RESEARCH PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

• ELITPOLAR (on the polarisation of elites and citizens in Spain, 2025-2027)

The goal of the ELITPOLAR project (PID2023-151795NB-I00) is to explain the causes of the affective divide that has emerged in Spanish society, by analyzing various factors such as the impact of the economic crisis, the increase in inequalities, cultural and identity conflicts, as well as the ideological radicalization of political elites and their use of aggressive rhetoric and polarizing discourse. Budget: 100.000€ [Role: research team at UNED] + info

• ELITPOLAR publications are still ongoing. Find all the outreach articles here.

• ActEU (on political trust in Europe, 2023-2026)

The ActEU project (HORIZON-101094190) studies the decline in trust and political legitimacy in Europe, focusing on the interactions between citizens' political attitudes, their political participation, and the representation of their political preferences. Budget: 3.044.120€ [Role: postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po and CSIC]  + info

• All ActEU publications are available here.

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

• REPCHANCE (on political representation in Europe, 2022-2024)

“REPCHANCE – Spain and the United Kingdom” (Robert Bosch Foundation) aims at providing a better and deeper understanding of the processes that place barriers to the inclusion of migrants and their descendants in social and political positions of leadership, as well as which initiatives may contribute to overcoming such barriers, hence fostering more inclusive societies. [Role: research assistant at Sciences Po] + info

• All REPCHANCE publications are available here.

• MOBILEU (on electoral rights of mobile EU citizens, 2021-2023)

MOBILEU is an EU-funded project (Grant number: 963348) investigating the voting rights of non-resident and non-national groups of mobile EU citizens. Franchise entitlements for emigrants and immigrants vary both within and across EU Member States. The core objective of this project is to seek to document and evaluate these variations and political inequalities by focusing on the rights and participation of both emigrant and immigrant groups in local, European Parliament, and national elections, respectively. Budget: 592.774€ [Role: research assistant at the University of Liège] + info

• All MOBILEU publications are available here.

• CONSENSO (on consensus-building in Spain, 2020-2023)

The CONSENSO project (PID2019-108667GB-I00) analyzes whether governance in Spanish society from the legislative branch tends toward conflict or consensus. The aim is to determine what prevails more in Spain’s 19 representative chambers: conflict or cooperation. The approach is comparative, both historically and territorially. Budget: 68.123€ [Role: research assistant at UNED] + info

• All CONSENSO publications are available here.

• ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (on survey data about ethnic and migrant minorities, 2017-2021)

The main goal of this network is to bring together researchers, policy makers, and survey data producers to join efforts to improve the access, usability, dissemination and standards of the multiple and scattered survey data that exist on the economic, social and political integration of ethnic and migrant minorities (EMMs). [Role: country researcher and visiting researcher at Sciences Po] + info

• All ETHMIGSURVEYDATA publications are available here.

• APREPINM (on political elites and inclusion at the local level in Spain, 2016-2019)

The project 'Ayuntamientos Plurales' (Plural Councils), funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CSO‐2016–79540‐R) and coordinated by the Autonomous University of Madrid, aims primarily to measure and explain the levels of descriptive political representation in Spain’s municipalities. Budget: 48.000€ [Role: predoctoral researcher at UAM] + info

• All APREPINM publications are available here.