Publications

I. Journals

Palau, A.M., Chaqués, L, Muñoz, L, Medir, LL., Davesa, F. y Julio, M. (2011) "Priorización de problemas en las agendas legislativas autonómicas: instituciones y preferencias políticas", Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas, 6, julio-diciembre 2011, pp.105-30.

Chaqués, L. and Palau, A. M. (2011) "Comparing law-making activities in a quasi-federal system of government. The case of Spain", Comparative Political Studies, 44:8, pp. 1089-1119.

Chaqués, L. and Palau, A. M. (2011) "Assessing the Responsiveness of Spanish Policymakers to the Priorities of their Citizens", West European Politics, 34:4, pp. 706-730.

Muñoz, L. (2011). "La Agencia y la regulación de la cooperación al desarrollo de la Generalitat de Cataluña", Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas, 10:1, pp. 113-126.

Mortensen, P.B., C.Green-Pedersen, G. Breeman, L. Chaques, W. Jennings, P. John, A. M. Palau, and A. Timmermans (2011) "Comparing Government Agendas: Executive Speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Denmark". Comparative Political Studies, 44:8. pp.1001-1030.

Jennings, W., S. Bevan, A. Timmermans, G. Breeman, S. Brouard, L. Chaques, Ch. Green-Pedersen, P. John, P. B. Mortensen, and A. M. Palau (2011): "Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas", Comparative Political Studies,  44:8. Pp. 973-1000.

L. Chaqués, A. M. Palau (2009). "The Dynamics of Policy Change: A Comparative Analysis of the Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Policy in Spain", Journal of Public Policy, 29:1, pp. 103-126.

L. Chaqués (2009). "Nuevo paradigma, nuevo contexto institucional: el caso de la política farmacéutica", Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas, 1:1.

Palau, A. M. (2009) "Continuidad y cambio en la política de seguridad alimentaria española (1981-2001)", Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 21, pp. 36-69.

S. Princen, S. Brouard, L. Chaques, C. Green-Pedersen, W. Jennings, P. John, L. Muñoz (2009). "Les Dynamiques d'Agendas Multiniveaux dans la Politique Environnmentale de l'Union Européenne", Revue International de Politique Comparée, 16:3, pp. 485-502.

G. Breeman, L. Chaques, C. Green-Pedersen, W. Jennings, P.B. Mortensen, A. Palau, A. Timmermans (2009). "Comparer les Agendas Gouvernementaux: Les Discours du Trone aux Pays-Bas, au Royaume-Uni, au Danemark et en Espagne", Revue International de Politique Comparée, 16:3, pp. 405-421.

J. Wilkerson, F.R. Baumgartner, S. Brouard, L. Chaqués, C. Green-Pedersen, E. Grossman, B. Jones, A. Timmermans, S. Walgrave (2009). "The comparative Agendas Project : Principles, Contents and Challenges", Revue International de Politique Comparée, 16:3, pp. 365-379.

S. Brouard, J. Wilkerson, F.R. Baumgartner, A. Timmermans, S. Bevan, G. Breeman, C. Breunig, L. Chaqués, C. Green-Pedersen, Will Jennings, P. John, B. D. Jones, D. Lowery (2009). "Comparer les Productions Législatives: Enjeux et Methodes", Revue International de Politique Comparée, 16:3, pp. 381-404.

S. Brouard, L. Chaqués, C. Green-Pedersen, A. Timmermans (2009). "Comparer les agendes politiques: une nouvelle voie pur la politique comparée", Revue International de Politique Comparée, 16:3, pp. 361-364.

L. Chaqués, A. M. Palau, L. Muñoz, J. D. Wilkerson (2008). "Comparing Governmental Agendas: Evolution of the Prioritization of Issues in the USA and Spain", IBEI Working Papers, Available at SSRN

II. Books

Policy dynamics in Spain. This book is aimed to explain how and why new issues and policy proposals get into the political agenda from transition to democracy to present. It also analyses the impact of a major institutional transformation, the consolidation of a multilevel system of government, on the capacity (or willingness) of policy makers to respond to policy promises and citizen’s priorities. In that way the book is aimed to contribute to the analysis of policy dynamics and the quality of democracy in Spain.

III. Book Chapters

Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M., Muñoz, L. (2012) “Why mandate responsiveness is declining in Spain?” in  Walgrave, S. and Green-Pedersen, Ch. Agenda setting in a comparative perspective. Chicago University Press (under review)

Chaqués, L. and Palau, A.M. (2012) “From Prohibition to Permissiveness: a Two Wave Change on Morality Issues in Spain”, in Isabella Engeli, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Lars Thorup Larsen, Morality Politics in Western Europe. Parties, agendas and policy choices, Palgrave.

Palau, A.M. and Chaqués, L. (2012): “The Europeanization of  law-making activity in Spain” in S. Brouard, O. Costa, and T. Köning (eds.) (2011) The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures: The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries, Jon Springer, Studies in Public Choice Series, New York, pp. 173-196.

Palau, A.M. and Chaqués, L. (2011): “Problemas públicos, prioridades políticas y preferencias ciudadanas en España. Un análisis desde la perspectiva de la agenda”, en Delgado, I., Alcanzado el equilibrio. El acceso y la presencia de las mujeres en los legislativos. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, pp. 305-338. ISBN 978-84-9004-205-2.

Chaqués, L. (2009). "Los nuevos actores globales de la política farmacéutica", in L.Girona, J.Rovira, N.Homedes (eds.) Medicamentos. Entre la Salud y el Mercado, Barcelona: Icaria.

Chaqués, L. (2008). "Fragmentación, judicialización, e internacionalización de la organización de intereses en el sector farmacéutico", in Xavier Seuba (ed.) Salud Pública y Patentes Farmacéuticas. Cuestiones de Economía, Política y Derecho, Barcelona: J.M. Bosch Editor

Conference Papers

6th European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on the European Union, Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Tampere, 13th-15th Semptember 2012. Paper proposal: "The Europeanization of the Spanish legislative agenda and its impact on executive-legislative relations (1986-2007)". Authors: Palau, A.M., Chaqués, L. Organized by the University of Tampere, Finland.

International Political Science Association IPSA, Madrid, 8th-12th July 2012. Paper proposal: "Is political responsiveness declining in Spain?" (Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M.) at the Workshop: Trust and Disaffection: Party Systems, State Institutions, and Multilevel Governance. Paper proposal: “Different approaches to public policy? The relevance of organizational structure in NGOs” (Muñoz, L.) at the Workshop: NGOs, Lobbying and Civil Society.

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Research Sessions, Florence, 19th-22th June 2012. Paper proposal: " Moving the Delor's Myth Project Beyond" author: Palau, A.M. European University Institute, Florence, Italy

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Antwerp, April 10th - April 15th 2012. Paper proposal: "Leading or following? The dynamics between the political elites and public opinion in the emergence of the immigration issue in Spain", authors: Morales, L., Ros, V., Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M.

University of Oxford, April 2012. Presentation of the paper: "Political decentralization in Spain". Author: Chaqués, L. at the Workshop: The Promise and Pitfalls o Federalism: Constitutional Development for the 21st Century, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, director: Prof. Lisa Miller.

19th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (CES), Boston, March 22nd - March 24th 2012. Presentation of the following papers: "Interest groups in the Spanish parliament" (Chaqués, L., Muñoz, L.), "Analyzing the capacity of the mass media to determine variations in issue attention in the political agenda" ( Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M.) and "Parliamentary scrutiny over EU issues in Spain (1996 - 2007)" (Palau, A.M)

X Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), Murcia, 8th September 2011. Title: "The dynamics of the media agenda in Spain: Comparing the front pages of El Pais and El Mundo (2000-2009)". Authors: Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M., Muñoz, L.

6th European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Reykjavik, 25th August - 27th August 2011. Presentation of the following papers: "Is there a Spanish media agenda? ", authors: Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M., "Policy Divergence and Asymetric Regionalism: comparing Agendas in Catalonia and Scotland", authors: John, P., Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M., and "Mobilization of Interest groups in the Spanish Parliament”, authors: Chaqués, L., Muñoz, L.

18th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (CES), Barcelona, June 20th - June 22nd 2011. Presentation of the paper "Electoral promises and political responses in a multilevel system of governance: the case of Spain" (Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M., Muñoz, L.). Panel Chair: Issue salience, institutional factors and agenda setting, with E. Grossman.

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, St Gallen, 12th - 17th April 2011. Presentation of the paper: “NGOs swing with globalization and secularization”, author: Muñoz, L.

3r European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Graduate Conference, Dublin, 30th August – 1st September 2010. Title: "How NGOs prioritize and frame policy issues". Author: Muñoz, L.

Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, April 2010. Title: "Explaining issue competition in Spain: a comparison of law production at the nacional and sub-national level from 1980 to 2008". Authors: Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M. Workshop: Policy Agendas in Europe and North America

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Münster, 22nd - 27th March 2010. Title: "Regulating Morality Issues in Spain". Author: Chaqués, L. Workshop: The Dynamics of Morality Politics and Policy across Space and Time. Directors F. Varone (Université de Genève) and I. Engeli (European University Institute)

International Political Science Association IPSA, Luxembourg, 18th - 20th March 2010. Title: "The Europeanization of the Spanish legislative activity (1986-2007)". Authors: Palau, A.M., Chaqués, L. Panel name: European, National and Regional Parliaments and EU Law-making. Co-Chairs: Patrick Dumont & Philippe Poirier (University of Luxembourg) and Wilfried Swenden (University of Edinburgh)

IX Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), Málaga, 23rd - 25th September 2009. Title:Representación Política e Instituciones en España". Authors: Chaqués, L., Palau, A.M. Workshop: Continuidad y cambio en los parlamentos en el siglo XXI: transformaciones y dinámica institucional desde la perspectiva multinivel. Panel Chair: I. Delgado and M. González

IX Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), Málaga, 23rd - 25th September 2009. Title "La dinàmica de la agenda de cooperación para el desarrollo en España. 1985-2005". Authors: Muñoz, L. Workshop: Políticas de cooperación al desarrollo. Panel Chair: Susana Ruíz Seisdedos and Nieves Lagares

5th European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Potsdam, 10th - 12th September 2009. Title:“Issue Competition and Parliamentary Democracy in Spain". Authors: Chaqués, L., Palau, A. M. Section Title: Comparing Origins and Effects of Political Institutions. Panel Title: Comparing Hypes, Friction, and Responsive Government. Panel Chair: G. Breeman and A. Timmermans

5th European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Potsdam, 10th - 12th September 2009. Title: "The Europeanization of the Spanish food safety policy: framing and institucional change and its relation to European "soft law". Author: Palau, A.M. Workshop: Regulatory agencies and the Europeanization of food safety policy. Panel Chair: Gabriele Abels (University of Tübingen)

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Lisbon, 15th - 19th April 2009. Title: "Political representation and institutions in Spain". Authors: Palau, A.M., Chaqués, L. Workshop: Institutional Design of Parliamentary Rules and Party Politics. Panel Chair: Zdenka Mansfeldova and Wolfgang Müller

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Rennes, 11th - 16th April 2008. Title: "The Comparative legislative agenda, studying Parliaments by their outputs". Authors: Brouard, S., Baumgartner, F., Chaqués, L., Timmermans, A., Green-Pedersen, Ch., Walgrave, S., Wilkerson, J. Workshop: Comparing Legislatures Worldwide: Roles, Functions and Performance in Old and New Democracies. Panel Chair: Natalia Ajenjo (University of Burgos), Mariana Llanos (GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies)

Policy Agendas Meetings and Workshops

I. Organization of meetings

European Policy Agendas Group Meeting. Barcelona, 23rd January 2010. Meeting chaired by S. Princen and sponsored by the Montesquieu Institute (The Hague). Organization of this meeting aimed to discuss methodological aspects about the analysis of the EU agenda.

Delors’ Myth Meeting. Barcelona, 22nd January 2010. Organization of this third meeting of the Delors project aimed to present and discuss book chapters.

Morality Politics Project Meeting. Barcelona, 28th November 2009. Organization of this third meeting of the project Morality Politics in Comparative Perspective, funded by the Danish Social Science Research Council and directed by Prof. Green-Pedersen.

2nd Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting. Barcelona, June 19th – 22nd 2008. Organization of this second general meeting of the Comparative Policy Agenda Project in Barcelona, which had several goals: discussion of methodological aspects related to the development of datasets, presentation of papers and definition of future goals and strategies of the Comparative Policy Agendas project.

II. Participation in workshops and meetings related to the ESF Project

6th Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting. Reims, June 14th - 16th 2012. Participation in this sixth general meeting of the comparative Policy Agendas organized by the Collège universitaire Campus euro-américain à Reims, SciencesPo (France). Presentation of the paper: " Comparing Executive Policy Agendas: Investiture Speeches in Spain and in Italy" authors: Borghetto, E., Chaqués, L., Michieli, M., Palau, A.M., Visconti, F., "Media Coverage of Political Scandals in Spain (1996-2009)" authors: Palau, A.M., Davesa, F.

5th Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting. Catania, June 23rd - 25th 2011. Participation in this fifth general meeting of the comparative Policy Agendas organized by the University of Catania (Italy).

4th Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting. Seattle, June 18th - 20th 2010. Participation in this fourth general meeting of the comparative Policy Agendas organized by the University of Washington. Presentation of the paper: "Explaining the executive agenda in Spain". Authors: Laura Chaqués, Anna Palau and Luz Muñoz.

Delors’ Myth Meeting. Mannheim, 7th May 2010. Presentation of final chapters of the Delors Myth book and discussion about future goals and strategies to be taken by the group.

3rd Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting. The Hague, June 18th - 20th 2009. Participation in the second general meeting of Policy Agendas Project organized by The Netherlands team. Presentation of the paper: "Institutional friction and political representation in Spain". Authors: Laura Chaqués, Anna Palau.

Media and Party Manifesto Coding Workshop. Geneva, December 18th – 19th 2008. Participation in this workshop aimed to go further in the definition of the methodological aspects about the development of media datasets, which is one of the goals of the Comparative Agendas Research Group. Participant: Laura Chaqués.

Morality Project Meeting. Aarhus, December 4th – 5th 2008. Participation in this workshop aimed to define the goals and strategies to be taken for the development of the project. Participants: Laura Chaqués and Anna Palau.

Delors’ Myth Workshop. Bordeaux, November 13th – 14th of 2008. Participation in this workshop aimed to discuss the methodology for the analysis of Europeanization of the agenda. Participants: Laura Chaqués and Anna Palau.

Coding the Media Workshop. Antwerp, October 3rd 2008. The workshop was aimed to discuss methodological aspects about the development of media datasets, which is one of the goals of the Comparative Agendas Research Group. Participant: Laura Chaqués.

New Computer Science Applications in Automated Text Identification and Classification in the Social Sciences. Penn State University, August 15th - 17th 2007. Workshop aimed to discuss and explore the feasibility of new applications developed by computer science practitioners for the policy agendas projects and other social scientist projects. Participant: Luz Muñoz.

1st Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting. Paris, February 9th - 10th 2007. Convenors: Sylvain Brouard, Science-Po Paris (hosting institution); Laura Chaqués Bonafont, University of Barcelona; Arco Timmermans, University of Twente. Participant: Laura Chaqués and Luz Muñoz.

III. Other Meetings and Courses

3rd European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Summer School, Adger, July 18th - July 26th 2012, University of Adger, Participant: Muñoz, L.