Padilla, Javier. "Is Satisfaction with Democracy Higher After Transitional Justice Trials?." Political Behavior (2025): 1-44.
Padilla, Javier. "Do Protests Change Citizens’ Perceptions of Political Parties? Evidence From the 15-M in Spain." Political Studies (2025): 00323217241311416.
Padilla, Javier. "When the Party’s Over: Explaining the Rise of the Spanish Far-Right SALF." Research & Politics. Forthcoming. With Alvaro Canalejo-Molero & Alberto López Ortega.
Padilla, Javier, et al. (2024). Things will have to change? Analysing the Spanish transition to democracy from an elite perspective. Democratization, 1-22.
Padilla, Javier. "Do ideologically extreme voters have extreme perceptions of political parties?." Electoral Studies 86 (2023): 102707.
Padilla, Javier, and Manuel Trujillo. "Explaining Romanies’ high abstentionism: socialization effects and political interest." Acta Politica 59.3 (2023): 718-747.
Romero Moreno, Guillermo, Javier Padilla, and Enrique Chueca. "Learning VAA: A new method for matching users to parties in voting advice applications." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 32.2 (2022): 339-357.
Lipsitz, Keena, and Javier Padilla. "The nonlinear effects of political advertising." Journal of Political Marketing 23.2 (2021): 192-205.
Padilla, Javier, et al. "A normative set of criteria to increase political competence through voting advice applications." International Journal of Electronic Governance 13.2 (2021): 149-175.
Multiple articles at El País, London Shool of Economics Eurocrisis Blog, Policy Network, World Economic Forum, El Confidencial, Letras Libres, El Periodico de Cataluña, and Agenda Pública, among others.