Josep Colomer

Josep Maria Colomer is a Catalan-Spanish Professor of political science. He has published theoretical and comparative studies of voting and elections, political institutions and institutional change, in which he has used game theory and social choice theory for applied analyses. He is currently a Research Professor at the Higher Council for Scientific Research CSIC, in Barcelona, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.

Background

Josep Colomer's areas of expertise include democratization, forms of government, voting systems, the Spanish transition to democracy. Colomer is author or editor of 33 books in six languages and about 200 academic articles and book chapters, including in The American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Science, European Political Science, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Studies, PS: Political Science & Politics, Public Choice, Rationality and Society, as well as in the Oxford Handbook of Political Science and all major encyclopedias in the field.

Colomer is a founding member of the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA), a life member of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and an elected member 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.

Bibliography (partial)

• Colomer, Josep (2010) The Science of Politics. An Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195397741. 
• Colomer, Josep ed. (2008) Comparative European Politics 3rd edition. Routledge. ISBN 97804154375613. 
• Colomer, Josep (2007) Great Empires, Small Nations. The uncertain future of the sovereign state. Routledge. ISBN 9780415437752. 
• Colomer, Josep ed. (2004) Handbook of Electoral System Choice. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1403904545. 
• Colomer, Josep (2001) Political Institutions. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199241842. 
•    (2000). Strategic Transitions. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801863844. 
•    (1995). Game Theory and the Transition to Democracy: The Spanish model. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781858982014. 

See also

• List of political scientists

References

External links

• CSIC personal website
• Selected works

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