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y a Andreu Rodilla Lázaro por “Bridging judicial and political arenas: the political dynamics of abstract judicial review in Spain”, dirigida por Luz M. Muñoz Márquez y Anna M. Palau Roque

Concedido el #premioJuanLinz para tesis doctorales en Ciencia Política ex aequo a Nerea Gándara-Guerra por su tesis titulada “From the feminist void to the feminist club: three essays on feminists movements and social change” dirigida por Elias Dinas y a Andreu Rodilla Lázaro por “Bridging judicial and political arenas: the political dynamics of abstract judicial review in Spain”, dirigida por Luz M. Muñoz Márquez y Anna M. Palau Roque El jurado acordó igualmente otorgar dos menciones especiales a las tesis de Berta Caihuelas Navajas “Socio-economic contexts, status and political behaviour in Western democracies (1964-2019)”, dirigida por Juan J. Fernández y Antonio M. Jaime Castillo y de Gisela Hernández González “The Council of the European Union and rule of law enforcement: institutional logics and the use of the enforcement instruments” dirigida por Carlos Closa Montero

Concedido el #premioJuanLinz para tesis doctorales en Ciencia Política
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Andreu Rodilla Lázaro shows that ideological polarization on the Spanish Constitutional Court has increased over time and that this has important consequences for the decision making of the Court! #ecprgc25

Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes The resurgence of the rural–urban divide as a factor shaping political attitudes has gained increasing attention in both public and academic discourse…

🚨New article🔥

Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes, at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with @sofiabrei.bsky.social @griambau.bsky.social @arodilla.bsky.social

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social (1/n)

📢 Publication alert:
Our paper "Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes" - with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @griambau.bsky.social, ‬ and Andreu Rodilla - is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

Conference panel details

Our final panels are starting now! #sgop25

Our 9th ECPR Parliaments Conference begins tomorrow! We hope all participants are arriving or have arrived safely! 🥳 #sgop25

The research shows that media attention and upcoming elections are stronger drivers of judicial challenges than the actual likelihood of success in court. Surprisingly, the electoral cycle plays a role very different from what many theories would predict.

Why do opposition parties challenge laws they know they won’t overturn? I explore that puzzle using an original dataset of all laws passed in Spain (96-23). The findings suggest that legal outcomes aren't always the goal—sometimes, it's all about visibility, timing, and electoral strategy.

📢 Publication alert:

Not just about the ruling: when does the opposition challenge a law in the Spanish Constitutional Court?

📄 [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13608746.2025.2475019]

YouTube video by BSC CNS #BSCTalks: What-if: Advanced Simulations for Testing the Effects of the Information on Democracy

📢 #BSCTalks: What-if: Advanced Simulations for Testing the Effects of the Information on Democracy

🗣 By BSC researcher @arodilla.bsky.social @what-if-horizon.bsky.social

🤔💭“Imagine if we could understand how missinformation works in orther to make policies to mitigate it”

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📢 New Preprint Alert! 📢
I am excited to share the preprint summarizing the results of research conducted with my excellent colleague and host Athur Dyevre (KU Leuven):

"Ideological Polarization on Constitutional Courts: Evidence from Spain"

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Full room of young political scientists yesterday in the first session of the BJ-REPS 🧑‍💻 at the UB.

Thanks a lot to @ruizhdezmaria.bsky.social for presenting an awesome project!

Also many thanks to Damjan Tomic for this amazing idea and to all the participants.

Next month more!

Junior Law and Politics community sign-up The Junior Law and Politics research community and seminar series is a vibrant network of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors, other non-tenured faculty) in the fiel...

Are you a junior scholar studying law and politics looking for a friendly place to receive feedback on your work? Apply to present at the Junior Law and Politics Research Community's spring seminar series! Submit by January 24 for full consideration: tinyurl.com/16ixldoz

Join us at CEISAL 2025!

Join our session with @pablopizarro.bsky.social at CEISAL 2025 in Paris: "Protecting Rights in Crisis: The Crucial Role of Courts" (2-4 June).
Submit abstracts by Dec 15.
🔗 Details: [https://www.ceisal2025.com/en/call-for-abstracts/#]
📌Session Ref: 04.13

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A game of tug-of-war: regional laws before the Spanish Constitutional Court To date, intergovernmental relations have been analysed from a variety of different perspectives, the constitutionality of the laws passed by different levels of government being one of them. Here,...

New publication with Luz Muñoz: How partisan preferences and strategic behaviour related to the composition of the court explain the constitutional challenges of regional laws. A game of tug-of-war: regional laws before the Spanish Constitutional Court @RSA_TPG
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