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Josep M. Colomer is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States and conducts research that spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Social Sciences. Their work also engages with several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Political Science and International Relations, and Law.

The scientist's research covers topics related to Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, Game Theory and Voting Systems, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, American Constitutional Law and Politics, Judicial and Constitutional Studies, and Legal and Constitutional Studies.

Colomer has published recent papers in various academic venues. These include:

  • The Quintilian School in the history of Social Choice: an early tentative step from plurality rule to pairwise comparisons (2024) in Social Choice and Welfare
  • More union, more states (2020) in European Studies
  • Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy. By Maxwell L. Stearns. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. 354p. $34.95 cloth. (2024) in Perspectives on Politics
  • Response to Maxwell L. Stearns' Review of Constitutional Polarization: A Critical Review of the U.S. Political System (2024) in Perspectives on Politics

Colomer frequently collaborates with coauthors such as Jorge Urdánoz Ganuza.

Major publication venues for Colomer's work include:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Social Choice and Welfare
  • European Studies

Best Publications

  • It's Parties that Choose Electoral Systems (Or, Duverger's Laws Upside Down):

    Josep M. Colomer

  • Political institutions in Europe

    Josep Maria Colomer

  • The Handbook of Electoral System Choice

    Josep M. Colomer

  • La transición a la democracia: el modelo español

    Josep Maria Colomer

  • The Spanish ‘state of autonomies’: Non‐institutional federalism

    Josep M. Colomer

  • Transitions by Agreement: Modeling the Spanish Way

    Josep M. Colomer

  • Strategic Transitions: Game Theory and Democratization

    Josep Maria Colomer

  • Game Theory and the Transition to Democracy: The Spanish Model

    Josep Maria Colomer

  • Great empires, small nations: the uncertain future of the sovereign state

    Josep Maria Colomer

  • Handbook of Electoral System Choice

    Josep M. Colomer

  • The Strategy and History of Electoral System Choice

    Josep M. Colomer

  • GAME THEORY AND THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY

    Josep M. Colomer

  • Cómo votamos: los sistemas electorales del mundo : pasado, presente y futuro

    Josep M. Colomer

  • Political institutions : democracy and social choice

    Josep Maria Colomer

  • Can Presidentialism Work Like Parliamentarism

    Josep M. Colomer;Gabriel Leonardo Negretto

  • Strategies and Outcomes in Eastern Europe

    Josep Maria Colomer

  • La dimensión izquierda-derecha en América Latina

    Josep M. Colomer;Luis E. Escatel

  • Political Institutions

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  • Las elecciones primarias presidenciales en America Latina y sus consecuencias politicas

    Josep M. Colomer

  • Gobernanza con poderes divididos en América Latina

    Josep Maria Colomer;Gabriel L. Negretto

  • Personal representation : the neglected dimension of electoral systems

    Josep Maria Colomer

  • The left-right dimension in Latin America

    Josep M. Colomer

  • Ramon Llull: From 'Ars electionis' to social choice theory

    Josep M. Colomer

  • Electing Popes: Approval Balloting and Qualified-Majority Rule

    Josep M. Colomer;Iain McLean

  • Exit, Voice, and Hostility in Cuba

    Josep M. Colomer

  • cleavages, issues and parties: a critical overview of the literature

    Josep M Colomer;Riccardo Puglisi

  • On the origins of electoral systems and political parties. The role of elections in multi-member districts

    Josep M. Colomer

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