Luis Moreno Fernández


Luis Moreno . Journalist, sociologist, and political scientist, he is Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council.

Academic Bio

Graduate of the Universidad Complutense, he was awarded his Ph.D. in Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Honorary Fellow. He has been visiting scholar at the universities of Colorado, Denver, Edinburgh and Rome and the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies. He was Jean Monnet Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
In Spain he is an invited professor at the Fundación José Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Marañón, Goberna-América Latina Escuela de Política y Alto Gobierno and the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales.
Two are his long-standing lines of research: Social policy and welfare state, and Territorial politics. Both have been carried out from a comparative perspective. He has analysed the different ages of welfare development, and has also conceptualized the Mediterranean welfare regime within the European Social Model.
In his 1986 PhD dissertation he introduced in the Anglo-Saxon academic world what is known as ‘the Moreno Question’, by which a self-identification scale expressed by citizens in Scotland was meant to clarify social mobilization in the quest for political autonomy.
He has been director of more than 20 research projects awarded by competitive sources by Spanish and European institutions. He has authored nearly 30 books and more than 300 scientific texts. According to Google Scholar, he is the Spanish sociologist and political scientist most cited internationally.
His latest essay books in Spanish, Trienio de Mudanzas and Sociedades Azarosas deal with the transforming times in Spain, Europe and the world during the period 2013-17. His latest book examines the effects of automatization in our societies.

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