Welcome to my academic website!

I am Serra Hunter Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Master’s Program in Political Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I am affiliated with the research group Democracy, Elections and Citizenship and the Institute of Government and Public Policy.

My research is in the areas of political behavior, gender studies, and, more recently, social policy. I have examined how party strategies, institutional contexts, and socioeconomic and gender-based inequalities condition the quality of political representation in European democracies. I have two ongoing projects that explore the impact of family and labor market policy on gender-based inequalities in Spain. My research is grounded in social psychological theory, with a strong emphasis on developing original measurement tools and identifying causal relationships. I have participated in original data collection endeavours, including the 16-wave (and counting!) Spanish POLAT longitudinal panel, the two-wave FAIRLEAVE logitudinal panel among recent Spanish parents, as well as original survey and field experiments in Spain, the US, the UK, and Sweden.

I received my Doctorate from the Department of Political Science at Indiana University-Bloomington, with a Ph.D. Minor in Psychology. My dissertation, supervised by Tim Hellwig, was published as an award-winning book manuscript titled Coping with Complexity: How Voters Adapt to Unstable Parties (ECPR Press, 2016).

On this site you can find information about my research, including recent publications with replication materials, ongoing projects and working papers.

If you’d like to get in touch about data or a collaboration, please reach out via email.