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

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. 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

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at the

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, 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

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. He has also been a

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and

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

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and the

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(GATT) negotiations.

Critique

Daniel Gascón, writing in the Mexican magazine ''

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

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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