Albert Padró-Solanet
Biographic Data
| ID | 2371209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Padró-Solanet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Padró-Solanet |
| SIGNATURE | PADRÓ-SOLANET A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8242-2383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Between Resilience and Abandonment
Participatory budgeting (PB) is one of the most significant democratic innovations to enhance citizens’ influence on public policy, seeing renewed growth over the last decade by merging with digital participatory platforms. However, many PB programmes fail to persist beyond their initial adoption. Which political factors affect the resilience of hybrid deployments of PB through digital platforms? Local governments, and ultimately mayors, play a p…
A distorted mirror? party cohesion in political parties’ Twitterspheres
Do party crises affect the cohesion of political parties’ networks in social media? Focussing on five major Spanish political parties, we analyse the changes in the following-follower and retweet networks during the period between 2021 and 2023 using a sample of 4110 Twitter accounts that includes different strata of the political parties, from elites and intermediate elites to the party on the ground and sympathisers. Our results suggest that ne…
Democratic Disruption or Continuity? Analysis of the Decidim Platform in Catalan Municipalities
Free, open-source participatory platforms like Decidim or Consul were designed by the 15M' citizen activists in Spain. Initially implemented in Barcelona and Madrid, these platforms are spread in many countries. Castells has not examined the institutionalization of the 15M's offspring, and thus we aim to contribute by studying the rollout of the Decidim platform in Catalan municipalities. We examine its disruptive potential along three democratic…
Media Diet and Polarisation
Does media diet diversity influence affective polarisation of the public? To test this hypothesis we analyse data from Spain, which like other South European countries has a highly politicised media system. The study operationalises media diet diversity based on survey and web-tracking data. It considers diversity both in terms of the quantity of media consumed and exposure to opposing viewpoints using the two politico-ideological dimensions that…
Crossing Lines in the Twitter Debate on Catalonia’s Independence
The effect of social media as a potential sphere for public deliberation still remains unclear. For some analysts, social media can create a vibrant space for political discussion, whereas others believe they do not provide the right conditions for meaningful interaction and could even have negative effects on public opinion by, for instance, fostering communication within isolated enclaves. Focusing on the debate surrounding Catalonia’s secessio…
We need to talk
A repeated argument to invalidate the legitimacy of a debate on Catalonia’s independence is the existence of a spiral of silence affecting unionist supporters. However, we find inconclusive empirical evidence to sustain this claim. Although survey data show that willingness to talk about secession is higher among pro-independence supporters both in face-to-face and online environments, multivariate regression models – taking into account the perc…
The judicial pursuit of the sexual victimization of children
This article analyses the criminal justice system’s treatment of those sexual offences against children of which it is made aware. The findings reported in this article draw on a quantitative study based on data ( n = 97) taken from judicial files from a province of Catalonia, Spain. The study examines prosecution, trial and conviction rates, analysing the possible variables involved to provide a better understanding of the reasons behind the suc…
Political parties in Spain
Since the democratic transition in 1976, Spanish politics has attracted the attention of many scholars. But relatively little has been done in the analysis of the political parties as a specific object. Monographs on particular political parties are rare, for a number of reasons. As is to be expected, the urgency of historical events has influenced the evolution of this field of study. A first wave of research devoted most attention to parties’ e…
Media Diet and Polarisation
Does media diet diversity influence affective polarisation of the public? To test this hypothesis we analyse data from Spain, which like other South European countries has a highly politicised media system. The study operationalises media diet diversity based on survey and web-tracking data. It considers diversity both in terms of the quantity of media consumed and exposure to opposing viewpoints using the two politico-ideological dimensions that…
Democratic Disruption or Continuity? Analysis of the Decidim Platform in Catalan Municipalities
Free, open-source participatory platforms like Decidim or Consul were designed by the 15M' citizen activists in Spain. Initially implemented in Barcelona and Madrid, these platforms are spread in many countries. Castells has not examined the institutionalization of the 15M's offspring, and thus we aim to contribute by studying the rollout of the Decidim platform in Catalan municipalities. We examine its disruptive potential along three democratic…
Crossing Lines in the Twitter Debate on Catalonia’s Independence
The effect of social media as a potential sphere for public deliberation still remains unclear. For some analysts, social media can create a vibrant space for political discussion, whereas others believe they do not provide the right conditions for meaningful interaction and could even have negative effects on public opinion by, for instance, fostering communication within isolated enclaves. Focusing on the debate surrounding Catalonia’s secessio…
We need to talk
A repeated argument to invalidate the legitimacy of a debate on Catalonia’s independence is the existence of a spiral of silence affecting unionist supporters. However, we find inconclusive empirical evidence to sustain this claim. Although survey data show that willingness to talk about secession is higher among pro-independence supporters both in face-to-face and online environments, multivariate regression models – taking into account the perc…
Political parties in Spain
Since the democratic transition in 1976, Spanish politics has attracted the attention of many scholars. But relatively little has been done in the analysis of the political parties as a specific object. Monographs on particular political parties are rare, for a number of reasons. As is to be expected, the urgency of historical events has influenced the evolution of this field of study. A first wave of research devoted most attention to parties’ e…
The judicial pursuit of the sexual victimization of children
This article analyses the criminal justice system’s treatment of those sexual offences against children of which it is made aware. The findings reported in this article draw on a quantitative study based on data ( n = 97) taken from judicial files from a province of Catalonia, Spain. The study examines prosecution, trial and conviction rates, analysing the possible variables involved to provide a better understanding of the reasons behind the suc…
Crossing Lines in the Twitter Debate on Catalonia’s Independence
The effect of social media as a potential sphere for public deliberation still remains unclear. For some analysts, social media can create a vibrant space for political discussion, whereas others believe they do not provide the right conditions for meaningful interaction and could even have negative effects on public opinion by, for instance, fostering communication within isolated enclaves. Focusing on the debate surrounding Catalonia’s secessio…
We need to talk
A repeated argument to invalidate the legitimacy of a debate on Catalonia’s independence is the existence of a spiral of silence affecting unionist supporters. However, we find inconclusive empirical evidence to sustain this claim. Although survey data show that willingness to talk about secession is higher among pro-independence supporters both in face-to-face and online environments, multivariate regression models – taking into account the perc…
Media Diet and Polarisation
Does media diet diversity influence affective polarisation of the public? To test this hypothesis we analyse data from Spain, which like other South European countries has a highly politicised media system. The study operationalises media diet diversity based on survey and web-tracking data. It considers diversity both in terms of the quantity of media consumed and exposure to opposing viewpoints using the two politico-ideological dimensions that…
Democratic Disruption or Continuity? Analysis of the Decidim Platform in Catalan Municipalities
Free, open-source participatory platforms like Decidim or Consul were designed by the 15M' citizen activists in Spain. Initially implemented in Barcelona and Madrid, these platforms are spread in many countries. Castells has not examined the institutionalization of the 15M's offspring, and thus we aim to contribute by studying the rollout of the Decidim platform in Catalan municipalities. We examine its disruptive potential along three democratic…
A distorted mirror? party cohesion in political parties’ Twitterspheres
Do party crises affect the cohesion of political parties’ networks in social media? Focussing on five major Spanish political parties, we analyse the changes in the following-follower and retweet networks during the period between 2021 and 2023 using a sample of 4110 Twitter accounts that includes different strata of the political parties, from elites and intermediate elites to the party on the ground and sympathisers. Our results suggest that ne…
Between Resilience and Abandonment
Participatory budgeting (PB) is one of the most significant democratic innovations to enhance citizens’ influence on public policy, seeing renewed growth over the last decade by merging with digital participatory platforms. However, many PB programmes fail to persist beyond their initial adoption. Which political factors affect the resilience of hybrid deployments of PB through digital platforms? Local governments, and ultimately mayors, play a p…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)