David Rueda is professor of

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who researches comparative political economy, the

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and labour market policy. He is an editor of the ''

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Education

Rueda was born in

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, Spain and grew up in nearby

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. He completed his high school education at the United World College of the American West in New Mexico, earning an

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in 1989. He received his BA in economics in 1993 from

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, Pennsylvania, and subsequently studied at the

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, where he earned an MSc in politics of Asia and Africa in 1994. He received his MA (1998) and PhD (2001) from

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Career

He was an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at

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from 2001 till 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a university lecturer in quantitative political science, Department of Politics and International Relations at

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. He later became a Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and worked in this position from 2006 till 2013. In 2013 he became a Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, and professorial fellow, at Oxford's

Awards

He received a Social Science Korea research award for ''“Inequality and Democracy”'' (2014-2017), and British Academy Research Development Award for ''“The Political Consequences of Inequality”'' (2008-2010).

Selected publications

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References

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