José Ramón Montero: Professor of Political

José Ramón Montero
José Ramón Montero (Cádiz [Spain], 1948) is Professor of Political Science at the
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and at the Instituto Empresa (IE), Madrid. 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, Ohio State University, Institut d’Études
Politiques-Bordeaux, ICSTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and European University
Institute (EUI) and Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, both in Florence (Italy), as well as
Professor of Political Science at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social 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 head of the Departament of
Political Science and International Relations (UAM). Has been a member of the Standing
Committee for the Social Sciences, European Science Foundation, and is currently a member of
the Academia Europeae and of the European Social Survey. Has also been Director of the
Economics and Social Science Programme, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science,
Vicepresident of the Spanish Association of Political Science, and member of the Editorial
Committee of the Revista Española de Ciencia Política.
He has published extensively on electoral behavior, 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); with Mariano Torcal, Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies (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 I. Lago, Elecciones
generales 2008 (Madrid: Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2011). He is also
editing with Thomas Jeffrey Miley the seven-volume Obras Escogidas by Juan J. Linz (Madrid:
Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales, 2008-2012).