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Luis Moreno (Moreno Fernandez) (Madrid, 1950) journalist, sociologist, and political scientist, he is Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Biography
Graduate of the Universidad Complutense (Madrid), he was awarded his Ph.D. in Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Honorary Fellow at the School of Social and Political Science.
He has been visiting scholar at the universities of Colorado (CU-Boulder), Denver (DU), Edinburgh and Rome (La Sapienza). During 1998-99 he was Jean Monnet Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Two are his long-standing lines of research: (a) Social policy and welfare state, and (b) Territorial politics (decentralization, federalism, nationalism and Europeanization). Both have been carried out from a comparative perspective.
In 1986 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 (‘Only Scottish, not British’; ‘More Scottish than British’; ‘Equally Scottish as British’; ‘More British than Scottish’; and ‘Only British, not Scottish).
He has been director of more than 20 research projects awarded by competitive sources by Spanish and European institutions. He has taught post-graduate courses in various Spanish, European and North-American universities.
He has (co) authored more than 120 refereed articles and chapters in collective books and has (co) authored and (co) edited more than twenty two books.
His latest essay in Spanish, Trienio de Mudanzas (Triennium of Changes) deals with the transforming times in Spain, Europe and the world during 2013-15.