Francesc Amat Maltas

Francesc Amat Maltas

Researcher Ramon i Cajal program

Ramon y Cajal Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group (IPERG). Member of the Department of Economic History, Institutions, Politics and World Economy ... + info

Research group: Institutions and political Economy Research Group

Contact Information
Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy and World Economy


francesc.amat(a)ub.edu

More Information: Personal webpage (https://sites.google.com/site/cescamat/home)

Academic training

PhD in Political Science . University of Oxford (Nuffield College) . (Ph.D.)
MA in Social Sciences . Center for the Advanced Study of Social Sciences . 2008 . (Official Master)
M.Sc. in Public Financial Policy . London School of Economics . 2005 . (Official Master)
B.Sc. in Economics . Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 2002 . (Official Master)

Teaching imparted (last 5 years)

Comparative Politics III: Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics (University Master's Degree) - Master in Institutions and Political Economy - Universitat de Barcelona.
Advanced Topics in Political Economy (University Master's Degree) - Master in Social Sciences - Universidad Carlos III.

Research interests

Political Economy
Comparative Politics

Participation in Projects (last 6 years)

Immigration and the Welfare State in Europe: the Fiscal Frontier of Redistribution . 2022 - 2022 . Fundació Catalunya Europa . PI: Francesc Amat
COVIDEMO: THE EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK ON DEMOCRACY . 2021 - 2023 . Ref.SR20-00763 . Fundació Caixa de Pensions 'La Caixa' . PI: Francesc Amat Maltas
Public Policies for Resilient Societies in Times of Pandemics . 2021 - 2022 . Ref.2020PANDE00076 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Judit Vall Castello
HISTPOLITICS: Análisis de Datos Socio-Políticos y Electorales de la Segunda República Española . 2019 - 2020 . Ref.RTI2018-101064-A-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Francesc Amat Maltas
Identity Politics and Redistribution . 2018 - 2021 . Caixa Bank Social Foundation . PI: Francesc Amat

Relevant publications (Journal Publications and Other publications - last 6 years)

Amat, F.; Lindstam, E. (2022). Democracy in Hard Times: Economic Decline, Social Capital, and Resilience Against Far-Right Nationalism. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 3(1), pp. 23 - 59 . https://doi.org/10.1561/113.00000051 . ISSN: 2689-4823
Amat, F.; Rodon, T. (2021). Institutional Commitment Problems and Regional Autonomy: The Catalan Case. Politics and Governance, 9(4), pp. 439 - 452 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2183-2463
Amat, F; Boix, C.; Muñoz, J.; Rodon, A. (2020). From Political Mobilization to Electoral Participation: Turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s. Journal of Politics, 82(4) . https://doi.org/10.1086/708684 . ISSN: 0022-3816
Amat, F.; Jurado, I.; León, S. (2020). One or two arenas? The break-up between national and regional elections. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, 30(3), pp. 275 - 296 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2020.1727484 . ISSN: 1745-7289
Amat, F.; Beramendi, P. (2020). Democracy under High Inequality: Capacity, Spending, and Participation. Journal of Politics, 82(3), pp. 859 - 878 . https://doi.org/10.1086/707397 . ISSN: 0022-3816

Conferences and Participations in Congresses (last 6 years)

Amat, F. (2021). Labor Unrest, Political Activation and Female Electoral Participation in the 1930s. (Speech) . Council for European Studies 2021 Annual Meeting . UNITED STATES
Amat, F. (2021). Inequality, Immigration and Political Parties' Strategies. (Invited conference) . University of Toronto, Political Science Department Seminar . Toronto . CANADA
Amat, F. (2020). Pandemics meet democracy. Experimental evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Spain. (Invited conference) . OECD Public Governance Directorate Webinar Series. The Trust Divide: How COVID-19 Exposes the Impact of Inequality on Citizen Confidence in Government . FRANCE
Amat, F. (2019). Inequality, Immigration and Party Strategies. (Invited conference) . Toulouse 6th IAST/TSE Conference in Political Science and Political Economy: Information, Institutions, and Accountability . Toulouse . FRANCE
Amat, F. (2018). Inequality, Immigration and Party Strategies. (Invited conference) . NICEP Political Economy Conference . Nottinham . UNITED KINGDOM

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports (last 6 years)

Ríos, M . (2020) . ¿Un problema de confianza? Análisis del impacto de la sentencia del TC sobre el Estatuto de Autonomía de Cataluña en las preferencias territoriales del electorado catalán (Master's Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/2445/172859