Name Josep Colomer | Role Author | |
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Books The Science of Politics: A, Political institutions, Great Empires - Small Nat, Strategic transitions, Game theory and the transit | ||
Josep M. Colomer is a scholar and professor and author in political science and political economy and author of numerous theoretical and comparative studies. He is currently affiliated with Georgetown University and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago, a research professor at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), and taught at numerous institutions, including the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Pompeu Fabra University, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques SciencesPo in Paris, the University of Bristol, FLACSO and CIDE in Mexico city, and New York University.
Background
Josep Colomer's areas of expertise include democratization, forms of government, voting systems, European politics, and international institutions. Colomer is the author of 17 books and the editor of 8 books, which have been published in 42 editions in five languages, and author of about 200 academic articles and book chapters, including in The American Political Science Review, Constitutional Political Economy, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Science, European Political Science, Government and Opposition, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Nationalities Papers, Political Studies, PS: Political Science & Politics, Public Choice, Rationality and Society, Social Choice and Welfare, as well as in the Oxford Handbook of Political Science and all major encyclopedias in the field. He is Associate Editor of Research and Politics and Senior Editor in Political Institutions of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.
Colomer was a founding member of the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA), is a life member of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and of the Mexican Association of Political Sciences, and a member by election of the Academia Europaea. He has obtained the APSA’s Leon Weaver Award for the best paper on representation and electoral systems; the Prat de la Riba Award of the Catalan Academy for the best book in philosophy and the social sciences in a period of five years for Great Empires, Small Nations, which was also short-listed for the first Europe Book Prize given at the European Parliament; the biannual prize to the best book of the AECPA for Political Institutions; and the Anagrama Award for essays for Game Theory and the Transition to Democracy.