José María Maravall Herrero is a

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academic and a politician of the

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Education

Maravall holds

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s from both the

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and

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, as well as a Honorary D.Litt. from

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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

. He has taught at the

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and, as a visiting professor, at the universities of

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(NYU), Columbia,

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, and the

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(Florence). He has had a long personal political experience, first in underground anti-

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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

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Awards and honors

Maravall is an Honorary Fellow of

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(Oxford), a Corresponding Fellow of the

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(FBA), and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 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'',

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, 2016 * '' La Democracia y la Izquierda'', Galaxia Gutenberg 2021.

External links

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two interviews with Maravall by ''

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.'' Adam Przeworski and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca (eds.), Democracy and Socialdemocracy: Hommage to José María Maravall (CEPCO). Maria Antonia Iglesias, La Memoria Recuperada, Madrid: Taurus, 2003.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Maravall, Jose Maria 1942 births Living people Politicians from Madrid Spanish political scientists Complutense University of Madrid alumni Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians Government ministers of Spain Members of the 3rd Congress of Deputies (Spain) Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy