José María Maravall Herrero

José María Maravall Herrero (born 1942) is the Director of the Juan March institute, Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. José María Maravall holds doctorates from the universities of Madrid and Oxford as well as a D.Litt (Hons.) from the University of Warwick. He has been a Research Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick. He was Spanish Minister of Education and Science between 1982 and 1988 and is currently a member of the Research Council of the European University Institute, Florence.

His major works include "Dictadura y disentimiento político", 1978; "La política de la transición", 1982; "Economic reforms in new democracies" (with Luiz Carlos Bresser and Adam Przeworski), 1995; and "Los resultados de la democracia", 1995, all of which have also been published in Britain and the United States. Most recently he has published "Regimes, Politics and Markets", 1997, and edited (with Adam Przeworski) "Democracy and the Rule of Law", 2003; and "El Control de los políticos", 2003.