Pablo Simón Cosano
Biographic Data
| ID | 4253879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Simón Cosano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo Simón |
| FAMILY NAME | Cosano |
| SIGNATURE | COSANO P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8904-6712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Less second-order, more Europeanised? The 2024 European Parliament election in Spain
Explaining change in linguistic voting: The case of Catalonia
In this paper, we investigate the evolving impact of linguistic voting and its relationship with values and preferences in Catalonia. Our central argument posits that both bottom‐up and top‐down dynamics serve as complementary and interactive explanations for ethnolinguistic voting. On the one hand, it could be expected that, over time, the influence of language on party choice would diminish as Catalan became more widespread among the population…
La nacionalización electoral de los partidos políticos en España
Este estudio se centra en la nacionalización de los partidos en Españaentendida como la homogeneidad en los apoyos electorales que consigueun partido en las circunscripciones de una elección nacional. La primeraparte del artículo presenta una descripción de la evolución de la nacionalizacióndesde 1977 hasta la actualidad y muestra cómo el sistema departidos español está cada vez más nacionalizado pese a sus diferenciasentre partidos. En la segund…
Two-bloc Logic, Polarisation and Coalition Government: The November 2019 General Election in Spain
Pablo Simón*Pablo Simón is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. PhD in Political Science (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), he has been a visiting fellow at Université de Montreal and a post-doc at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He specialises in electoral systems, party systems, fiscal federalism and political participation. His most recent publications have appeared in West European Politics, Political Studies, Publius, Social S…
The Multiple Spanish Elections of April and May 2019: The Impact of Territorial and Left-right Polarisation
This article analyses the 2019 local, regional, European and April general elections in Spain. The constitutional crisis in Catalonia in 2017, the motion of no-confidence leading to the new Socialist government and the emergence of a radical right-wing party, VOX, all led to Spanish politics becoming more polarised. This paper also discusses polarisation from both the left-right and the territorial perspectives, intimately linked in Spain both fo…
El nuevo contrato social desde la perspectiva de la ciencia política
En el presente trabajo se aborda la noción de contrato social analizando los equilibrios políticos que lo hacen posible. Tras desarrollar las principales teorías políticas que explican su desarrollo, se abordan los diferentes cambios estructurales que han supuesto una transformación en los mismos como la globalización, la terciarización de la economía o el envejecimiento demográfico. Mención especial merece el cambio tecnológico como elemento cla…
Party Mobilization and Electoral Systems
How party strategies vary by electoral system remains largely unexplored in election studies. Using qualitative and quantitative data from Spanish national and European elections, we test how party strategies diverge between districted electoral systems and systems using a single national district. We use the number of visits to districts by the party leaders to determine if targeted party strategies are driven by district magnitude, the share of…
Turnout and social fractionalisation
Social fractionalisation has been omitted in most influential cross-sectional studies on turnout, and when it has been included, evidence is, at best, mixed. This article addresses this gap from two perspectives. First, using aggregated data from 22 countries we show that turnout is inversely related to ethnolinguistic fractionalisation, even after controlling for institutional, political and socioeconomic determinants. Second, we rely on data fr…
Who Honours the Rules of Federalism? Party System Nationalisation and Fiscal Performance
This article explores the impact of decentralisation on countries’ fiscal outcomes paying attention to one aspect usually neglected in the literature: the relevance of local politics, proxied by party system nationalisation. Based on a wide sample of developed and developing countries over the period 1970–2011, our findings are threefold. First, both fiscal and political decentralisations have a virtuous effect on fiscal performance, improving ge…
The short-term and long-term effects of institutional reforms on party system nationalization
Electoral volatility and the dynamics of electoral reform
Recent elections in Europe have shown that a context of increasing citizen distrust towards democratic institutions may lead to very high levels of electoral volatility and to the emergence of new parties. On the other hand, institutional reforms are sometimes presented as a solution to citizens’ discontent with political institutions. Focusing on a specific type of political institution ‒ electoral systems ‒ the question addressed in this study …
Gender Quotas and Political Representation in Spain and Portugal: Electoral Competition, Learning and Emulation
Contagion theory, one of the most appealing explanations of women’s representation, posits that when small parties start actively promoting women candidates, larger parties will be incentivised to follow suit and contagion will eventually spread throughout the party system. In examining the diffusion of gender quotas in Spain and Portugal, this article revisits contagion theory and adopts a more comprehensive approach. The results suggest that di…
Heterogeneity in turnout rates across regions and the nationalization of party systems
The Challenges of the New Spanish Multipartism: Government Formation Failure and the 2016 General Election
The 2016 general election was the result of the incapacity of Spanish political parties to agree on the formation of a government following the previous parliamentary election six months earlier. The paper begins by examining how and why this process failed, focusing on institutional and contextual factors, especially those related to the emergence of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the Spanish political arena. Also explained are the negotiation strate…
Economic Crisis and Support for Democracy in Europe
The study of the impact of the economic crisis on attitudes toward democracy tends to be focused on satisfaction with specific democratic institutions. This article expands upon previous research to explore how the current economic crisis can affect core support for democracy as a regime. Based on European Social Survey data for the Eurozone countries, the findings are twofold. It is shown, firstly, that perceptions of the state of the economy ha…
Expectations in Mass Elections: Back to the Future
Objectives This article examines whether voters look to the past or the future when forming their perceptions of the parties’ chances of winning. Methods We use OLS regression models to analyze panel survey data from the districts where the incumbent was defeated in the 2011 provincial election in Ontario (Canada). Results We find that voters’ expectations in the districts are mainly affected by the results of the upcoming election and not by the…
On the Political Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants in Decentralized Countries: The Case of Spain
This article examines the effect of political variables on the gains obtained by Spanish regions in periodical bargaining of the intergovernmental financing agreements and on the regional distribution of discretional earmarked grants. First, we find that the relationship between gains in transferred revenues and on regional public debt stocks depends on the period and the specific issues discussed in the corresponding negotiation. Second, we show…
The Combined Impact of Decentralisation and Personalism on the Nationalisation of Party Systems
In this article I address the impact of decentralisation on the nationalisation of party systems. Many scholars have argued that when a country decentralises, candidates have greater incentives to compete locally and party system nationalisation is eroded. However, the empirical results are inconclusive, particularly in Western European countries, so it is necessary to revisit this causal link. My argument is that the impact of decentralisation o…
Economic Crisis and Support for Democracy in Europe
The study of the impact of the economic crisis on attitudes toward democracy tends to be focused on satisfaction with specific democratic institutions. This article expands upon previous research to explore how the current economic crisis can affect core support for democracy as a regime. Based on European Social Survey data for the Eurozone countries, the findings are twofold. It is shown, firstly, that perceptions of the state of the economy ha…
The Multiple Spanish Elections of April and May 2019: The Impact of Territorial and Left-right Polarisation
This article analyses the 2019 local, regional, European and April general elections in Spain. The constitutional crisis in Catalonia in 2017, the motion of no-confidence leading to the new Socialist government and the emergence of a radical right-wing party, VOX, all led to Spanish politics becoming more polarised. This paper also discusses polarisation from both the left-right and the territorial perspectives, intimately linked in Spain both fo…
The Challenges of the New Spanish Multipartism: Government Formation Failure and the 2016 General Election
The 2016 general election was the result of the incapacity of Spanish political parties to agree on the formation of a government following the previous parliamentary election six months earlier. The paper begins by examining how and why this process failed, focusing on institutional and contextual factors, especially those related to the emergence of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the Spanish political arena. Also explained are the negotiation strate…
Two-bloc Logic, Polarisation and Coalition Government: The November 2019 General Election in Spain
Pablo Simón*Pablo Simón is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. PhD in Political Science (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), he has been a visiting fellow at Université de Montreal and a post-doc at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He specialises in electoral systems, party systems, fiscal federalism and political participation. His most recent publications have appeared in West European Politics, Political Studies, Publius, Social S…
The Combined Impact of Decentralisation and Personalism on the Nationalisation of Party Systems
In this article I address the impact of decentralisation on the nationalisation of party systems. Many scholars have argued that when a country decentralises, candidates have greater incentives to compete locally and party system nationalisation is eroded. However, the empirical results are inconclusive, particularly in Western European countries, so it is necessary to revisit this causal link. My argument is that the impact of decentralisation o…
On the Political Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants in Decentralized Countries: The Case of Spain
This article examines the effect of political variables on the gains obtained by Spanish regions in periodical bargaining of the intergovernmental financing agreements and on the regional distribution of discretional earmarked grants. First, we find that the relationship between gains in transferred revenues and on regional public debt stocks depends on the period and the specific issues discussed in the corresponding negotiation. Second, we show…
Electoral volatility and the dynamics of electoral reform
Recent elections in Europe have shown that a context of increasing citizen distrust towards democratic institutions may lead to very high levels of electoral volatility and to the emergence of new parties. On the other hand, institutional reforms are sometimes presented as a solution to citizens’ discontent with political institutions. Focusing on a specific type of political institution ‒ electoral systems ‒ the question addressed in this study …
Turnout and social fractionalisation
Social fractionalisation has been omitted in most influential cross-sectional studies on turnout, and when it has been included, evidence is, at best, mixed. This article addresses this gap from two perspectives. First, using aggregated data from 22 countries we show that turnout is inversely related to ethnolinguistic fractionalisation, even after controlling for institutional, political and socioeconomic determinants. Second, we rely on data fr…
Gender Quotas and Political Representation in Spain and Portugal: Electoral Competition, Learning and Emulation
Contagion theory, one of the most appealing explanations of women’s representation, posits that when small parties start actively promoting women candidates, larger parties will be incentivised to follow suit and contagion will eventually spread throughout the party system. In examining the diffusion of gender quotas in Spain and Portugal, this article revisits contagion theory and adopts a more comprehensive approach. The results suggest that di…
Expectations in Mass Elections: Back to the Future
Objectives This article examines whether voters look to the past or the future when forming their perceptions of the parties’ chances of winning. Methods We use OLS regression models to analyze panel survey data from the districts where the incumbent was defeated in the 2011 provincial election in Ontario (Canada). Results We find that voters’ expectations in the districts are mainly affected by the results of the upcoming election and not by the…
La nacionalización electoral de los partidos políticos en España
Este estudio se centra en la nacionalización de los partidos en Españaentendida como la homogeneidad en los apoyos electorales que consigueun partido en las circunscripciones de una elección nacional. La primeraparte del artículo presenta una descripción de la evolución de la nacionalizacióndesde 1977 hasta la actualidad y muestra cómo el sistema departidos español está cada vez más nacionalizado pese a sus diferenciasentre partidos. En la segund…
Party Mobilization and Electoral Systems
How party strategies vary by electoral system remains largely unexplored in election studies. Using qualitative and quantitative data from Spanish national and European elections, we test how party strategies diverge between districted electoral systems and systems using a single national district. We use the number of visits to districts by the party leaders to determine if targeted party strategies are driven by district magnitude, the share of…
Who Honours the Rules of Federalism? Party System Nationalisation and Fiscal Performance
This article explores the impact of decentralisation on countries’ fiscal outcomes paying attention to one aspect usually neglected in the literature: the relevance of local politics, proxied by party system nationalisation. Based on a wide sample of developed and developing countries over the period 1970–2011, our findings are threefold. First, both fiscal and political decentralisations have a virtuous effect on fiscal performance, improving ge…
Heterogeneity in turnout rates across regions and the nationalization of party systems
Explaining change in linguistic voting: The case of Catalonia
In this paper, we investigate the evolving impact of linguistic voting and its relationship with values and preferences in Catalonia. Our central argument posits that both bottom‐up and top‐down dynamics serve as complementary and interactive explanations for ethnolinguistic voting. On the one hand, it could be expected that, over time, the influence of language on party choice would diminish as Catalan became more widespread among the population…
The Combined Impact of Decentralisation and Personalism on the Nationalisation of Party Systems
In this article I address the impact of decentralisation on the nationalisation of party systems. Many scholars have argued that when a country decentralises, candidates have greater incentives to compete locally and party system nationalisation is eroded. However, the empirical results are inconclusive, particularly in Western European countries, so it is necessary to revisit this causal link. My argument is that the impact of decentralisation o…
Expectations in Mass Elections: Back to the Future
Objectives This article examines whether voters look to the past or the future when forming their perceptions of the parties’ chances of winning. Methods We use OLS regression models to analyze panel survey data from the districts where the incumbent was defeated in the 2011 provincial election in Ontario (Canada). Results We find that voters’ expectations in the districts are mainly affected by the results of the upcoming election and not by the…
On the Political Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants in Decentralized Countries: The Case of Spain
This article examines the effect of political variables on the gains obtained by Spanish regions in periodical bargaining of the intergovernmental financing agreements and on the regional distribution of discretional earmarked grants. First, we find that the relationship between gains in transferred revenues and on regional public debt stocks depends on the period and the specific issues discussed in the corresponding negotiation. Second, we show…
Economic Crisis and Support for Democracy in Europe
The study of the impact of the economic crisis on attitudes toward democracy tends to be focused on satisfaction with specific democratic institutions. This article expands upon previous research to explore how the current economic crisis can affect core support for democracy as a regime. Based on European Social Survey data for the Eurozone countries, the findings are twofold. It is shown, firstly, that perceptions of the state of the economy ha…
Heterogeneity in turnout rates across regions and the nationalization of party systems
The Challenges of the New Spanish Multipartism: Government Formation Failure and the 2016 General Election
The 2016 general election was the result of the incapacity of Spanish political parties to agree on the formation of a government following the previous parliamentary election six months earlier. The paper begins by examining how and why this process failed, focusing on institutional and contextual factors, especially those related to the emergence of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the Spanish political arena. Also explained are the negotiation strate…
The short-term and long-term effects of institutional reforms on party system nationalization
Electoral volatility and the dynamics of electoral reform
Recent elections in Europe have shown that a context of increasing citizen distrust towards democratic institutions may lead to very high levels of electoral volatility and to the emergence of new parties. On the other hand, institutional reforms are sometimes presented as a solution to citizens’ discontent with political institutions. Focusing on a specific type of political institution ‒ electoral systems ‒ the question addressed in this study …
Gender Quotas and Political Representation in Spain and Portugal: Electoral Competition, Learning and Emulation
Contagion theory, one of the most appealing explanations of women’s representation, posits that when small parties start actively promoting women candidates, larger parties will be incentivised to follow suit and contagion will eventually spread throughout the party system. In examining the diffusion of gender quotas in Spain and Portugal, this article revisits contagion theory and adopts a more comprehensive approach. The results suggest that di…
Turnout and social fractionalisation
Social fractionalisation has been omitted in most influential cross-sectional studies on turnout, and when it has been included, evidence is, at best, mixed. This article addresses this gap from two perspectives. First, using aggregated data from 22 countries we show that turnout is inversely related to ethnolinguistic fractionalisation, even after controlling for institutional, political and socioeconomic determinants. Second, we rely on data fr…
Who Honours the Rules of Federalism? Party System Nationalisation and Fiscal Performance
This article explores the impact of decentralisation on countries’ fiscal outcomes paying attention to one aspect usually neglected in the literature: the relevance of local politics, proxied by party system nationalisation. Based on a wide sample of developed and developing countries over the period 1970–2011, our findings are threefold. First, both fiscal and political decentralisations have a virtuous effect on fiscal performance, improving ge…
El nuevo contrato social desde la perspectiva de la ciencia política
En el presente trabajo se aborda la noción de contrato social analizando los equilibrios políticos que lo hacen posible. Tras desarrollar las principales teorías políticas que explican su desarrollo, se abordan los diferentes cambios estructurales que han supuesto una transformación en los mismos como la globalización, la terciarización de la economía o el envejecimiento demográfico. Mención especial merece el cambio tecnológico como elemento cla…
Party Mobilization and Electoral Systems
How party strategies vary by electoral system remains largely unexplored in election studies. Using qualitative and quantitative data from Spanish national and European elections, we test how party strategies diverge between districted electoral systems and systems using a single national district. We use the number of visits to districts by the party leaders to determine if targeted party strategies are driven by district magnitude, the share of…
Two-bloc Logic, Polarisation and Coalition Government: The November 2019 General Election in Spain
Pablo Simón*Pablo Simón is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. PhD in Political Science (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), he has been a visiting fellow at Université de Montreal and a post-doc at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He specialises in electoral systems, party systems, fiscal federalism and political participation. His most recent publications have appeared in West European Politics, Political Studies, Publius, Social S…
The Multiple Spanish Elections of April and May 2019: The Impact of Territorial and Left-right Polarisation
This article analyses the 2019 local, regional, European and April general elections in Spain. The constitutional crisis in Catalonia in 2017, the motion of no-confidence leading to the new Socialist government and the emergence of a radical right-wing party, VOX, all led to Spanish politics becoming more polarised. This paper also discusses polarisation from both the left-right and the territorial perspectives, intimately linked in Spain both fo…
La nacionalización electoral de los partidos políticos en España
Este estudio se centra en la nacionalización de los partidos en Españaentendida como la homogeneidad en los apoyos electorales que consigueun partido en las circunscripciones de una elección nacional. La primeraparte del artículo presenta una descripción de la evolución de la nacionalizacióndesde 1977 hasta la actualidad y muestra cómo el sistema departidos español está cada vez más nacionalizado pese a sus diferenciasentre partidos. En la segund…
Less second-order, more Europeanised? The 2024 European Parliament election in Spain
Explaining change in linguistic voting: The case of Catalonia
In this paper, we investigate the evolving impact of linguistic voting and its relationship with values and preferences in Catalonia. Our central argument posits that both bottom‐up and top‐down dynamics serve as complementary and interactive explanations for ethnolinguistic voting. On the one hand, it could be expected that, over time, the influence of language on party choice would diminish as Catalan became more widespread among the population…
Political science (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)