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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations Quique! 👏

Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 8d

Pues estamos de enhorabuena por muchas e importantes razones ✨👏👏👏👏👏 Congrats Quique!!! @ehernandez.bsky.social @dec-gr.bsky.social @uab.cat

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona @uab.cat · 9d

🏆 El professor de la #UAB Enrique Hernández, Premi Nacional de Recerca per a Joves 2025

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 8d

Great postdoctoral opportunity! 👇

Carol Galais @galais.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Call open!
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the EU-funded project TaCT-FoRSED, which studies how conspiracy theories affect democratic attitudes.

ℹ️ Info: tauler.seu-e.cat/detall?idEns...

🔗 Application: seleccio.uab.cat/seleccio/log...

e-TAULER - Consorci Administració Oberta de Catalunya

tauler.seu-e.cat

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you Rubén!

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Carol Galais @galais.bsky.social · 10d

Proud to be part of such a productive research group!

🔎Looking for a panel survey? Feel free to use ours!

Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 10d

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

The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

Scientific Data - The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

rdcu.be

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 10d

The article is co-authored by me, @galais.bsky.social, @ehernandez.bsky.social, @gricoc.bsky.social, and @evaanduiza.bsky.social

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 10d

All datasets, questionnaires, codebooks, and methodological reports are openly available in the CORA repository.
doi.org/10.34810/dat...

POLAT Panel. Spanish Political Attitudes Dataset (12 waves)

The dataset contains waves 1 to 12 of the “POLAT Project. Spanish Political Attitudes Panel”, with information retrieved through online surveys car...

doi.org

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 10d

The panel spans a decade of major political change, including the financial crisis, austerity protests, the rise of populism, and COVID-19. In Spain, it captures events such as 15M, significant party system change, corruption scandals, the Catalan independence bid, and feminist mobilization.

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 10d

POLAT focuses primarily on political variables, offering a broad range of indicators of attitudes and behaviors.

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 10d

The article provides an overview of the design, content, and characteristics of the dataset, which follows over 4,600 individuals across the decade 2010–2020.

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 10d

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

The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

Scientific Data - The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)

rdcu.be

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Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 15d

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....

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 ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · 22d

Great opportunity for prospective PhD students in Political Science — fully funded scholarship to join the @dec-gr.bsky.social research group 👇

Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 23d

🧲 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 [email protected]
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

Call for expressions of interest for a PhD scholarship within the project GPOL – Democracy, Elections and Citizenship

tinyurl.com

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · Aug 29

Divining Draghi

The Italian technocrat re-emerged as the EU’s saviour once again this week. But is he a false prophet?

dlvr.it

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · Aug 28

www.politico.eu/article/napl...

‘Naples is dead’: How overtourism is hollowing out Italian cities

Rising numbers of visitors are swamping the locals, making housing scarce, increasing pollution and even emptying churches.

www.politico.eu

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Josep M. Comellas @pepcomellas.bsky.social · Jul 23

It has been a pleasure to contribute to the Handbook of Affective Polarization, edited by @marianotorcal.bsky.social and @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social

I co-authored a chapter with @marianotorcal.bsky.social on the operationalization of affective polarization in multiparty systems 👇

Mariano Torcal @marianotorcal.bsky.social · Jul 23

It is OUT the last (printed) version of Handbook of Affective Polarization doi.org/10.4337/9781...
It is open Access!!!

doi.org

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · Jul 4

💣Do terrorist attacks boost support for incumbents?

➡️ A.Falcó @jordimunoz.bsky.social @robpannico.bsky.social show that in Spain, support for incumbents rose ~4pts after attacks, mostly when the incumbent was conservative and when civilians were targeted www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Marc Guinjoan @mguinjoan.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 Call for papers

📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop

📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at
@IBEI

📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4.

Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

👇

VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya

IBEI, 6th of November 2025 Submission form

docs.google.com

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Roberto Pannico @robpannico.bsky.social · Jun 25

I am very glad to see this paper with Albert Falcó and @jordimunoz.bsky.social published in @psrm.bsky.social. We use a multiple-UESD design to investigate the effect of terrorist attacks on voting 👇

Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social · Jun 25

After a long time in the making, so happy to finally see this paper out at @psrm.bsky.social, with Albert Falcó and @robpannico.bsky.social- www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Voters rally around the incumbent in the aftermath of terrorist attacks: evidence from multiple unexpected events during surveys | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Voters rally around the incumbent in the aftermath of terrorist attacks: evidence from multiple unexpected events during surveys

www.cambridge.org

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Enrique Hernández @ehernandez.bsky.social · May 2

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...

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dec-gr.bsky.social @dec-gr.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 Next seminar: Next Tuesday (25th March) @klaramueller.bsky.social (Universität Mannheim) will present “How Snap Election Calls Shape Vote Intention Uncertainty: Lessons From Germany and Spain” co-authored with @aleferna.bsky.social

📍Sala de Juntes

🕐 13:00

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EUGLOB Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence @euglob.bsky.social · Mar 14

A pleasure to have Professor Theresa Kuhn give the Jean Monnet Annual Lecture today at the UAB: "Beyond specific EU support: Measuring and understanding European identity over four decades." Our students from the BA in International Relations & MA in European Integration joined!

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EUGLOB Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence @euglob.bsky.social · Mar 13

Today we thoroughly enjoyed the thoughtful 💭 seminar with Professor Francesco Nicoli of #PolitecnicodiTorino, as he explained "A Functional Theory of Legitimacy in the EU," 🇪🇺 in a joint event with the EUGOV and TRANSDEM Research Groups!

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dec-gr.bsky.social @dec-gr.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢 New publication alert! "Affective polarization in the the face of crisis : the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and de-escalation policies in Spain" academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl... by @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social & @galais.bsky.social

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dec-gr.bsky.social @dec-gr.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢Next seminar: Tomorrow (18th March) Xavier Romero-Vidal (Department of Public Policy, Cabinet of the Prime Minister's Office) will present: "How far-right protests change satisfaction with democracy"

📍Sala de Juntes

🕑13:00

Join us!

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dec-gr.bsky.social @dec-gr.bsky.social · Feb 19

Yesterday @turnbulldugarte.com presented “Explaining LGBTQ electoral choices: 'Voting for those who vote for us'”.

Thank you for such an interesting research and presentation!

Hope to see you soon!

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