Publications

Believe It or Not? The Credibility of Campaign Promises. 2020. Journal of Experimental Political Science 7(2), 137-149. With Alexander G. Theodoridis (UMass Amherst).

The Credibility of Party Policy Rhetoric. Survey-experimental Evidence. 2019. Journal of Politics 81(1): 309-314.

Choices that Matter: Coalition Formation and Parties’ Ideological Reputations. 2020. Political Science Research and Methods 8(2): 285-300. With Albert Falcó (University of Barcelona).

Voter Discounting of Party Campaign Manifestos. An Analysis of Mainstream and Niche Parties in Western Europe, 1971-2011. 2020. Party Politics 6(4):471– 483.

The Information Consequences of Party Leader Changes for Voter Perceptions of Party Positions. 2019. British Journal of Political Science 49(3): 977-996. With Zeynep Somer-Topcu. [replication materials]

And Yet It Moves: The Effect of Election Manifestos on Party Policy Images. 2014. Comparative Political Studies 47 (14): 1919-1944.

Projection Bias in the Survey Placement of Spanish Political Parties: Differences between National and Regional Parties. Special issue in South European Society and Politics 17 (3):519-531. 2012. With Elias Dinas. Reprinted in Sanchez-Cuenca and Dinas (eds). 2013. Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space. Routledge.[link]

Federal and state audits do not increase compliance with a grant program to improve municipal infrastructure: A pre-registered field experiment. 2023. Journal of Development Economics 162. With Ana de la O (Yale University) and Fernando Martel (Microsoft).
Retrospective Voting under Supranational Constraints. 2022. Electoral Studies 80. With Ignacio Jurado (Carlos III University).
Rooting Out Corruption or Rooting for Corruption? The Heterogeneous Electoral Consequences of Scandals. Political Science Research and Methods 4 (2): 379-397. 2016. With Pablo Barberá and Gonzalo Rivero. [pre-print accepted version]

The Technocratic Side of Populist Attitudes. 2023. West European Politics 46(1): 73-99. With Sebastián Lavezzolo (Carlos III) and Luis Ramiro (UNED).
Technocratic Attitudes in COVID-19 Times: Change and Preference over Types of Experts. 2022. European Journal of Political Research 61(4):1123-1142. With Sebastián Lavezzolo (Carlos III) and Luis Ramiro (UNED). [pre-print accepted version]

The Will for Reason: Voter Demand for Experts in Office. 2021. West European Politics 44(7): 1506-1531. With Sebastián Lavezzolo (Carlos III) and Luis Ramiro (UNED).