Department of Social Sciences

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.

Pedro Riera's coauthored paper, "Local Elections in Spain. The Personalization of Voting Behavior", has just won the 2017 Best Paper Award by the Revista Internacional de Sociología

Robert M. Fishman has just published a new book, “Democratic Practice: Origins of the Iberian Divide in Political Inclusion” with Oxford University Press. The text analyzes how distinct pathways to democracy have generated powerful cultural legacies that account for enduring differences between Portugal and Spain in democratic inclusion and, as a result, in numerous social outcomes.