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Posts by Guillem Rico

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The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men Moral grandstanding—the use of moral discourse to enhance one's status—has become a central feature of contemporary political expression. Drawing on representative survey data from Germany, France, G...

New paper in Political Psychology:
The age of virtue signaling: Moral grandstanding as competitive display among young men
This study examines moral grandstanding (i.e., using moral discourse to enhance status) across 4 European countries (N=8,420). 🧵
doi.org/10.1111/pops...

3 weeks ago 9 4 1 0

It has been great to navigate this paper with amazing @gefjonoff.bsky.social . Started expecting angry right-wing men to feel threatened by feminism and found out more than one surprise 👇

2 months ago 26 14 1 0
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🚨New article🥳

➡️ The Limits of Alarm: How Climate Scenarios Fail to Increase Willingness to Act and Pay for Climate Change Policies, published at @psrjournal.bsky.social co-authored with @mguinjoan.bsky.social & @celiaestruch.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/n)

3 months ago 33 14 6 1
The Materiality of Socio-Ecological Conflicts: A Revised Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift - Marta Vallvé, 2025 In the context of ecological crisis and ecological transitions, socio-ecological conflicts are increasing. While their material causes are often attributed to s...

New publication! I wrote a conceptual paper reflecting on how to study the material roots of socio-ecological conflicts using a metabolic rift approach. This is the story of how this paper came to be 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0486...

3 months ago 3 4 1 0
Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Which mini-publics do they favour? A European experiment on Politicians’ attitudes towards mini-publics’ design

Which can of deliberative Minipublics are preferred by political representatives? My colleagues show that they care more about of sits on the table than about being or not binding www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@rodrigoramis.bsky.social

5 months ago 2 3 1 0
The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves) Scientific Data - The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT).

rdcu.be/eIkms

6 months ago 41 18 1 4

The gender gap in radical right support isn’t about women versus men, it’s about sexism. Do not miss this great piece of @evaanduiza.bsky.social @gricoc.bsky.social. The insights go well beyond Spain.

6 months ago 15 6 0 0

Interesting new study showing that sexism, rather than gender per se, explains gender differences in voting for the radical right in Spain.*

(* although gender, again, is correlated with sexism)

6 months ago 17 7 0 1
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📢New publication alert: "Sexism and the Gender Gap in Support for the Radical Right" by @evaanduiza.bsky.social and @gricoc.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

6 months ago 3 1 0 0
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Sexism and the Gender Gap in Support for the Radical Right Using survey data from Spain we show that the gender gap in the probability of voting for the radical-right party Vox is mainly due to men having higher levels of modern sexism than women. We find ...

We have a new paper out with @gricoc.bsky.social in @jwpp.bsky.social (this time I swear I am going to post the right link): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

6 months ago 60 30 2 4
Call for expressions of interest for a PhD scholarship within the project GPOL – Democracy, Elections and Citizenship

🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to gr.dec@uab.cat
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

7 months ago 31 35 0 4
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Democratic backsliding in the shadow of crises. How pandemics, war and democratic regression impact attitudes towards democracy in Georgia This study explores the impact of crises on democratic support in Georgia by analyzing how external and domestic challenges – including the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and internal democ...

New OA paper🧵 @buzogany.bsky.social
and I just published a paper titled 'Democratic Backsliding in the Shadow of Crises: How Pandemics, War, and Democratic Regression Impact Attitudes towards Democracy in Georgia' Check it out in Contemporary Politics.
doi.org/10.1080/1356...

7 months ago 4 3 1 0
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Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes The resurgence of the rural–urban divide as a factor shaping political attitudes has gained increasing attention in both public and academic discourse…

🚨New article🔥

Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes, at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with @sofiabrei.bsky.social @griambau.bsky.social @arodilla.bsky.social

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social (1/n)

9 months ago 26 5 1 0
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📢 Publication alert:
Our paper "Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes" - with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @griambau.bsky.social, ‬ and Andreu Rodilla - is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

9 months ago 67 21 1 1
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3. And a clear (descriptive) underrepresentation of rural areas

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2. Some variation across party families

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We find:

1. A wide variation in the rural and urban backgrounds of members of parliament.

9 months ago 5 1 1 0
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Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments Recent research shows a growing rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behavior, which has given currency to expressions like “places that don'…

New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social

With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments Recent research shows a growing rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behavior, which has given currency to expressions like “places that don'…

📢 New publication alert: "Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments" by @gricoc.bsky.social, @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social and @ehernandez.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

9 months ago 10 4 0 1
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Should democracies ban parties that threaten democracy?

In the DEMOTRADEOFF project survey we asked people in 15 countries about this.

A short 🧵 with some results

Citizens are deeply divided about this issue

Support for bans is highest in 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇨🇭 🇩🇪

www.dw.com/en/germany-i...

11 months ago 75 28 3 4
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Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe A rural consciousness, encompassing a rural identity and resentments directed at urban areas and the political elite, has emerged as a key explanation…

Can rural and urban #consciousness be measured in #Europe? New publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social from our project on the Rural-Urban Divide in Europe #RUDE

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1 year ago 17 7 0 0
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¿Están los ciudadanos realmente comprometidos con la democracia? Los ciudadanos otorgan un valor mucho mayor a las elecciones libres que a otros principios liberales fundamentales, como la libertad de expresión y de manifestación o el control del gobierno por parte...

Hoy seguimos con el tema de moda.
¿Están los ciudadanos realmente comprometidos con la democracia?
Sergi Ferrer y sus coautores examinan qué dimensiones de la democracia son las que realmente nos importan.

www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

1 year ago 10 11 1 0

🚨 RA Job alert! 🚨
I'm looking for a part-time RA (6 months) to join my project on gender-based violence at UAB. 📊 The RA will develop a unique dataset on GBV indicators in Spain💡

🌍 Remote-friendly
💰 Competitive salary

➡️Full details about the position can be found here: www.leirerincon.com/project

1 year ago 57 42 3 3

We are now on Bluesky. Follow us here for information about our research, seminars and updates. We look forward to sharing insights and engaging with the community here too!

1 year ago 8 5 0 2
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🔮 Feminist mobilisation, sexism, and radical-right support in Spain Eva Anduiza and Guillem Rico argue that sexist attitudinal backlash is partially responsible for the rise of the Spanish radical populist right. The electoral consequences of changes in sexist attitud...

🔮 FutureOfPopulism No.86
In a blog based on @ajpseditor.bsky.social research, Eva Anduiza & @gricoc.bsky.social argue that the rise of the Spanish radical populist right is partly due to sexist attitudinal backlash, but seems to be related more to heightened feminist mobilisation
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1 year ago 0 1 0 0
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🚜The rural-urban cleavage in the XXI century 🏙️

🔴As part of our research project, we are hosting this workshop on 25-26 April at UPF.

▶️ The line-up of speakers and papers is great. If you are around, do not miss it! sites.google.com/view/rural-u...

2 years ago 2 2 0 1
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Ideological Identification, Type of Threat, and Differences in How Anger and Fear Relate to Anti-Immigrant and Populist Attitudes - Guillem Rico, 2024 Following calls for a clear analytical distinction between populism and the specific ideological projects to which it is attached, the present article examines ...

📢 New paper

How do populist and anti-immigrant attitudes relate to feelings of fear and anger about perceived threats facing the country?

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

2 years ago 4 0 0 0

Are you interested in democratic backsliding?

With @honoratam.bsky.social and Joep van Lit we are organizing a workshop on "Early Signs of Democratic Recession in Established and Backsliding Democracies"

Join us at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions

polisky

ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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