Laura Chaqués Bonafont

Senior Research Associate, IBEI
Professor, Universitat de Barcelona
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Biography
Laura Chaqués Bonafont is Professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona, and research fellow at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). She is leading the research group “Quality of Democracy” (www.Q-dem.com) aimed to analyze the interrelation between the governmental, parliamentarian and media agendas across time, issues, countries and levels of government in Spain in a comparative perspective. 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 multilevel systems of governance. It also provides new tools for the development of quantitative measurement of policy dynamics. Her last book is Agenda Dynamics in Spain (Palgrave 2015 with Frank Baumgartner and A. Palau). Her work also appears in academic journals like Comparative Political Studies, The British Journal of Political Science, West European Politics, Political Communication, or the Journal of Public Policy among others. At present her main research interests are the analysis of agenda dynamics in a comparative perspective paying especial attention to the role of the media, and interest groups, and the analysis of the quality of democracy in multilevel systems of governance. To do that, she collaborates actively with the comparative agendas project (www.comparativeagendas.net), aimed to provide new tools for the quantitative analysis of agenda dynamics across time, countries, policy issues and levels of governance. In 2014 she won the ICREA academia prize.
Background and education
- (1992) BA in Economics, University of Barcelona
- (1997) Master in Political Science, New School for Social Research, New York
- (1999) Phd Political Economy, University of Barcelona
Research
Research interests
- policy dynamics
- Agenda Setting
- political representation in a multilevel system of governance
- interest groups
IBEI Research Clusters
Research projects
- Agenda Dynamics on Social Media (ADSOM) (Coordinator | Contact person)
Selected publications
- 2021.The gender divide in issue attention.European Journal of Political Research,Doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12437Link
- 2020.The contingent character of interest groups–political parties’ interaction.Journal of Public Policy,1-22Link
- 2019.Parliamentary Questions.Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data.Oxford:Oxford University Press.Link
- 2019.Agenda dynamics in Spain.In: F. R. Baumgartner; C. Breunig; E. Grossman (Eds.).Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data.Oxford:Oxford University Press.Link
- 2019.The Agenda-Setting Capacity of Global Networks.In:
D. Stone and K. Moloney (Eds.)
.The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration.Oxford:Oxford University Press,pp: 575-94.Link - 2017.Diversity in the News? A Study of Interest Groups in the Media in the UK, Spain and Denmark.British Journal of Political Science,47(2):313-328Link
- 2016.Explaining interest group access to parliamentary committees.West European Politics,39:6:1276-1298,Link
- 2015.Government-opposition dynamics in Spain under the pressure of economic collapse and the debt crisis.Journal of Legislative Studies,21 (1):75-95Link
- 2015.All news is bad news: newspaper coverage of political parties in Spain.Political Communication,32 (2):268-291Link