🚨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.

New from @janagomezdiaz.bsky.social and I 😀 We explore the determinants of citizens' trust in their election management bodies. Mainly, we find that - across LATAM - it is much higher when EMBs are formally insulated from executive and partisan interference. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New from me in @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Across municipalities (🇲🇽), more incidents of political violence lead to more invalid voting — a form of protest. But more so in tight elections, where the protest can be more effective. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My first thesis article has been published in @reggovjournal.bsky.social 📢 In this original article, we (Heidi Salomonsen, Anna Pikos, Edoardo Guaschino and I) examine the relationship between contact frequency, media coverage, and stakeholder trust in regulatory agencies.

Here’s an awesome new paper from @janagomezdiaz.bsky.social et al. in Regulation & Governance: “The Formation of Stakeholders' Trust in Regulatory Agencies.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT). rdcu.be/eIkms

I’m presenting at #APSA2025 today. In case anyone wants to join our panel “Going the Distance: Electoral Geography, Election Outcomes, and Voter Engagement” 🙂👍 tinyurl.com/ykbtnk4l

Never thought I’d be invited to speak at a Rotary club in Mexico but hey! 😃

Proud to have been there at the start of Popscope, way back in the Ottawa days 🙂🔭

👩‍🦰Do women politicians address violence against women more effectively? ➡️Using data from Mexico and an RDD, @marco-alcocer.bsky.social R. Skillman & @angietorres.bsky.social find fewer female and young female homicides in municipalities led by women www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Most people in Mexico and Canada say the United States is their country's greatest threat www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

💥 Happy to share this new paper with Koen Verhoest in Public Management Review @pmreview.bsky.social ! What conditions contribute to building trust in services with high levels of opacity, information asymmetries, and vulnerable users? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Also, something awesome from my long time UPF office-mate 😉

Very much enjoyed this! Congrats, @jonaswschmid.bsky.social!

This is great. It is also immediately disappointing that Ovechkin openly supports Putin, and that Gretzky openly supports Trump.

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Modern societies, as Americans are soon to learn, cannot function without experts in every field, especially the many thousands who work in public service," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social.