Javier Martínez-Cantó

Últim dia per presentar-hi candidatura! 🚨

RA en discurs polític, nacionalisme i immigració comparada 👇

Gallup's presidential approval ratings poll is ending after eight decades Gallup said it will remain committed to polling on issues that shape everyday lives.

Social scientists keep explaining why consistent time series are indispensable for understanding social change.

And now Gallup ends the longest-running pres. approval series.

Striking – esp. from the institution that helped institutionalize representative sampling in modern public opinion research

El jueves organizamos desde el @ipp-csic.bsky.social una charla sobre cómo los nuevos desafíos de seguridad y defensa impactarán en nuestros estados del bienestar. ¡Animaos a asistir!

Joan Romero, el profesor que escapó del campo por una beca y ahora las paga de su bolsillo: “La brecha hoy es poder hacer un máster” El catedrático de Geografía Humana repasa sus casi 50 años como docente universitario tras hacer una donación para ayudar a estudiantes con pocos recursos

Joan Romero dio clase a casi todas las promociones de Políticas en la @uv.es... menos a la mía, porque estaba de estancia. Siempre me dio rabia no haberle tenido como profesor, pues todos mis compañeros le admiraban. Y este gesto lo confirma una vez más.

elpais.com/educacion/20...

Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero

If you're hoping to show students evidence to support your tech rules/interactive pedagogical approach, here's what I use. Decidedly not comprehensive, but makes the key points.

A chart titled "Welcome to the Era of 65-Year-Old Roommates." Text reads: "As living costs continue to rise, more older adults are rending out rooms in their own homes, a comparison of the share of listing of rooms to rent on the SpareRoom platform in 2019 and 2024 shows."

For young, entry-level workers, sharing rent with roommates is a rite of passage. But as living costs continue to rise and as homeownership becomes less achievable for young adults, older adults are making up a growing share of live-in landlords. trib.al/4jvD8Ox

Green policies can be contentious, with opposition often highlighting rural-urban divides. In this article we measure and analyse the perceptions of harm associated with several green policies (renewables, motor fuel taxes, car restrictions, conservation restrictions, and pesticide and antibiotics bans). We conceptualize these perceptions of harm as an individual dimension of the environmental justice paradigm, closely related to support for green policies and its characteristic rural-urban gap. Using survey data from Spain, our findings reveal that perceptions of harm, together with postmaterialist values and environmental prioritization, are associated with support for green policies. However, only differences in perceptions of harm account for the rural-urban gap, which is modest in size and remains partly unexplained. Our findings suggest that rural dwellers are not less supportive of green policies because they have weaker postmaterialist values or prioritize the environment less, but because they feel they are the losers of ecological transitions.

New article!

The losers of ecological transitions: rural and urban support for green policies in Spain, by Marta Vallvé @martavallve.bsky.social & Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Happy to see my article with @julitudo.bsky.social already as the journal’s second-most-read in 2025, despite being published only in early November. Many excellent pieces in @regfedst.bsky.social in 2025. Do check them out!

Algún día habrá que hablar del extraordinario sistema de captura de rentas que han conseguido ser las agencias de viaje en la administración pública.

Make a Bond movie academic:

On The Publisher's Secret Service

Make a Bond movie academic:

Sci-Hub: From Russia with Love

Why American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas A lack of dining options may have started Jewish Christmas, but now it’s a full-fledged ritual.

Same procedure as every year... time to share my favorite Christmas-related article. Why American Jews Eat Chinese Food on Christmas? Merry Christmas! www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

Brand Transformation in #European #Politics: The Rise and Limits of #Nonclassical #Names

By @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

“El capital internacional penalizó severamente la incertidumbre institucional del tardofranquismo y la Transición. Solo cuando las reglas del juego se volvieron predecibles —vía Constitución, reformas e integración en Europa— el flujo inversor regresó para quedarse. “

¡Y cómo Sánchez ha elegido una estrategia de tierra quemada que deja el partido destrozado para aguantar en Moncloa! Increíble

Coincido. Mala noche para el PSOE, pero buena para Pedro Sánchez.

Cuidado con extrapolar los resultados de Extremadura a escala nacional. Extremadura es más envejecida, rural, tiene menor renta y un nivel educativo medio inferior al conjunto de España. Representa poco más del 2% de la población. #ExtremaduraDecide

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
@anddreupm.bsky.social y yo buscamos un/a ayudante de investigación para el proyecto Multilevel intra-party politics.
Interés en partidos, competición política y federalismo + análisis de datos. Contrato 18 meses (desde 1/2/2026) 👇
selection.uoc.edu/web/offersjo...

The implementation of decentralisation reforms in multi-level systems In countries with multi-level governance, the balance of power between centre and periphery results from complex bargaining processes. Existing literature equates decentralisation to its de jure di...

2️⃣Ambos artículos abordan, desde distintas perspectivas, la organización territorial del poder.

Puedes consultarlos aquí:

↪️ El de @javiermcanto.bsky.social y @jmfernandes86.bsky.social:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

↪️ Y el de Sergi Morales-Gálvez:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

1️⃣ El Premio IEA 2025 al mejor artículo académico, otorgado por el Institut d'Estudis de l'Autogovern, reconoce a nuestros compañeros @javiermcanto.bsky.social y @jmfernandes86.bsky.social, junto a Sergi Morales-Gálvez, profesor de Filosofía en la @uab.cat

¡Enhorabuena a los tres!

Very happy to receive the prize for the best federalism article, awarded by @autogoverncat.bsky.social . Sharing it with great friends Sergi Morales and Jorge Fernandes makes it even better. Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social article highlights the key gap between legal decentralization and resources.

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Congratulations! Well-done!! 🎉🎉

This is an interesting paper.

I continue to sense that we as a field have concluded, either you have an identification strategy as defined here, or you don’t have a valid causal claim. And that is really not true.

La TV es principal medio para consumir información política. Análisis de informativos en España muestra que La Sexta y TVE están sesgados a la izquierda, y Tele5 y Antena3 a la derecha. Por ello cada cadena promueve noticias positivas de sus partidos y negativas de los otros.

Why Canada should join the EU Europe needs space and resources, Canada needs people. Let’s deal

Just leaving this here. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...