Welcome! I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics at the City University of New York (CUNY). During my PhD, I have been a visiting researcher at the LSE and the EUI. My research has been funded by a La Caixa Fellowship, a Graduate Assistant Fellowship at CUNY, and the Christa Altenstetter Award. Moreover, I was awarded the Comillas Prize for the best historical book written in Spanish. 

My work deals with the short- and medium-term effects of different models of transition to democracy. To do this, I am building a dataset covering the entire professional trajectory of authoritarian elites and their children in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Peru.  My work has been published or is forthcoming in Political Behavior, Research & Politics, Electoral Studies, Democratization, Political Studies, Journal of Elections, Public Opinions and Parties, and Acta Politica, among other journals. Additionally, I have published two books on the Spanish Transition to democracy.

You can reach out at javierpmt@gmail.com