Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales

Palacio del Marqués de Grimaldi (also known as the "Palacio de Godoy"); headquarters of the CEPC

The Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC), known during the Francoist period as the Instituto de Estudios Políticos, is an autonomous agency associated with the Ministry for the Presidency, Spain. Its mission is to analyze the international legal and sociopolitical situation, giving special attention to those issues that concern Spanish law institutions and how they relate to each other internationally and also in Europe. The organization is headquartered at the Palacio de Godoy, an historical building located at the Plaza Marina Española.[1]

Directors

Adolfo Suárez, Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister, entrusted Fernando Prieto, a well-known political scientist, with transforming the old Instituto de Estudios Políticos into a center for political analysis, that would help Spain in its transition to democracy. Prieto became the CEPC's first director.

During the eighties and nineties, the CEPC was under the direction of professors Elías Díaz and Francisco Laporta, followed by the historian Carmen Iglesias. In May of 2004, after the Socialist Party's electoral victory, José Álvarez Junco was named General Director. At that time, Junco held the chair of the "History of Ideas" in the faculty of "Political and Social Movements" at the Complutense University of Madrid.

On 19 May, 2008, the position of General Director passed to Paloma Biglino Campos, Doctor of Political Science, Sociology and Law; a former Dean of the faculty of law at the University of Valladolid.

On 1 February, 2012, the directorship went to Benigno Pendás García, a professor of Political Science at CEU San Pablo University and, since 1981, a lawyer for the Cortes.[2]

Academic journals

The CEPC publishes electronic versions of the following Spanish academic journals:[3]

They also maintain an electronic archive of the following journals:[4]

References

  1. ↑ ¡Madrid!:Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
  2. ↑ Abana en el Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
  3. ↑ CEPC: Publicaciones
  4. ↑ CEPC:Acceso al fondo histórico de revistas

External links

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