Enrique Hernández
Political scientist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Working on public opinion, political attitudes and democracy
www.enriquehernandez.eu
- I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! I’m extremely grateful to my colleagues and collaborators for their support and help, and very excited to start this new adventure. Looking forward to all the collaborations ahead! #ERCCoG 1/2
- Sounds fascinating. Congratulations!
- Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good. Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens
- Felicidades!! Super interesante
- Personal news! 📣 I'm very happy to share that today I've joined @dec-gr.bsky.social as a postdoc to work on the @tact-forsed.bsky.social project, studying conspiracy beliefs and democratic backsliding across Europe. Grateful to @galais.bsky.social and @mguinjoan.bsky.social for the opportunity!
- Que bien! Enhorabuena
- I’m very happy and honored to receive the National Research Award for Young Researchers in Social Sciences. Many thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way
- 🏆 El professor de la #UAB Enrique Hernández, Premi Nacional de Recerca per a Joves 2025
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- Gracies Albert!!
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- Gracias María!
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- Gràcies Rubén!!
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- Moltes gràcies Ricard!!
- New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵
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View full thread2. Some variation across party families
- 3. And a clear (descriptive) underrepresentation of rural areas
- We find: 1. A wide variation in the rural and urban backgrounds of members of parliament.
- Should democracies ban parties that threaten democracy? In the DEMOTRADEOFF project survey we asked people in 15 countries about this. A short 🧵 with some results Citizens are deeply divided about this issue Support for bans is highest in 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 www.dw.com/en/germany-i...
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- No, the paper is in the making. Probably we will publish a pre-print around September.
- After asking generically, we experimentally varied the type of democratic threat a party poses Citizens are much more willing to ban parties that justify terrorism or promote discrimination, but less so for parties that seek to appoint loyal judges. Support varies strongly by ideology.
- @sergiferrer.bsky.social and Enrique Prada will present some of these results at the upcoming EPSA conference in Madrid
- People who value democracy more and those living in countries with a history of party bans are more supportive of banning parties that pose a threat to democracy Individuals with right-wing ideology tend to be less supportive of such bans.
- Very happy to see this paper finally out. 🧵 Through a measure of willingness to pay we show: 1. Citizens value elections much more than other liberal principles (media freedom, checks and balances...), which are often eroded in backsliding processes. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- 🎉🎉 Excited to share that our paper "The Value of Liberal Democracy: Assessing Citizens’ Commitment to Democratic Principles", co-authored with @ehernandez.bsky.social, Enrique Prada and Damjan Tomic, is now published in the European Journal of Political Research!🎉
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- Gracias!
- 2. A piecemeal process of backsliding where liberal principles are eroded gradually one by one is more likely to succeed. Illiberal leaders who move slowly are more likely to succeed
- Here you find a summary of the main findings (in Spanish) www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...
- 🗳️ Citizens are very reluctant to give up free elections, even for big income increases. ⚖️ But many would trade away liberal principles for relatively smaller economic gains.
- Deadline today to the Barcelona DEC Workshop on Political Behavior
- ‼️ Call for papers for the Barcelona DEC Workshop on Political Behavior and Public Opinion 👉 webs.uab.cat/grdec/2025-w... deadline: January 15th
- 📣 In June, we are organizing a workshop on political behavior and public opinion in Barcelona Send us your abstract 👇
- ‼️ Call for papers for the Barcelona DEC Workshop on Political Behavior and Public Opinion 👉 webs.uab.cat/grdec/2025-w... deadline: January 15th
- Deeply honored that I was awarded an ERC grant "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage“ (POLEDUC)! Thanks a lot to the #ERCCoG, as well as to the panelists & reviewers for their time, constructive feedback, & for a pleasant intellectual discussion! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
- Congrats!!
- Con @sofiabrei.bsky.social hicimos un experimento para estudiar el apoyo de los ciudadanos a un político que actúa de forma más o menos “corrupta” para reparar el alcantarillado después de una inundación www.eldiario.es/comunitat-va... 🧵 con los resultados
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View full thread¿Por qué? La confianza es la clave Saltarse la ley, especialmente cuando se beneficia a empresas afines, reduce la confianza en los políticos Y aunque el político que se salta la ley es percibido como más eficiente, las ganancias en eficiencia no compensan la pérdida de confianza.
- Todos los resultados y análisis de este experimento aquí: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- En el experimento manipulamos si el político: a. Sigue la ley, aunque esto retrase las reparaciones b. Se salta la ley y acelera las reparaciones, pero sin beneficiar a ninguna empresa afín a su partido c. Se salta la ley y acelera las reparaciones, pero beneficia a empresas afines a su partido
- Resultados: - El político (c) que se salta la ley y beneficia a empresas afines recibe menos apoyo - El más apoyado es el que sigue la ley aunque esto retrase las reparaciones (a) y no el que se salta la ley para acelerar las reparaciones sin beneficiar a empresas afines (b)
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- Thanks! Can you add me?
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- Hi Tom, Can you add me? I have a project related to those topics demotradeoff.eu
- Very happy to share our paper on the trade-offs in the electoral punishment of corruption, co-authored with @sofiabrei.bsky.social, now published in the European Political Science Review @ecpr.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- A few hours left to submit your proposal for our workshop at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions on ""Early Signs of Democratic Recession in Established and Backsliding Democracies" 👇
- Are you interested in democratic backsliding? With @honoratam.bsky.social and Joep van Lit we are organizing a workshop on "Early Signs of Democratic Recession in Established and Backsliding Democracies" Join us at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions polisky ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
- Are you interested in democratic backsliding? With @honoratam.bsky.social and Joep van Lit we are organizing a workshop on "Early Signs of Democratic Recession in Established and Backsliding Democracies" Join us at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions polisky ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
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- Very happy to see this paper on the rural 🚜 urban 🏙️ divide out in @wepsocial.bsky.social Together with Rubén Garcia del Horno and Guillem Rico we show that rural residents feel political elites are less responsive to their demands t.co/9gMIvuFRsC
- Very happy to see this paper on the rural 🚜 urban 🏙️ divide out in @wepsocial.bsky.social Together with Rubén Garcia del Horno and Guillem Rico we show that rural residents feel political elites are less responsive to their demands t.co/9gMIvuFRsC
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- Thanks for pointing out Lukas
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- 📣 New paper with @macarenaares.bsky.social on the impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on attitudes toward democracy The invasion didn't alter Europeans' support/satisfaction with democracy or the importance they attribute to democratic principles. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... polisky
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- Thanks so much for your comments. They really helped. Interesting. Probably another case of researchers using same dataset, similar methods and different results. You did an experiment on this, right?
- @profmusgrave.bsky.social can you add me to polisky? Thanks!!
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