José Ramón Montero is a professor of Political Science

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 at the Autonomous University of Madrid

Autonomous University of Madrid

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 and at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Juan March Institute

Juan March Institute

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, Madrid

Madrid

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. 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

Complutense University of Madrid

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He has been Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Harvard, California in Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 and Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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, Secretary and Dean of the School of Law at the Universidad of Cádiz, and Deputy Director of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. He has been a member of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, European Science Foundation

European Science Foundation

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, and is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Social Survey

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 and of the Academia Europea. He has also been Director of the Economics and Social Science Programme, Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, chairman of the Departamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales (UAM), and member of the Editorial Committee of the Revista Española de Ciencia Política. He has published extensively on electoral behaviour, political parties

Political party

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, and political culture

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Among his publications are La CEDA: el catolicismo social y político en la II República (1977), El control parlamentario (1985, with Joaquín G. Morillo); El régimen electoral (1996, with Richard Gunther et al.), and Democracy in Modern Spain (2004, with R. Gunther and Joan Botella); and has co-edited with Juan J. Linz

Juan Linz

Juan José Linz is a Spanish sociologist and political scientist. He is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute...

, Crisis y cambio: electores y partidos en la España de los años ochenta (1986); with Ricardo Chueca, Elecciones autonómicas en Aragón (1995); with R. Gunther and J. J. Linz

Juan Linz

Juan José Linz is a Spanish sociologist and political scientist. He is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute...

, Political parties: old concepts and new challenges (2002), and with Mariano Torcal, Political disaffection in contemporary democracies (2006).