Josep Colomer

Josep Maria Colomer Calsina is a political scientist and economist. His research focuses on the strategies for the design, establishment, and change of political institutions. Topics include the processes of democratization, the origins of parliamentary and separation of powers regimes, the invention of electoral systems and voting rules, the development of nations and empires such as the United States and the European Union, and the increasing role of global institutions.

Colomer was a Distinguished Professor and is currently an Associate Researcher at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in Washington and at the Institute of Political and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a member by election of the Academia Europaea, and has been awarded life membership to the American Political Science Association and the Mexican Association of Political Sciences.

Selected publications