I am a computational social scientist in the Political Science and Law Department at Universitat de Barcelona (Ramón y Cajal research fellow 2023-2027). My research covers topics related to protest politics and interest groups. I use computational linguistics, network analysis, and experimental and survey data to address core questions on representation, inequalities, and influence processes in Europe and Latin America.
My research project on rhetorical influence, political organisations and policy processes uses data from social media and parliamentary records in a comparative perspective.
Publications
UMUTEAM at DIPROMATS 2024: Feature Integration for Detecting Fine-grained Propaganda and Narrative - Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum, 2024
The gender divide in issue attention - European Journal of Political Research, 2022
The cultural outcomes of social movements: a computational linguistics approach - PArtecipazione e COnflitto, 2021
La agenda de los grupos de interés frente a la COVID-19: el rastro digital en Twitter - Revista Española De Ciencia Política, 2021
Working papers
Social identity in times of moral shocks: a network analysis of protesters’ claims - with elena pavan.
The Presidential Speeches Dataset: Formal and Informal Speechmaking in Latin America, 1999–2023
In search for common ground: The dynamics of interest groups and party narratives
What explains legislators’ alignment with interest groups during parliamentary hearings? - with Luz Muñoz and Julia Mugica
Tracing corporatism in parliamentary hearings of interest groups - with Luz Muñoz
Elite responsiveness to protest in Latin America: Evidence from protest event data and political elites on Twitter - with Ruud Wouters
MPs’ issue prioritization on social media in Italy and Spain - with Marcello Carammia, Laura Chaqués-Bonafont and Federico Russo
Work in progress
Representations of Social Movements in YouTube Recommendations - with Enzo Pons
Illiberalism in Latin America – Public claims in presidential speeches 1999-2023 - with Martín Vergara
Varieties of elite polarisation in Latin America - with Luis Remiro
Why do people support populism? Evidence from a conjoint analysis - with Hugo Marcos-Marne and Steven Van-Hauwaert