Carles Boix i Serra (born 29 June 1962, in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

) is a Spanish and American

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

specializing in

comparative politics Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the ''comparative method'' or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relatin ...

, currently teaching at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

. He is a leading scholar in empirical democratic theory and comparative political economy. Boix attended the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona ( ca, Universitat de Barcelona, UB; ; es, link=no, Universidad de Barcelona) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, in Spain. With 63,000 students, it is one of the biggest universities i ...

in his hometown, and earned his master's degree and doctorate from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He taught at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

and the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

before joining the Princeton University Department of Politics faculty, where he is Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at the

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...

. Boix has published ''Political Parties, Growth and Equality'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998), ''Democracy and Redistribution'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003), ''Political Order and Inequality'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and ''Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads'' (Princeton University Press, 2019). He co-edited the ''Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics'' (Oxford University Press, 2007) and has published in leading journals such as ''American Political Science Review'', ''American Journal of Political Science'', ''British Journal of Political Science'', ''Journal of Law, Economics and Organization'', ''Journal of Politics'', ''International Organization'', and ''World Politics''. Boix received a

Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 2004, while at

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. In 2010, he was named a fellow of the

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Major works

* ''Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads. Technological Change and the Future of Politics.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. * ''Political Order and Inequality.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. * ''Democracy and Redistribution.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. * ''Political Parties, Growth, and Equality. Conservative and Social Democratic Strategies in the World Economy.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

References

1962 births Living people Writers from Barcelona University of Barcelona alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni Ohio State University faculty Princeton University faculty University of Chicago faculty 21st-century Spanish writers Social scientists from Catalonia Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies {{Catalonia-scientist-stub