• The effects of government system fractionalization on satisfaction with democracy

  Christmann, Pablo; Torcal, Mariano (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  Consensual-pluralistic institutional features of representative democracies have traditionally been associated with satisfaction with democracy (SWD). However, more recent studies report contradictory results on the effects ...
• Congruence, national context and trust in European institutions

  Torcal, Mariano; Christmann, Pablo (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  How can we explain the recent decline of trust in representative institutions of the EU in many of its Member States? This article presents evidence supporting the congruence hypothesis, according to which citizens have ...
• Deciding about the unknown: the effect of party and ideological cues on forming opinions about the European Union

  Torcal, Mariano; Martini, Sergio; Orriols, Lluís (SAGE Publications, 2018)

  This article contributes to the literature on political heuristics by reporting two survey experiments conducted in Spain in 2014–2015 on party and ideology cues regarding preferences on a range of European Union and ...
• The political and economic causes of satisfaction with democracy in Spain - a twofold panel study

  Christmann, Pablo; Torcal, Mariano (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

  This study tests the links between political and economic performance and satisfaction with democracy (SWD) in Spain. Contrary to the dominant theoretical paradigm that explains the aggregate evolution of and the ...
• Word on the street: the persistence of leftist-dominated protest in Europe

  Torcal, Mariano; Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni; Hierro, María José (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

  Classic studies of protest politics have traditionally defended the dominant left-wing orientation of protesters. However, some recent research has highlighted the general spread of protest by the increasing participation ...
• Multi-level governance in higher education quality assurance: agencification and policy coordination in Spain

  García Juanatey, Ana; Jordana, Jacint; Sancho, David, 1964- (Wiley, 2024)

  This article aims to examine the emergence of a system of multi-level governance in Higher Education quality assurance during recent decades in Spain, as a particular case within the European Space of Higher Education. ...
• Preventing dissent: secret police and protests in dictatorships

  Choulis, Ioannis; Escribà-Folch, Abel; Mehrl, Marius (University of Chicago Press, 2024)

  This article examines the impact of secret police organizations on the occurrence of antiregime protests in authoritarian regimes. We argue that such organizations are related to lower levels of protests via two related ...
• Public preferences of environmental peacebuilding: the case of forest conservation projects in Colombia

  Schmid, Dominique; Vlaskamp, Martijn (SAGE Publications, 2024)

  To date, no studies have examined the nationwide support for environmental peacebuilding projects in post-conflict countries, that is, projects that seek to use the management of natural resources as a way of fostering ...
• Struggle, exit, “resilience”— or how precarious workers cope with late neoliberalism. Individual and collective agency of female migrant domestic workers in Spain

  Hellgren, Zenia (Oxford University Press, 2024)

  This article inquires the individual and collective agency of female migrant domestic workers in Spain. I use fieldwork conducted between 2013 and 2023 to examine the interplay between the migrant workers’ individual coping ...
• Sexual orientation and age of first drug use among adults in the United States

  Sönmez, İbrahim; Palamar, Joseph J. (Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  Background Early onset of drug use could lead to long-term impairments, and research suggests that substance use and substance use disorders are more common among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. We sought ...
• Transnational policy networks and regional public goods in Latin America

  Jordana, Jacint (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017)

  This chapter argues that a particular and distinctive driver for regionalism has been emerging in Latin America. It develops a conceptual framework for the analysis of transnational regulatory networks in regional environments. ...
• Challenging by cueing? An investigation of party and leader cueing effects across mainstream and challenger party voters

  Torcal, Mariano; Martini, Sergio; Carty, Emily (Springer, 2024)

  The emergence of new challenger parties calls for a reassessment of the party-model of opinion formation by examining different sources of cues across types of voters and the conditions that make cueing more effective. ...
• Schichtspezifische Unterschiede im Vorkommen psychischer Störungen

  Lampert, Thomas; Schneider, Simone M.; Klose, Michael; Jacobi, Frank (2005)
• Health outcomes and health inequalities

  Schneider, Simone M.; Roots, Ave; Rathmann, Katharina (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  This chapter explains concepts and empirical variation regarding health outcomes, access to healthcare, and health inequalities. Access to healthcare is highlighted as a potential mediator or transition point linking ...
• An East-West comparison of healthcare evaluations in Europe: do institutions matter?

  Popic, Tamara; Schneider, Simone M. (Sage Publications, 2018)

  Differences in welfare attitudes of Eastern and Western Europeans have often been explained in terms of legacies of communism. In this article, we explore evaluations of healthcare systems across European countries and ...
• How much inequality of earnings do people perceive as just? The effect of interviewer presence and monetary incentives on inequality preferences

  Liebig, Stefan; May, Meike; Sauer, Carsten; Schneider, Simone M.; Valet, Peter (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, 2015)

  This paper describes two studies designed to test how two structural conditions of an interview situation - the presence of an interviewer and use of incentives - influence respondents' preferences regarding inequality. ...
• Cognitive determinants of healthcare evaluations. A comparison of Eastern and Western European countries

  Schneider, Simone M.; Popic, Tamara (Elsevier, 2018)

  Knowing the public opinion of healthcare is essential when assessing healthcare system performance; but little research has focussed on the links between the public's general attitude to the healthcare system and its ...
• Homonationalism in Europe? A quantitative comparison of the values of Europeans

  Freude Leon; Vergés Bosch, Núria (2020)

  In the context of growing interest in sexual dissidence, academic and social movements are discussing homonationalism as the combination of tolerance towards lesbians and gays, racism and nationalism in a neoliberal ...
• Comparing experiences and perceptions of primary health care among LGBT and non-LGBT people: Key findings from Catalonia

  Subirana-Malaret, Montse; Freude, Leon (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

  This study compares the experiences and perceptions of primary health care of respondents who self-identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) with those of respondents who do not. Data were collected through ...
• Women working in ICT: situation and possibilities of progress in Catalonia and Spain

  Vergés Bosch, Núria; Freude, Leon; Almeda Samaranch, Elisabet; González Ramos, Ana M. (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  The ICT sector is becoming a strategic and growing sector in our current societies and economies. However, gender inequalities persist and women¿s representation in ICT is still low in Catalonia and Spain. In this article, ...

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