Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca is a Spanish social scientist based at the

Charles III University of Madrid University Charles III of Madrid ( es, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad rang ...

. He has been the director of the Instituto Carlos III-Juan March since its creation in 2013 from CEACS. Sánchez-Cuenca, who earned his doctorate in

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

, has served as associate professor of sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca and associate professor in the Political Science Department at the

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

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 ...

. He has also been a

visiting scholar In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

and

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, and taught courses in methodology at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas in Madrid. His areas of study include

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

and the

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(GATT) negotiations.

Critique

Daniel Gascón, writing in the Mexican magazine ''

Letras Libres ''Letras Libres'' is a Spanish-language monthly literary magazine published in Mexico and Spain. History and profile ''Letras Libres'', printed since 1999 in Mexico and since 2001 in Spain, has an average of eighteen to twenty articles per issue ...

'', argued Sánchez-Cuenca's ''La desfachatez intelectual'' is something of a humorous

fisking Robert Fisk (12 July 194630 October 2020) was a writer and journalist who held British and Irish citizenship. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians. His stanc ...

of his political targets, and gave it a mixed review.

Works

*''Controlling Governments'' (2008) *''Más democracia y menos liberalismo'' (2010) *''Años de cambios, años de crisis. Ocho años de gobiernos socialistas'' (2012) *''Democracia y socialdemocracia. Homenaje a José María Maravall'' (2012) *''Atado y mal atado. El suicidio institucional del franquismo y el surgimiento de la democracia'' (2014) *''La impotencia democrática. Sobre la crisis política española'' (2014) *''La desfachatez intelectual'' (2016)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez-Cuenca, Ignacio Spanish sociologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Complutense University of Madrid alumni Academic staff of the Charles III University of Madrid Academic staff of Pompeu Fabra University Academic staff of the University of Salamanca El País columnists