Politics & Policy | PSO Policy Research Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper analyzes how electoral system change affects the electoral performance of those parties that initiate these reforms. The hypothesis is that those who created the new system benefited from...

Parties that initiated electoral reforms gained no clear electoral advantage over others, suggesting electoral engineering is less common or less effective than often assumed doi.org/10.1111/polp...

517 – La literatura científica antiga Al segle V aC, en ple moment d’esplendor de la Grècia clàssica, apareixen els primers textos que intenten explicar el món a partir de l’observació i l’experiència. Des de llavors, metges, filòsofs,…

Anem tard i no anem lluny, però a casa hem xalat molt amb les @portesdetroia.bsky.social sobre La literatura científica antiga amb @jaume-diadoc.bsky.social Només hi hem trobat a faltar algun acudit d'El Senyor dels Anells, això sí www.portesdetroia.cat/2025/11/16/5...

El suplement - Ens podem fiar dels estudis de ciències socials? - 3Cat Un macroestudi ha demostrat que els acadèmics que es dediquen a l'estudi de les ciències socials arriben a conclusions diferents a partir de les mateixes dades. Amb en Jon Sindreu i en Toni Rodon, ana...

Avui hem parlat de la reproductibilitat i de la replicabilitat. S'ha millorat molt, però encara cal fer més feina. Recerca pura i dura avui a La Setmana Tràgica de Catalunya Ràdio www.3cat.cat/3cat/ens-pod...

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Black Lives Matter protests did not lead to depolicing but pushed police towards fewer, more targeted stops, reducing stops of Black civilians. Delighted to see this article from my brilliant PhD student @emanuelemurgolo.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Sneak peek of a project we have been working on for a while 👀

⏲️More soon!

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A party’s pledge fulfillment and procedural transparency affect voters’ trust Voters’ trust in political parties is vital because of parties’ central role in democracies. Despite widespread voter distrust in parties, the causes and parties’ role remain unclear. This article ...

Voters punish bad performance about 2-4 times harsher than they credit good performance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

El suplement - La IA està matant el clickbait? - 3Cat Amb en Jon Sindreu i en Toni Rodon analitzem si la intel·ligència artificial està provocant que els mitjans tornin a apostar per informació de qualitat i hagin deixat de banda les notícies amb titular...

Avui hem parlat d’això i de les fleques.

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Barcelona PhD Workshop Who is it for?

🎓 XIV Workshop on Empirical Political Science

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July 3rd, 2026 • 10:00–13:30
📍 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Open to PhD students in political science & related fields doing empirical research sites.google.com/view/barcelo... @politiquesuab.bsky.social

How executives succeed at democratic backsliding This article examines how certain episodes of democratic backsliding lead to more comprehensive forms of executive aggrandizement, even in the face of democratic resistance. Existing literature doe...

Executives who combine electoral legitimacy (plebiscitary support) with emergency powers (exceptional authority) are more likely to entrench power and overcome democratic resistance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Better-paid local politicians reduce corruption and increase procurement efficiency primarily through selection rather than electoral incentives doi.org/10.1017/S000...

The Gender Gap in Political Careers Under Proportional Representation | The Journal of Politics Does proportional representation (PR) feature gender gaps in incumbency advantages? I argue that closed-list PR (compared to open-list PR) can help to attenuate the gender difference by reducing voter...

Closed list PR can shield women from voter bias and even boost their incumbency advantage. In open list PR, where voters choose candidates, women may gain less from incumbency as they are more vulnerable to gender stereotyping doi.org/10.1086/735871

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People who normatively endorse greater influence by ordinary citizens simultaneously show limited willingness to exercise such influence, posing significant democratic challenges journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Catalunya: secularització general i gir conservador evangèlic juvenil El catolicisme es manté com la confessió majoritària, però han crescut els centres de culte evangèlics i els que pertanyen a l'islam

✍️ Avui escric a l’ @ara.cat

Catalunya: secularització general i gir conservador evangèlic juvenil www.ara.cat/1_56ee4f

El suplement - Per què els votants socialistes són els que tenen menys relacions sexuals? - 3Cat Amb en Jon Sindreu i en Toni Rodon analitzem la darrera enquesta del CIS que ha preguntat als ciutadans la freqüència de les relacions sexuals l'últim any.

Per què els votants socialistes són els que tenen menys relacions sexuals? www.3cat.cat/3cat/per-que...

Good morning from Florence! Ready to start the 17th European Graduate Network Conference www.sns.it/it/evento/17... @politiquesupf.bsky.social #EGN2026

Assistant Professor Position in Public Administration. Field: Public Administration / Public Governance Rank: Assistant Professor Dedication: Full-time - Departament | Facultat de Ciències Polítiques ...

🚨Job Alert‼️

We are seeking an Assistant Professor in Public Administration www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Party or Policy? The Role of Policy Partisanship in Voter Decision-Making - Political Behavior Which matters more to voters, the political party or the policy positions of electoral candidates? We contribute to this longstanding debate by analyzing the relative importance of policy information ...

Party cues are not as useful for voters in multi-party systems or moderately polarized systems, and that voters rely on policy information to make electoral decisions link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Democratic Backsliding, Elite Polarization, and Job Seekers' Pursuit of Government Employment Recent studies examine the conditions under which citizens in democracies are willing to endorse leaders who promote antidemocratic platforms. Less is known about the downstream ramifications of demo...

Democratic backsliding, including political attacks on the state bureaucracy, alongside elite polarization, significantly and negatively affect job seekers' attraction to state government work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Aquí el menjaclosques. Creat en uns minutets.

El suplement - Quin paper juga la intel·ligència artificial com a arma de guerra? - 3Cat La guerra a l'Iran ha destapat una altra guerra, no tan evident i més soterrada: la guerra de Donald Trump pel control de la IA i per crear armes 100% autònomes. Una escalada bèl·lica, també, en el mó...

A La Setmana Tràgica de Catalunya Ràdio avui hem parlat de Cruyff, d'Anthropic, de Claude Code i d'un menjaclosques (pac-man) versió Roger Escapa www.3cat.cat/3cat/quin-pa... #SuplementCatRàdio

Conditional hospitality? How applicants’ backgrounds shape host support for refugees Abstract. Public attitudes toward hosting foreign populations are shaped by a complex interplay of legal status, ethnic-religious background, and geographi

🔗 Read the full article: doi.org/10.1093/migr... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

📌 Conclusion?

Public support of refugees is conditional.

👉 It depends on legal status, origin, and proximity
👉 And varies strongly across political ideologies
🧠 Citizens are not simply pro- or anti-refugees; they differentiate.

🏡 One of the findings went against our expectation: a reversal of the classic NIMBY effect.

➡️ People were more supportive of hosting refugees in their own municipality than elsewhere.

❗ Local proximity increased rather than decreased support.

✅ We find a clear hierarchy of support:

– Refugees > economic migrants
– Especially strong support for Ukrainians

We use survey experiments embedded in one of the surveys of the Centre d'Estudis d'Opinió (Catalan polling institute).

🔍 Respondents evaluated different groups:
– Refugees (Ukraine / Syria)
– Economic migrants (Belarus / Jordan)

📍 With settlement either locally or across the region

Conditional hospitality? How applicants’ backgrounds shape host support for refugees Abstract. Public attitudes toward hosting foreign populations are shaped by a complex interplay of legal status, ethnic-religious background, and geographi

🚨New article🔥

▶️Conditional hospitality? How applicants’ backgrounds shape host support for refugees, at @migrationjrnl.bsky.social with Raül Tormos.

We examine when and why citizens support hosting refugees in Catalonia doi.org/10.1093/migr... @politiquesupf.bsky.social

Policy Diversification without Ideological Attenuation: The Programmatic Changes of Western European Far-Right Parties (1990–2025) - Belén Fernández-García, 2026 This research examines the programmatic transformations of the far right in Western Europe through two hypothesized mechanisms: the diversification of their age...

When the far right enters government, it is associated with ideological moderation and thematic diversification, but these effects are short lived and largely confined to cases where the far right parties serves as a junior coalition partner journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Why we fail to notice climate change People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.

Great to see our research featured in Science News 📰

The article discusses our findings showing little evidence that experiencing climate-related weather events changes attitudes toward climate policies www.sciencenews.org/article/clim... @mguinjoan.bsky.social @celiaestruch.bsky.social

El suplement - Està en perill el model de propietat del Barça? - 3Cat Amb en Jon Sindreu i en Toni Rodon analitzem les eleccions al Barça i les implicacions que poden tenir els resultats sobre el model de propietat del club.

Avui hem parlat del model de governança del Barça (tot demanant que les eleccions no acabin mai!).

www.3cat.cat/3cat/esta-en...

El jo guanya terreny: cada cop som més individualistes Aquesta tendència està creixent entre els col·lectius amb menys recursos

🚆Experiències en tren que et donen idees d'articles (o idees d'articles que veus plasmats en viatges en tren?)

✍️El meu article d'avui a l'@ara.cat: El jo guanya terreny: cada cop som més individualistes www.ara.cat/politica/gua...