Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
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]
- Anuario Iberoamericano de Justicia Constitucional
- Derecho Privado y Constitución
- Revista de Administración Pública
- Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo
- Revista de Estudios Políticos
- Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional
They also maintain an electronic archive of the following journals:[4]
- Revista de Instituciones Europeas
- Revista de Política Social
- Revista de Economía Política
- Cuaderno de Estudios Africanos
- Revista de Política Internacional
- Revista de Estudios Internacionales
- Revista del Centro de Estudios Constitucionales