Professor Visitant
Ciència Políitica
Despatx: 20.1E18
Adreça:
Edifici Jaume I
Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27
08005 - Barcelona
Tel.: (34) 93 542 2540
Fax.: (34) 93 542 2372
robert.fishman@upf.edu
Nota biogràfica:
Robert M. Fishman, Professor de Sociologia i membre del Institut Kellogg de la Universitat de Notre Dame (EEUU), i professor visitant de ciècia política de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, es un comparativista que treballa sobre democràcia y pràctica democràtica, política i cultura, i conseqüències de la desigualtat. Ha sigut professor a la Universitat de Harvard i en el Centre d'Estudis Avançats en Ciències Socials del Institut Juan March (Madrid). Fishman es va doctorar en sociologia per la Universitat de Yale i pertany a la American Sociological Association i la American Political Science Association.
Fishman actualment està escrivint un llibre que analitza diferèncias en la pràtica democràtica i com a consecuencia en diversos resultats socials entre Espanya i Portugal, els països pioners en la tercera onada democràtica. Els seus llibres anteriors incluint Democracy's Voices, guanyador el 2005 del Honorable Mention para Best Book en Political Sociology, The Year of the Euro (amb Anthony Messina), y Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain. Tant Democracy's Voices com Working-Class Organization han estat publicats també en castellà. Els artícles i ensajos publicats per Fishman inclouen treballs teòrics - diferenciant entre estat i règimn en el context de la democratizació, i criticant el concepte del capital social - i treballs metodològics i empírics.
Publicacions :
The Year of the Euro: The Cultural, Social and Political Import of Europe's Common Currency. (Co-edited with Anthony Messina). University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Democracy's Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain. Cornell University Press, 2004.
Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain. Cornell University Press, 1990.
Selected articles, essays and book chapters:
"Rethinking the Iberian Transformations: How Democratization Scenarios Shaped Labor Market Outcomes," forthcoming in Studies in Comparative International Development. Expected in V45 (3), Fall 2010.
"On the Costs of Conceptualizing Social Ties as Social Capital", Chapter three in Viva Bartkus and Jim Davis, (eds.) Social Capital: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Edward Elgar Press, 2009.
"Civic Engagement and Church Policy in the Making of Religious Vocations: Cross-National Variation in the Evolution of Priestly Ordinations." With Keely Jones, Chapter six in Giuseppe Giordan (ed.) Vocation and Social Context. Brill Academic Publishers and Association for the Sociology of Religion, 2007.
"Triumphs, Failures and Ambiguities in Democratization: Juan Linz and the Study of Regime Change", Chapter Two in Joan Marcet and José Ramón Montero (eds.) Roads to Democracy: A Tribute to Juan J. Linz. Institut de Ciències Polítiques I Socials, Barcelona, 2007.
"On Being a Weberian (After Spain's March 11 - 14): Notes on the Continuing Relevance of Weber's Methodological Approach", Chapter eleven in Laurence McFalls (ed.) Max Weber's "Objectivity" Revisited. University of Toronto Press, 2007.
"On the Significance of Public Protest: Puzzles and Challenges of Spanish Politics (Along with some explanations)", in Newsletter of Iberian Politics, Vol. 2, N.1, Summer 2007. (Publication of Iberian Politics Group, APSA).
"Identity, Social Practice, and Currency Change: Catalonia in the Year of the Euro", Chapter four in Fishman and Messina (eds.) The Year of the Euro. University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
"Shaping, not making democracy: the European Union and the post-authoritarian political transformation of Spain and Portugal", in South European Society and Politics, V8 (1-2), 2003.
Also in: Sebastian Royo and Paul Manuel (eds.) From Isolation to Integration: Fifteen Years of Spanish and Portuguese Membership in Europe, Frank Cass, 2003.
"Workplace Leaders and Labour Organisation: Limits on the Mobilisation nad Representation of Workers", co-authored with Carol Mershon, in International Contributions to Labour Studies, N3, 1993.
"Rethinking State and Regime: Southern Europe's Transition to Democracy" in World Politics. V42(3), April 1990.