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Pablo Oñate receives the National Prize for Sociology and Political Science
Madrid, 20 November 2024
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- The Professor of Political Science is the first Spaniard to preside over the International Political Science Association (IPSA).
- He has served as a consultant and international observer in several electoral processes in Latin America, Bosnia Herzegovina and Myanmar.
- The jury bases its decision on a brilliant professional and academic career spanning more than 30 years.
Pablo Oñate, Professor of Political Science at the University of Valencia, has received the 2024 National Prize for Sociology and Political Science. The jury based its decision on a distinguished professional and academic career spanning more than 30 years, during which Oñate has conducted studies in electoral processes, political behavior, and democracy.
He has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Valencia since 2007. Previously, he taught at both the National University of Distance Education and the Carlos III University of Madrid.
He has been a researcher and visiting professor at Georgetown University and George Washington University (USA), Oxford University, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), National Autonomous University of Mexico, Autonomous University of Baja California Sur and University of Veracruz (Mexico).
Oñate has been a consultant and international observer in several electoral processes in Latin America, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Myanmar; and has served as Academic Advisor for the Administration and Cost of Elections Project (UN). He has also served as an institutional advisor in Spain, working for the Ministry of Education, ANECA, the Andrés Bello Convention, and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development.
He has also served as Deputy Academic Director of the Ortega y Gasset-Marañón Foundation (and its University Research Institute). He has also been a reviewer for numerous national and international journals, as well as for various scientific evaluation institutions and programs. He has also served as a member and director of numerous national and international research projects. He has presented more than 150 papers at national and international scientific conferences.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), Secretary General of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration (2008-2013), and President of the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA) (2013-2019). He is a member of the Executive Committee (since 2018) and the first Spanish President-Elect (since 2021) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA).
She is currently coordinating a research project on actors involved in political representation in Spanish democracy and participating in another project on artificial intelligence applied to the design and analysis of public policies.
Author, editor and co-author of numerous books, the most recent of which include: The General Elections of November 2019 (CIS, 2023) and Electoral Systems in Spain: Characterization, Effects, Performance and Reform Proposals (CIS, 2020), as well as more than 100 articles in specialized journals and book chapters on democracy, political parties, electoral systems, electoral quotas, elections, political behavior, political representation, parliaments, parliamentary political elites, among other topics.
The jury for the Prize was composed of the president of the CIS, Professor of Sociology José Félix Tezanos, and the Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Inés Alberdi Alonso (2019 National Sociology Prize); the Professor of Mathematical Sociology, Antonio Alaminos; the Professor of Sociology, María Rosario H. Sánchez Morales; the director of the CIS Research Department, Silvia García Ramos; the Professor of Sociology Rafael Pardo (2022 National Sociology Prize), the Professor of Sociology Constanza Tobío (2021 National Sociology Prize), the Professor of Political Science and President of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration (AECPA) Juan Montabes; the President of the Spanish Federation of Sociology and professor of Sociology, Màrius Domínguez; The Vice President of the Spanish Federation of Sociology and Professor of Sociology, Lucila Finkel; the Professor of Political Science, Irene Delgado; and the Professor of Sociology, Violante Martínez.
