sample of publications

• articles 

  • Why do majoritarian systems benefit the right? Income groups and vote choice across different electoral systems.  Political Science Research and Methods.  12. 2024
  • The 2023 Spanish general elections and the fourth Sánchez cabinet: A successful gamble for the left?.  Mediterranean Politics.  1-14. 2024
  • Voting for trade protectionist parties: Evidence from nine waves of the European Social Survey.  EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS.  25:527-548. 2024
  • The nationalisation of subnational elections in polarised Spain: the May 2023 regional and local elections.  South European Society and Politics.  1-27. 2024
  • Overlapping polarization: On the contextual determinants of the interplay between ideological and affective polarization.  ELECTORAL STUDIES.  84. 2023
  • The strategic determinants of legislative malapportionment in new democracies.  ELECTORAL STUDIES.  81:1-9. 2023
  • Electoral systems and ideological voting.  European Political Science Review.  14:463-481. 2022
  • Cordons sanitaires or tainted coalitions? The electoral consequences of populist participation in government.  PARTY POLITICS.  28:889-902. 2022
  • Construyendo bloques: la promiscuidad política online en tiempos de polarización en España = Building Blocks: Online Political Promiscuity in Times of Polarization in Spain.  Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas.  61-82. 2022
  • Territorial Polarisation after Radical Parties' Breakthrough in Spain.  South European Society and Politics.  27:51-73. 2022
  • Socioeconomic heterogeneity and party system fragmentation.  Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties.  33:377-397. 2020
  • Voting after the change: a natural experiment on the effect of electoral reform on party system fragmentation.  INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW.  41:271-286. 2020
  • The Politics of Committee Chairs Assignment in Ireland and Spain.  PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS.  72:182-201. 2019
  • Determinants of legislative committee membership in proportional representation systems.  PARTY POLITICS.  24:524-535. 2018
  • The impact of intraparty electoral reforms on party system nationalization.  PUBLIUS-THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM.  48:191-216. 2018
  • Do European Parliament Elections Impact National Party System Fragmentation?.  COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES.  51:447-476. 2018
  • The effect of valence and ideology in campaign conversion: panel evidence from three Spanish general elections.  PUBLIC CHOICE.  175:155-179. 2018
  • Attempts to reform the electoral system in Spain: the role of experts.  Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy.  16:1-19. 2017
  • Elecciones Municipales en España: La Personalización del Voto = Local elections in Spain. The personalization of voting behavior.  Revista Internacional de Sociologia.  75. 2017
  • Ticket-splitting in mixed-member systems: on the importance of seat linkage between electoral tiers.  WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS.  40:584-597. 2017
  • Allocating campaign effort in Spain: evidence from four general elections.  South European Society and Politics.  121:243-262. 2016
  • Elecciones municipales en España: un análisis multinivel de los determinantes individuales y contextuales del voto = Local elections in Spain: a multilevel analysis of the individual and contextual determinants of voting.  Revista de Estudios Politicos.  172:47-82. 2016
  • Economy, type of government, and strategic timing of elections: calling opportunistic early elections in OECD democracies.  WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS.  2015
  • Staying in the First League: Parliamentary Representation and the Electoral Success of Small Parties.  Political Science Research and Methods.  3:187-204. 2015
  • The international diffusion of electoral systems: The spread of mechanisms tempering proportional representation across Europe.  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH.  54:384-410. 2015
  • Electoral systems and the Sheriff of Nottingham: Determinants of disproportionality in new and established democracies.  PARTY POLITICS.  21:222-233. 2015

• book chapters 

  • Moving beyond the economy: executive approval in Spain. In: Economics and politics revisited. Executive approval and the new calculus of support.  OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 181-203. 2023
  • Turnout. In: The Oxford handbook of Spanish politics.  OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2020
  • La competición política en las Islas Baleares, 1983-2015. De las demandas descentralizadoras a la importancia de la corrupcion. In: En busca del poder territorial : cuatro décadas de elecciones autonómicas en España.  CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES SOCIOLOGICAS (CIS). 93-114. 2019
  • Commitee systems in Portugal and Spain. In: The Iberian legislatures in comparative perspective.  Routledge. 1-18. 2019
  • La batalla en la derecha española. In: Informe sobre la Democracia en España 2018.  FUNDACION ALTERNATIVAS. 53-69. 2019
  • Elecciones municipales en España (1979-2011): las dimensiones del voto. In: La elección directa del alcalde. Reflexiones, efectos y alternativas.  105-139. 2015
  • Electoral and party systems in Europe. In: Routledge Handbook of European Politics.  TAYLOR AND FRANCIS. 2015
  • La participación en las elecciones de 2008: factores micro y macro. In: Elecciones generales 2008.  CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES SOCIOLÓGICAS. 175-206. 2010