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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A Textbook

The Science of Politics. An Introduction (2011)

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

Institutions and change

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...

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

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

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

Institutional Design, Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics (2009)

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

Transition in Cuba?, Cuban Affairs (2006)

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

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

Political Institutions (2003)

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

Strategic Transitions: Game Theory and Democratization. (2000)

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

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Elections and voting

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Europe

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

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)

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

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

The Science of Politics

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

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