Amuitz is a political scientist working as an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Carlos III University. She also serves as the academic secretary of the Carlos III – Juan March Institute (IC3JM). Prior to her arrival at UC3M, Amuitz was a Max Weber fellow in the European University Institute, where she arrived after graduating from Binghamton University (SUNY). Her research interests are in the area of comparative political economy with a specific focus on federalism and decentralization. Amuitz is particularly interested in the way in which institutionalized territorial boundaries and authority shapes politics in countries around the world. Her research has been published in Regional Studies, West European Politics, or Electoral Studies, among others.

Emmy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs at IE University in Madrid. She received her Ph.D. from the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Mannheim. During her studies, she was a visiting PhD student at UC Berkeley and a pre-doctoral fellow at CESS-Nuffield Flame University in Pune. Emmy carries out research in the areas of comparative politics and political psychology, with a focus on identity politics and a regional interest in Europe and India. Her main research agenda studies different mechanisms through which hierarchies of national belonging constrain marginalized group members’ political aspirations. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies and the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, among others.

Amalia is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Mannheim School of Social Sciences and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. She holds a PhD in sociology from the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. Her main research agenda focuses on the conditions under which social norms change and emerge, particularly the effects of social feedback and contextual information on the perception of and conformity to social norms. Much of her work has examined social norms that stigmatize overt expressions of prejudice, such as racism, xenophobia, or sexism, as well as the normative roots of political preferences and behavior. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the European Sociological Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), British Journal of Political Science, and Social Science Research, among others.

Jorge is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (CSIC). A graduate of the European University Institute, his research interests include representation, electoral systems, legislative behavior, and political parties. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Political Behavior, Legislative Studies Quarterly, among many others. Jorge is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics (OUP, 2023) and The Politics of Legislative Debates (OUP, 2021). Before joining IPP, he held positions at the University of Bamberg and University of Lisbon. He has been a Visiting Scholar at UC San Diego and the Minda de Ginzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Patrick is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Before joining IPP-CSIC, Patrick has worked as an associate professor in political science at Carlos III University of Madrid, as well as an assistant professor in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he organized the Experimental Politics Lab. Patrick received his PhD in political science from Stony Brook University. His research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of political attitudes, reasoning, and behavior. Patrick is especially interested in the development and application of new statistical methods in the area of political psychology. For example, he uses quantitative text analysis to study how citizens discuss and justify their political preferences and beliefs in open-ended survey responses as well as online discussions. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and Political Science Research and Methods, among others.

Sergio is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods at CUNEF University. He received his PhD in Sociology from Princeton University. Sergio’s research focuses in the investigating historical transformations of political opinion and participation structures in affluent societies since the end of the Keynesian consensus up until the present day. Before joining CUNEF, he was a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at Carlos III University and a member of the Carlos III- Juan March Institute (IC3JM), and a visiting scholar at Collegio Carlo Alberto and CIDE, among others.