Publications and Data

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Elite Studies in Authoritarian Regimes

  • 2025- Elite defections, in the Encyclopedia of Authoritarianism, edited by Thomas Ambrosio and Stephen Hall, Edward Edgar Publishers (accepted)
  • 2024– Democratic reforms in dictatorships: elite divisions, party origins, and the prospects of political liberalization (with Masaaki Higashijima), Comparative Political Studies (Online First, Open Access)
    • Replication material here
  • 2022– Strategic uncertainty and elite defections in electoral autocracies. A Cross-national Analysis. Comparative Political Studies.
    • Replication material here
  • Business as usual? The value of political connections after autocracy (with Jennifer Gandhi) (under review)
    • Working paper here

Elite Studies in Democracies

  • 2024 – Building political agreements: pragmatic and responsive decision-makers (with Xavier Coller), special issue in American Behavioral Scientist (Online First, Open Access)
  • 2021– Territorial and national identities in times of change (with Margarita Gómez-Reino Cachafeiro) [book chapter] In Politicians in Hard Times. Facing Citizens after the Great Recession in Spain and Southern Europe, edited by Xavier Coller and Leonardo Sánchez-Ferrer, London: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2021– New scenario, new motivations to become a politician? (with Manuel Portillo-Pérez) [book chapter] In Politicians in Hard Times. Facing Citizens after the Great Recession in Spain and Southern Europe, edited by Xavier Coller and Leonardo Sánchez-Ferrer, London: Palgrave Macmillan

Public Opinion and Democracy

  • 2024– Revisiting citizen preferences for Who should govern and how. The case of cross-national surveys, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties (Online First, Open Access)
    • Replication material here
  • 2016– Citizens, politicians, and experts in decision-making. Citizens’ perceptions of the quality of political actors matter. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 154: 83-102 (with Clemente J. Navarro and Joan Font) (Open Access)

Education and Politics

  • 2025– Guidelines for dataset creators and users: lessons from three education datasets (with Wooseok Kim, Carl H. Knutsen, Eugenia Nazrullaeva, Anja Neundorf, and Agustina Paglayan), Perspective on Politics (Forthcoming)
  • 2024– Education policies and systems across modern history: a global dataset (with Carl H Knutsen and Phillip M. Lutscher). Comparative Political Studies (Online First, Open Access)
    • Dataset and replication materials here
    • Awarded with the 2025 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Best Dataset Honorable Mention

Working Papers

  • Channeling discontent or fraud? Social movements and voter coordination (with Galina Selvinova). under review
  • New cross-national data for the study of elite defections in electoral autocracies (updating it!)
  • Office insecurity and how elites defect: evidence from Yeltsin’s Russia
  • Economic crises and democratization: The role of elite defections
  • Under pressure? Elite insubordination during mass mobilizations (with Fabio Angiolillo, Mauricio Rivera-Celestino and Marianne Dahl)
  • Induced defections and regime transitions, (with Mauricio Rivera-Celestino & Marianne Dahl)
  • The electoral impact of elite divisions in party-based autocracies (with Javier Padilla and Dean Schafer)

Dissemination and Media

  • 2023-Weakening Putin? Discussing the long-term significance of Wagner’s March to Moscow, El País, Agenda Pública. 25 August
  • 2023-The Kremlin and elites in war times, The Conversation. 12 January
  • 2022– Pelea de perros bajo la alfrombra. El papel de las divisiones dentro de la élite en Rusia, El País, Agenda Pública. 23 December
  • 2022-Between wishful thinking and fatalism? The role of elite divisions in Russia, ZOiS spotlight series (English and German). 30 November
  • 2022– article. A ‘cat-dog’ called Electoral Autocracy. ECPR’s Political Science Blog The Loop
  • 2022– article. ¿El principio del fin? Fisuras en el aparato mediático del Kremlin, El País, Agenda Pública. 19 March
  • 2022– media appearance. Invasión de Ukrania y los oligarcas rusos, Valors al’alça, Radio Matarò, Barcelona. 23 March