Josep M. Colomer

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Expertise

Political Science
Economics

Honors & Awards

Academia Europaea, member by election
American Political Science Association, life member

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Articles

Firing the Coach: How Governments Are Losing Elections in Europe, Conference paper (2012)

Ramon Llull: From 'Ars Electionis' to Social Choice Theory, Social Choice and Welfare (2012)

Ramon Llull (Majorca c.1232–1316) is one of the earliest founding fathers of voting theory and...

The More Parties, the Greater Policy Stability, European Political Science (2011)

This article discusses, models and quantifies the relationship between the number of parties in government...

City-republics, The Encyclopedia of Political Science (2011)

Constitutions, Elections, Governance, The Encyclopedia of Political Science (2011)

Yes, Cairo Can Happen in Havanna, Cuban Affairs (2011)

Coalitions, Cooperation, Election by Lot, Social Choice Theory, International Encyclopedia of Political Science (eds. B Badie, D. Berg-Schlosser, L. Morlino), Sage. (2010)

Frustrated Modernity in Latin America, UNAM, Mexico (2008)

An Agenda-Setting Model of Electoral Competition, Working Paper (2008)

Electoral systems, Majority rule, Multiparty systems, International Emcyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2008)

Empire-, State- and Nation-Builing and Deconstructing in Spain, ‘Thinking Democracy. Around Juan J. Linz’ Work’, French Association of Political Science (2007)

‘On the Origins of Electoral Systems and Political Parties’, Electoral Studies (2007)

What Other Sciences Look Like, European Political Science (2007)

Transition in Cuba?, Cuban Affairs (2006)

‘Cleavages, Issues and Parties: A Critical Review’ , European Political Science (2005)

Can Presidentialism Work Like Parliamentarianism?, Government and Opposition (2005)

‘It’s the Parties that Choose Electoral Systems (or Duverger’s Laws Upside Down)’, Political Studies, 53, 1, 2005: 1-21 (2005)

‘Policy Making in Divided Government: A Pivotal-Actors Model with Party Discipline’, Public Choice (2005)

‘Political Science is Going Ahead (By Convoluted Ways). A Commentary on Giovanni Sartori’, PS: Political Science & Politics, 37, 4, 2004 (2004)

'Taming the Tiger: Voting Rights and Political Instability in Latin America', Latin American Politics and Society (2004)

'Disequilibrium Institutions and Pluralist Democracy', Journal of Theoretical Politics (2001)

The Geometry of Unanimity Rule, Journal of Theoretical Politics (1999)

'Electing Popes. Approval Balloting with Qualified-Majority Rule' (with Iain McLean),, Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1998)

Books

Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems (2011)

The Science of Politics. An Introduction (2011)

"I don't think that anyone has tried to write something like this before. If one...

Europe, like America. The challenges of building a democratic federation (2010)

Comparative European Politics 3rd edition. (2008)

Great Empires, Small Nations. The Uncertain Future of the Sovereign State (2007)

Handbook of Electoral System Choice, Palgrave-Macmillan (2004)

Political Institutions (2003)

Strategic Transitions: Game Theory and Democratization. (2000)

Game Theory and the Transition to Democracy: The Spanish Model (1995)

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Contributions to Books

‘Comparative Constitutions’, Oxford Handbook of Political Science (2009)

Institutional Design, Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics (2009)

'Social Choice in Medieval Europe' (with I. McLean and H. Lorrey), Histoire des Mathématiques Sociales (2003)

'How Political Parties, Rather than Member-States, Are Building the European Union', Widening the European Union: The Politics of Institutional Change (2002)