Publications on Elite Studies in Authoritarian Regimes
- 2022– Strategic Uncertainty and Elite Defections in Electoral Autocracies. A Cross-national Analysis. Comparative Political Studies (top 3% Altmetric score).
- Replication material here
- Elite Divisions, Party Origins, and Political Liberalization in Autocracies (with Masaaki Higashijima) under review
- Working paper, V-Dem working paper series
- Business as usual? The Value of Political Connections under Regime Change. Evidence from Malaysia (with Jennifer Gandhi and Allison Cuttner) under review
Publications on Elite Studies in Democracies
- 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
Publications on Public Opinion
- 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)
- Revisiting Citizen Preferences for Participation, Representation, and Expertise (under review)
Working Papers
- 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
- Education Policies and Systems across Modern History: A Global Dataset (With Carl H Knutsen and Phillip M. Lutscher). See here our working paper (24.09.2022)
- Channelling unrest? Opposition coordination in authoritarian elections. Evidence from 2021 Smart Voting strategy (with Galina Selivanova)
- Political representatives in Spain: profile and political career since the transition to democracy (with Pablo Domínguez, Xavier Coller & Antonio Jaime-Castillo)
Dissemination and Media
- 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