Carles Boix
Carles Boix i Serra is a Catalan and American political scientist, currently teaching at Princeton University. He is a leading scholar in empirical democratic theory and comparative political economy.
Boix attended the University of Barcelona in his hometown, and earned his master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University. He taught at Ohio State University and the University of Chicago before joining the Princeton University Department of Politics faculty, where he is Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Boix has published Political Parties, Growth and Equality, Democracy and Redistribution, Political Order and Inequality, and Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads". He co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics and has published in leading journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Politics, International Organization, and World Politics''.
Boix received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2004, while at Chicago. In 2010, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
