Jose Francisco Jimenez-Diaz is accredited as Associate Professor by ANECA (Spain's National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation) and he is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville (Spain). His research focuses on Spanish political leadership, contemporary political theory and local effects of globalization. Over the course of his academic career he has written ... Read morea large number of works (including books, chapters and articles). These works have appeared in prestigious publishing houses and in refereed international journals. He has presented numerous papers on their topics of study in national and international congresses of Political Science, Sociology and Political Sociology. He has also been visiting professor and/or visiting researcher in the following universities and research centers: University of Lisbon (Portugal), University of Macerata (Italy), London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom), Institute of Social and Political Sciences of Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal), and School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris, France). Show Less