Department of Social Sciences

Ignacio Jurado and Sandra León have been awarded the Premi l’Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya for the year 2020 for their article published in Governance "Economic globalization and decentralization: A centrifugal or centripetal relationship?"

Miguel Artola has received BBVA Foundation's 2020 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators in the area of Humanities (History) with his project "Inequality and democracy in the interwar period"

West European Politics has awarded Gema García Albacete and her coauthors with one of the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes for the journal's best articles in 2019 for their article "Adult roles and the gender gap in political knowledge: a comparative study"

Pedro Riera has received BBVA Foundation's 2019 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators in the area of Economics and Social Sciences

The European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) and the European Sociological Review (ESR) have recognized Javier G. Polavieja with ESR 2019 Best Paper Award for his coauthored paper Polavieja, Javier G., Fernández-Reino, Mariña and Ramos, María. 2018. "Are Migrants Selected on Motivational Orientations? Selectivity Patterns amongst International Migrants in Europe”. European Sociological Review, 34(5):570-588.