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. He has taught at the University of Warwick and, as a visiting professor, at the universities of New York (NYU), Columbia, Harvard, and the European University Institute (Florence). He has had a long personal political experience, first in underground anti-Francoist politics and later, under democracy, in social democratic politics. He was the Spanish Minister of Education and Science from 1982 to 1988, and was a member of the Spanish Parliament.
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.
References
External links El PP crispa para que no voten los centristas and Los partidos de izquierda son para muchos una vía para resolver sus problemas materiales, two interviews with Maravall by El País. Adam Przeworski and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca (eds.), Democracy and Socialdemocracy: Hommage to José María Maravall (CEPCO). Maria Antonia Iglesias, La Memoria Recuperada, Madrid: Taurus, 2003.