Carles Boix i Serra (born 29 June 1962, in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

) is a Catalan and American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

specializing in

comparative politics Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the '' comparative method'' or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relat ...

, currently teaching at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. He is a leading scholar in empirical democratic theory and comparative political economy. Boix attended the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona (official name in ; UB), formerly also known as Central University of Barcelona (), is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1450. With 76,000 students, ...

in his hometown, and earned his master's degree and doctorate from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. He taught at

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

and the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

before joining the Princeton University Department of Politics faculty, where he is Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at the

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (''abbrev.'' SPIA; formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of c ...

. Boix has published ''Political Parties, Growth and Equality'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998), ''Democracy and Redistribution'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003), ''Political Order and Inequality'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and ''Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads'' (Princeton University Press, 2019). He co-edited the ''Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics'' (Oxford University Press, 2007) and has published in leading journals such as ''American Political Science Review'', ''American Journal of Political Science'', ''British Journal of Political Science'', ''Journal of Law, Economics and Organization'', ''Journal of Politics'', ''International Organization'', and ''World Politics''. Boix received a

Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

in 2004, while at

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. In 2010, he was named a fellow of the

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Major works

* ''Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads. Technological Change and the Future of Politics.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. * ''Political Order and Inequality.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. * ''Democracy and Redistribution.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. * ''Political Parties, Growth, and Equality. Conservative and Social Democratic Strategies in the World Economy.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

References

1962 births Living people Writers from Barcelona University of Barcelona alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni Ohio State University faculty Princeton University faculty University of Chicago faculty 21st-century Spanish writers Social scientists from Catalonia Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies {{Catalonia-scientist-stub