Ignacio Lago
@ignaciolago.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science (https://ignacio-lago.owlstown.net/)
*Great news! 🎉
The Political Science department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra rises to *#42 worldwide* in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking. (www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gra...)
#UPF #ShanghaiRanking #PoliticalScience @politiquesupf.bsky.social @upf.edu
The Political Science department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra rises to *#42 worldwide* in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking. (www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gra...)
#UPF #ShanghaiRanking #PoliticalScience @politiquesupf.bsky.social @upf.edu
ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects
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November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
*Great news! 🎉
The Political Science department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra rises to *#42 worldwide* in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking. (www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gra...)
#UPF #ShanghaiRanking #PoliticalScience @politiquesupf.bsky.social @upf.edu
The Political Science department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra rises to *#42 worldwide* in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking. (www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gra...)
#UPF #ShanghaiRanking #PoliticalScience @politiquesupf.bsky.social @upf.edu
Postdoctoral Researcher Performative Politics in Catalonia #ECPRMemberJobs
🎓 PhD in Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Geography, Conflict Studies, Development Studies, or similar
🇧🇪 Ghent University
⌛ Friday 31 October
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#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
🎓 PhD in Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Geography, Conflict Studies, Development Studies, or similar
🇧🇪 Ghent University
⌛ Friday 31 October
buff.ly/oLuoNST
#PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky
Postdoctoral Researcher Performative Politics in Catalonia
Postdoctoral Researcher Performative Politics in Catalonia
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October 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A great line-up for a timely phenomenon!
From November 5th to 6th IDEAGOV (International Center for DEcentralization And GOVernance) will host the international conference on Asymetric Federalism - The Perils and Advantages of Asymmetric Decentralization Arrangements. @usc.gal
October 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A great line-up for a timely phenomenon!
Enhorabuena 👏
Congrats @jmfernandes86.bsky.social!
🏅 Nos alegra anunciar que nuestro compañero Jorge Fernandes (@jmfernandes86.bsky.social) ha recibido el Premio Julián Marías de Investigación 2025 (modalidad investigadores menores de 40 años) de la Comunidad de Madrid.
Un merecido reconocimiento a su trayectoria.
🔗 ipp.csic.es/es/article/j...
Un merecido reconocimiento a su trayectoria.
🔗 ipp.csic.es/es/article/j...
October 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Enhorabuena 👏
Força Cabo Verde!
Cape Verde Islands, population 525k, qualify for their first World Cup on Monday if they beat Eswatini.
Tickets in the 8k-seater Estádio da Várzea are gold dust. There is no online sale but 5 different sale points for tickets: the stadium, 3 petrol stations, and a bakery.
Tickets in the 8k-seater Estádio da Várzea are gold dust. There is no online sale but 5 different sale points for tickets: the stadium, 3 petrol stations, and a bakery.
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Força Cabo Verde!
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It's official! Check out the new International Center for Decentralization and Governance, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of decentralization, governance, and federalism. Wish I could attend the conference on Asymmetric Decentralization in Santiago de Compostela in early November...
We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu
Home | IDEAGOV
ideagov.eu
September 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It's official! Check out the new International Center for Decentralization and Governance, an interdisciplinary initiative for the study of decentralization, governance, and federalism. Wish I could attend the conference on Asymmetric Decentralization in Santiago de Compostela in early November...
Love being a part of this:
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu
Home | IDEAGOV
ideagov.eu
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu
Home | IDEAGOV
ideagov.eu
Home | IDEAGOV
ideagov.eu
September 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Love being a part of this:
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu
Home | IDEAGOV
ideagov.eu
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu
Home | IDEAGOV
ideagov.eu
We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu
Home | IDEAGOV
ideagov.eu
September 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reposted by Ignacio Lago
We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu
Home | IDEAGOV
ideagov.eu
September 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
We are thrilled to announce the launch of IDEAGOV - International Center for Decentralization and Governance. Further information at ideagov.eu
Reposted by Ignacio Lago
💻 Drawing on over 75 years of data, @rickvanwell.bsky.social of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social explains that when deciding how to behave in parliament, 📊 opposition parties make strategic trade-offs between winning votes, entering government and influencing policy.
👉 bit.ly/3Vtw6WX
👉 bit.ly/3Vtw6WX
Why opposition parties sometimes help governments pass laws
Opposition parties are expected to challenge the government, but they do not simply oppose for opposition's sake. Drawing on over 75 years of data, Rick van Well explains that when deciding how to beh...
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September 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
💻 Drawing on over 75 years of data, @rickvanwell.bsky.social of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social explains that when deciding how to behave in parliament, 📊 opposition parties make strategic trade-offs between winning votes, entering government and influencing policy.
👉 bit.ly/3Vtw6WX
👉 bit.ly/3Vtw6WX
Reposted by Ignacio Lago
3-year, full-time post-doc position with my @griffith.edu.au friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma.
Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia.
Please apply, share, etc.
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Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia.
Please apply, share, etc.
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1
Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why.
Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...
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September 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
3-year, full-time post-doc position with my @griffith.edu.au friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma.
Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia.
Please apply, share, etc.
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia.
Please apply, share, etc.
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Does anyone know where the 2026 ECPR General Conference will be held?
August 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Does anyone know where the 2026 ECPR General Conference will be held?
Reposted by Ignacio Lago
Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF
August 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF
Me ha gustado mucho este artículo:
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
Por la gloria de Moscoso
El ministro ofreció a los funcionarios tiempo por dinero un año que el IPC subió un 12%. No solo no hubo huelgas, sino que casi lo sacan en andas
elpais.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Me ha gustado mucho este artículo:
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
Reposted by Ignacio Lago
🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨
Updated until 2023
Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data
@leuphana.bsky.social
@uniluzern.bsky.social
@ipz.bsky.social
Updated until 2023
Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data
@leuphana.bsky.social
@uniluzern.bsky.social
@ipz.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨
Updated until 2023
Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data
@leuphana.bsky.social
@uniluzern.bsky.social
@ipz.bsky.social
Updated until 2023
Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data
@leuphana.bsky.social
@uniluzern.bsky.social
@ipz.bsky.social
Reposted by Ignacio Lago
Comença el Tour de França, una de les competicions més esperades!
@ignaciolago.bsky.social explica per què uns països brillen en esports individuals i altres en equips: desenvolupament econòmic, població i cultures col·lectivistes són clau per a l’èxit en equip.
➡️ https://ja.cat/gy4YD
#RecercaUPF
@ignaciolago.bsky.social explica per què uns països brillen en esports individuals i altres en equips: desenvolupament econòmic, població i cultures col·lectivistes són clau per a l’èxit en equip.
➡️ https://ja.cat/gy4YD
#RecercaUPF
July 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Comença el Tour de França, una de les competicions més esperades!
@ignaciolago.bsky.social explica per què uns països brillen en esports individuals i altres en equips: desenvolupament econòmic, població i cultures col·lectivistes són clau per a l’èxit en equip.
➡️ https://ja.cat/gy4YD
#RecercaUPF
@ignaciolago.bsky.social explica per què uns països brillen en esports individuals i altres en equips: desenvolupament econòmic, població i cultures col·lectivistes són clau per a l’èxit en equip.
➡️ https://ja.cat/gy4YD
#RecercaUPF
Got two peer review invitations from the same journal within 18 minutes — for two different papers. Either I’m in demand, or someone hit 'send' a bit too fast. 😅
July 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Got two peer review invitations from the same journal within 18 minutes — for two different papers. Either I’m in demand, or someone hit 'send' a bit too fast. 😅
Reposted by Ignacio Lago
🚨 Call for papers
📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop
📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at
@IBEI
📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4.
Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
👇
📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop
📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at
@IBEI
📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4.
Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
👇
VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya
IBEI, 6th of November 2025
Submission form
docs.google.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🚨 Call for papers
📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop
📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at
@IBEI
📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4.
Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
👇
📢 VIII Jornada de Comportament i Opinió Pública de Catalunya / 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop
📅 6 de novembre de 2025 / November 6, 2025 at
@IBEI
📩 Deadline: 4 de juliol / July 4.
Submission: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
👇
El gran Carles Castro ha escrito este artículo en La Vanguardia sobre la felicidad y la descentralizacion del poder a partir de mi paper con @nuriabosch.bsky.social, @crisdegispert.bsky.social y Maite Vilalta:
¿Las autonomías nos hacen más felices? www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
¿Las autonomías nos hacen más felices? www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
¿Las autonomías nos hacen más felices?
La búsqueda de la felicidad es un derecho inalienable. Figura incluso en la declaración de independencia de los Estados Unidos. Por ello, este país organizó “sus
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June 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
El gran Carles Castro ha escrito este artículo en La Vanguardia sobre la felicidad y la descentralizacion del poder a partir de mi paper con @nuriabosch.bsky.social, @crisdegispert.bsky.social y Maite Vilalta:
¿Las autonomías nos hacen más felices? www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
¿Las autonomías nos hacen más felices? www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
Happiness is officially decentralized now! 🎉🗺️
Check out my new article with @nuriabosch.bsky.social, Cristina de Gispert and Maite Vilalta in Publius @philiprocco.bsky.social , where we link decentralization to happiness across 131 countries:
🔗 academic.oup.com/publius/adva...
Check out my new article with @nuriabosch.bsky.social, Cristina de Gispert and Maite Vilalta in Publius @philiprocco.bsky.social , where we link decentralization to happiness across 131 countries:
🔗 academic.oup.com/publius/adva...
Decentralizing happiness
Abstract. This article investigates the impact of decentralization of political and economic power on happiness levels globally. We make two contributions
academic.oup.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Happiness is officially decentralized now! 🎉🗺️
Check out my new article with @nuriabosch.bsky.social, Cristina de Gispert and Maite Vilalta in Publius @philiprocco.bsky.social , where we link decentralization to happiness across 131 countries:
🔗 academic.oup.com/publius/adva...
Check out my new article with @nuriabosch.bsky.social, Cristina de Gispert and Maite Vilalta in Publius @philiprocco.bsky.social , where we link decentralization to happiness across 131 countries:
🔗 academic.oup.com/publius/adva...
1/ Why do some countries excel in team sports while others shine in individual events at the Olympics? This is the research question I explore in my new paper with Carlos Lago-Peñas, published in Social Science Quarterly:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #OlympicResearch
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #OlympicResearch
With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics
Objective
This paper investigates the determinants of Olympic success, examining why some countries excel in individual sports while others perform better in team sports. We propose three explanatio.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
1/ Why do some countries excel in team sports while others shine in individual events at the Olympics? This is the research question I explore in my new paper with Carlos Lago-Peñas, published in Social Science Quarterly:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #OlympicResearch
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #OlympicResearch