Sofia Perez Associate Professor Office: PLS 301 Phone: 617.353.3876 E-mail: sofiap@bu.edu Education: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., George Washington University Areas of Specialization: Comparative Politics, European Studies, Political Economy .

Professor Perez is the author of Banking on Privilege: The Politics of Spanish Financial Reform, published by Cornell University Press in 1997, and is co-author (with Michael Loriaux et al) of Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States, published by Cornell University Press in 1996. Professor Pérez is also the author of scholarly articles, reviews, papers, book and book chapters on topics ranging from the politics of exchange rate regimes, monetary policy, wage bargaining, social pacts, and democratic trasition. Her current research centers on the impact of European monetary integration on labor markets in countries of the European Union, in particular Italy and Spain.

Professor Perez regularly teaches the following courses:
Introduction to Comparative Politics (PO 251)
Governments of Western Europe (PO 361)
Continental Western European Governments (PO 661)
Approaches to Applied Study of Comparative Politics (PO 751)

For more information:
Curriculum Vitae
Selected publications available for download
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