PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2025. Democracy under strain. The political effects of financial bailouts in citizens and parties. Oxford: Oxford University Press. You can read a summary of the book here. The supplementary material of the book is also available here.
2016. Informe sobre la democracia en España. Madrid: Fundación Alternativas.
2015. Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions. London: Routledge (co-edited with Jennifer Gandhi)
ARTICLES
2025. Activation and co-optation: The strategic adoption of compulsory voting in Western Europe. Parliamentary Affairs . Open access here.
2021. Financial Bailouts and the decline of establishment politics. Electoral Studies, Volume 70, April, 102292
2020. The Costs of Responsibility for the Political Establishment of the Eurozone (1999-2015). (with Sonia Alonso) Party Politics, 26(3) 317-333.
2020. The effect of alternation in power on electoral intimidation in democratizing regimes. (with Sarah Birch) Journal of Peace Research, 57(1) 126-139.
2018. Tying Incumbents’ Hands: The Effects of Election Monitoring on Electoral Outcomes. (with Nasos Roussias) Electoral Studies, 54 (August) 116-127.
Winner of the Lawerence Longley Award to Best Article 2018. APSA Representation and Electoral Systems section.
2018. When do electoral institutions trigger electoral misconduct? Democratization 25 (2):331-50.
2017. Democracy without Choice: Citizens’ perceptions of government’s autonomy during the Euro-zone crisis. (with Sonia Alonso) European Journal of Political Research, 56 (2) 230-245.
2013. Satisfaction with Democracy in Multi-ethnic Countries - The Effect of Representative Political Institutions on Ethnic Minorities. Political Studies, 61 (1) 101-118.
2011. Characterizing electoral systems. An empirical application of aggregated threshold functions. West European Politics, 34(2) 256-281.
2008. The parliamentary election in Armenia, May 2007. Electoral Studies, 27 (2) 369-372.
2007. Exploring political representation and ethnic conflict in new democracies. (with Sonia Alonso) European Journal of Political Research, 46(2) 237-267.
2007. Aggregated threshold functions or how to measure the performance of an electoral system. Electoral Studies, 26 (2) 492-502.
2005. La caracterización de los sistemas electorales. Una aplicación de las funciones de agregación de umbrales en las nuevas democracias de Europa y América Latina. Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 13. 89-118.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
2019. Gobiernos impotentes, ciudadanos desconcertados: la percepción ciudadana de la autonomía de los gobiernos en la Eurozona (2002-2014). (with Sonia Alonso) in Política de la Unión Europea: Crisis y continuidad. Cristina Ares and Luis Bouza (eds). Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
2018. Democracy without Choice: Citizens' perceptions of government's autonomy during the Eurozone crisis. (with Sonia Alonso) in Democracy and Crisis: Challenges in Turbulent Times. Wolfgang Merkel and Sascha Kneip (eds.) Cham: Springer.
2015. Ethnicity and Elections in Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions. Jennifer Gandhi and Rubén Ruiz-Rufino (eds.) London: Routledge.
2015. Introduction in Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions. Jennifer Gandhi and Rubén Ruiz- Rufino (eds.) London: Routledge.
2012. Las reglas electorales y sus efectos in Las Elecciones Europeas 2009. Joan Font and Mariano Torcal (eds.). Madrid: CIS.
2003. Representación parlamentaria y conflicto étnico. (with Sonia Alonso) in Minorías nacionales y conflicto étnico. Carmen González (ed): Madrid. UNED-Instituto Gutiérrez Mellado.