Abstract. The increasing implementation of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) such as Citizens’ Assemblies and Citizens’ Juries led the OECD to identify a ‘deliberative wave’. The burgeoning scholarship on DMPs has increased understanding of how they operate and their impact, but less attention has been paid to the drivers behind this diffusion. Existing research on democratic innovations has…

Abstract. As part of a broader research programme on the federal governance of COVID-19 in Spain, this systematic literature review centers on the nexus between territorial politics and the coronavirus crisis. It analyses 300 publications in the Web of Science Core Collection from 2018 to 2023 through the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method. The…

Abstract. Extant literature has largely analysed how European Union (EU) migrant citizens' welfare rights are framed in public discourses and affect social solidarity, delving into the concept of ‘welfare deservingness’. Surprisingly, the healthcare domain is comparatively less researched. Few studies have unpacked the concept of ‘healthcare deservingness’ and its variations across contexts when…

Abstract. The Council’s enforcement inaction regarding the rule of law crisis has been endlessly criticised by scholars and commentators. However, there is currently no theoretically parsimonious explanation of why some national governments oppose enforcement whilst others are more inclined to support it. We address this question by considering structural (time of accession), semi-structural (…

Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled and magnified structural challenges of long-term care (LTC) provision and work across Europe, bringing the need for reforms on the quality-of-care provision and work to the fore in several countries. Focusing on the case of Spain, this paper analyses to what extent the window of opportunity opened by the pandemic resulted in structural LTC reform, focusing…

Abstract. The idea of a Universal Inheritance (UI) has been recently gaining weight amongst scholars concerned over increasing wealth inequality. A UI consists of a one-off public payment of an agreed sum to each citizen of young adulthood. In this article, we provide the results of novel simulations to assess the cost and the distributive impact of such policy by testing different parameters for…

Abstract. Authoritarian elites may play an essential role in transitioning democracies, but little is known about the fate of these elites beyond that of the top leaders. This article offers the first panel-data study of authoritarian elites in a transitional democracy. We focus on Spain, a paradigmatic case of successful democratization from above, and rely on an original dataset…

Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about some extraordinary shifts in citizens’ preferences about intergovernmental responsibilities in several federal states and has therefore provided an especially interesting context to contribute to the ongoing debate about the scope, direction, and determinants of attitudinal change in citizens’ preferences in situations of protracted crisis. Although…

Resumen. La fragmentación y la polarización en el sistema parlamentario español se habían analizado hasta ahora con limitaciones temporales o territoriales. En este trabajo, se exponen los niveles de fragmentación y polarización ideológica en el Congreso de los Diputados y en las cámaras de las 17 comunidades autónomas desde 1979 a 2022. Los hallazgos permiten identificar qué cámaras están más…

Abstract. A recent experimental literature has documented that people are (sometimes) asymmetric updaters: good news is over-weighted relative to bad news. This phenomenon might be due to selective recall (SR), whereby people better recall positive evidence than negative evidence. To test this hypothesis, we ran a balls-and-urns experiment where each subject faced a box with 100 balls, each…