José María Maravall

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File:(Maravall) Javier Solana en la rueda de prensa posterior al Consejo de Ministros junto al ministro de Educación y Ciencia (cropped).jpeg

José María Maravall Herrero, FBA (Madrid, 1942) is a Spanish academic and a politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Education

Maravall holds doctorates from both the Complutense University of Madrid and Oxford University, as well as a Honorary D.Litt. from Warwick University.{{cite news |title=Un sociólogo de Oxford con una biografía agitada |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1982/12/03/espana/407718016_850215.html# |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=EL PAÍS |date=3 December 1982 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124005746/https://elpais.com/diario/1982/12/03/espana/407718016_850215.html |archive-date=24 January 2018}}

Career

Maravall was, until his retirement, the director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CEACS -Juan March Institute in Madrid) and a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has taught at the University of Warwick and, as a visiting professor, at the universities of New York (NYU), Columbia, Harvard, and the European University Institute (Florence). He has had a long personal political experience, first in underground anti-Francoist politics and later, under democracy, in social democratic politics. He was the Spanish Minister of Education and Science from 1982 to 1988, and was a member of the Spanish Parliament.{{cite book | editor-last=Boyd-Barrett | editor-first=O. | editor-last2=O'Malley | editor-first2=P. |chapter=The pre-history of educational reform in Spain |first= José María |last=Maravall| title=Education Reform in Contemporary Spain | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2002 | isbn=978-1-134-87441-5 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WMWIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 | access-date=2024-04-16 | page=41}}

Awards and honors

Maravall is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College (Oxford), a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web |title=Professor José María Maravall FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/jose-maria-maravall-FBA |publisher=The British Academy |access-date=16 April 2024}} He is a "Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques" in France and has won the National Award for Political Science and Sociology in Spain.

Works

  • Dictatorship and Political Dissent (Dictadura y Disentimiento Político), St. Martin's Press, 1978
  • The Transition to Democracy in Spain (La Política de la Transición), St. Martin's Press, 1982
  • Economic Reforms in New Democracies (co-author with Luiz Carlos Bresser and Adam Przeworski), Cambridge University Press, 1993
  • Los Resultados de la Democracia, Alianza Editorial, 1995
  • Regimes, Politics and Markets, Oxford University Press, 1997
  • El Control de los Políticos, Taurus, 2003
  • Democracy and the Rule of Law (co-editor with Adam Przeworski), Cambridge University Press, 2003
  • La Confrontación Politica, Taurus, 2008
  • Controlling Governments (co-editor with Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca), Cambridge University Press 2008
  • Las Promesas Políticas, Galaxia Gutenberg 2013
  • Demands on Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2016
  • La Democracia y la Izquierda, Galaxia Gutenberg 2021.

References

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