About

Bonnie N. Field received her doctorate in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests center on political parties and political institutions in transitional and institutionalized democracies in Europe and Latin America. She investigates minority governments, parliamentary regimes, interparty politics in parliament, intraparty processes of candidate selection, and regime democratization. Her book, Why Minority Governments Work: Multilevel Territorial Politics in Spain (Palgrave), examines the performance of minority parliamentary governments in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties. She is a local Affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, a Visiting Researcher at the Universities of Barcelona and Oslo, Faculty Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, Visiting Fellow at UCI's Center for the Study of Democracy, and Fulbright Senior Researcher in Spain.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Democracy, Democratisation, Elites, European Politics, Executives, Gender, Governance, Government, Institutions, Parliaments, Political Parties, Southern Europe

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Comparative Political Institutions
• Federalism and Regionalism
• Parliaments
• Political Parties
• Southern European Politics
• Elites and Political Leadership
• Presidential Politics
• Gender and Politics
• Extremism and Democracy