Research Interests for Pablo Beramendi

Pablo Beramendi (D.Phil., Ox., 2003) is an Associate Professor of Political Science.His interests include the political economy of redistribution and inequality, comparative federalism and decentralization and the determinants of political integration, with a special focus on advanced industrial societies and European politics. Professor Beramendi is currently working on a number of papers and a book-length manuscript (Fragmented Solidarity) where the relationships between decentralization, inequality and redistribution are analyzed. In addition, he has written, in cooperation with colleagues at Oxford and the Science Center Berlin, a number of papers on the determinants of tax policy and income inequality across OECD countries. Some of his recent work is published or forthcoming in the European Journal of Political Research, the British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, and elsewhere. He is also co-editing a volume on the politics of inequality with the title Democracy, Inequality and Representation. Finally, together with colleagues at the Juan March Institute, Madrid, he is collaborating in a project on the political causes and consequences of changing labor market structures in OECD countries. Prior to coming to Duke, Prof. Beramendi was at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and the Science Center in Berlin.

Representative Publications

1. P. Beramendi and Christopher J Anderson (eds.), Democracy, Inequality and Representation (Fall, 2008), Russell Sage Foundation, 112 East 64th Street, New York 10021 [view] [abs]
2. P. Beramendi and Thomas R. Cusack, Diverse Disparities: the Politics and Economics of Wage, Market and Disposable Income Inequalities, Political Research Quarterly, vol. XX no. X (June, 2008), ISSN 10659129-08319220 [searchresults] [abs]
3. P. Beramendi, Inequality and the Territorial Fragmentation of Solidarity, International Organization, vol. 61 (Fall, 2007), pp. 783-820, ISSN 00208183-07070270 [cjoGetFulltext] [abs]
4. P. Beramendi and David Rueda, Social Democracy Constrained: Indirect Taxation in Industrialized Democracies, British Journal of Political Science, vol. 37 (Fall, 2007), pp. 619-641, ISSN 0007123407000348 [cjoGetFulltext] [abs]
5. P. Beramendi, Federalism, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, edited by Carles Boix and Susan Stokes (September, 2007), pp. 752-781, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199278480
6. Thomas R Cusack and P. Beramendi, Taxing Work, European Journal of Political Research, vol. 45 (July, 2006), pp. 43-73 [abstract] [abs]