unemployment. A Book Review. South European Politics and Society, vol. 2, number 2.
1996 In Search of Democracy and Prosperity. A Critical Appraisal of Luis Carlos Bresser Pereira, José María Maravall and Adam Przeworski, Economic Reforms in New Democracies. A Social Democratic Approach and José María Maravall, Los resultados de la democracia. Un estudio del sur y el este de Europa. In Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, English Edition 1996, pp. 275-282.
Published Working Papers
2001 Democracy and Inequality. Centro de Estudios Sociales Avanzados Fundación Juan March Working Paper Series. January.
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2000 Are You Being Served? Political Accountability and Governmental Performance. Inter-American Development Bank Research Department. Working Paper # 438. Jointly with Alícia Adserà and Mark Payne.
1999 Setting the Rules of the Game. The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies. Working Paper Series, Departament d’Economia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. # 367, March.
1999 The Process of European Integration and Spanish Social Democracy. ARENA Working Paper, Oslo, Norway.
1998 Trade, Democracy and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness. Political Economy Working Papers Archive. Jointly with Alícia Adserà.
1998 Social Capital: The Politics Behind. ECPR News, 9(3): 13-14. With Daniel Posner.
1998 Partisan Governments and Macroeconomic Policies in OECD Countries. Centro de Estudios Sociales Avanzados Fundación Juan March Working Paper Series, June.
1996 Making Social Capital Work: A Review of Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Harvard University Center for International Affairs Working Paper Series, 96-4, 34 pp. With Daniel Posner.
1995 Building a Social Democratic Strategy in Southern Europe: Economic Policy under the Gonzalez Government (1982-93). Centro de Estudios Sociales Avanzados Fundación Juan March Working Paper Series, no. 69, May.
1994 Partisan Strategies and Supply-Side Policies in Industrialized Nations, 1960-1990. Center for European Studies Working Paper Series, no. 50, May.
SPONSORED RESEARCH
. ERC Advanced Senior Grant for “The Birth of Party Democracy”, 2017-21, €2.5 Million.
. NSF/EITM Grant for the proposal “Political Institutions and Democratic Stability,” 2004-06.
⋅ September 2000-June 2001. Fellowship at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, The University of Chicago, for the completion of the book manuscript, Democracy and Redistribution.
⋅ September 1996-August 1998. Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, $14,700. “The Public Sector, Economic Development, and
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Democracy: A World-Sample Analysis.”
⋅ April-November 1998. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Madrid. “Movilización estratégica y participación electoral: las bases políticas de la abstención en las elecciones generales españolas, 1977-1996.”
⋅ The Ohio State University Seed Grant Award,1996/1997 to finance the research project “Politics, Institutions, and Growth.”
⋅ Grant from the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May-July 1995, to stay in the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin.
DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship to complete Doctoral Research, Summer 1994.
Fellowship from the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Spain, for the completion of Doctoral Studies in Political Science and Public Administration, 1990- 94.
Fellowship from the Department of Government at Harvard University for tuition in Ph.D. program, 1990-92.
Fulbright Commission/CECO (Centro de Estudios Comerciales, Spanish Ministry of Trade) Fellowship for the Study of Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1988-90.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, CONFERENCES AND PANELS
. “Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads?” Seminar presentation, Presented at Yale University, March 2016; Texas A&M, March 2017; MIT, October 2017; Harvard, October 2017: Oxford University, November 2017; University of Nottingham, November 2017; Yale University, May 2018; Roosevelt Institute, September 2019. Lectures: Ateneu de Barcelona, February 2020; Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, June 2020; Economic History RIDGE, December 2020.
. “The Struggle for Political Emancipation and the Formation of Modern National Identities.” Paper presented at Sciences Po - Institut d'études politiques de Paris, February 2017; LSE, January 2018. European Political Science Association Meetings, June 2020, IPErG- University of Barcelona Workshop, October 2020.
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.“Development, Inequality, and the Survival of Democracy.” American Political Science Association Meetings, September 2020.
.“Elite Networks and Political Conflict in Postcolonial States,” American Political Science Association Meetings, September 2020.
.“Anglicans, Dissenters and Electoral Behavior in 19th-century Great Britain,” American Political Science Association Meetings, September 2020.
. “Democratizing from Within: British Elites and the Expansion of the Franchise.” European Political Science Association Meetings in Vienna (June 2018), American Political Science Association meetings in Boston (August 2018), European Political Science Association meetings in Belfast (June 2019), and seminars at the University of Maryland (April 2019), the University of Nottingham (February 2019), NYU Abu Dhabi (March 2019), and the University of Zurich (May 2019).
. “The Rise of Swedish Social Democracy,” EPSA, Vienna, June 2018 and Belfast, June 2019, EPOP in Glasgow, September 2019, APSA, Boston, August 2018 and Washington, August 2019.
. The Long Shadow of the Cross: Religion and Voting in 19th-Century France.” Presented in the European Political Science Association Meetings in Vienna (June 2018), American Political Science Association meetings in Boston (August 2018), European Political Science Association meetings in Belfast (June 2019).
. “Realignment on the British Left: From Liberalism to Socialism.” Presented in the European Political Science Association Meetings in Vienna (June 2018), American Political Science Association meetings in Boston (August 2018), European Political Science Association meetings in Belfast (June 2019).
. “Legislative Party Unity in the Quasi-State of Nature: Evidence from the French Belle Epoque (1898-1914)." Presented in the European Political Science Association Meetings in Vienna (June 2018), American Political Science Association meetings in Boston (August 2018).
. “From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s.” Jointly with Francesc Amat, Jordi Muñoz and Toni Rodon. Presented at CSDP-Princeton, December 2015; EPSA Meetings 2016; APSA Meetings 2016.
. “Commerce, War and the Growth and Decline of Proto-Parliamentary Representation in Medieval and Modern Europe.” Presented at APSA Meetings 2015.
. “The Roots of the Industrial Revolution: Political Institutions or (Historically-Embedded) Know-How?” Paper presented in the research workshop “New historical and theoretical
12 perspectives on the choice of political institutions,” Princeton University, May 2012; Rochester University, September 2012; CSDP, Princeton University, November 2012; Columbia University, December 2012; Harvard University, February 2013; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, May 2013; EPSA, June 2013; Conference on Empirical Methods in Economic History, CIDE, Mexico City, May 2014; Stanford University, February 2015; Bocconi University, Milan, April 2015; Allied Social Sciences Association Meetings, San Francisco, January 2016; University of California at Berkeley, February 2017; New School of Economics, Moscow, October 2017.
⋅”A Theory of State Formation and the Origins of Inequality” & “Political Order and Inequality” Presented at the University of Virginia, September 12, 2008; Duke University, February 2009; Yale University, April 2009; Stanford University, May 2009; University of Chicago, October 2009; London School of Economics, January 2010; John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, February 2010; Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 2010; Cornell University, February 2011; University of Maryland, March 2011; Conference on Comparative Historical Research, Centro de Estudios Sociales Avanzados, Madrid, October 2011; HiCN Workshop, Barcelona, November 2011; University of Michigan, February 2012; Political Economy Annual Seminar, Georgetown University, April 2012; University of Zurich, May 2012; Conference on War and Political Change, Yale University, October 2012; European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, April 2014; Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Summer School Plenary Lecture, July 2014; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 2015; ETH-Zurich, April 2015; Brown University, April 2015; High School of Economics, Moscow, October 2017; Santa Fe Institute, April 2018.
. “Democracy, Development and the International System”, Paper Presented at CSDP, Princeton University, April 2010; Yale University, June 2010; International Symposium on Governance, Hangzhou, China, November 2011; Peking University, Beijing, November 2011; Conference on Causes and Consequences of Radical Political Transition, Stanford Graduate School of Business, May 2012.
. “State-Building in Historical Perspective”. State Building Workshop, St Catherine's College, Oxford University, September 2010.
. “Notícia de Catalunya Revisited: The Political Essays by Vicens Vives Sixty Years Later”. Workshop on “A New History for a New Country: A Celebration of J. Vicens Vives.” Yale University, November 2010.
⋅ “The Rise of Social Democracy”. Presented at Centro de Estudios Sociales Avanzados, Instituto Juan March, Madrid, June 2010; Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 2010.
⋅ “The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government. Institutions and Power-Sharing in Dictatorships.” Paper presented at Comparative Politics Workshop, UCLA, May 2007;
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Conference on the “The Political Economy of Democracy”, UAB-IEA, Barcelona, June 2008; American Political Science Association Meetings, Boston, 2008; Political Economy Workshop, Princeton University, November 2009.
⋅ “War, Wealth and the Formation of State Systems.” Paper presented at Fundación Juan March, October 27th, 2004; Comparative Politics Workshop, The University of Chicago, April 21st, 2004; 2006 APSA Annual Meeting; 2006 IPES Meeting; Paris School of Economics, January 2008.
⋅ “The Birth of Party Democracy. The Formation of Party Systems in Advanced Democracies.” Paper presented at Comparative Politics Workshop, Northwestern University, Spring 2005; Comparative Politics Workshop, Stanford University, May 2005; Comparative Politics Workshop, Columbia University, April 2006.
⋅ “Are Social Pacts Feasible in Latin America?” Paper presented at the Conference “Economic Policies for a New Social pact in Latin America,” organized by CIDOB and IADB in preparation of the 2006 Annual Meeting of Presidents and Heads of State of Latin America.
⋅ “Poverty and Democracy”. Conference organized by the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. January 2006. Discussant and closing speaker.
⋅ “Political Modernization 50th Years Later,” Fundación Juan March, January 25th, 2005.
⋅ “Political Institutions and Democratic Stability: A Survival Analysis.” Paper presented at APSA Meeting 2003; ISNIE Conference, Tucson, Arizona, October 1, 2004; Waseda University, Tokyo, January 17, 2005.
⋅ “Political Violence.” Paper presented at Macroeconomics Workshop, Department of Economics, Boston University, October 7th, 2004; Department of Politics, Princeton University, January 11th, 2005; Nuffield College, January 2008.
⋅”Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality.” Paper presented for the American Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, 2-5 September, 2004; Political Institutions and Economic Policy Workshop, Princeton University, May 7th, 2005.
⋅ “Catalonia in Spain: Between Secession and Intervention”. Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Iberian Study Group. March 5th, 2004.
⋅ “Between Protectionism and Trade: Protectionism versus Compensatory Free Trade: Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution,” Santa Fe Institute, May 2002; Minnesota University, November 13th, 2003; Emory University, February 13th, 2004.
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⋅ “The Political Economy of Trade and Economic Integration: A Review Essay.” Presentation at the Conference on Regional Integration and Trade in the Development Agenda organized by the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC. May 31st-June 1st 2001.
⋅ “Are You Being Served? Political Accountability and Governmental Performance,” paper presented at the Workshop on the Performance of Democracy, Harvard University, October 25th, 2000; 2001 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association; 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29th 2002; Fundación Juan March, March 6th, 2002.
⋅ “The Origins of Party Alignments: Electoral Mobilization in Belgium, Britain and Sweden from 1880 to 1940,” 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington; Yale University, May 3rd, 2004; Stanford University, May 10th, 2004.
⋅ Participant at the seminar on “Research Frontiers in International Relations” in La Jolla, University of California at San Diego, 14-15 April 2000.
⋅ “Democracy, Inequality and Country-Specific Wealth,” paper presented at the Fundación Juan March, Madrid, December 16th, 1999; Department of Political Science, Washington University, March 3rd, 2000; Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 28th, 2000; Political Economy Workshop, Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago, May 11th, 2000; 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington; Harvard-MIT Positive Political Economy Workshop, October 27th, 2000; Department of Political Science, McGill University, December 4th, 2000; Kellogg Institute, Notre Dame University, February 20th, 2001; Kennedy School of Government, February 26th, 2001; 2001 Public Choice Meeting; 2001 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association; Department of Political Science, UCLA, May 3rd, 2001; Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, May 17th, 2001; 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August; European Political Research Consortium Annual Meeting, Canterbury, September 2001; CIDE, Mexico City, October 19th, 2001; Instituto de Ciencia Política, Montevideo, Uruguay, November 7th, 2001; Stanford University, February 8th, 2002; Yale University, February 25th, 2002; Fundación Juan March, March 5th, 2002; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, March 11th, 2002; Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 23rd, 2002; Political Economy Workshop, Princeton University, October 2002; VIII Summer School on “The Design and Consequences of Constitutions” co-sponsored by the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation and the University of the Basque Country (UPV), San Sebastian, 12-15 July, 2004.
⋅ “The Process of European Integration and Spanish Social Democracy,@ paper presented at the European Community Studies Association, Pittsburgh, June 3rd, 1999.
⋅ “Setting the Rules of the Game. The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies,” paper presented at: 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington; Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, at the Fundación 15
Juan March, 16 October 1997; Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago, January 15th, 1999; Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., April 27th, 1999.
⋅ “Trade, Democracy and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 15, 1999; Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, The University of Virginia, February 12, 1999: Workshop on Politics, Nations and States in Comparative Perspective, The University of Chicago, 13 October1999.
⋅ “The Size of Government. Economic Development, Trade, and Democratic Institutions,” Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Mass.
⋅ “The Size of the Public Sector, Democracy, and Development: A World-Sample Analysis.” Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington. Paper presented at the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Fundación Juan March, December 9th, 1997.
⋅ “Macroeconomic Policies in OECD Countries.” Paper presented in the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 28th-September 1st, 1996.
⋅ “Do Social Democrats Care About Unemployment? Partisanship and the Resolution of the Growth-Equality Trade-Off,” paper presented in: the IV Workshop on European Political Economy and Institutions, Berlin, June 19th-21st, 1995; 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 31st - September 3rd, 1995; Junior Faculty Research Seminar, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, February 1996.
⋅ Research seminars, “Political Parties, Growth and Equality” and “Building a Social Democratic Strategy in Southern Europe” in the Centro de Estudios Sociales Avanzados, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, May 25th and 26th, 1995.
⋅ “State and Public Administration in Spain,@ paper presented in the conference “Twenty Years of Iberian Democracy: An Assessment@, Center for European Studies, April 7th-9th, 1995.
⋅ Chair in panel “The Evolution of the British Model” in the IV Workshop on European Political Economy and Institutions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 18th-19th, 1994.
⋅ “Partisan Strategies and Supply-Side Policies in Industrialized Nations, 1960-1990,” paper presented in the seminar “State and Capitalism in Europe,” Center for European Studies,
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Harvard University, March 1994; and in the 1994 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1994.
⋅ “Building a Social Democratic Strategy in Southern Europe: Economic Policy under the Gonzalez Government (1982-93),” paper presented in the Iberian Group Study, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 1994.
⋅ “Policy analysis y gestión de servicios: dos respuestas actuales a los problemas de la administración pública,” paper presented at the conference “Gestión y evaluación de políticas públicas. Jornadas sobre la modernización de las administraciones públicas,” Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública, Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas, Madrid, Spain, June 1st-3rd, 1992.
⋅ “Garantías jurídicas y eficacia de la administración,” paper presented at the “Escuela de Verano de Hacienda Pública,” Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda, Jaca, Huesca, Spain, August 1990.
OTHER SCHOLAR ACTIVITIES
⋅ Chair of Comparative Politics Division, APSA Annual Meeting 2005.
⋅ Co-Director of the Workshop on Comparative Politics. The University of Chicago.
⋅ Member of the Heinz Eulau Award Committee for the best paper published in the American Political Science Review in 2001.
⋅ Associate at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, September 1992 - June 1995.
⋅ Participant at the German American Academic Council Summer Institute “Institutions and Economic Performance in Advanced Economies since 1945,” Berlin (July 1998) and Stanford (July 1999).
⋅ Referee for following journals: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Hacienda Pública Española, Political Science Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Southern European Politics and Society, World Politics.
⋅ Referee for following presses: Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, St Martin’s Press.
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⋅ Member of the organizing committee of the conference “Twenty Years of Iberian Democracy: An Assessment,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 7th-9th, 1995.
PHD STUDENTS (and position)
Scott Abramson (University of Rochester) Michael Becher (Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse) Graeme Blair (UCLA) Deborah Boucoyannis (George Washington University) Zeynep Bulutgil (Tufts University) Matthew Cleary (Syracuse University) Michael Hoffman (Notre Dame University) Gwyneth McClendon (NYU) Michael Miller (George Washington University) Nikola Mirilovic (University of Florida) Ezequiel Molina (World Bank) Elena Nikolova (UCL) Christian Ponce de Leon (Government of Mexico, CIDE) Joan Ricart-Huguet (Loyola University Maryland) Jonathan Rothwell (Senior Economist @ Gallup) Milan Svolik (Yale University) Maya Tudor (Oxford University) Carlos Velasco (Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse, France)
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