Tackling Conspiracy theories by fostering resilience and self-efficacy of democracy
TACT-FORSED is a project recently selected for funding by the European Comission’s Horizon Europe program under the Call DEMOCRACY-01-04. The project, starting in January 2025 and finishing in January 2028, aims to investigate conspiracy theorists as a distinct group with low resilience to disinformation.
Gender-Based Public Policies and Labor Market Discrimination: A Field Experiment in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia
From November 2024 to December 2025. POLGENDA analyzes the impact of equalized parental leave and the implementation of mandatory company equality plans on gender discrimination in the labor market in Spain. The project is funded by the Instituto de las Mujeres, Ministry of Equality (29-4-ID24).
Leading the crowd: The role of radical parties in public Euroscepticism
From September 2024 to Agust 2027. EULEAD explores and analyses the (different) impact of left-wing and right-wing Eurosceptic parties on voters‘ attitudes towards the EU. The project is funded by a National Research Grant (PID2023-149028NA-I00).
Political attitudes, climate change and support to mitigation policies
From December 2022 to September 2025. ATTCLIMATE analyzes citizens’ support to implement or promote mitigation policies against climate change. The project is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Reconciling Citizens with Trade-offs of Democracy: Attitudes Toward Democracy Under Rising Politicization
From October 2022 to September 2027. DEMOTRADEOFF studies democratic trade-offs and how these fuel political discontent in 15 European countries.
The sources of representation bias: An historical political economy approach
From September 2022 to August 2025. REPBIAS seeks to generate knowledge about the representation bias in the Spanish State, but also at the international level, through several channels. Some of them are the intentional malapportionment, minorities’ rights, or the historical perspective. It is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Political Emotions in Motion. Causes and Consequences
From September 2021 to June 2025. EMPOL is a Spanish funded research project (PID2020-113030RB-100), which was granted 94,501€. EMPOL analyzes the causes and political consequences of emotions such as anger, fear, sadness and disgust.
Past Projects
The Rural-Urban Divide in Europe
from October 2020 to December 2023
Looking the other way? Selective media exposure and the electoral punishment of corruption
from December 2019 to December 2020
Labor Market Segmentation and Political Participation LABOREP
from September, 2018 to August, 2020
Political Change in Spain: Populism, Feminism and New Dimensions of Conflict
from January 2018 to December 2020
Populist attitudes in Spanish public opinion
from January 2015 to December 2017
LIVEWHAT: Living with Hard Times: How European Citizens Deal with Economic Crises and Their Social and Political Consequences
from October 2013 to November 2016
Emerging forms of political protest: pathways to political inclusion
from May 2015 to May 2017
Attitudes and potential effects of political discontent – Government and contentious politics in Twitter
from July 2013 to July 2014
Stability and change in political attitudes
from January 2010 to December 2013
Political mobilization and protest
from November 2009 to October 2012
The institutional context of electoral participation
from January 2009 to December 2011
Digital media and political involvement
from September 2007 to September 2010
Migrants’ political attitudes, participation and representation
from February 2006 to January 2009