TheCentre for Political and Constitutional Studies (Spanish:Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales,CEPC), previously known as the Institute for Political Studies (Spanish:Instituto de Estudios Políticos), is anautonomous agency associated with theMinistry for the Presidency ofSpain.
Its mission is to analyze the international legal and sociopolitical situation, giving special attention to those issues that concernSpanish law institutions and how they relate to each other internationally and also in Europe. The organization is headquartered at thePalacio de Godoy, a historical building located at the Plaza Marina Española.[1]
(Master Oficial en Derecho Constitucional)
At present, the CEPC with theUniversidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, offers an official master adjusted to the high standards of (EEES), this postgraduate study has a great national and international reputation, with high academic qualities and high research orientation, supported by professors with great impact in the Spanish-speaking world, in addition, by the scientific production of its magazines, several indexed in Scopus and others notorious repositories.
This postgraduate degree, has its bases in the Diploma in Political and Constitutional Studies, a title that today has prestige in academic, legal and political for all Ibero-America. Many of its graduates currently occupy prominent positions in supreme constitutional courts, parliamentary assemblies, renowned universities and public administrations of the Ibero-American community (taken from:http://www.cepc.gob.es/master)
The editorial of the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies is among the 25 best publishers of scientific literature in Spain, according to studies carried out by the EC3 Group of the University of Granada, which produces the Publishers Scholar Metrics index (PSM) Of the CSIC Academic Book (ILIA), produced by the Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI). Both indexes measure the quality of Spanish publishers (Taken from:http://www.cepc.gob.es/publicaciones/libros
Adolfo Suárez, Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister, entrustedFernando Prieto, a well-knownpolitical scientist, with transforming the oldInstituto de Estudios Políticos into a center for political analysis, that would help Spain in its transition to democracy. Prieto became the CEPC's first director.
During the eighties and nineties, the CEPC was under the direction of professors Elías Díaz and Francisco Laporta, followed by the historian Carmen Iglesias. In May 2004, after theSocialist Party's electoral victory,José Álvarez Junco was appointed General Director. At that time, Junco held the chair of the "History of Ideas" in the faculty of "Political and Social Movements" at theComplutense University of Madrid.
On 19 May 2008, the position of General Director passed to Paloma Biglino Campos, Doctor of Political Science, Sociology and Law; a formerDean of the faculty of law at theUniversity of Valladolid.
On 1 February 2012, the directorship went to Benigno Pendás García, a professor of Political Science atCEU San Pablo University and, since 1981, a lawyer for theCortes.[2]
The CEPC publishes electronic versions of the following Spanish academic journals:[3]
They also maintain an electronic archive of the following journals:[4]
