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Josep M. Comellas

@pepcomellas.bsky.social
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Politòleg. Public opinion, political behavior, polarization. Postdoctoral researcher at @dec-gr.bsky.social @uab.cat. Teaching fellow at @uocuniversitat.bsky.social scholar.google.com/citations?user=o…

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Àngel Ferrero @angelferrero.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
En 'Sin Permiso' podéis leer la transcripción de mi intervención en la sesión inaugural del curso 'Introducción a la extrema derecha actual', organizado por el ateneo La Barraqueta de Gràcia, y en la que participé junto a @monicaclua.bsky.social. sinpermiso.info/textos/tempo...
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Temporada alta en el Gran Hotel Abismo
Intervención en el curso Introducción a la extrema derecha actual, organizado por el ateneo La Barraqueta de Gràcia el 21 de mayo de 2026. Este ciclo lleva por título ‘Introducción a la extrema derech...
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 29/05/2026
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies - cup.org/43vEJV0 - @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social, @leberntzen.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social, @hayleekelsall.bsky.social, et al #FirstView
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Aquest divendres! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Josep M. Comellas @pepcomellas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨 Very happy to see our latest publication with @marianotorcal.bsky.social in the new issue of @polstudies.bsky.social! "A longitudinal study on the dynamic relationship between affective polarization and radical right’s emergence: The case of VOX in Spain" 👇👇
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🚨 @eupoplink.bsky.social lanza una gran encuesta sobre el futuro de Europa para todos los países miembros y candidatos a entrar en la UE. Respóndela en el siguiente enlace: get.epoll.eu/index.php/48... @juanperezrajo.bsky.social @gricoc.bsky.social
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Andreu Paneque @anddreupm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Molt content d’haver pogut celebrar el I Workshop de Territorial Politics a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, amb col·laboració amb Institut d'Estudis de l'Autogovern Ha estat una gran jornada de reflexió, debat i intercanvi d’idees. Esperem que aquesta sigui només la primera trobada de moltes.
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🗺️Molt aviat, i en format obert, posarem a disposició de tothom els resultats electorals de la Segona República Espanyola. Primer llençament (versió beta) i el resultat d'un projecte que ha durat anys. @politiquesupf.bsky.social @pauvallprat.bsky.social @diegomartin-916.bsky.social
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"We show that, depending on how the impact of omitted variables is measured, it can be substantially easier for omitted variables to flip coefficient signs than to drive them to zero."
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
📢Open call for applications. DEC welcomes expressions of interest for the 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. Applicants interested in developing a proposal with us are encouraged to get in touch before 15 May. More information ⬇️ marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🎉 Online first: LLMs estimate party positions well. How about issue salience? @kenbenoit.bsky.social and Michael Laver show its harder: salience is inherently relative and more implicit. LLM's salience estimates are usable but track experts less closely than positions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
First page of the article "Measuring issue salience for political parties using LLMs" by Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver, published online first in West European Politics. Shows the title, authors, and abstract.Box plots showing the distribution of 'budgeted' issue salience scores across six policy dimensions (economic, social, environment, EU, decentralization, immigration), comparing expert surveys, Manifesto Project codings, and LLM-based estimates.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections! Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.
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Julen Bollain @julenbollain.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
No somos libres mientras nuestra vida dependa del capricho de un jefe, de un casero o de un mercado que te obliga a aceptar cualquier cosa para llegar a fin de mes. La libertad exige no tener que agachar la cabeza para sobrevivir. ✍️ Junto a Daniel Raventós journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Gijs Schumacher @gijsschumacher.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Marta Vallvé @martavallve.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Aquest divendres a les 11h defenso la meva tesi doctoral a la UAB: www.uab.cat/ca/escola-do...
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 13/03/2026
I look grumpy but it was such a pleasure chatting to @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social about polarisation hype In particular, we took our cue from the paper @juanroch.bsky.social @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I co-authored link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚨CALL for papers AECPA 2026. 📍Granada: 9 al 11 de septiembre de 2026. Algunos de los grupos de trabajo coordinados por miembros del DEC (🧶)
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Identity appeals have strong effects on choosing a candidate, even rivalling those of our policy appeals. The effects are driven by appeals that emphasize out-group conflict rather than in-group solidarity www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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How Group Appeals Shape Group–Party Linkages in Two Political Systems | The Journal of Politics
To attract voters, politicians can appeal to their interests and attitudes through policies. They can also appeal to their identities by supplying candidates that belong to their social group or by se...
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Joel Ardiaca @joelardiaca.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Ahir el CEO va publicar la tercera onada de l'enquesta longitudinal. Com a participant en la seva elaboració, he de dir que m'ha fet il·lusió veure-la sortir.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
After nearly a decade measuring American public support for political violence, @nathankalmoe.bsky.social and I have published a somewhat comprehensive guide to measuring these attitudes. This includes historical comparisons and responses to common critiques. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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How to Measure Public Support for Political Violence
Abstract. With low but rising levels of violent political threats and violent acts by civilians in the United States, researchers increasingly want to meas
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Rubén García del Horno @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
‼️📆 Call for papers – The politics of place: geographic divides in contemporary democracies (AECPA, Granada, 9-11 Septiembre) Con @asanchezgarcia.es @aldeleon.bsky.social @juanperezrajo.bsky.social te invitamos a que nos envíes tu propuesta antes del 31/03 👇 www.aecpa.es/es-es/the-po...
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
📢Next seminar: Next Tuesday (3rd March), Luca Bernardi (@lbernardi.bsky.social) from the University of Liverpool will present his work "Public Perceptions of Politicians with Mental Health Problems in the UK" 📍Sala de Juntes 🕐13:00 Join us!
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Political trust has a positive effect on democracy, but only in countries that have already achieved high quality of democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Does political trust strengthen democracy? A cross-national longitudinal analysis - Marta Kołczyńska, Paul-Christian Bürkner, 2026
Political trust is widely considered essential for democracy, but empirical evidence testing this hypothesis remains limited. Drawing on research that connects ...
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Felix Lehmann @felixlehmann.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Why does mainstream accommodation of far-right and Eurosceptic parties often electorally backfire? In my 3rd dissertation paper, just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social, I argue that voters specifically punish internally divided parties for accommodation: doi.org/10.1080/0140... 1/13 🧵
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📝Escriben en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social @damjantomic.bsky.social @sergiferrer.bsky.social Enrique Prada y @ehernandez.bsky.social sobre su investigación publicada en @cpsjournal.bsky.social. ¿Aceptan igual la democracia los ganadores y perdedores de elecciones? www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...
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¿Aceptan igual la democracia quienes ganan y quienes pierden las elecciones?
El aumento de la polarización y de opciones políticas autoritarias podría generar una brecha en el compromiso democrático entre ganadores y perdedores electorales. No obstante, datos de elecciones rec...
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📝Artículo de @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social en @agendapublica.es que recoge los resultados de su investigación sobre el resentimiento rural. agendapublica.es/noticia/2068...
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Sin médico, sin escuela, sin autopista, así surge el resentimiento rural
Las "opciones políticas antisistema, populistas y de derecha radical" suelen recibir "más apoyos" electorales en "entornos rurales", observa el investigador Rubén García del Horno. Tratando de buscar ...
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🏛️ IV Catalonia Workshop in Political Theory 📢 Call for Abstracts 📍 University of Girona (UdG) @univgirona.bsky.social 🗓 11 June 2026 📚 Identity, self determination, justice, crisis, solidarity, equality, freedom, protest, conflict, war... ⏳ Deadline to submit an abstract: 31 March 2026
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Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening? With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain. We find: ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Perceptions of Feminism as a Threat
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
📢Next seminar: Next Tuesday (17th February) @rdassonneville.bsky.social (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) will present "Rural Sympathy rather than In- and Out-Group Dynamics: How Voters Respond to Place-Based" co-authored with Richard Nadeau. 📍Sala de Juntes 🕐13:00 Join us!
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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Last night I could not sleep so I created a taxonomy of people who work on inequality/redistribution. For each of these groups I have names of economists but it could be too controversial. So I decided to stay with the taxonomy only. (You can fill in the names.)
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🎉 Congratulations to Erick Padilla @erickpadilla.bsky.social (UB) @cpoliticaub.bsky.social 🏆🥇Winner of the 1st Edition of the Best JCPOP Junior Paper Award for his paper "Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation" 📜✒️ 👏🏻 Well deserved!
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Alba Huidobro @albahuidobro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉 📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.
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Àngel Ferrero @angelferrero.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🧑‍🏫 "El fraude no es un accidente, sino un subproducto lógico de cómo evaluamos y comunicamos la investigación en un sistema papercentrista absurdo en el siglo XXI." elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
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El científico Me-Lo I Nvent O y los números primos de las embarazadas: un matemático expone la estafa de las revistas depredadoras
El español Pascual Diago ha publicado un delirante estudio para denunciar la invasión de editoriales fraudulentas en la ciencia
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Rubén García del Horno @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social ! It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment 👇 [1/5] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain
The rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behaviour has gained increasing attention in recent years. One of the key unresolved debates in this…
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Damjan Tomic @damjantomic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🎉 We're excited to share that "Winners’ Restraint or Affective Majoritarianism? Elections, Polarization and Political Support," co-authored with @sergiferrer.bsky.social, Enrique Prada and @ehernandez.bsky.social, is now published in CPS! You can access it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Marta Fraile @martafraile.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Do not miss our article published at @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Using content analysis and survey data, we show how generalist influencers in consumer markets produce anti-feminist content and how it can shape, reinforce, or shift public attitudes toward feminism
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Beyond Likes: The Role of Influencers in Promoting Views about Feminism and Anti-feminism in Spain | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Beyond Likes: The Role of Influencers in Promoting Views about Feminism and Anti-feminism in Spain - Volume 21 Issue 4
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
📢 Nuevo artículo en @elpais.com que recoge el artículo publicado por @petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social y @pedromaaa.bsky.social elpais.com/economia/202...
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Las interrupciones en el empleo de las mujeres persisten pese a la equiparación de las bajas paternales con las maternales
Solo las madres que ganan lo mismo que sus parejas se benefician de la mayor implicación de los hombres en el cuidado de los hijos
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Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) @cnep-elections.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
📢 Big news: After decades at the Ohio State University, CNEP is now based @upf.edu with big changes: 👥New Principal Investigators @marianotorcal.bsky.social (UPF) and Robert Mattes (Strathclyde University) 🎯 Renewed Research Focus 🌐 New Website 📊 Methodological Innovations www.upf.edu/web/cnep
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Evelyne Hübscher @evehubscher.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social
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Austerity and Populism
A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...
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Elias Dinas @eliasdinas.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Il paper più amato link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Berlinguer, I Love You (Still): The Downstream Effects of Expressive Voting - Political Behavior
For nearly as long as the rational voting paradox has puzzled scholars, it has been recognized that voters’ decisions are influenced by expressive motivations. Yet, since disentangling emotional from ...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
📣New interview📣 'Processes of democratic erosion started decades ago under neoliberalism, well before the current widespread concerns about polarisation.' @juanroch.bsky.social and @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social critique the polarisation hype. reacpol.net/polarisation...
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Interview: On polarisation hype (Juan Roch and Daniel Balinhas) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Juan Roch and Daniel Balinhas’s article, “A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation.” (2025)
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
How does affective polarization shape political participation? Maruša Lubej, Martin Dolezal & Andrej Kirbiš's examine how emotional divides between political groups impact voting, protests & other participation. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/DmqU7dZ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Això és greu. La comunitat politològica catalana estava orgullosa d'un CEO que s'adheria a estàndards moderns i de transparència. Dir "les estimacions es fan sense codi" crea la idea que la cuina (pública) és ciència infusa i no un procediment reproduïble i auditable (1/2) elmon.cat/politica/opa...
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Polèmica al CEO: opacitat en el procés d'estimació de vots i escons
La supressió del codi obert genera crítiques per falta de transparència en les estimacions
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DEC @dec-gr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📢 First seminar of the year : Tomorrow (Jan 13) @javierpadilla.bsky.social (CUNY) will present “When Authoritarians Embrace Democracy :The Hidden Hand of Pre-Existing Oligarchies in Brazil’s Transition” 🕐 13:00 📍Sala de Juntes @politiquesuab.bsky.social Join us!
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🚨New article🥳 ➡️ The Limits of Alarm: How Climate Scenarios Fail to Increase Willingness to Act and Pay for Climate Change Policies, published at @psrjournal.bsky.social co-authored with @mguinjoan.bsky.social & @celiaestruch.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/n)
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Marta Vallvé @martavallve.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
New publication! I wrote a conceptual paper reflecting on how to study the material roots of socio-ecological conflicts using a metabolic rift approach. This is the story of how this paper came to be 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0486...
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The Materiality of Socio-Ecological Conflicts: A Revised Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift - Marta Vallvé, 2025
In the context of ecological crisis and ecological transitions, socio-ecological conflicts are increasing. While their material causes are often attributed to s...
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Pedro Manuel Bellón @pedromaaa.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
📰 Escribimos en @agendapublica.es sobre los efectos de la equiparación del permiso del permiso de paternidad sobre la penalización por maternidad. “La ampliación del permiso funciona especialmente bien en hogares donde ya existía una cierta igualdad previa” ⬇️⬇️⬇️ agendapublica.es/noticia/2048...
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Cómo condiciona la desigualdad dentro de la pareja los efectos del permiso de paternidad
España ha conseguido permisos de paternidad iguales e intransferibles en tiempo récord, una reforma celebrada dentro y fuera del país. Pero un nuevo estudio de los investigadores Dani Marinova y Pedro...
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Andreu Paneque @anddreupm.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Vols entendre com el federalisme canvia els partits polítics per dins? 🏛️🔎 Amb @javiermcanto busquem Research Assistant pel projecte "Multilevel intra-party". Si t'interessen els partits polítics i la recerca, t'estem buscant! 🚀 👇 Tota la info: selection.uoc.edu/web/offersjo... @
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Ajudant de recerca pel projecte “Multilevel intra-party” del grup de recerca GADE (temporal)
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
☀️Good morning from @cpoliticaub.bsky.social A new edition of the PhD Workshop on Empirical Political Science has kicked off 🎉 📢 Papers from @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social & @politiquesuab.bsky.social Check out the programme 👉🏻 share.google/5cmM69EIjk2B...
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Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS) @bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🗓️ La XIII edició del Workshop on Empirical Poli. Sci. és aquest dijous! 📢 Quatre doctorands/es de la UB, UPF i UAB presentaran la seva recerca 📍UB, Nou edifici, Planta 4, Aula Maria Soteras Consulta el programa 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/barcelo... Esperem veure't a @cpoliticaub.bsky.social🎉
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