José María Maravall Herrero

José María Maravall Herrero, FBA (Madrid, 1942) is a Spanish academic and a politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Education Maravall holds doctorates from both the Complutense University of Madrid and Oxford University, as well as an Honorary D.Litt. from Warwick University.

Career Maravall was, until his retirement, the director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CEACS -Juan March Institute in Madrid) and a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Awards and honors Maravall is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College (Oxford), a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), 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 (Dictadura y Disentimiento Político), St. Martin's Press, 1978 The Transition to Democracy in Spain (La Política de la Transición), St. Martin's Press, 1982 Economic Reforms in New Democracies (co-author with Luiz Carlos Bresser and Adam Przeworski), 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 (co-editor with Adam Przeworski), Cambridge University Press, 2003 La Confrontación Politica, Taurus, 2008 Controlling Governments (co-editor with Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca), Cambridge University Press 2008 Las Promesas Políticas, Galaxia Gutenberg 2013 Demands on Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2016 La Democracia y la Izquierda, Galaxia Gutenberg 2021.