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LAURA CHAQUÉS BONAFONT

Professor of Political Science

University of Barcelona

Avinguda Diagonal, 690; 08034 Barcelona

Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis

Internacionals (IBEI)

laurachaques@ub.edu http://www.ub.edu/spanishpolicyagendas

@laurachaques

Full time academic appointments

2010- Research Fellow, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, IBEI

2003- Associate professor, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science,

University of Barcelona

1999-2002- Assistant Professor, Department of Constitutional Law and Political

Science, University of Barcelona

1994-1998- Lecturer, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science,

University of Barcelona

Education

Ph D in Political Economy. 1999. University of Barcelona.

MA in Political Science. 1997. The New School for Social Research, New York.

BA in Economics. 1992. University of Barcelona

Current research projects

Spanish Policy Agendas Project (IP)

(http://www.ub.edu/spanishpolicyagendas)

The goal of this project is to analyze policy dynamics in Spain from transition to

democracy to present in a comparative perspective. This means to explore the

interrelation between the governmental, parliamentarian and media agendas across time,

issues, countries and levels of government. The project establishes a link between

policy dynamics research and other areas of concern within political science, mainly

media studies, political representation and the quality of democracy in a multilevel

system of government. It also provides of new tool for the development of quantitative

measurement of policy dynamics. For the last years, we have created comprehensive

and far-reaching datasets, which account for more than 200.000 records, about the

Spanish political and media agenda following the methodology of the comparative

agendas project (lead by Prof. B Jones and F. Baumgartner)

Comparative research on interest groups in a multilevel system of governance (IP)

http://www.intereuro.eu/

The goal of this research project is to promote a comprehensive theoretical and

empirical understanding of the role that interest groups play in multilevel systems of

governance. To do that we develop a comprehensive database in order to map out which

interest organizations have participated, discussing which issues, across different policy

venues for the last decades in Spain. The analysis shares some of the theoretical and

methodological bases with two other international projects, the Intereuro (lead by Prof.

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D. Lowery) and Interarena (lead by Prof. A. Binderkrantz), which allows for the

comparison of results with other advanced democracies.

PUBLICATIONS

Work in process (2014-)

Chaqués-Bonafont, Laura, Mary Layton Atkinson and Shaun Bevan (2014) “Gender

and Issue Attention: Comparing Spain, United Kingdom and USA”

http://conference.mpsanet.org/Online/Search.aspx?session=1944

Bertelly, Antony, Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Peter John and A. Palau (2014), “ Public

policy investments and mass-media strategies: a comparison between Spain and

the UK”

Chaqués-Bonafont, Laura, Peter Mortensen, Pascal Sciarini, Anke Tresch, Rens

Vliegenthart, Stefaan Walgrave and Frank Baumgartner (2014) “The Interaction

between Media Coverage and Parliamentary Questions - A Cross-National

Comparison”

Binderkranz, A, L. Chaqués-Bonafont, and Darren Halpin and “Interest organizations in

the media: a comparative analysis in Denmark, Spain, and United Kingdom”

Chaqués-Bonafont, Laura, Luz Muñoz, and Anna M. Palau, “Interest Organizations in a

multilevel system of governance: venue shopping in Spain” (book proposal)

Journal articles (peer-review)

2014. “All News is Bad News. Newspapers Coverage of Political Parties in Spain”,

Political Communication, (accepted for publication and forthcoming) (with

Frank Baumgartner)

2014. “The Intereuro Project: Logic and structure”, Interest Groups and Advocacy,

Special Issue: Methodological issues of large-N research on interest

representation, volume 3:2 pp. 126-141(with J. Beyers, A. Dür, R. Eising, D.

Fink-Hafner, D. Lowery, C. Mahoney, W. Maloney and D. Naurin)

2014.”Government-Opposition Dynamics in Spain under the Pressure of Economic

Collapse and the Debt Crisis”, Journal of Legislative Studies (accepted for

publication and forthcoming) (with A.Palau and L. Muñoz)

2014 “Public Policy in Catalonia”, Pole Sud (forthcoming with Mariona Tomás)

2013. “Newspaper Attention and Policy Activities in Spain”, Journal of Public Policy,

33, pp 65-88 (with Frank Baumgartner)

2013. “Divergence and Convergence of Policy Priorities among Sub-National Units in

Federal Systems: The Cases of Canada and Spain", Perspectives on Europe,

42:2, pp. 14-21(with Montpetit, E., Palau, A.M., Muñoz)

2011. “Assessing the Responsiveness of Spanish Policymakers to the priorities of their

citizens”, West European Politics, 34:4, 706-730 (with A. Palau)

2011. Comparing law-Making Activities in a Quasi-federal System of Government. The

Case of Spain” in Comparative Political Studies, August 2011 44: 1089-1119

(with A. Palau)

2011. “Comparing Governmental Agendas. Executive Speeches in the Netherlands,

United Kingdom and Denmark”, Comparative Political Studies, August 2011

44: 1089-1119(with Mortensen, PB, C. Green Pedersen, G. Breeman, W.

Jennings, P. John, A. Timmermans)

2011. “Effects of the Core functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive

Agendas”, Comparative Political Studies, August 2011 44: 1089-1119(with

Jennings, W., S. Bevan, A. Timmermans, G. Breeman, S. Brouard, C. Green-

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Pedersen, P. John, PB Mortensen, A. Palau

2011. "Priorización de problemas en las agendas legislativas autonómicas: instituciones

y preferencias políticas", Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas, 6 (with A.

Palau, Anna M. L. Muñoz, Ll. Medir, F. Davesa, M. A. Julio)

2009. "The Dynamics of Policy Change: A Comparative Analysis of the Food Safety

and Pharmaceutical Policy in Spain" Journal of Public Policy, 29:1, 103-126

(with A. Palau).

2009. “Nuevo paradigma, nuevo contexto institucional: el caso de la política

farmacéutica”, Gestión y Análisis de políticas públicas, 1:1

2009. “Les Dynamiques d’Agendas Multiniveaux dans la Politique Environnmentale de

l’Union Européenne”, Revue International de Politique Comparée, 16:3, pp.

485-502.(with S. Princen, S. Brouard, C. Green-Pedersen, W. Jennings, P. John,

L. Muñoz)

2009. "Comparer les Agendas Gouvernementaux: Les Discours du Trone aux Pays-Bas,

au Royaume-Uni, au Danemark et en Espagne”, Revue International de

Politique Comparée, 16:3, pp. 405-421 (with G. Breeman, C. Green-Pedersen,

W. Jennings, P.B. Mortensen, A. Palau, A. Timmermans)

2009. "The comparative Agendas Project: Principles, Contents and Challenges", Revue

International de Politique Comparée, 16:3, 365-379 (with J. Wilkerson, F.R.

Baumgartner, S. Brouard, L, C. Green-Pedersen, E. Grossman, B. Jones, A.

Timmermans, S. Walgrave)

2009. Comparer les Productions Législatives: Enjeux et Methodes, Revue International

de Politique Comparée, 16:3, 381-404(with S. Brouard, J. Wilkerson, F.R.

Baumgartner, A. Timmermans, S. Bevan, G. Breeman, C. Breunig, C. Green-

Pedersen, Will Jennings, P. John, B. D. Jones, D. Lowery)

2009. Comparer les agendes politiques: une nouvelle voie pur la politique comparée,

Revue International de Politique Comparée, 16:3, 361-364 (with S. Brouard,

C. Green-Pedersen, A. Timmermans)

2008. "Comparing Governmental Agendas: Evolution of the Prioritization of Issues in

the USA and Spain", IBEI Working Papers, (with Chaqués Bonafont, L., A. M.

Palau, L. Muñoz, J. D. Wilkerson)

2001. “Policy networks y política farmacéutica” Revista Española de Ciencia Política,

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2000. “Continuidad y Cambio en la organización de intereses en la industria

farmacéutica”, Gestión y análisis de políticas públicas, 17-18: 55-69.

1999. “Europeización de la política farmacéutica”, Gestión y análisis de políticas

públicas, 13-14: 45-161.

1998. "Globalization and Spanish pharmaceuticals policy", South European Society

and Politics, 3, 1: 44-64.

Books

2014. Policy dynamics in Spain, with A.M. Palau, and Frank R. Baumgartner. London:

Palgrave

2004. Redes de Políticas Públicas (2004) Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones

Sociológicas.

2002. Estructura y Política Farmacéutica (2002): Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones

Sociológicas.

Book Chapters

2013“Policy promises and governmental activities in Spain”, in Stefaan Walgrave and

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G. Green-Pedersen (eds.), From a Policy Theory to a Theory of

Politics,Chicago: Chicago University Press(with A. Palau and Luz Muñoz)

2012. “From Prohibition to permissiveness: two waves of change of morality issues in

Spain”, I. Engeli, Lars and C. Green Pedersen (Eds.),Morality issues in a

comparative perspective, London: Palgrave (with A. Palau)

2012. “Europeanization of legislative activity in Spain” in O. Costa, S. Brouard, and T.

Köning (eds.), The Europeanization of domestic legislatures. The empirical

implications of the Delors' Myth in nine countries, Jon Springer Studies in

Public Choice series (with A.Palau)

2011. “Problemas públicos, prioridades políticas y preferencias ciudadanas en España.

Un análisis desde la perspectiva de la Agenda”, in I.Delgado, (ed.) Alcanzando

el Equilibrio, El acceso y la presencia de las mujeres en los legislativos.

Valencia: Tirant lo Blanc. (with A. Palau)

2009. “Los nuevos actores globales de la política farmacéutica”, en L.Girona, J.Rovira,

N.Homedes (eds.) Medicamentos. Entre la Salud y el Mercado, Barcelona:

Icaria

2008 "Comparing Governmental Agendas: Evolution of the Prioritization of Issues in

the USA and Spain", IBEI Working Papers, Available at SSRN Brouard, S.,

Wilkerson, J., Baumgartner, F.R., Timmermans, A., Bevan, S., Breeman, G.,

Breunig, C., Chaqués-Bonafont, L., Green-Pedersen, C., Jennings, W., John, P.,

Jones, B.D., Lowery, D.

2008 "Fragmentación, judicialización, e internacionalización de la organización de

intereses en el sector farmacéutico", en Xavier Seuba (ed.) Salud Pública y

Patentes Farmacéuticas. Cuestiones de Economía, Política y Derecho,

Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor

COMPETITIVE GRANTS

Principal Investigator IP:

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CSO-2012-31214)Convocatoria 2012 del

subprograma de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental no

orientada.Title: Interest groups in Spain: Participation in the governmental and

parliamentary arenas. Period: 2013-2015. Total net amount 60.000 euros. IP:

Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (CSO-2009-09397),Convocatoria 2012 del

subprograma de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental no orientada.Title:

Agenda politica y medios de comunicación en España. Period: 2010-2012. Total

net amount: 105.800 Euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), SGR 536, (Grup de

Recerca Emergent, Emergent research group). Period: 2009 to 2014. Total net

amount: 32.200 Euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

European Science Foundation, European Collaborative Research Projects in the

Social Sciences (EUROCORES). Title: The Politics of attention: West European

Politics in Times of Change: the case of Spain. Period: 2008 to 2011.

IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (SEJ-2007-30760-E/SOCI). Title: The Politics of

attention: West European Politics in Times of Change: the case of Spain.

Qualification obtained by the project 95/100. Period: 09/2008 to 09/2009. Total

net amount: 87.200 Euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

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Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics (Generalitat de Catalunya).Title: Policy dynamics and

political decentralization in Spain 1978-2008. July-August 2009. Total amount:

3.400 Euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya(Generalitat de Catalunya) Project:

Delegation to Independent Agencies: a comparative analysis between the food

safety and pharmaceutical sector in Britain and Spain (with Anna Palau) Period:

2006. Total amount: 6.000 Euros

Participation in competitive research projects as a full member or director of the

Spanish case:

Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, Title of the project: Morality

politics in a comparative perspective, IP of the general project: Prof. C. Green-

Pedersen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Period: 2008 to 2011. Total amount:

145.000 Euros. IP in Spain: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia . Homogeneity and polarization. Public opinion

and political decisions in Spain (SEJ2006-13152/CPOL). Period 2007 to 2009.

IP: Jordi Capo.

World Bank. Title: Analysis of the identification, description and analysis of the major

institutional players in the international pharmaceutical market Period: June-

August 2002. IP: Joan Rovira and Laura Chaqués

Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management. Title:

“The Internationalization of Firms from Middle-Income”. Period: 1995, IP:

Mauro Guillen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) and Manuel

Campa (Stern, New York University). Research assistant

European Union. Title: Research on Employment Prospects in the Textil and Clothing

Sector II. Period: 1993, IP: Prof. Mª Teresa Costa. Research assistant

Visiting professors grants:

Visiting professors grant (AGAUR) 2010 (PIV-DGR) grant to invite Frank R.

Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political

Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Visiting profesor

in 2011 and 2012 (8 months)

Grant for the internationalization of research activities (Facultat de Dret-BKC).

Universitat de Barcelona (2010) (2.134,39€) to invite Prof. Amber E. Boydstun,

Instructor of Political Science at the University of California at Davis (April-

May 2011).

Visiting professors grant (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia) Grant to invite

professor: John D. Wilkerson, Associate Professor of the University of

Washington, Director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy,

University of Washington (September 2007-February 2008).

Participation as a country expert:

Member of the country expert panel of the European Research Council Starting Grant

ResponsiveGov led by Laura Morales, University of Leicester, 2011-2016

(http://www.responsivegov.eu/index.php/country-experts).

Member of the Project: Public Preferences and Policy Decision-Making. A Comparative

Analysis, led by Prof. A. Melcior. Financing institution: FCT - Foundation for

Science and Technology (2013-2015).

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CONFERENCE PAPERS

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Salamanca,

April, 2014. Paper: Hiding Interest Organizations. Comparing interest groups

regulation at the national and subnational level in Spain (with Luz Muñoz, Anna

Palau and Ruben Moliné)

MPSA, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (United States), April,

2014, Paper: Gender and Policy dynamics. Comparing Spain, the UK and the

US (with Mary Atkinson and Shaun Bevan)

XI Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), Sevilla,

18th - 20th September 2013. Chair of the Panel "GT 5.6 La dinámica de las

políticas públicas en un contexto de gobernanza multinivel". Discussants: Anna

Palau and Luz Muñoz

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference,

Bordeaux, 4th - 7th September 2013. Presentation of the following papers: 1)

Title: "Different Media Systems, Different Patterns of Interest Group Access?

Interest Groups in the Media in Denmark, the UK and Spain". Authors:

Binderkrantz, A., Chaqués-Bonafont, L., and Darren, H. 2) Title: "Government

and opposition in Spain under the pressure of economic collapse and debt

crisis". Authors: Muñoz, L., Palau, A.M., and Chaqués-Bonafont, L.

American Political Science Association (APSA), Chicago, August 29th - September

1st 2013. Presentation of the following paper: Title: "Public Policy Investment

in Spain and the United Kingdom: conditional opinion-responsiveness in

multilevel settings". Authors: Bertelly, T., Chaqués-Bonafont, L., John, P., and

Palau, A.M.

International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (CES),

Amsterdam, 25th - 27th June 2013. Presentation of the following papers: 1)

Title: "From Promises to Decisions: Analyzing Immigration Policy in Spain".

Authors: Chaqués-Bonafont, L., Morales, L., Palau, A.M., and Ros, V. 2) Title:

"All News is Bad News, Newspaper Coverage of Political Parties in Spain".

Author: Baumgartner, F.R., Chaqués-Bonafont, L. 3)Title: "The Interaction

between Media Coverage and Parliamentary Questions - A Cross-National

Comparison". Authors: Chaqués-Bonafont, L., Mortensen, P., Sciarini, P.,

Tresch, A., Vliegenthart, R.,Walgrave, S., and Baumgartner, F.R. 4)Chair of the

Panel 123 "Media Attention and Policy Dynamics": Laura Chaqués-Bonafont

European Conference on Politics and Gender, European Consortium for Political

Research (ECPR), Barcelona, 21st - 23rd March 2013. Presentation of the

paper: "Gender Differences in Policy Priorities: Analyzing Oral Questions in

Spain and the US". Authors: Chaqués-Bonafont L., Atkinson, M.L.

University of Oxford,Workshop “The Promise and Pitfalls o Federalism:

Constitutional Development for the 21st Century”, The Queen’s College,

University of Oxford, director: Prof. Lisa Miller (April 2012), Paper: Political

decentralization in Spain.

International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (CES),

Boston, USA (2012) Papers: (1) Interest groups in the Spanish parliament (with

L. Muñoz); (2) analyzing the capacity of the mass media to determine variations

in issue attention in the political agenda (with A. Palau).

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Antwerp,

April 10th - April 15th 2012. Paper proposal: "Leading or following? The

dynamics between the political elites and public opinion in the emergence of the

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immigration issue in Spain", (with Morales, L., Ros, V., Chaqués, L., Palau,

A.M)

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on the

European Union, Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Tampere, 13th-

15th Semptember 2012. Paper proposal: "The Europeanization of the Spanish

legislative agenda and its impact on executive-legislative relations (1986-2007)"

(with A. Palau), Organized by the University of Tampere, Finland.

IPSA, International Political Science Association. Madrid, Spain (2012).

Workshop: Trust and Disaffection: Party Systems, State Institutions, and

Multilevel Governance. Paper: Is political responsiveness declining in Spain?

(with A. Palau) Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting, Reims 2012: (1) Comparing

Executive Policy Agendas: Investiture Speeches in Spain and in Italy, with

Enrico Borghetto, Laura Chaques Bonafont, Marco Michieli, Ana M Palau

Francesco Visconti; (2) Leading or following? The dynamics between the

political elites and public opinion in the emergence of the immigration issue in

Spain", (with Morales, L., Ros, V., Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M)

International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (CES),

Barcelona (2011). Panel Chair. Title of the panel: Issue salience, institutional

factors and agenda setting (with E. Grossman), discussant: Bryan Jones.

Presentation of the paper: Comparing the front pages of El Pais and EL

Mundo in the 2000, and Electoral promises and political responses in a

multilevel system of governance: the case of Spain (with Anna M. Palau Roqué,

and Luz M. Muñoz Márquez).

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)6th

General conference,

University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 24-27th

, august 2011. Presentation of the

following papers: “Is there a Spanish Media Agenda? Analyzing the Front Pages

of El Pais and El Mundo for the last decade”, with A. Palau, panel: mass media

Coverage and Agenda setting, Chair Stefaan Waalgrave. “Mapping interest

groups participation in the Spanish Parliament”, panel: Interest Organizations

Populations in Europe, with Luz Muñoz, Chair: David Lowery. “Policy

divergence and Asymmetric regionalism: comparing agendas in Catalonia and

Scotland” (with Peter John and A.M. Palau), panel: Policy Attention and

Comparative Political Systems, Chair: Sylvain Brouard.

X Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), La

política en la red, Murcia, 7 a 9 de septiembre, 2011. Presentación del paper:

La agenda de los medios de comunicación en España. Un análisis de las

portadas de El País y El Mundo (2000-2010), Laura Chaqués-Bonafont A. Palau

and Luz Muñoz. Grupo de Trabajo: La mediatización de la política, Directores:

Joan Botella y Andreu Casero.

Media and Agenda-setting workshop, Sciences Po, Paris, May 30, 2011, Paper: The

dynamics of the media agenda in Spain: Comparing the front pages of El

Pais and EL Mundo (2000-2009).

Comparative Policy Agendas fifth Annual Meeting, June 23th - 25th of 2011,

Catania, Sicilia. Participation in this general meeting of the comparative Policy

Agendas organized by the University of Catania. Presentation of the paper: The

decline of mandate responsiveness in Spain. Authors: Laura Chaqués, Anna

Palau and Luz Muñoz.

MPSA, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (United States), 22-25th

April, 2010. Workshop: Policy Agendas in Europe and North America. Title:

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Explaining issue competition in Spain: a comparison of law production at the

nacional and sub-national level from 1980 to 2008 (with A.Palau), Chair: Frank

Baumgartner (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); discussant: Brian

Jones (University of Austin Texas)

IPSA, Luxemburg 18-20 March, 2010. Title: The Europeanization of Lawmaking

Activity In Spain (1986-2007) Authors: Anna Palau and Laura Chaqués, Panel

name: European, National and Regional Parliaments and EU Law-making, co-

Chairs: Patrick Dumont, Philippe Poirier and Wilfried Swenden

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Munster

(Germany), 22-27 March, 2010. Title: Regulating Morality Issues in Spain.

Author: Laura Chaqués, Workshop: The Dynamics of Morality Politics and

Policy across Space and Time” directors F. Varone (Université de Genève) and

I. Engeli (European University Institute)

Comparative Policy Agendas fourth Annual Meeting, June 18th - 20th of 2010,

Seattle, United States. Participation in this fourth general meeting of the

comparative Policy Agendas organized by the University of Washington.

Presentation of the paper: explaining the executive agenda in Spain. Authors:

Laura Chaqués, Anna Palau and Luz Muñoz.

IX Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), Málaga

(Spain) 23rd - 25th September 2009.Title: "Representación Política e

Instituciones en España", authors: Laura Chaqués, Anna Palau. Workshop:

Continuidad y cambio en los parlamentos en el siglo XXI: transformaciones y

dinámica institucional desde la perspectiva multinivel, panel chair: I. Delgado

and M. González.

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) fifth General Conference,

Postdam (Germany) 10th - 12th September 2009.Title: “Issue Competition

and Parliamentary Democracy in Spain". Authors: Laura Chaqués, Anna Palau.

Section Title: Comparing Origins and Effects of Political Institutions, Panel

Title: Comparing Hypes, Friction, and Responsive Government, Panel Chair: G.

Breeman and A. Timmermans.

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Lisbon

(Portugal), 15th - 19th April 2009Presentation of the paper: "Political

representation and institutions in Spain", authors: Anna Palau and Laura

Chaqués, at the workshop: Institutional Design of Parliamentary Rules and Party

Politics, Panel chair: Zdenka Mansfeldova and Wolfgang Müller.

Comparative Policy Agendas Third Annual Meeting, June 18th - 20th of 2009, The

Hague (The Netherlands). Participation in this general meeting of Policy

Agendas Project organized by The Netherlands team. Presentation of the paper:

"Institutional friction and political representation in Spain". Authors: Laura

Chaqués, Anna Palau.

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Rennes

(France), 11th - 16th April 2008Presentation of the paper "The Comparative

legislative agenda, studying Parliaments by their outputs", authors: Silvayn

Brouard, Frank Baumgartner, Laura Chaqués, Arco Timmermans Christopher

Green-Pedersen, Stefaan Walgrave and John Wilkerson, at the workshop:

Comparing Legislatures Worldwide: Roles, Functions and Performance in Old

and New Democracies. Panel Chair: Natalia Ajenjo and Mariana Llanos.

Comparative Policy Agendas Second Annual Meeting, June 19th – 22nd of 2008,

Barcelona (Spain). Organization of this second general meeting of the

Comparative Policy Agenda Project in Barcelona, which had several goals:

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discussion of methodological aspects related to the development of datasets,

presentation of papers and definition of future goals and strategies of the

Comparative Policy Agendas project.

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference,Pisa

(Italy), 6-8 September 2007, Workshop: Attention Cycles in Regulatory Policy,

Dr. Arco Timmermans, University of Twente. Paper: How the Spanish

executive chooses and prioritizes policy issues (with Anna M. Palau and Luz

Muñoz)

Comparing Policy Agendas in Europe and North America. ECPR ad hoc research

meeting, 9-10 February 2007, CEVIPOF Science-Po, Paris. Convenors:

Sylvain Brouard, Science-Po, Paris (hosting institution); Laura Chaqués

Bonafont, University of Barcelona; Arco Timmermans, University of Twente. In

this research meeting three topics were addressed: the content of comparative

project and the theoretical issues; the empirical design and the methodological

issues; the organization of the international cooperation.

ECPR, Frontiers of Regulation, Bath (Great Britain), 7-8 September 2006, Paper:

“Delegation to Independent Agencies: a comparative analysis between the food

safety and pharmaceutical sector in Britain and Spain” (with Anna Palau)

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions,Nicosia

(Chipre), April 2006, workshop: the Comparative Dynamics of Problem

Framing: How Science and Power Speak to each Other, Directors: Arco

Timmermans and Cristoffer Green-Pedersen, paper presented: “The dynamics of

policy change: a comparative analysis of the food safety and pharmaceutical

policy in Spain” (with Anna Palau).

VII Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración

(AECPA)Madrid, (Spain) 21-23 September 2005. Paper: Agencias

reguladoras independientes: la autorización y registro de medicamentos.

IPSA, XVIII world congress, Quebec (Canada) 1-5 de august 2000. Paper: “State-

business relations in the pharmaceutical sector”.

IV Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA),

Granada (Spain), 1-2nd October, 1999. Paper: “Política farmacéutica en

España”.

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Berna

(Switzerland), 27-4 de March de 1997. Paper: “The impact of globalization

upon the Spanish pharmaceutical industry”. Worshop: The State and the

Globalization Process.

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS

Policy-Making in Hard Times: Southern European Countries in a Comparative

Perspective, to be organized 20-21 November 2014, in Madrid by Institut

Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and Instituto Carlos III-Juan March

de Ciencias Sociales (IC3JM). Convenors: Jacint Jordana, Ignacio Sánchez

Cuenca, Sonia Alondo and Laura Chaqués Bonafont

Fifth Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory

Governance, to be organized by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionales

(IBEI), Spain, at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra from June 25 to 27, 2014. Local

organizer.

Barcelona workshop on Protest and Media agenda setting capacity(23th-24th,

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January, 2014), Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals (IBEI).Organization of

this meeting for the development of two research comparative papers.

Summer Course on Interest Group Politics, Barcelona, 1-8 July, 2013. The 4th

Annual Summer School on Interest Group Politics was hosted at the Institut

Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona (Spain). The course was

organized with the support of the ECPR Summer School grants. This is the first

of a second edition of three summers courses organized by Prof. Caelesta Braun,

Prof. Heike Kluiver and Prof. Laura Chaqués- Bonafont. Nest year summer

course is going to be held at the VU University of Amsterdam.

IPSA First Conference on Public Policy, (Grenoble, France) 26th-28th July 2013. Member of the Scientific commmitte.

Comparative Policy Agendas Second Annual Meeting, June 19th – 22nd of 2008,

Barcelona (Spain). Organization of this second general meeting of the

Comparative Policy Agenda Project in Barcelona, in collaboration with the rest

of the Spanish Policy Agendas project.

Comparing Policy Agendas in Europe and North America. ECPR ad hoc research

meeting, 9-10 February 2007, CEVIPOF Science-Po, Paris. Convenors:

Sylvain Brouard, Science-Po, Paris (hosting institution); Laura Chaqués

Bonafont, University of Barcelona; Arco Timmermans, University of Twente.

With the support of the ECPR grant ad hoc research meetings.

European Policy Agendas Group Meeting, 23rd January, 2010. Meeting chaired by S.

Princen and sponsored by the Montesquieu Institute (The Hague). Organization

of this meeting aimed to discuss methodological aspects about the analysis of

the EU political agenda.

Morality project Meetings. Participation in the following meetings for the elaboration

of an edited book: Geneve (Switzerland), February, 2011. Aarhus (Denmark)

December 4th – 5th of 2008. Organization of the morality meeting in Barcelona,

28th November 2009.

Delors’ Myth project Meetings. Participation in the following meetings for the

elaboration of an edited book. Manheim, 7th May, 2010. Barcelona, January

2009, Bordeaux (France) November 13th – 14th of 2008.Organization of the

Delors’ meeting in Barcelona, January 2009.

Media and Party Manifesto Coding Workshops: Genève (Switzerland), December

18th – 19th of 2008, and Antwerp (Belgium) October 3rd of 2008. Participation

in these workshops aimed to go further in the definition of the methodological

aspects about the development of media datasets, which is one of the goals of

the Comparative Agendas Research Group.

GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED

Anna Palau Roqué (University of Barcelona) (PhD finished 2009, excellent cum laude)

Luz Muñoz (University of Barcelona) (PhD finished 2013, excellent cum laude)

Ruben Moliné (Universitat de Barcelona)

Fernando Faria (University of Barcelona).

SergioOviedo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Joan Galceran (Universidad de Barcelona)

Leonor Flores (University of Barcelona)

Sandra Mestres (Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals, IBEI)

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RESEARCH ABROAD

Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington, Seattle

(United States). July-August 2009. Financed by the Institut d'Estudis

Autonòmics (Generalitat de Catalunya). Programa de beques per a la recerca

sobre les autonomies polítiques territorials, Title of the project:

Descentralització política i dinàmica de l'agenda a Espanya (visitor professor)

Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston (United

States) August 2005. Issue: Seminar on Sociological & Political Research,

Postdoctoral research fellow.

World Bank, Washington DC, (United States), July-August 2000. Project about the

analysis of the identification, description and analysis of the major institutional

players in the international pharmaceutical market (june-august 2002). Short

project financed by the World Bank. Directed by Prof. Joan Rovira and Laura

Chaqués.

Salzburg Seminar and Fulbright Commission, Salzburg, (Austria). June 2000. Issue:

participation in the research seminar The Entrepreneurial City. Postdoctoral

research fellow.

New School for Social Research, New York (United States), 1995-1996, MA in

Political Science. MA advisors: Prof. Charles Tilly y Prof. David Plotke, MA

student

International Cultural Center East and Central Europe Program, New School for

Social Research, Cracow (Poland), July 1995, Courses: Democracy and

Diversity Problems of Democratic Politics Today (D. Plotke) and Institution

Building in Post-Comunist Societies (C. Offe), Ph.D. Student. MA student

London School of Economics and Political Science, London (Great Britain), July 1993. Course: States and Firms in the World Economy, Ph.D. Student

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (United States) July-August 1991.

Courses on: Survey Research Techniques and Survey Data, BA student.

University of California, Berkeley, (United States) July-August 1990. Course:

Business and Public Policy, BA Student

AWARDS

Award of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; recognition of the quality of the

research activities carried out for the period 1998-2003.

Award of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; recognition of the quality of the

research activities carried out for the period 2004-2009

Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Agencia Catalana de Universitats;

recognition of the quality of the research activities carried out for the period

2004-2009.

Awards of the Generalitat de Catalunya, recognition of the quality of teaching

activities. Three consecutive periods (1995-1999) (2000-2005) (2006-2011).

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Undergraduate courses (University of Barcelona):public policy, public

administration,Spanish political system, sociology of the organizations, political

science, governance, collective action and interest groups, agenda setting.

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Post-graduate courses in the following programs:

Graduate Course on Europeanization (2014), University of Malta

Graduate Course on Euro-Mediterranean Issues (2013), Center of excellence for

European studies, Anna Lindh/La Caixa, Sabanci University)

MA on International relations, (2008-2011) Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals

(IBEI)

MA on Advanced Public Management (2008-2010) University of Barcelona

MA on Water Policy and Management (2009-2012) University of Barcelona

MA on Political Analysis (2010-2014) University of Barcelona

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

Member of the Scientific Committee at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals

(IBEI) from 2011.

Member of the Directive Board and Scientific Committee of the TRANSJUS, Faculty

of Law, University of Barcelona from 2012.

Vice-director of the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science (2008-

2009), University of Barcelona

Director of the MA of Political Science (postgrau en Ciència Política) (1999-2004);

University of Barcelona

Director of the Phd program on Political Science (2004-2009), University of Barcelona

Member of the Junta de la Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques (2005-2009); University

of Barcelona

Member of the commission for the elaboration of the academic program for

undergraduates in Sociology (2008-2009) University of Barcelona

Member of the commission for the elaboration of the academic program for Public

Management (2008-2009) University of Barcelona

Member of the Research Commission of the Faculty of Economics (2005-2009)

University of Barcelona

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIP

Editorial boards: Book Series edior, Palgrave Macmillan series on Comparative

Studies on Political Agendas, with Frank Baumgartner, Christoffer Green

Pedersen, Arco Timmermans, and Frederic Varone. – First books to appear in

2012 Journals: Interest Groups and Advocacy (from 2011). Editors: G. Jordan

and B. Loomis.Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas (from 2009). Editor: F.

Vanaclocha.

Journals and book reviewer:West European Politics,Public Health, Public

Administration, Revista Española de Ciencia Política, Gestión y Análisis de

Políticas Públicas,Revista de Estudios Políticos, Ibei working papers, Journal of

Political Studies, Journal of Public Policy, Revista Española de Investigaciones

Sociológicas, The International Journal of Press/Politics. Revista Internacional

de Sociologia, Palgrave, Oxford University Press.

Consultant and advisor of the following funding Agencies: Ministerio de Ciencia y

Tecnologia, Programa Nacional Proyectos I+D (National Council of Science and

Technology); Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP) (National

Agency of evaluation and prospective); Agencia Catalana d’Universitats

(Catalan Agency of Science and Technology), Fundació LaCaixa.

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Membership: Standing group on Interest groups (ECPR), Comparative Agendas

Project, Asociación Española de Ciencia Política, American Political Science

Association, Midwest Political Science Association, European Political Science

Association

RESEARCH INTEREST AND FIELDS OF TEACHING

Public policy processes, Spanish political system, agenda-setting, interest groups,

comparative public policy, multilevel governance, media agenda, morality

politics pharmaceutical policy, policy networks, advocacy coalitions and issue

framing.

April, 2014