Work in Progress

Inequality, Immigration and Party Strategies [PDF]  

with Hector Galindo-Silva

In this paper we explore how increasing immigration levels affect parties’ strategies across OECD democracies. We develop a formal model that accounts for the conditional relationship between immigration, inequality and political parties’ strategies. 

Labor Unrest, Ideology Formation and Female Participation in the 1930s  [PDF]

with Carles Boix, Jordi Muñoz and Toni Rodon

According to most of the available evidence, women were less likely to turn out than men when they got the right to vote. Much less is known, however, about the root causes of female political participation upon formal electoral enfranchisement. We argue that ideological activation before female enfranchisement is key to understand the variation in the gender turnout gap.

Pandemics Meet Democracy: Experimental Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in Spain [PDF]

with Andreu Arenas, Albert Falcó-Gimeno and Jordi Muñoz

The COVID-19 outbreak poses an unprecedented challenge for contemporary democracies. We present results from a set of survey experiments run in Spain from March 20 to March 28, together with longitudinal evidence from a panel survey fielded right before and after the virus outbreak. 

Authoritarian Legacies in Contemporary Radical Right Voting in Spain 

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with Jordi Muñoz

There is increasing evidence that points to historical legacies as an important determinant of contemporary electoral behavior. In this project we aim at testing the effect of legacies from the Francoist dictatorship (1936-75) in the vote to the new radical right party in Spain, Vox. We aim at uncovering the conditional effects of legacies. 

How Inequality Shapes Political Participation: The Role of Spatial Patterns of Political Competition 

with Pablo Beramendi, Miriam Hortas-Rico and Vicente Rios 

This study investigates how economic inequality shapes political participation and to what extent this relationship is moderated by political competition. In the case of Spain, the link between income inequality and turnout is negative, as expected, but rather weak, suggesting that local turnout rates do not depend exclusively on income inequality.  

When the Median Legislator Matters: Redistribution and the Investiture Vote  [PDF] [Dormant]

with Albert Falcó-Gimeno

The degree to which is the legislative median party or, instead, government members what shapes policymaking remains somewhat of a puzzle. In this paper we establish the institutional conditions under which we expect the median legislator in the left-right dimension to dictate redistribution.