Juan March Institute
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The Juan March Institute, located in MadridMadrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Spain
Spain
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, is part of the Juan March Foundation, one of Spain's charities for social research. The objective of the institute is to achieve an effect equally through scientific publications and training the next academic generation. The institute is named for the Spanish businessman Juan March Ordinas
Juan March Ordinas
Juan Alberto March Ordinas , also known as Joan March i Ordinas, was a Spanish businessman closely associated with the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War, and with the regime of Francisco Franco after the war...
Academic focus
The Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones is devoted to research in social science with a focus on political economyPolitical economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
, voting
Voting
Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion—often following discussions, debates, or election campaigns. It is often found in democracies and republics.- Reasons for voting :...
and party competition. The main lines of research are the study of the social structure and processes of change in advanced contemporary societies, their political and economic systems and cultural and historical roots. The research carried out in the Institute focuses above all on the geographic and cultural area of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
and Political Science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
are the core disciplines within the Institute, although research and teaching is carried out.
Both teaching and research in the Institute are orientated towards methodological issues and comparative approaches in the social sciences. Besides its own research activity, the Institute encourages social science research, publishes collections of Estudios/Working Papers and Doctoral Theses, runs a specialist library and organizes courses, seminars and other activities for faculty, researchers and students.
Scientific Committee
The Institute's Scientific Committee is responsible for the supervision of students' research assisting the Instituto Juan March in the definition of the Center's academic and research policy, and advising on the development of the teaching curriculum and the library's holdings and services. The Scientific Committee is formed by a number of leading Spanish and international scholars.Members of the Scientific Committee are:
- Richard Breen (Official Fellow del Nuffield College at Oxford University)
- Gøsta Esping-AndersenGøsta Esping-AndersenGøsta Esping-Andersen is a Danish sociologist whose primary focus is on the welfare state and its place in capitalist economies. Esping-Andersen is a professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona , and member of the Scientific Committee of the Juan March Institute and of the Board of Trustees...
(Professor of Sociology, Pompeu Fabra UniversityPompeu Fabra UniversityPompeu Fabra University is a university in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is widely considered to be one of the best universities in Spain and in Europe, and was ranked 1st in scientific productivity in Spain in 2009. Founded in 1990, it is named after the Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra...
) - José María Maravall (Professor of Sociology, Complutense University of MadridComplutense University of MadridThe Complutense University of Madrid is a university in Madrid, and one of the oldest universities in the world. It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighboring city of...
) - José Ramón MonteroJose Ramon MonteroJosé Ramón Montero is a professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid and at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Juan March Institute, Madrid. He obtained his Ph.D...
(Professor of Political Science, Autonomous University of MadridAutonomous University of MadridThe Autonomous University of Madrid is one of the top university of Spain and commonly known by its Spanish initials UAM or as "la Autónoma"...
) - Adam PrzeworskiAdam PrzeworskiAdam Przeworski is a Polish-American professor of Political Science. One of the main important theorists and analysers of democratic societies, theory of democracy and political economy, he is currently a full professor at the Wilf Family Department of Politics of New York University.Born in 1940...
(Professor of Political Science and Economics, New York UniversityNew York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
) - Andrew Richards (Ph. D. Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
) - Ignacio Sánchez-CuencaIgnacio Sánchez-CuencaIgnacio Sánchez-Cuenca, who earned his doctorate in Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, is the Director of the Juan March Institute and Associate Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca and Associate Professor in the Political Science...
(Professor of Sociology, Complutense University of MadridComplutense University of MadridThe Complutense University of Madrid is a university in Madrid, and one of the oldest universities in the world. It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighboring city of...
) - Yasemin Soysal (Professor of Sociology, University of EssexUniversity of EssexThe University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...
)
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...
(Sterling Professor
Sterling Professor
A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field...
of Political and Social Science, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
) is an honorary member of the Scientific Committee.
Academic relevance
The Institute is well positioned in the ranking of the ECPREuropean Consortium for Political Research
The European Consortium for Political Research is an independent, scholarly association, which supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national cooperation of many thousands of academics and graduate students specialising in political science and all its sub-disciplines...
, but especially in the exhaustive Hix's ranking (2004) of Political Science Departments of the World.
In the context of research in Spain, the institute is well-connected with the European University Institute, Oxford and several American universities.
The Institute's Library is an academic library specializing in the social sciences, with more than 70.000 books and journals. Access to the Library is available only to members of the Institute and to invited researchers.
External links
- Juan March Institute for Social Research website
- Juan March Institute's Working papers
- Juan March Institute's Doctoral theses