José María Maravall
José María Maravall Herrero is a Spanish academic and a politician of the Spanish Socialist Party.Education
Maravall holds doctorates from both the Complutense University of Madrid and Oxford University, as well as a Honorary D. Litt. from Warwick University.Career
Maravall was, until his retirement, the director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and a Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has taught at the University of Warwick and, as a Visiting Professor, at the universities of New York, Columbia, Harvard, and the European University Institute. He has had a long personal political experience, first in underground anti-Francoist 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 Spanish Parliament.Awards and honors
Maravall is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, 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, St. Martin's Press, 1978
- The Transition to Democracy in Spain, St. Martin's Press, 1982
- Economic Reforms in New Democracies, 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, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- La Confrontación Politica, Taurus, 2008
- Controlling Governments, Cambridge University Press 2008
- Las Promesas Políticas, Galaxia Gutenberg 2013
- Demands on Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2016
