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Miguel Jerez Mir

Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor
Ph.D. University of Zaragoza, 1980

Professor Jerez comes to the BMW Center for German and European Studies as the Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor for the academic year 2004-2005. He is currently Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Granada, and he previously worked as assistant and associate professor at the University of Zaragoza.

Professor Jerez was a fellow at the Political Science Department of Yale (1981) and was also a visiting professor at the universities of Chapel Hill, NC (1987), West Bohemian University, Pilzen, Czeck Republic (1996) and Stetson, DeLand, Fl.(1999). He has received grants from the Fulbright-Banco de Bilbao Program, and the Spanish Centro de Estudios Constitucionales and Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia. In June 2004, he received - with Professors Linz and Corzo - the AECPA Prize for the Best Chapter of a Book.

Professor Jerez's research fields include political elites, interest groups, political parties, and political science as a discipline. He is currently a member of the EurElite Group, supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF), and is responsible for the project Elites, Partidos y Sistemas de Partidos en Espana, 1868-2004, financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Sciencia y Technologica (MCYT) and with contributions by Professor Linz (Yale University) and Professor Montero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).

Professor Jerez¡¦s publications record includes three single authored books: Elites Politicas y Centros de Extraccion: Espana, 1938-1957. CIS (1982); Corporaciones e Intereses en la Espana Actual. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Granada (1995); and Ciencia Politica, un Balance de Fin de Siglo Madrid. Madrid, CEPC (1999). His most recent publications in English are ¡§Spanish Diputados: From the 1876 Restoration to Consolidated Democracy,¡¨ in: Parliamentary Representatives in Europe, eds. Best and Cotta. Oxford University Press (2000), co-authored with Professors Linz and Gangas; and ¡§Ministers and Regimes in Spain: From First to Second Restoration, 1874-2002,¡¨ in: Who Governs Southern Europe?, eds. P. Tavares de Almeida et al. Frank Cass (2003), co-authored with Professor Linz.

While at the BMW Center he plans to continue his research and teach courses open to graduate and undergraduate students.

An overview of activities of the Asturias Professors over the past three years is provided in the Prince of Asturias Visiting Professorship Report 2000-2003.