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Research Fellows

Rebeca G. Antuña

Contact:

University of Potsdam
Chair of Comparative Politics
August-Bebel-Str. 89
14482 Potsdam
House 1, Room 1.43

E-mail: Rebeca.Gonzalezeuieu


CV:

Education

  • 09/2020 – 06/2021 European University Institute
    MSc of Research in Social Sciences
  • 09/2018 – 06/2020 Juan March Institute
    Master in Social Sciences
    Thesis: “Urban-rural divide and the rise of extreme right parties in Europe”
  • 09/2012 – 06/2018 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Uc3m)
    Double BA Law and Political Sciences
    Thesis: “Political Representation and Parity: gender quotas and Congreso de los Diputados”
  • 09/2015 – 01/2016 Sciences Po
    Visiting Program Erasmus+

Reserch experience and internships

  • Since 10/2024 Research Fellow at the Chair of Comparative Politics
    University of Potsdam
  • 09/2020 – 2024 Ph.D. Researcher
    European University Institute
    Thesis: “Understanding rural voters. The Left-behinds and the Rise of far-right in rural areas”
  • 04/2022 – 2024 Researcher POLGE
    Juan March Institute
    Survey experiment and survey construction about rural voters.
  • 04/2022 – 2024 Research Advisor
    Our Common Home
    Global survey and database construction about citizens’ values and grievances.
  • 09/2020 – 06/2022 Visiting Researcher at Transformations of Democracy
    WZB Institute
  • 04/2022 – 12/2022 Researcher European Parliament database project
    Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
    Database construction on European Parliament elections.
  • 11/2019 – 11/2021 Research Assistant Comparative Campaigns Dynamics Project
    German Science Foundation
    Identify and codify newspapers’ articles on different Spanish electoral campaigns.
  • 06/2019 – 04/2020 Research Assistant
    European Citizen Action Service
    Database construction on education in the European Union and assistance with reports.
  • 06/2019 – 08/2019 Research Assistant
    Juan March Institute
    Construction of a democratization database using V-Dem data, help with research and data
    analysis.
  • 03/2018 – 09/2018 Internship under FARO Program
    Consulate of Spain in New York
    Working directly with the Department of Education, promoting of Spanish universities inbthe USA, and helping with research and analysis of different data related to the implementation of educational programs.
  • 02/2017 – 06/2017 Internship - Practicum scholarship
    Government Delegation- Office on Violence Against Women
    Development of awareness campaigns, improvement of victim control database, and providing training courses on the subject.
     

Publications:

Working Papers

  • “From Fields to Fringe: An experimental approach to the Economic and Cultural determinants of Rural Resentment” (2023)
  • “Pied-Noirs and the rise of far-right in Nice” (2022)
  • “Vox and Frente Nacional: Examining historical patterns of support for the far-right in Spain” (2021)
  • “The Effect of market dualization and the economic crisis in the emergence of new left-wing parties in Spain” (2021)
  • Master Thesis: “Urban-rural divide and the rise of extreme right parties in Europe” (2020)
  • “The effect of party strategies in post-industrial societies on the appearance and success of populist parties among outsiders of the system” (2019)
  • “Regional democratic diffusion and the limits of modernization theory” (2019)
  • “BA Thesis: Political representation and parity: gender quotas and Congreso de los Diputados” (2018)
  • “Gender quotas, A mechanism of vote buying?” (2018)
  • “Women´s Political Representation. Towards the end of corrupt systems in Europe?”(2017)
  • “Invaders of the space: Gender quotas and political quality” (2016)