Department of comparative politics

The main goals of the Department of Comparative Politics consist on achieving a better understanding of political phenomena through its description and explanation, as well as providing empirical studies that may lead to policy solutions relating to major social problems, which in turn may enrich public debate at both the national and supranational level. The team main objects of inquiry are institutions, the behavior of citizens, and process and content of public policies.

Specifically, the main research lines are European integration and comparative regional integration; The Reform of welfare states and social policies; Europeanisation and European social model; Political violence (civil wars, terrorism, state repression); Identitiy politics, federalism, and nationalism; Public Opinion, Political Participation and Democracy; Political Knowledge and Political Inequalities; Citizens' Attitudes toward the State and public policies and Trust and Social Capital.

Head of the department: PhD Eloisa Del Pino Matute

Research Groups
Members of the Comparative Politics department
Recent research results
Research Projects

Research Groups

Citizens, Institutions and Policy (CIP)
Social Policy and the Welfare State (POSEB)
American Studies (EA)
Rural Geography (GGR)

Members of the Department

Permanent Researchers
PhD Carlos Juan Closa Montero CSIC Research professor carlos.closa at cchs.csic.es Office: 3E12 Phone: 91-602-2482 My profile on academia.edu	PhD Luis Moreno Fernández CSIC Research professor luis.moreno at cchs.csic.es Office: 3D19 Phone: 91-602-2544 My profile on academia.edu	PhD Ludolfo Paramio Rodrigo CSIC Research professor ludolfo.paramio at cchs.csic.es Office: 2F1 Phone: 91-602-2548 My profile on academia.edu
Dr. Angel Paniagua Mazorra CSIC Research fellow angel.paniagua at csic.es Office: 3D22 Phone: 91-602-2546 My profile on academia.edu	PhD José Fernández Albertos CSIC Research fellow jose.fernandezalbertos at cchs.csic.es Office: 3C2 Phone: 91-602-2356 My profile on academia.edu	PhD Marta Fraile Maldonado CSIC Research fellow marta.fraile at cchs.csic.es Office: 3D8 Phone: 91-602-2946 My profile on academia.edu
PhD Francisco Herreros Vázquez CSIC Research fellow francisco.herreros at cchs.csic.es Office: 3D27 Phone: 91-602-2562 My profile on academia.edu	PhD Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes CSIC Research fellow javier.moreno at cchs.csic.es Office: 3D4 Phone: 91-602-2545 My profile on academia.edu	PhD Eloísa del Pino Matute CSIC Research fellow eloisa.pino at csic.es Office: 3D3 Phone: 91-602-2427 My profile on academia.edu

Temporary postdoctoral resarchers
PhD Valentina Fernández Vargas CSIC senior research fellow "ad honorem" valentina.fernandez at cchs.csic.es Office: 3E13 Phone: 91-602-2539 My profile on academia.edu	PhD Aleksandra Edyta Maatsch “JAE” postdoctoral research fellow aleksandra.maatsch at cchs.csic.es Office: 3E8 Phone: 91-602-2593 My profile on academia.edu	PhD Aina Gallego Dobón “JAE” postdoctoral research fellow aina.gallego at csic.es Office: 3D9 Phone: 91-602-2498 My profile on academia.edu My website

PhD Candidates
Mª Cecilia Güemes Ghirardi Project technical staff cecilia.guemes at cchs.csic.es Office: 3D16 Phone: 91-602-2788 My profile on academia.edu	Daniela Vintila PhD student cristinadaniela.vintila at cchs.csic.es Office: 3D16 Phone: 91-602-2788/89 My profile on academia.edu	Pablo José Castillo Ortíz PhD student pablojose.castillo at cchs.csic.es Office: 3D16 Phone: 91-602-2788 My profile on academia.edu
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Recent research results

2013
	• Closa, Carlos (2013): "The Politics of ratification of EU Treaties". *(London: Routledge)*.
	• Closa, Carlos (2013): "Comparative regional integration institutions". *(Cambridge: CUP)*.
	• Closa, Carlos (2013):"National Higher Courts and the Ratification of EU Treaties West European Politics". Vol. 36, No. 1, 100-123.
	• Calzada, Inés; Gómez-Garrido, María; Moreno Fernández, Luis; Moreno-Fuentes, Francisco Javier (2013): "Welfare Regimes and Values in Europe". *Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS)*, 141: 61-90. Read it
	• Del Pino, Eloísa y Rubio, Mª Josefa (eds.) (2013): " Los Estados de Bienestar en la encrucijada: políticas sociales en perspectiva comparada". *Madrid. Tecnos.* Read it
	• Del Pino, Eloísa (2013): "The Spanish Welfare State from Zapatero to Rajoy: Recalibration to Retrenchment". in *Alfonso Botti & Bonnie N. Field, eds. Politics and Society in Contemporary Spain: From Zapatero to Rajoy.* New York: Palgrave. Read it
	• Del Pino, Eloísa and Van Ryzin, Gregg (2013): "Intergovernmental Responsibility for Social Policy: An Analysis of Public Preferences in Spain". *Publius: The Journal of Federalism.* Read it
	• Fraile, Marta (2013): "Do Information Rich Contexts Reduce Knowledge Inequalities? The contextual Determinants of Political Knowledge in Europe". *Acta Politica.* Read it
	• Fraile, Marta and Michael Lewis-Beck (2013): "Economic Crisis and the Changing Economic Vote: Spanish Panel Evidence (2008 and 2011)". *European Journal of Political Research.* Forthcoming.
	• Fraile, Marta and Sergi Pardos-Prado (2013): "Correspondence between the objective and the subjective economies: personal economic circumstances as a heuristic". *Political Studies.* Forthcoming.
	• Fraile, Marta (2013): "Do women know less about politics than men? The Gender Gap in Political Knowledge in Europe". *Social Politics.*
	• Fraile, Marta y Michael Lewis-Beck (2013): "Multi-Dimensional Economic Voting in Spain: the 2008 Elections”. *Electoral Studies.*
	• Anduiza, Eva; Gallego, Aina and Jordi Munoz (2013): "Turning a blind eye: Experimental evidence of partisan bias in attitudes towards corruption". *Comparative Political Studies.* Forthcoming.
	• Gallego, Aina; Guillem Rico, and Eva Anduiza : "Disproportionality and voter turnout in new and old democracies". *Electoral Studies.* Read it
	• Moreno, Luis and Obydenkova, Anastassia (2013): "Federalization in Russia and Spain: The Puzzle of Reversible and Irreversible Outcomes". Regional and Federal Studies. Read it
	• Moreno, Luis (2013): "Multilevel citizens, new social risks and regional welfare". in *Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Andrzej Marcin Suszycki (eds.), Citizenship and identity in the welfare state*, pp. 63-81. Baden-Baden: Nomos. Read it
	• Moreno, Luis (2013): "La Europa asocial. Crisis y Estado del Bienestar". (Asocial Europe. Crisis and the Welfare State). Madrid: *Ed. Península* (ISBN: 978-84-9942-169-8) Read it

2012
	• Díaz-Pulido, José M., Del Pino Eloísa y Palop, P. (2012): "Los determinantes de la satisfacción con las políticas de bienestar del Estado Autonómico". *Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas*, 139.
	• Fraile, Marta (2012): "Economics and Elections in Spain (1982-2008): Cross-Measures, Cross-Time". *Electoral Studies 31*, pp. 485-490 (with Michael Lewis-Beck).
	• Herreros, Francisco (2012): "The State counts. State efficacy and the development of trust". *Rationality and Society 24* (4): 483-509. Read it
	• Salido, Olga and Moreno, Luis (2012): "Female Employment and Welfare Development in Spain" in *Buğra, Ayşe and Özkan, Yalçın (eds.), Trajectories of Female Employment in the Mediterranean*, pp. 16-37. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 13: 978-1-4039-9317-5). Read it
	• Moreno, Luis (2012): "State and Stateless Nationalisms, Old and New Diversities, and Federal Governance" in *Michelle H. Williams (ed.), The Multicultural Dilemma: Migration, Ethnic Politics, and State Intermediation*, pp. 185-199. London/New York: Routledge (ISBN: 978-0-415-62861-7). Read it
	• Moreno, Luis (2012): "Ethnoterritorial competition and accommodation inSpain" in *Ethnic and Non-Military Aspects of Security*, pp. 114-128. Vladivostok: Far Eastern Federal University Press (ISBN 978-5-7444-2892-1). Read it
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2011
	• Calzada, Inés and Del Pino, Eloísa (2011): "Are Spaniards different? European convergence and regional divergence in the evaluation of Welfare State". in A. M. Guillén and M. León, The Spanish Welfare State in the European Context., London: Ashagate. pp. 139-163.
	• Colino, César and Del Pino, Eloísa (2011): "Spain: the Consolidation of Strong Regional Governments and the Limits of Local Decentralization". in J. Loughlin, F. Hendriks, and A. Lidström Eds. Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe, Oxford University Press. pp. 356-383.
	• Fraile, Marta (2011): "Widening or reducing the knowledge gap? Testing the media effects on political knowledge in Spain (2004-2006)". *International Journal of Press/Politics 16.* pp. 163-184.
	• Gallego, Aina and Daniel Oberski (2011): "Personality and Political Participation: The Mediation Hypothesis". *Political Behavior.* Read it
	• Blais, Andre, Eva Anduiza, and Aina Gallego (2011): "Decentralization and Voter Turnout". *Environment and Planning C. 29(2):* 244-263. Read it
	• Herreros, Francisco (2011): "Peace of cemeteries. Civil-war dynamics in post-war state's repression". *Politics and Society 39 (2):* 175-202. Read it
	• Herreros, Francisco (2011): "La ideología y la práctica. Los valores de la izquierda y la derecha". *Madrid: Ediciones La Catarata-Fundación Alternativas.*
	• Moreno, Luis and Serrano-Pascual, Amparo (2011): "Europeanization and Spanish welfare: the case of employment policy". in *Guillén, Ana. M. and León, Margarita (eds.), The Spanish Welfare State in European Context.* pp. 39-58. Farnham: Ashgate (ISBN: 978-1-409-0293-0). Read it
	• Moreno, Luis (2011): "Agregado del Bienestar, Reponsabilidad Corporativa y Ciudadanía Social". (Welfare, corporate responsability and social citizenship). *Revista de Responsabilidad Social de la Empresa, 3 (3).* pp. 91-113 (ISSN: 1888-9638). Read it
	• Moreno, Luis (2011): "Spain's Membership in the EU and the European Welfare State". in *Roy, Joaquín and Lorca-Susino, María (eds.), Spain in the European Union: the First Twenty-Five Years (1986-2011).* pp. 137-152. Miami, FL: University of Miami (ISBN: 978-1-4507-6860-3). Read it
	• Moreno, Luis (2011): "Ciudadanía, Estado del Bienestar y la misión de los sociólogos". (Citizenship, Welfare State and the mission of sociologists)". in *Giner, Salvador (ed.), Teoría Sociológica Moderna.* pp. 589-601. Barcelona: Ariel (ISBN: 84-344-1349-8). Read it
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Research Projects

	• "Reform capacity and reform strategies in regional public sectors and welfare policies in the context of fiscal crisis: determinants and change trajectories (CRISAUT)". Director of the project: Del Pino, Eloísa Duration of the project: 2013-2016. Financed by the *Spanish Ministry of Economy.* Reference: CSO2012-33075. Read it
	• "A study of the Persistent Gender Gap in Politics in Spain (GENPOL)". Director of the project: Fraile, Marta Duration of the project: 2013-2016. Financed by the *Spanish Ministry of Economy.*, Reference: CSO2012-32009. Read it
	• "The knowledge of the Spaniards about socioeconomic and political reality. Analysing gender inequalities". Director of the project: Fraile, Marta Duration of the project: 2012-2013. Financed by *Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS)* Read it
	• "Consecuencias del terrorismo sobre el capital social". Director of the project: Herreros, Francisco Duration of the project: 2013-2015. Financed by theSpanish Ministry of Economy. Reference: CSO2012-34798, Plan Nacional de I+D+I. Read it
	• "Solidaridad familiar, cambio actitudinal y reforma del Estado de bienestar en España: el familismo en transición (SOLFCARE)". Director of the project: Mari-Klose, Mari Members of the research team: (POSEB-IPP) Luis Moreno and F. Javier Moreno. Duration of the project: 2012-2013. Financed by the *Spanish Ministry of Economy.* Reference: CSO2011-27494. Read it
	• "Welfare Attitudes in a Changing Europe". Co-ordinator Spanish team: Moreno, Luis Members of the research team: (POSEB-IPP) Inés Calzada, F. Javier Moreno y Eloísa del Pino. (teams from Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA) Duration of the project:2009-2013. Financed by the *European Science Foundation,and the Spanish Ministry of Economy.*, R&D Programme, Plan Nacional de I+D+I, Acción Complementaria. Read it
	• "Reforms by the European welfare systems in the aftermath of the economic-financial crisis". Director of the project: Moreno, Luis Members of the research team: (POSEB-IPP) F. Javier Moreno, Pau Mari-Klose and Eloísa del Pino. Duration of the project: 2013. Financed by the *EUROsociAL II, European Commission- CSIP* (DCI-ALA/19.09.01/2010/255-57, CISP(ESII/E001/2012). Read it
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