José Ramón Montero - Biography#

José Ramón Montero (Cádiz, 1948) is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). He obtained his Ph.D. in Law at the Universidad de Santiago, and has taught at the Universities of Granada, Santiago, Zaragoza, Cádiz, and Complutense de Madrid. He has been Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Harvard, California in Berkeley, and Ohio State University, and Professor of Political Science at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Sccial Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid.

He has been Dean of the School of Law at the Universidad of Cádiz, Deputy Director of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) in Madrid, and a member of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, European Science Foundation, and is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Social Survey and of the Academia Europea. He has also been Director of the Economics and Social Science Programme (Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología), Vicepresident of the Spanish Association of Political Science, and member of the Editorial Committee of the Revista Española de Ciencia Política. He is also chairman of the Departament of Political Science and International Relations (UAM).

He has published extensively on electoral behaviour, political parties, political culture, and political participation. Among his publications are La CEDA: el catolicismo social y político en la II República (Madrid: Ediciones de Revista de Trabajo, 1977), El control parlamentario (Madrid: Tecnos, 1985, with Joaquín G. Morillo); El régimen electoral (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1996, with Richard Gunther et al.); Democracy in Modern Spain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, with Richard Gunther and Joan Botella), and The Politics of Spain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, with R. Gunther). And has edited with Juan J. Linz, Crisis y cambio: electores y partidos en la España de los años ochenta (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1986); with Ricardo Chueca, Elecciones autonómicas en Aragón (Madrid: Tecnos, 1995); with Richard Gunther and Juan J. Linz, Political Parties: Old Concepts and New Challenges (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), and Partidos políticos: viejos conceptos y nuevos retos (Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2007); with Mariano Torcal, Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies: Social Capital, Institutions, and Politics (London: Routledge, 2006); with M. Torcal and Joan Font, Ciudadanos, asociaciones y participación en España (Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2006); with Jan van Deth and Anders Westholm, Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies: A Comparative Analysis, London: Routledge, 2007); with R. Gunther and Hans-Jürgen Puhle, Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); with Joan Marcet, Roads to Democracy. A Tribute to Juan J. Linz (Barcelona: Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, 2007); with Ignacio Lago and M. Torcal, Elecciones generales 2004 (Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2007), and with Richard Gunther, The politics of Spain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Full CV including a list of publications (January 2018, in Spanish)