Research

Projects

Funding institution: Beca Leonardo a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales de la Fundación BBVA
Role: Principal Investigator
Amount: 40,000 €
Duration: 2019/10/01 – 2021/06/30
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Summary: The project has two main goals. On the one hand, it aims to quantify the size of partisan effects across types of electoral systems. On the other hand, it examines the role played by three potential sources of partisan bias: malapportionment, turnout differences and the geographic distribution of party vote shares. In order to do that, three papers will examine partisan effects at the national, the party and the district level, respectively. The first of them is a joint work with Robert Liñeira of University of Glasgow and revisits some of the arguments and the empirical evidence in Döring and Manow (2017). The second one is a joint work with Alberto Penadés of University of Salamanca that draws insights from the literature on majoritarian systems to examine the concept of partisan bias from the theoretical and the empirical point of view. Finally, a third paper assesses the existence of partisan effects of electoral systems at the district level by extending the findings by Kedar et al. (2016).

Funding institution: XVIII Concurso Nacional para la Adjudicación de Ayudas a la Investigación en Ciencias Sociales
Role: Principal investigator
Amount: 35,000 €
Duration: 2019/10/01 – 2021/09/30
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Summary: Building on a previous one, this project seeks to understand the historical and economic origins of the partisan effects of electoral systems. In order to achieve this goal, a first paper with Ignacio Lago (University Pompeu Fabra) examines how autocratic legacies and democratic transitions affect the level of legislative malapportionment in contemporary democracies. Secondly, a joint work with Miguel Artola (University Carlos III of Madrid) analyses whether economic inequality and the size of the agricultural sector in the XIX century affects the size of partisan effects of electoral systems nowadays. Finally, the third paper associated to this project combines survey and experimental data to address the question of whether the likelihood of casting a strategic vote depends on individuals’ ideology.

“Changing the Rules of the Game: On the Causes and Consequences of Electoral Reforms in Contemporary Democracies”, book manuscript.
With Francisco Cantú “Electoral Systems and Ideological Voting”, under review.

“El Voto Dual en España”, book manuscript.
With Amuitz Garmendia and Javier Lorenzo “Who do we Follow? Analyzing the Behavioral Variance of Twitter Users in Spain”, invited to revise and resubmit.
With Enrique García-Viñuela and José Rama “Protectionist Parties and Low-skilled Workers” (October 2020).

With Marco Pastor “Cordons Sanitaires or Tainted Coalitions? The Electoral Consequences of Populist Participation in Government”, under review.
With Guillermo Fernández “It is no longer different: VOX and the entry of the far right in Spanish politics”, under review.

With Amuitz Garmendia “Radical Change? Territorial Polarization after Far Right’s Breakthrough in Spain”, under review.