Carles Boix

About

Carles Boix is the Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He teaches and conducts research on political economy and comparative politics, with a particular focus on empirical democratic theory, the choice of institutions, and their consequences for growth and inequality. He is a Faculty Associate at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. Additionally, Carles Boix serves as the Director of the Institutions & Political Economy Research Group at the University of Barcelona.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Demographic economics
• Economics
• Sociology
• Political economy
• Public administration
• Law
• Development economics

Selected publications

• Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

  Princeton University Press eBooks · 2019-05-28 · 26 citations

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• From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s

  The Journal of Politics · 2020 · 23 citations

  This article examines the process of electoral mobilization that follows the extension of voting rights to low-income citizens. We take advantage of a historically unique panel data set of official registers that includes individual voting roll calls as well as individual demographics of almost 25,000 electors in Barcelona in the 1930s, matched with relevant precinct-level socioeconomic, political, and geographical data. We show that voting was driven by the direct mobilization strategies develo…

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• Boix-Miller-Rosato Dichotomous Coding of Democracy, 1800-2020

  Harvard Dataverse · 2022-01-03 · 21 citations

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  This data set provides a dichotomous coding of democracy for every country in the world (222 total) from 1800 to 2020. It updates the original version of our data, which ended in 2007. This version also includes a measure of democracy that requires a level of female suffrage. Please cite the following publication when using the data: Carles Boix, Michael K. Miller, and Sebastian Rosato. 2013. "A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800-2007." Comparative Political Studies 46(12): 1523-54.

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• Estimating the value of democracy relative to other institutional and economic outcomes among citizens in Brazil, France, and the United States

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023 · 17 citations

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  How much do citizens value democracy? How willing are they to sacrifice their liberties and voting rights for growth, equality, or other social outcomes? We design a conjoint experiment in nationally representative surveys in Brazil, France, and the United States in which respondents choose between different societies that randomly vary in their economic outcomes (country income, income inequality, social mobility), political outcomes (democracy, public health insurance), and the level of person…

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• Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics

  2019-05-28 · 14 citations

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  An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalismThe twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down, disrupted by polarization and income inequality, widespread dissatisfaction with democratic institutions, and insurgent populism. Tracing the history of democratic capitalism ov…

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Frequent coauthors

• Alı́cia Adserà

  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

  26 shared

• Clara Riba

  Pompeu Fabra University

  17 shared

• Michael K. Miller

  16 shared

• Sebastian Rosato

  15 shared

• Stathis N. Kalyvas

  9 shared

• Andreu Arenas

  Universitat de Barcelona

  8 shared

• Jordi Muñoz

  Universitat de Barcelona

  5 shared

• Toni Rodón

  Pompeu Fabra University

  4 shared

Education

• PhD, Government

  Harvard University

  1995

Awards & honors

• William Riker award for the best book on political economy
• Heinz Eulau award for best article published in the American…

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