@asanchezgarcia.es
Political scientist 👨🏽💻🏛 | Postdoc at the CEPC. PhD in comparative politics at the University of Salamanca (Spain). 🗺️Political geography, rural-urban divide, and electoral behaviour 🔗 https://asanchezgarcia.github.io
‼️📆 Call for papers – The politics of place: geographic divides in contemporary democracies (AECPA, Granada, 9-11 Septiembre)
Con @asanchezgarcia.es @aldeleon.bsky.social @juanperezrajo.bsky.social te invitamos a que nos envíes tu propuesta antes del 31/03 👇
www.aecpa.es/es-es/the-po...
🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉
📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.
Enhorabuena Rubén, como siempre, súper interesante!
🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social !
It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment
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There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution.
In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789)
👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc....
👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
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Congratulations, Stuart! You deserve it 👏🏻
📊 Our results show that the effect of rent increases on voting is structured along the left–right dimension. Right-wing parties gain in wealthy areas as rents rise, whereas left-wing parties benefit in poorer areas, where rent increases are felt as a stronger burden.
🔍 To this end, we focus on Madrid, Spain’s capital and one of the municipalities where access to housing has become a major public concern. We rely on fine-grained data at the census-tract level, covering more than 2,000 neighbourhoods.
Source: La Vanguardia (https://www.elconfidencial.com/vivienda/2024-08-19/alquiler-madrid-seguros-agencias-idealista_3944997/)
🤔 We start with a problem (access to housing) that, unfortunately, has been gaining prominence in Spanish public opinion. In fact, last September, the CIS barometer showed that 33% of those surveyed considered housing to be one of Spain's main problems.
🎉🚨 Super happy to see our article “Burdens and Gains. The Association Between House Rent Increases and Voting in the City of Madrid” (w/ Marcos-Marne) now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social. We examine how rising rental prices in Madrid are linked to voting.
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🥳 Really happy to share that I have been selected by the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (@cepcgob.bsky.social) to join as a García-Pelayo Researcher.
I am very much looking forward to beginning this new stage!
Moltes gràcies, Rubén! ❤️
Title page of the book "The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right"
Table of contents of the book "The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right"
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Thanks for sharing 😊
¡Nueva publicación!
Urban jungle, radical roar: sprawl, economic decline and the success of populist radical right in metropolitan Spain
Journal: Contemporary Politics
Autores: Álvaro Sánchez-García e Iván Llamazares
URL: doi.org/10.1080/1356...
Using data from 27,000 urban census tracts, we find that:
🏙️ Population growth → higher support for PRR
💸 This effect is strongest in low-income & high-unemployment areas.
🔍 Urban left-behindness matters too. PRR success is fuelled by both rural decline and ...urban sprawl!
🚨 Super happy to see our article (w/ Iván Llamazares) out in Contemporary Politics!
“Urban jungle, radical roar: sprawl, economic decline and the success of the PRR in metropolitan Spain”.
Grab one of the first 50 free downloads, hurry up! 🆓
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/D24ND...
Hoy tenemos post de @javiermcanto.bsky.social sobre la preocupación por la inmigración.
"Los datos del CIS indican que los hombres, los jóvenes, quienes tienen un nivel educativo medio y las personas de clase trabajadora son los más preocupados por la inmigración."
www.eldiario.es/132_c068b4?u...
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢
The young, the radical and the dissatisfied: the transformation of the Portuguese right-wing electorate in the 21st century
Read the article by L. Heyne, L. Manucci & @marinacostalobo.bsky.social here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract The rise of populist right parties is well-studied, but little attention has been given to how public service performance influences voter support. Given that public services are often the primary means through which citizens interact with the state, we argue that declining public services can create grievances that increase the appeal of populist right parties. Focusing on England’s National Health Service (NHS), we combine administrative data on local health facility closures with panel data on public preferences and voting intentions. Using a staggered difference-indifferences design, we find that closures reduce satisfaction with public services and increase support for populist right parties. These effects are moderated by migrant registrations at local health practices, highlighting the interaction between public service performance and immigration concerns in fueling populist right support. Our findings underscore the role of public service decline as a driver of support for populist parties, especially in areas undergoing demographic change.
Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right:
"Our findings underscore the role of public service decline as a driver of support for populist parties, especially in areas undergoing demographic change"
📢 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.
New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social
With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments
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Back at Puerta de Toledo for #EPSA2025, where it all began for me. What a pleasure! Great conference 😍
Jo, mil gracias. Qué ilusión leer esto viniendo de alguien que también es referente. 😊
Huge thanks for your kind words! 🥹
Not everyone gets to defend their PhD in the most beautiful city in the world… just saying. 😎📸
🎓🎓 New doctor in town!
Thrilled to have defended my PhD today. Big thanks to @priera.bsky.social, @turnbulldugarte.com, and Carolina Plaza for making it such a kind and lively discussion.
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Bienvenidos al perfil oficial del Área de Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Salamanca.
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