Aina Gallego Dobón
Senior Research Associate, IBEI
Associate Professor, Universitat de Barcelona
Research Associate, Institute of Political Economy and Governance
ICREA Academia researcher
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Biography
Aina Gallego is Senior Research Associate at IBEI, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universitat de Barcelona, a Research Associate at the Institute of Political Economy and Governance and ICREA Academia researcher.
Previously, she was Ramon y Cajal Fellow and Associate Professor at IBEI and a post-doctoral researcher at the Spanish High Research Council and at Stanford University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and have been the recipient of a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant.
Gallego has an ongoing interest in the political representation of the poor. Her book "Unequal Participation Worldwide" analyzed inequalities in voter turnout in a comparative perspective and argued that such gaps can be reduced through institutional reforms. In a current project with Marta Curto, they examine if the interests of the poor are better represented by politicians of a similar socio-economic background. In another project with Paul Marx, they ask what are the likely political consequences of one of the main drivers of increasing income inequality, namely skill-biased technological change.
Aina has also conducted extensive research on other topics such as the political consequences of corruption, the effects of personality on political behavior, or the origins of dual ethnic identities in contexts with ethnopolitical conflict such as Catalonia.
Aina gallego contributes to the Political Science blog http://www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepapel/
Background and education
- (2008) PhD in Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona
- (2003) BA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Awards
2015. Best article prize for “Turning a Blind Eye: Experimental Evidence of Partisan Bias in Attitudes Toward Corruption” awarded by the Spanish Political Science Association.
2013. Best article prize for “Personality and Political Participation” awarded by the Spanish Political Science Association.
2009. Juan Linz Prize to the best dissertation in Political Science awarded by the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales.
Professional memberships & affiliations
- Spanish Political Science Association
- European Political Science Association
- American Political Science Association
- Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)
Research
Research interests
- Comparative politics
- Research methods
- Political economy
IBEI Research Clusters
Selected publications
- 2023.How Politicians Learn from Citizens’ Feedback: The Case of Gender on Twitter.American Journal of Political Science,68:557-574Link
- 2022.Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior.Annual Review of Political Science,25:463-484Link
- 2022.Neither Left-Behind nor Superstar: Ordinary Winners of Digitalization at the Ballot Box.The Journal of Politics,84 (1)Link
- 2021.Politician-Citizen Interactions and Dynamic Representation: Evidence from Twitter.BSE Working Paper,1238 | February 2021Link
- 2021.Male and female politicians on Twitter: A machine learning approach.European Journal of Political Research,Link
- 2020.Eliciting preferences for truth-telling in a survey of politicians.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,Link
- 2019.Distributional consequences of technological change: Worker-level evidence.Research and Politics,6 (1):1-19Link
- 2019.La formación de gobiernos municipales: una nueva base de datos.Revista Española de Ciencia Política,49:109-128Link
- 2018.Identities in between: Political Conflict and Ethnonational Identities in Multicultural States.Journal of Conflict Resolution,62 (6):1314-1339Link
- 2016.Inequality and the erosion of trust among the poor: experimental evidence.Socio-Economic Review,Link
- 2016.Multi-dimensional preferences for labour market reforms: a conjoint experiment.Journal of European Public Policy,Link
- 2016.Places and Preferences: A Longitudinal Analysis of Self-Selection and Contextual Effects.British Journal of Political Science,46(3):529-550Link
Invited presentations
- U. de Montréal (2008, 2012)
- Central European University (2009)
- Universidad de Salamanca (2009)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2009, 2014, 2015)
- European Commission (2010)
- Stanford University (2011)
- U. Autónoma de Querétaro (2012)
- C. Superior Investigaciones Científicas (2013)
- Juan March Institute (2013)
- Zurich University (2013)
- Heidelberg University (2014)
- University of British Columbia (2014)
- Universidade de Lisboa ICS (2015)
- IBEI (2015, 2017)
- Sciences Po Paris (2016)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2016)
- Vienna University (2016)
- University of Bergen (2016)
- Dublin University (2016)
- Oxford University (2016)
- Gotheborg University (2017)