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LAURA CHAQUÉS BONAFONT ICREA Professor of Political Science University of Barcelona Avinguda Diagonal, 690; 08034 Barcelona Research Fellow Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) laurachaques@ub.edu  http://www.ub.edu/spanishpolicyagendas  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0724-4871

Full time academic appointments 2015- ICREA research professor, Institució Catalana per la Recerca I Estudis Avançats 2011- Research Fellow, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, IBEI 2003- Associate professor, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science,

University of Barcelona (awarded with the acreditation as a Full Professor by the AQU)

1997-2002- Assistant Professor, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science, University of Barcelona

1995-1997- Pre-doctoral fellow, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York.

Education Ph D in Political Economy. 1999. University of Barcelona. MA in Political Science. 1997. The New School for Social Research, New York. BA in Economics. 1992. University of Barcelona Current research projects: Spanish Policy Agendas Project(IP) (http://www.ub.edu/spanishpolicyagendas) The goal of this project is to analyze policy dynamics in Spain from transition to democracy to present in a comparative perspective. This means to explore the interrelation between the governmental, parliamentarian and media agendas across time, issues, countries and levels of government. 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 a multilevel system of government. It also provides of new tool for the development of quantitative measurement of policy dynamics. For the last years, we have created comprehensive and far-reaching datasets, which account for more than 200.000 records, about the Spanish political and media agenda following the methodology of the comparative agendas project (lead by Prof. B Jones, University of Austin-Texas and F. Baumgartner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Comparative research on interest groups in a multilevel system of governance (IP) The goal of this research project is to promote a comprehensive theoretical and empirical understanding of the role that interest groups play in multilevel systems of governance. To do that we develop a comprehensive database in order to map out which interest organizations have participated, discussing which issues, across different policy venues for the last decades in Spain. This research project share some methodological aspects with two other international projects, the Intereuro (lead by Prof. D. Lowery)

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and Interarena (lead by Prof. A. Binderkrantz), which allows for the comparison of results with other advanced democracies. PUBLICATIONS Journal articles 2015. “Interest organizations in the media: a comparative analysis in Denmark, Spain,

and United Kingdom”, British Journal of Political Science (under review) (with Binderkranz, A, L. Chaqués-Bonafont, and Darren Halpin)

2015. “All News is Bad News. Newspapers Coverage of Political Parties in Spain”, Political Communication, (with Frank Baumgartner)

2014.”Government-Opposition Dynamics in Spain under the Pressure of Economic Collapse and the Debt Crisis”, Journal of Legislative Studies (accepted for publication and forthcoming) (with A. Palau and L. Muñoz)

2014. “The INTEREURO Project: Logic and structure”, Interest Groups and Advocacy, 3 (2): 126-140 (with Beyers, J. Dür, A.; Eising, R.; Fink-Hafner, D; Lowery, D.; Mahoney, Ch.; Maloney, W.; Naurin, D)

2014. “Public Policy in Catalonia”, Pole Sud, 40:1, pp 43-59 (with Mariona Tomás) 2013. “Newspaper Attention and Policy Activities in Spain”, Journal of Public Policy,

33, pp 65-88 (with Frank Baumgartner) 2013. “Divergence and Convergence of Policy Priorities among Sub-National Units in

Federal Systems: The Cases of Canada and Spain", Perspectives on Europe, 42:2, pp. 14-21(with Montpetit, E., Palau, A.M., Muñoz)

2011.“Assessing the Responsiveness of Spanish Policymakers to the priorities of their citizens”, West European Politics, 34:4, 706-730 (with A. Palau)

2011. Comparing law-Making Activities in a Quasi-federal System of Government. The Case of Spain” in Comparative Political Studies, 44(8): 1089-1119 (with A. Palau)

2011. “Comparing Governmental Agendas. Executive Speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Denmark”, Comparative Political Studies, 44 (8): 1089-1119(with Mortensen, PB, C. Green Pedersen, G. Breeman, W. Jennings, P. John, A. Timmermans)

2011. “Effects of the Core functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas”,Comparative Political Studies, 44(8): 1089-1119(with Jennings, W., S. Bevan, A. Timmermans, G. Breeman, S. Brouard, C. Green-Pedersen, P. John, PB Mortensen, A. Palau)

2011. "Priorización de problemas en las agendas legislativas autonómicas: instituciones y preferencias políticas",Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas, 6 (with A. Palau, Anna M. L. Muñoz, Ll. Medir, F. Davesa, M. A. Julio)

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

2009. “Nuevo paradigma, nuevo contexto institucional: el caso de la política farmacéutica”, Gestión y Análisis de políticas públicas, 1:1

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

2009. "Comparer les Agendas Gouvernementaux: Les Discours du Trone aux Pays-Bas, au Royaume-Uni, au Danemark et en Espagne”, Revue International de

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Politique Comparée, 16:3, pp. 405-421 (with G. Breeman, C. Green-Pedersen, W. Jennings, P.B. Mortensen, A. Palau, A. Timmermans)

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

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

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

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

2001. “Policy networks y política farmacéutica” Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 4: 1

2000. “Continuidad y Cambio en la organización de intereses en la industria farmacéutica”, Gestión y análisis de políticas públicas, 17-18: 55-69.

1999. “Europeización de la política farmacéutica”, Gestión y análisis de políticas públicas, 13-14: 45-161.

1998. "Globalization and Spanish pharmaceuticals policy", South European Society and Politics,3, 1: 44-64.

Books 2015. Agenda dynamics in Spain, with A.M. Palau, and Frank R. Baumgartner. London:

Palgrave 2004. Redes de Políticas Públicas (2004) Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones

Sociológicas. 2002. Estructura y Política Farmacéutica (2002): Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones

Sociológicas. Book Chapters 2015. “El Registre de Lobbies”, in A.  Cerrillo-­‐Martínez  and  J.  Ponce-­‐Solé  (eds.)  

Transparència,  accés  a  la  informació  i  bon  govern  a  Catalunya.  Comentaris  de  la  Llei  19/2014,  de  9  de  desembre”,  Barcelona:  UOC  

2014. “Policy promises and governmental activities in Spain”, in Stefaan Walgrave and G. Green-Pedersen (eds.), From a Policy Theory to a Theory of Politics,Chicago: Chicago University Press (with A. Palau and L. Muñoz)

2012. “From Prohibition to permissiveness: two waves of change of morality issues in Spain”, I. Engeli, Lars and C. Green Pedersen (Eds.), Morality issues in a comparative perspective, London: Palgrave (with A. Palau)

2012. “Europeanization of legislative activity in Spain” in O. Costa, S. Brouard, and T. Köning (eds.), The Europeanization of domestic legislatures. The empirical implications of the Delors' Myth in nine countries, Jon Springer Studies in Public Choice series (with A.Palau)

2011. “Problemas públicos, prioridades políticas y preferencias ciudadanas en España. Un análisis desde la perspectiva de la Agenda”, in I.Delgado, (ed.) Alcanzando el Equilibrio, El acceso y la presencia de las mujeres en los legislativos.

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Valencia: Tirant lo Blanc. (with A. Palau) 2009. “Los nuevos actores globales de la política farmacéutica”, en L.Girona, J.Rovira,

N.Homedes (eds.) Medicamentos. Entre la Salud y el Mercado, Barcelona: Icaria

2008. "Comparing Governmental Agendas: Evolution of the Prioritization of Issues in the USA and Spain", IBEI Working Papers, Available at SSRN Brouard, S., Wilkerson, J., Baumgartner, F.R., Timmermans, A., Bevan, S., Breeman, G., Breunig, C., Chaqués-Bonafont, L., Green-Pedersen, C., Jennings, W., John, P., Jones, B.D., Lowery, D.

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

COMPETITIVE GRANTS Proposals under review:

1. “Policy Agendas in México”, Financing institution, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y tecnología (CONACYT), contact person: Prof. Antonio Zavala, anzavala@up.edu.mx), Universidad Panamericana (convocatoria 2014)

Principal Investigator (IP): ICREA Academia (Institució Catalana per la Recerca i Estudis Avançats) 200.000

Euros research grant (2014-2019). IP: L Chaqués Bonafont Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CSO-2012-31214)Convocatoria 2012 del

subprograma de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental no orientada.Title: Interest groups in Spain: Participation in the governmental and parliamentary arenas. Period: 2013-2015. Total net amount 30.000 euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (CSO-2009-09397). Convocatoria 2012 del subprograma de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental no orientada.Title: Agenda politica y medios de comunicación en España. Period: 2010-2012. Total net amount: 105.800 Euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), SGR 368(Grup de Recerca Consolidat). Period: 2014 to 2018. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), SGR 536, (Grup de Recerca Emergent). Period: 2009 to 2014. Total net amount: 32.200 Euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

European Science Foundation, European Collaborative Research Projects in the Social Sciences (EUROCORES). Title: The Politics of attention: West European Politics in Times of Change: the case of Spain. Period: 2008 to 2011. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (SEJ-2007-30760-E/SOCI). Title: The Politics of attention: West European Politics in Times of Change: the case of Spain. Qualification obtained by the project 95/100. Period: 09/2008 to 09/2009. Total net amount: 87.200 Euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics (Generalitat de Catalunya).Title: Policy dynamics and political decentralization in Spain 1978-2008. July-August 2009. Total amount: 3.400 Euros. IP: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya(Generalitat de Catalunya) Project: Delegation to Independent Agencies: a comparative analysis between the food

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safety and pharmaceutical sector in Britain and Spain (with Anna Palau) Period: 2006. Total amount: 6.000 Euros

Competitive research projects as a full member or director of the Spanish case: Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, Title of the project: Morality

politics in a comparative perspective, IP of the general project: Prof. C. Green- Pedersen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Period: 2008 to 2011. Total amount: 145.000 Euros. IP in Spain: Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia . Homogeneity and polarization. Public opinion and political decisions in Spain (SEJ2006-13152/CPOL). Period 2007 to 2009. IP: Jordi Capo.

World Bank. Title: Analysis of the identification, description and analysis of the major institutional players in the international pharmaceutical market Period: June-August 2002. IP: Joan Rovira and Laura Chaqués

Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management. Title: “The Internationalization of Firms from Middle-Income”. Period: 1995, IP: Mauro Guillen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) and Manuel Campa (Stern, New York University). Research assistant

European Union. Title: Research on Employment Prospects in the Textil and Clothing Sector II. Period: 1993, IP: Prof. Mª Teresa Costa. Research assistant

Visiting professors grants: Visiting professors grant (AGAUR) 2010 (PIV-DGR) grant to invite Frank R.

Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Visiting profesor in 2011 and 2012 (8 months)

Grant for the internationalization of research activities (Facultat de Dret-BKC). Universitat de Barcelona (2010) (2.134,39 euros)to invite Prof. Amber E. Boydstun, Instructor of Political Science at the University of California at Davis (April-May 2011).

Visiting professors grant (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia) Grant to invite professor: John D. Wilkerson, Associate Professor of the University of Washington, Director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington (September 2007-February 2008).

Participation as a country expert: European Research Council Starting Grant ResponsiveGov led by Laura Morales,

University of Leicester, 2011-2016 (http://www.responsivegov.eu/index.php/country-experts).

Public Preferences and Policy Decision-Making. A Comparative Analysis, led by Prof. A. Melcior. Financing institution: FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology (2013-2015).

AWARDS ICREA Academia winner 2014, Institució Catalana per la Recerca i Estudis Avançats. Award “Acreditació de Recerca Avançada” of the Agència per a la Qualitat del sistema

Universitari de Catalunya, 2013. Award of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; recognition of the quality of the

research activities carried out for the period 1998-2003.

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Award of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; recognition of the quality of the research activities carried out for the period 2004-2009

Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Agencia Catalana de Universitats; recognition of the quality of the research activities carried out for the period 2004-2009.

Awards of the Generalitat de Catalunya, recognition of the quality of teaching activities. Three consecutive periods (1995-1999) (2000-2005) (2006-2011).

CONFERENCE PAPERS 2015. Conference of European Studies, París (France) 2015. International Conference on Public Policy (Milan, Italy) 2015. Annual Comparative Agendas Project meeting (Portugal) 2015. Bi-annual meeting of the Asociación Española de Ciencia Política (San Sebastian,

Spain) 2014. Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting. Konztanz (Germany), June 12th

- 14th. Presentation of the paper: Leading or following? A comparative analysis of media and policy agenda interaction in seven countries (lead by S. Walgrave et al.).

2014. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Salamanca (Spain) April. Paper: Hiding Interest Organizations. Comparing interest groups regulation at the national and subnational level in Spain (with Luz Muñoz, Anna Palau and Ruben Moliné)

2014. MPSA, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (United States), April. Paper: Gender and Policy dynamics. Comparing Spain, the UK and the US (with Mary Atkinson and Shaun Bevan)

2013. XI Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), Sevilla, 18th - 20th September.Chair of the Panel "GT 5.6 La dinámica de las políticas públicas en un contexto de gobernanza multinivel". Discussants: Ana Palau and Luz Muñoz

2013. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Bordeaux (France), 4th - 7th September. Papers: 1)"Different Media Systems, Different Patterns of Interest Group Access? Interest Groups in the Media in Denmark, the UK and Spain" (with A. Binderkrantz and Darren Halpin) 2) Title: "Government and opposition in Spain under the pressure of economic collapse and debt crisis" (with L. Muñoz, and A. Palau)

2013. American Political Science Association (APSA), Chicago (United States), August 29th - September 1st. Paper: "Public Policy Investment in Spain and the United Kingdom: conditional opinion-responsiveness in multilevel settings". (with Bertelly, T. John, P., and Palau, A.M)

2013. Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting. Antwerp, June 27th - 29th. Papers: "The dynamics of political decentralization in Spain: analyzing the interaction between political parties and the media in Spain".

2013. International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (CES), Amsterdam, 25th - 27th June. Papers: (1) "From Promises to Decisions: Analyzing Immigration Policy in Spain" (with Morales, L., Palau, A.M., and Ros, V. (2) "All News is Bad News, Newspaper Coverage of Political Parties in Spain" (with F. Baumgartner, (3)"The Interaction between Media Coverage and Parliamentary Questions - A Cross-National Comparison". (with L., Mortensen, P., Sciarini, P., Tresch, A., Vliegenthart, R.,Walgrave, S., and Baumgartner, F.R.) Chair of the Panel 123 "Media Attention and Policy Dynamics": Laura Chaqués-Bonafont

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2013. European Conference on Politics and Gender, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Barcelona, 21st - 23rd March 2013. Paper: "Gender Differences in Policy Priorities: Analyzing Oral Questions in Spain and the US". Authors: Chaqués-Bonafont L., Atkinson, M.L.

2012. University of Oxford,Workshop “The Promise and Pitfalls o Federalism: Constitutional Development for the 21st Century”, All Souls College, University of Oxford, director: Prof. Lisa Miller (April 2012), Paper: Political decentralization in Spain.

2012. International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (CES), Boston (USA).Papers: (1) Interest groups in the Spanish parliament (with L. Muñoz); (2) analyzing the capacity of the mass media to determine variations in issue attention in the political agenda (with A. Palau).

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

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

2012. IPSA, International Political Science Association. Madrid, Spain. Workshop: Trust and Disaffection: Party Systems, State Institutions, and Multilevel Governance. Paper: Is political responsiveness declining in Spain? (with A. Palau)  

2012. Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting, Reims (France): (1) Comparing Executive Policy Agendas: Investiture Speeches in Spain and in Italy (with Enrico Borghetto, Marco Michieli, Ana M Palau Francesco Visconti); (2) Leading or following? The dynamics between the political elites and public opinion in the emergence of the immigration issue in Spain"(with Morales, L., Ros, V., Palau, A.M)

2011. International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies (CES), Barcelona. Panel Chair. Issue salience, institutional factors and agenda setting (with E. Grossman), discussant: Bryan Jones.Paper: Comparing the front pages of El Pais and EL Mundo in the 2000, and Electoral promises and political responses in a multilevel system of governance: the case of Spain (with A. Palau and L.M. Muñoz).

2011. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)6thGeneral conference, Reykjavik (Iceland), 24-27th, August. Papers: (1) “Is there a Spanish Media Agenda? Analyzing the Front Pages of El Pais and El Mundo for the last decade”, with A. Palau, (2): “Mapping interest groups participation in the Spanish Parliament, (3) “Policy divergence and Asymmetric regionalism: comparing agendas in Catalonia and Scotland” (with P. John and A.M. Palau)

2011. Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), La política en la red, Murcia, 7 a 9 de septiembre. Paper: La agenda de los medios de comunicación en España. Un análisis de las portadas de El País y El Mundo (2000-2010) (with A. Palau and L. Muñoz)

2011. Media and Agenda-setting workshop, Sciences Po, Paris, May 30, 2011, Paper: The dynamics of the media agenda in Spain: Comparing the front pages of El

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Pais and EL Mundo (2000-2009). 2011. Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting, June 23th - 25th, Catania,

Sicilia. Paper: The decline of mandate responsiveness in Spain (with A. Palau and L. Muñoz).

2010. Midwest Political Science Association, MPSA Chicago (United States), 22-25th April. Paper: Explaining issue competition in Spain: a comparison of law production at the national and sub-national level from 1980 to 2008(with A. Palau)

2010. International Political Science Association, Luxemburg 18-20 March. Title: The Europeanization of Lawmaking Activity In Spain (1986-2007) (with A. Palau)

2010. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Munster (Germany), 22-27 March, Paper: Regulating Morality Issues in Spain.

2010. Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting, June 18th - 20th, Seattle (United States) Paper: explaining the executive agenda in Spain (with A Palau and L. Muñoz)

2009. Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), Málaga (Spain) 23rd - 25th September.  Paper: "Representación Política e Instituciones en España" (with A Palau).

2009. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) fifth General Conference, Potsdam (Germany) 10th - 12th September Paper: “Issue Competition and Parliamentary Democracy in Spain". (with A Palau)

2009. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Lisbon (Portugal), 15th - 19th April,  Paper: "Political representation and institutions in Spain" (with A. Palau).

2009. Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting, June 18th - 20th, The Hague (The Netherlands). Paper: "Institutional friction and political representation in Spain" (with A. Palau)

2008. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Rennes (France), 11th - 16th April  Paper: "The Comparative legislative agenda, studying Parliaments by their outputs" (with Silvayn Brouard, Frank Baumgartner, Laura Chaqués, Arco Timmermans Christopher Green-Pedersen, Stefaan Walgrave and John Wilkerson).

2008. Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting, June 19th – 22nd, Barcelona (Spain). 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.

2007. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference,Pisa (Italy), 6-8 September, Paper: How the Spanish executive chooses and prioritizes policy issues (with A. Palau and L. Muñoz)

2007. Comparing Policy Agendas in Europe and North America. ECPR ad hoc research meeting, 9-10 February 2007, CEVIPOF Science-Po, Paris. Convenors: Sylvain Brouard, Science-Po, Paris (hosting institution); Laura Chaqués Bonafont, University of Barcelona; Arco Timmermans, University of Twente. In this research meeting three topics were addressed: the content of comparative project and the theoretical issues; the empirical design and the methodological issues; the organization of the international cooperation.

2006. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Frontiers of

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Regulation, Bath (Great Britain), 7-8 September Paper: “Delegation to Independent Agencies: a comparative analysis between the food safety and pharmaceutical sector in Britain and Spain” (with Anna Palau)

2006. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions,Nicosia (Chipre), April Paper: “The dynamics of policy change: a comparative analysis of the food safety and pharmaceutical policy in Spain” (with Anna Palau).

2005. VII Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA)Madrid, (Spain) 21-23 September Paper: Agencias reguladoras independientes: la autorización y registro de medicamentos.

2000. IPSA, XVIII world congress, Quebec (Canada) 1-5 de august, Paper: “State-business relations in the pharmaceutical sector”.

1999. IV Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA), Granada (Spain), 1-2nd October, 1999. Paper: “Política farmacéutica en España”.

1997. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions, Berna (Switzerland), 27-4 de March de 1997. Paper: “The impact of globalization upon the Spanish pharmaceutical industry”.

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS Policy-Making in Hard Times: Southern European Countries in a Comparative

Perspective, 20-21 November 2014, Madrid, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and Instituto Carlos III-Juan March de Ciencias Sociales (IC3JM). Convenors: Jacint Jordana, Ignacio Sánchez Cuenca, Sonia Alondo and Laura Chaqués Bonafont.

Fifth Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, to be organized by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionales (IBEI), Spain, at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra from June 25 to 27, 2014. Local organizer.

Barcelona workshop on Protest and Media agenda setting capacity(23th-24th, January, 2014), Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals (IBEI).Organization of this meeting for the development of two research comparative papers.

Summer Course on Interest Group Politics, Barcelona, 1-8 July, 2013. The 4th Annual Summer School on Interest Group Politics was hosted at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona (Spain). The course was organized with the support of the ECPR Summer School grants. This is the first of a second edition of three summers courses organized by Prof. Caelesta Braun, Prof. Heike Kluiver and Prof. Laura Chaqués-Bonafont. With the support of the ECPR Summer Course Grant.

International Conference on Public Policy, (Grenoble, France) 26th-28th July 2013. Member of the Scientific committee

Comparative Policy Agendas Annual Meeting, June 19th – 22nd of 2008, Barcelona (Spain). Organization of this second general meeting of the Comparative Policy Agenda Project in Barcelona, in collaboration with the rest of the Spanish Policy Agendas project.

Comparing Policy Agendas in Europe and North America. ECPR ad hoc research meeting, 9-10 February 2007, CEVIPOF Science-Po, Paris. Convenors: Sylvain Brouard, Science-Po, Paris (hosting institution); Laura Chaqués Bonafont, University of Barcelona; Arco Timmermans, University of Twente. With the support of the ECPR grant ad hoc research meetings.

European Policy Agendas Group Meeting, 23rd January, 2010. Meeting chaired by S.

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Princen and sponsored by the Montesquieu Institute (The Hague). Morality project Meetings. Participation in the following meetings for the elaboration

of an edited book: Geneve (Switzerland), February, 2011. Aarhus (Denmark) December 2008. Organization of the morality meeting in Barcelona, November 2009.

Delors’ Myth project Meetings. Participation in the following meetings for the elaboration of an edited book. Manheim, 7th May, 2010. Barcelona, January 2009, Bordeaux (France) November 13th – 14th of 2008.Organization of the Delors’ meeting in Barcelona, January 2009.

Media and Party Manifesto Coding Workshops: Genève (Switzerland), December 18th – 19th of 2008, and Antwerp (Belgium) October 3rd of 2008. Participation in these workshops 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.

GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED Anna Palau Roqué (University of Barcelona) (PhD finished 2009, excellent cum laude) Luz Muñoz (University of Barcelona) (PhD finished 2013, excellent cum laude) Ruben Moliné (Universitat de Barcelona) Fernando Faria (Universitat de Barcelona) Leonor Flores (Universitat de Barcelona) Sandra Mestres (Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals, IBEI) RESEARCH ABROAD Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington, Seattle

(United States). July-August 2009. Financed by the Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics (Generalitat de Catalunya). Programa de beques per a la recerca sobre les autonomies polítiques territorials, Title of the project: Descentralització política i dinàmica de l'agenda a Espanya (visitor professor)

Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston (United States) August 2005. Issue: Seminar on Sociological & Political Research, Postdoctoral research fellow.

World Bank, Washington DC, (United States), July-August 2000. Project about the analysis of the identification, description and analysis of the major institutional players in the international pharmaceutical market (june-august 2002). Short project financed by the World Bank. Directed by Prof. Joan Rovira and Laura Chaqués.

Salzburg Seminar and Fulbright Commission, Salzburg, (Austria). June 2000. Issue: participation in the research seminar The Entrepreneurial City. Postdoctoral research fellow.

New School for Social Research, New York (United States), 1995-1996, MA in Political Science. MA advisors: Prof. Charles Tilly y Prof. David Plotke, MA student

International Cultural Center East and Central Europe Program, New School for Social Research, Cracow (Poland), July 1995, Courses: Democracy and Diversity Problems of Democratic Politics Today (D. Plotke) and Institution Building in Post-Comunist Societies (C. Offe), Ph.D. Student. MA student

London School of Economics and Political Science, London (Great Britain), July 1993. Course: States and Firms in the World Economy, Ph.D. Student

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (United States) July-August 1991.

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Courses on: Survey Research Techniques and Survey Data, BA student. University of California, Berkeley, (United States) July-August 1990. Course: Business

and Public Policy, BA Student Invited talks and workshops in the following institutions: University of Oxford (United Kingdom), All Souls College. Sabanci University (Turkey) Center of excellence for European studies. University of Malta (Malta), Center for European Studies. Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) Fundación Juan March/Universidad Carlos III Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington Science Po, Paris (France) University of Antwerpen (Belgium) New School for Social Research (US) ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND SCIENTIC COMMITTEES Member of the Scientific Committee at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals

(IBEI) from 2012. Member of the Directive Board and Scientific Committee of the TRANSJUS, Faculty

of Law, University of Barcelona from 2013. Member of the Scientific Committee, International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) Vice-director of the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science (2008-

2009), University of Barcelona Director of the MA of Political Science (postgrau en Ciència Política) (1999-2004);

University of Barcelona Director of the PhD program on Political Science (2004-2009), University of Barcelona Member of the Junta de la Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques (2005-2009); University

of Barcelona Member of the commission for the elaboration of the academic program for

undergraduates in Sociology (2008-2009) University of Barcelona Member of the commission for the elaboration of the academic program for Public

Management (2008-2009) University of Barcelona Member of the Research Commission of the Faculty of Economics (2005-2009)

University of Barcelona TEACHING ACTIVITIES Undergraduate courses (University of Barcelona): public policy, public

administration,Spanish political system, sociology of the organizations, political science, governance, collective action and interest groups, agenda setting, democracy and institutional building.

Post-graduate courses in the following programs:Graduate Course on Europeanization (2014), University of Malta, Graduate Course on Euro-Mediterranean Issues (2013), Center of excellence for European studies, Anna Lindh/La Caixa, Sabanci University), MA on International relations, (2008-2011) Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), MA on Advanced Public Management (2008-2010) University of Barcelona, MA on Water Policy and Management (2009-2012) University of Barcelona, MA on Political Analysis (2010-2015) University of Barcelona

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIP

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Journals and book reviewer:West European Politics, Public Health, Public Administration, Revista Española de Ciencia Política, Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas,Revista de Estudios Políticos, IBEI working papers, Journal of Political Studies, Journal of Public Policy, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Revista Internacional de Sociologia, Palgrave, Oxford University Press, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of International Relations and Development, International Political Science Review, Sage Open, Party Politics, Tirant lo Blanc, American Political Science Review.

Editorial boards: Book Series editor, Palgrave Macmillan series on Comparative Studies on Political Agendas, with Frank Baumgartner, Christoffer Green Pedersen, Arco Timmermans, and Frederic Varone–(from 2012-); Interest Groups and Advocacy (from 2011). Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas (2009-2011), IBEI working papers.

Consultant and advisor of the following funding Agencies: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Programa Nacional Proyectos I+D (National Council of Science and Technology); Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP) (National Agency of evaluation and prospective); Agencia Catalana d’Universitats (Catalan Agency of Science and Technology), Fundació La Caixa.

Membership: Standing group on Interest groups (European Consortium for Political Research), Comparative Agendas Project, Asociación Española de Ciencia Política, American Political Science Association, Conference of Europeanist Studies, European Political Science Association, International Public Policy Association.

RESEARCH INTEREST AND FIELDS OF TEACHING Public policy processes, Spanish political system, agenda-setting, interest groups,

comparative public policy, multilevel governance, media agenda, morality politics pharmaceutical policy, policy networks, advocacy coalitions and issue framing.

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