Alejandro Fernández-Roldán

Thrilled to share our new paper with amazing Agus.

We show that non-traditional families, especially open and age-gap couples, face substantial prejudice. Even LGB couples encounter bias, highlighting persistent inequalities in societies often seen as tolerant.

"What makes them [novels] his is their tone and his extreme control of its variations: the voice is rational but also romantic and rueful, aware that self-assertion can shade into bullish solipsism, that the pursuit of freedom can lead quickly to delusion, of the self or others."

Departure(s) by Julian Barnes review – this final novel is a slippery affair Memoir merges with fiction as the author reflects on failed love, ageing and the end of life in this last instalment to his writing career

My favourite author 'departs', and I can't help feeling a bit sad. Can't recommend enough *The sense of an ending*, a book that changed my life when I was in the midst of shattering changes. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes?

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

@kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social

What Is Centrism? - Karl Pike, 2026 Centrism, an ambiguous political term, requires greater analytical scrutiny. After summarising conceptualisations of centrism – and of a centre in politics – th...

I have a new article just published in Political Studies: What is Centrism? Open access here: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

I really enjoyed reading this article, now available in @bjpols.bsky.social:

In recent years in Spain, when the Left governs, voters seem to undergo an ideological realignment and become more right-wing in their policy preferences.

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🧭 in our #NewIssue (30.3)
The study by @galais.bsky.social & @ruizhdezmaria.bsky.social reveals that sadness can reduce support for far-right parties in Spain, whereas anger—the most studied emotion—shows only a limited reinforcing effect

🔓 Read the article
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New article in @electoralstudies.bsky.social🚨

New method using open-text survey, parliament speech analysis & conjoint experiment to detect policies/issues where all of:
1) bottom-up public demand
2) elites are neglecting it
3) would motivate vote choice if party adopt it

tinyurl.com/44ryyybc

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Apologies for being self-referential but

¿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...

Arrancamos el nuevo año con una entrada de @damjantomic.bsky.social, @sergiferrer.bsky.social, Enrique Prada y @ehernandez.bsky.social.

Muestran que, contrario a lo que podíamos esperar, los ciudadanos siguen bastante comprometidos con las reglas democráticas.

www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

January 6 in Historical Perspective January 6, 2026

Some reflections from me on January 6 in comparative and historical perspective (first time on substack)

open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...

New article out in @bjpols.bsky.social 🎉

Why do elections remain widely supported even as democratic checks and balances erode around the world?

Election Outcomes and Affective Polarization in the United States - Joseph B. Phillips, Seth B. Warner, 2026 Do election outcomes exacerbate affective polarization? While polarization often rises during campaigns and correlates with democratic backsliding, isolating th...

Out now and open access with @sethers.bsky.social at Political Research Quarterly! How do election outcomes shape affective polarization among Americans? 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

An Evaluation of Biases in Wellbeing Estimates Using Interviewers Versus Online Data Collection in the Global Flourishing Study Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Another gem for public opinion folks from Econ: the authors find notable differences in responses to well-being questions if they are obtained via a telephone interviewer (CATI) or online (CAWI) www.nber.org/papers/w34599

When Push Comes to Shove: How Americans Excuse and Condemn Political Violence - Political Behavior What factors do Americans find most important when evaluating acts of political violence? Normatively, details regarding the violent act (e.g., the target and violence severity) should determine the p...

Which factors affect how Americans react to political violence? Our paper in @polbehavior.bsky.social addressing this question just got a volume and issue number! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Revealing long-term trajectories of public opinion and polling in Britain: a new resource of historical data from the Gallup Poll in Britain, 1955–1991 From the 1930s to early 2000s, the British affiliate and later subsidiary of the Gallup Organization conducted around three thousand surveys of public opinion in Great Britain. While the records of...

For the historical polling nerds out there, an article about our project with @ropercenter.bsky.social that digitised ~800 surveys by Gallup poll in Britain between 1955 and 1991 has been published in JEPOP. The merged dataset contains over three-quarters of a million respondents.

Congrats John! Looks great, I'll definitely read it soon

Great to present yesterday in Barcelona the latest version (and hopefully last!) of joint work with @klaramueller.bsky.social. Now looking forward to expanding the project further!

It was also in some way my official debut for UAB 🙂

PS: You may want to follow @bcnpolisci.bsky.social too!

Wow, this is brilliant! Big big congratulations

Gracias Sergi! Quizá el próximo miércoles, ¿no? :)

Mil gracias, socio! 🙂

Muchas gracias, María! Nos vemos pronto :)

Gracias, Rubén! Nos vemos pronto :)

Muchas gracias, Enrique! Nos vemos pronto

Thank you Dan!

Thank you so much!

Mil gracias!

I’ll also keep doing my own stuff on public opinion: things like uncertainty, expectations, polling, and policy preferences. Lots of [hopefully] fun projects still cooking!

Always open to joint cuisine 👨‍🍳

2. – I’ll be relocating to Barcelona soon, so if you’re around or passing by, please let me know! Always down for coffee, lunch, drinks or sporty action 🙂

Now on a personal note, two quick things:

1. The academic job market is brutal, so I’m genuinely happy (and a bit proud too) to have landed this position. If you're a predoc and want honest advice (even if it's just to have a good sense of what not to do), I’m always happy to chat!