Ferran Requejo
is Professor of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona),
where he is director of the Research Group on Political Theory, the Research
Group of Political Science. He has also been in charge of the PhD-programme
on Political Science (several editions) and the MA programmes on Diverse Democracies and Political Philosophy. His main fields of
research are theories of democracy, federalism, multinational democracies,
political theory and political liberalism after World War II. In 1997 he was
awarded the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize (ECPR), in 2002 he received the Ramon
Trias Fargas Prize, and in 2006 the Spanish Political Science Association
Prize to the best book (Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism, Routledge
2005). He has been furthermore member of the Spanish Electoral Board
(Junta Electoral Central, 2004-2008), of the executive committee of the European
Consortium of Political Research and of the Comparative Federalism
Research Committee (International Political Science Association). He is
currently member of the Consell de la
Transició Nacional (CATN) (Catalan Government Advisory Committee) and a
regular contributor to the newspapers “La Vanguardia”, “Ara” (Barcelona) and
other Catalan, Spanish and international media.
Among his recent books are: Federalism, Plurinationality and Democratic
Constitutionalism, Routledge 2012; Federalism
beyond Federations, Ashgate 2011 (with K.J.Nagel); Federalism and Plurinationality. Theory and case analysis, Routledge 2011; La legitimidad en las democracias
del siglo XXI. Un giro hegeliano, Lap Lambert 2011 (with R. Valls); Political Liberalism and Multinational
Democracies, Routledge 2010
(with M. Caminal); Foreign policy of
constituent units at the beginning of 21st Century,
IEA 2010; Multinational
Federalism and Value Pluralism, Routledge 2005 (Spanish version CEPC 2007; French version Peter Lang
2009), Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism, Routledge 2005 (with
R. Maiz); Camins de democràcia. De
la autonomia a la independencia, L’Avenç 2010; Desigualts en democracia, Eumo, 2009 (with E.
Gonzalo); Análisis de experiencias de democracia directa en el ámbito
internacional (1995-2007), IVAP 2009 (with J. López); Las democracias,
Ariel 2008; Pluralisme i autogovern al món, Eumo, 2005; Democracy and
National Pluralism, Routledge, 2001 (Spanish version, Ariel 2002).
