20/01/2023. New Article! Guinjoan, M., & Galais, C. (2023). I want to believe: The relationship between conspiratorial beliefs and populist attitudes in Spain. Electoral Studies, 81, 102574. Open Access!!

12/12/2022. New Article! Galais, Carol and Xavier Coller (2022), The Personality Divide Between Citizens and Politicians: The Case of the Four Largest Spanish Parties, Parliamentary Affairs, gsac023, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac023 

07/11/2022. New Article! "La democracia directa. Activismo político entre algoritmos". La Maleta de Portbou, Nº55. 

October 2022. Jornadas "¿Para qué sirven los consejos consultivos?" IESA-CSIC. Córdoba. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCscI2lcSywxAFVqLKR1Mf7g. 

13/07/2022. Taula Rodona: "Hauria de ser directa la democràcia?". Escola Europea d'Humanitats i La Maleta de Portbou. 

Summer 2022. A very busy summer in terms of conferences! Check what  am I now into now HERE. 

22/01/2022. New article! Galais, C., & Guinjoan, M. (2022). The Ideological Slant of COVID-19-Related Conspiracies. A New Niche for the Far-Right?. Representation, 1-10.

15/07/2021. Two birds in one stone! Two recently published papers. One on the Dark Triad and support for populism (Electoral Studies), the other on citizens' duties across generations (JEPOP).  

08/07/2021.  New article in El País, on Political Correctness. 

20/06/2021. Research Project grant awarded by the Spanish Minister for Science and innovation! Stay tuned!

20/05/2021.  New article! "The long-lasting effects of citizenship education ". With Enrique Hernández. West European Politics.

01/03/2021. COVID-19, conspiracies and the ideology. A contribution for Piedras de Papel.

01/12/2020. New article! "Testing the input-process-output model of public participation". With Joan Font, Graham Smith and José Luís Fernández Martínez. European Journal of Political Research

07/10/2020. New Prize!  We received the Robert M. Worcester Price for the best paper by WAPOR for our paper "Is Facebook Eroding the Public Agenda?". With Ana Sofía Cardenal and Sílvia Majó-Vázquez.

27/09/2020. Still on COVID-19 and conspiracies! Entrevista en la Cadena Ser (A vivir que son dos días). (Min. 23) 

26/06/2020: On the COVID-19 and Conspiracy Thinking, two interviews, here and here.

05/09/2019: New article! "How Stable is the Sense of Duty to Vote? A Panel Study on the Individual-level Stability of the Attitude”. International Journal of Public Opinion Research

10/08/2019: New article! "Is it a Duty to vote and to be Informed?”. Political Studies Review

05/08/2019: New article! "Digital tecnologies and selective esposure: How Choice and Filter Bubbles Shape News Media Exposure”.  The International Journal of Press/Politics

15/07/2019: New article! "The effects of regional attachment on ideological self-placement: a comparative approach". Comparative European Politics.

12/06/2019: Asociación Andaluza de Sociología (AAS) Award for our article "Cherrypicking participation" (2018). 

3/04/2019: New article! "The effects of economic crisis on participatory democracy". Policy and Politics

20/12/2018: New article! "Is Facebook eroding the public agenda? Evidence from survey and web-traking data". International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

30/11/2018: New article! "Conflict frames and emotional reactions: a story about the Spanish Indignados". Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

27/11/2018: OIDP Conference! Discussing direct democracy.  http://barcelona2018.oidp.net/en/conferenceprogram 
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08/10/2018: New article! "The effect of social pressure from family and friends on turnout"With André Blais and Maxime Coulombe. Journal of social and personal relationships.

02/04/2018: New JOB! Getting started at the Department of Political Science and Public Law, UAB. 

02/02/2018: Asociación Andaluza de Sociología (AAS) Award for our article "Endurance at the top" (2016). 

25/10/2017: On the radio! "Carne Cruda". On the Catalan secession process.  https://www.ivoox.com/21646602

18/10/2017: New article! "Cherry-picking participation: Explaining the fate of proposals from participatory processes". With Joan Font, Graham Smith and Pau Alarcón. European Journal of Political Research. 57 (3), 615-636

26/06/2017: I have been awarded with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness!!!.

01/03/2017: New article! "Half a Loaf is (not) Better than None: How Austerity-Related Grievances and Emotions Triggered Protests in Spain". With Jasmine Lorenzini.  Mobilization, 22(1), 77-95.

12/01/2017: New... baby!! Hi, Guillem!!

24/11/2016: A very busy and fruitful participation in the WAPOR Regional Conference. Check the conference's website for the papers, especially if you are interested in Political Trust. 

18/11/2016: A conference on local civics! Many thanks to the Vic's municipality for counting on me.

05/10/2016: New book chapter!   “Visibility and Sanctions: The social norm of voting in the lab”. With André Blais, Aina Gallego, Marc Guinjoan and Jean-Michel Lavoie. Book chapter in Blais, André;  Karine Van der Straeten and Jean-François Laslier. Voting experiments. Springer. Pp.127-146.  
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21/09/2016: New article! "Endurance at the Top: Gender and Political Ambition of Spanish and Swedish MPs". With Xavier Coller and Patrik Öhberg.  Politics and Gender, volume 12, issue 03, pp. 596-621.

18/07/2016: New article! "Duty to Vote and Political Support in Asia". With Andre Blais, in 
International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2016; doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edw019

28/06/2016: On the radio! "Carne Cruda". Again, on the Spanish General Election https://www.ivoox.com/12050848 

27/06/2016:On the radio! "No ho sé", Rac 1. On the Spanish General Election (26J). https://www.ivoox.com/12044152

22/06/2016: Research grant awarded! "The digital media slant and how to measure it". Consell d'Audiovisual de Catalunya. PI: Ana Sofía Cardenal and Carol Galais. 

21/06/2016: Presenting a new paper at the III jornada de comportament polític i opinió pública (jcpop 2016). UB. 

15/06/2016: On the radio! "No ho sé", Rac 1. On the forthcoming general election in Spain. https://www.ivoox.com/11900093 

20/05/2016: New article! "Answering Without Reading: IMCs and Strong Satisficing in Online Surveys ​", with Eva Anduiza, in International Journal of Public Opinion Research 

12/05/2016: Very happy to have been published in Politikon! Voting before 18 years old: examples, causes and consequences. 

01/05/2015: On TV! About voting before 18 years old. Telenotícies vespre TV·. 

27/04/2016: Ready for the  2nd Barcelona-Gothenburg Workshop on Experimental Political Science. I will present a paper written with André Blais and Jean-Michel Lavoie on how do social sanctions emerge and work regarding turnout in a laboratory setting. 

01/04/2016: I am chairing a panel at the 2016 ECPR General Conference (Prague, 7-10 September)!. Check the papers, they all sound very promising. 

16/03/2016: New article! "Beyond rationalization: Voting out of duty or expressing duty after voting?" International Political Science Review.

29/01/2016: I am officially part of the opinionet research team. 

16/12/2015: New article! "Do people feel more of a duty to vote in some elections?"  West European Politics 12/2015; Online. DOI:10.1080/01402382.2015.1104994

25/11/2015: New article"Measuring the Civic Duty to Vote: A Proposal". Electoral Studies; online.  DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2015.11.003

20/10/2015: Paper accepted for the "Inside the Mind of a Voter" workshop and conference on electoral psychology at the London School of Economics on 12-13 November 2015. 

21/09/2015: New book chapter! Political socialization and public opinion. Check it and/or purchase it.

10/09/2015: Just started working at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya!
Check my new profile at the IN3:

18/06/2015: "Les Québecois aux Urnes" is now open-access! 
http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/les-quebecois-aux-urnes