BIO
José Ramón Monterio is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His main areas of research interest are political parties, political culture, electoral systems and electoral behavior. He has served as Dean of the School of Law at the University of Cádiz, Deputy Director of Research at the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), Head of the Social and Economic Studies Program of the Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology, and Vice-President of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Public Administration (AECPA), and is currently a member of the European Science Foundation, the Comparative National Elections Project and the European Social Survey. He has held visiting positions at the universities of Harvard and Berkeley in the U.S., Guadalajara in Mexico, and the Institut d’Études Politiques in Bordeaux, France. A member of the Academia Europaea, his latest book is titled Religious Voting in Western Democracies.
