Current March 2010
CURRICULUM VITAE AINA GALLEGO
PERSONAL DATA
Address Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Edifici Jaume I Campus de la Ciutadella Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona E-mail aina.gallego@upf.edu Birth Barcelona, 14/9/1981
EDUCATION
18/12/2008 PhD in Political Science, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). Doctoral dissertation awarded summa cum laude.
Title: “One Person, One Vote? Unequal Turnout in Comparative Perspective” Director: Eva Anduiza.
9/2003 B.A. in Political Science, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
EMPLOYMENT
2010-2012 Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University (awarded)
10/2009-6/2010 Adjunct professor and research assistant at the Political and Social Science Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Research and Expertise Centre on Survey Methodology.
2009 Adjunct professor and research assistant at the Political Science Department, UAB.
2008 Researcher at the Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques, UAB. 2004-2008 Predoctoral grant awarded by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Gallego, Aina. 2010. “Understanding Unequal Turnout: Education and Voting in Comparative Perspective.” Electoral Studies, forthcoming.
Anduiza, Eva, Marta Cantijoch, and Aina Gallego. 2010. “Online Political Participation in Spain: The Impact of Traditional and Internet Resources.” Journal of Information Technology and Politics, forthcoming.
Gallego, Aina, Camilo Cristancho y Josep San Martín. 2010. “La movilización política: Medición y relevancia.” Revista Española de Ciencia Política, forthcoming.
Anduiza, Eva, Marta Cantijoch, Clèlia Colombo, Aina Gallego y Jorge Salcedo. 2009. “Los usos políticos de Internet en España”. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, vol. 129, pp. 133-146.
Gallego, Aina. 2009. “Where Else Does Turnout Decline Come From? Education, Age, Generation and Period Effects in Three European Countries”. Scandinavian Political Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 32-44.
Anduiza, Eva, Marta Cantijoch and Aina Gallego. 2009. “Political Participation and the Internet: Assessing Effects, Causal Mechanisms and Consequences”. Information, Communication and Society, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 860-878.
Gallego, Aina. 2007. “Unequal Political Participation in Europe”. International Journal of Sociology, vol. 37, no. 4, pp.10-26.
Books and book chapters
Anduiza, Eva, Aina Gallego, Marta Cantijoch y Jorge Salcedo. 2010. Internet y participación política. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
Galais, Carolina, Aina Gallego i Clèlia Colombo. 2009. “L’ús d’Internet i les actitudes polítiques”, a Anduiza, Eva (ed.) Internet, participació, mobilització: L’implicació política dels ciutadans en un nou entorn comunicatiu. Barcelona: Direcció General de Participació Ciutadana.
Anduiza, Eva, Aina Gallego i Laia Jorba. 2009. “El diferencial cognitiu en el nou context comunicatiu”, a Anduiza, Eva (ed.) “Internet, participació, mobilització: L’implicació política dels ciutadans en un nou entorn comunicatiu”. Barcelona: Direcció General de Participació Ciutadana.
Subirats, Joan et al. 2006. Fragilidades vecinas. Narraciones biográficas de exclusión social urbana. Barcelona, Icària.
Subirats, Joan et al. 2005. Perfils d’exclusió social urbana a Catalunya: Una aproximació qualitativa. Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma.
Other publications
Gallego, Aina. 2009. “Reseña de Making a Difference de Stephen Ward (ed.)”. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, vol 127, pp. 163-167.
Gallego, Aina. 2008. “Reseña de Post-broadcast Democracy de Markus Prior”. Revista de Estudios Políticos, vol. 142, no. 3, pp. 270-273.
Gallego, Aina. 2007. "Inequality in Political Participation: Contemporary Patterns in European Countries". Center for the Study of Democracy. http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd/07-01
WORK IN PROGRESS
Blais, André, Eva Anduiza, and Aina Gallego. “Decentralization and Voter Turnout”, under review.
Anduiza, Eva, Aina Gallego and Laia Jorba. “The Political Knowledge Gap in the New Media Environment: Evidence from Spain”, under review.
Colombo, Clèlia, Carolina Galais y Aina Gallego. “El impacto de Internet sobre las actitudes políticas”, under review.
Gallego, Aina, Eva Anduiza, and Guillem Rico. “La participación electoral en España: Factores individuales y contextuales”, under review
Gallego, Aina, Eva Anduiza y Guillem Rico. “La participación electoral en las elecciones europeas de 2009 en perspectiva comparada”, en Torcal, Mariano y Joan Font (eds.) Las elecciones europeas de 2009. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
Gallego, Aina and Daniel Oberski. “Personality traits and political participation: direct, indirect and conditional effects.”
Gallego, Aina, Eva Anduiza, and Guillem Rico. “Learning to Vote in New Democracies.”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009-2010 Adjunct professor for the B.A. courses “Anàlisis de dades” and “Instruments matemàtics”, Universidad Pompeu Fabra
Instructor for the course “Introduction to Stata”, UAB.
2008-2009 Adjunct professor at the course B.A. “Participació Política”, UAB.
Lectures for the M.A. “Participació i polítiques locals” and the B.A. course “Introducció a la ciència política”, UAB.
2007-2008 Teaching assistant for the B.A. course “Comportament polític”, UAB.
2006-2007 Lectures for the B.A. courses: “Participació política”, “Tècniques d’investigació”, UAB.
2005-2006 Lectures for the B.A. courses: “Introducció a la ciència política”, “Participació política” and M.A. course “Seminari d’introducció a la recerca”, UAB.
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
2009-2011 “Encuesta panel por Internet a jóvenes”. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. Principal Investigator: Eva Anduiza.
2009 “La participación electoral en las Comunidades Autónomas: la interacción entre características individuales y contextuales”. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. As Principal Investigator.
2009 “Democracia local en Andalucía”. Centro de Estudios Andaluces. Principal Investigator: Joan Font.
2009-2011 “Encuesta panel por Internet a jóvenes”. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. Investigadora principal: Eva Anduiza.
2008-2010 “Voter Turnout and Abstention in Context: A multi-level analysis of the factors affecting voter turnout in systems of multilevel governance”. European Science Foundation. Principal Investigator: Richard Sinnot.
2007-2010 “Participación política e Internet”. Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (SEJ2007-60082). Principal Investigator: Eva Anduiza.
2007 “Módulo de encuesta sobre Internet y participación política”. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. Principal Investigator: Eva Anduiza.
2004-2007 “Active Civic Participation” (CIT2-CT-2003-506599). VI Framework Program of the European Comission. Principal Investigator: Richard Sinnot.
2003-2004 “Perfils i trajectòries d’exclusió social urbana a Catalunya”.Fundació Un Sol Món de la Caixa de Catalunya. Principal Investigator: Joan Subirats.
2004 “La realitat juvenil a Blanes”. Ajuntament de Blanes. Principal Investigator: Joan Subirats.
STAYS IN FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES AND INSTITUTIONS
6/2010-12/2012 Post-doctoral researcher at the Political Science Department, Stanford University. Under the supervision of Karen Jusko.
3-5/2008 Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies, Université de Montreal, Canada. Under the supervision of André Blais.
4-7/2007 European University Institute, Italy. Under the supervision of Mark N. Franklin. 9-12/2006 University of California at Irvine, USA. Under the supervision of Russell J.
Dalton.
5-8/2005 Essex University, UK. Under the supervision of David Sanders.
July 2004 Deutsches Jugendinstitut Munich, Germany. Under the supervision of René Bendit.
2003-2003 Universität Leipzig, Germany.
ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH AND CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Director with André Blais of the Workshop “Personality and Voter Turnout”, Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research. Münster, 22-27 March 2009. Organizer of the seminar series “New Directions in Survey Research”, Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology, UPF, 2010.
Organizer with Wiebke Weber and Willem Saris of the “Course on Design and Evaluation of Questionnaires for Survey Research”, Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology, Barcelona, 10-11 December 2009.
Section Chair with Clelia Colombo of the section “Internet and Politics” at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research. Potsdam, 10-12 September 2009.
Co-organizer of the Seminar "Citizen Politics: Are the New Media Reshaping Political Engagement?" Barcelona, 14-16 May 2009.
Co-organizer of the Seminar “New Technologies and Politics”, Barcelona 9 June 2008.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010
General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research: 2007, 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association: 2008, 2010
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association: 2009
Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology: 2006, 2010
Conference “The political and economic consequences of decentralization”: 2009
Conference “Citizen Politics: Are the New Media Reshaping Political Engagement?”: 2009 Conference “Youth and Politics: Strange Bedfellows?”: 2008
Seminar “Participación política e Internet”: 2008
Congreso Español de Ciencia Política y de la Administración: 2007, 2009 “E-Democracy Conference”, European Science Foundation: 2007
Symposium “Changing Politics through Digital Networks”: 2007
LANGUAGES
Catalan and Spanish: Native speaker
German: Oberstufe and high school graduation at the Deutsche Schule Barcelona (German School of Barcelona)
English: Toefl-Ibt score of 113 (of 120), October 2007 French: Basic level
OTHER MERITS
Accredited as “professora lectora” by the Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya.
Awarded the Juan Linz Prize to the best dissertation in Political Science by the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales.
Reviewer for the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and the Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas. Manuscript reviewer for the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
Member of the American Political Science Association and the Midwest Political Science Association, the ECPR Standing Group on Forms of Participation, ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, ECPR Standing Group on Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in Comparative Perspective.
Invited presentations at Université de Montréal (2008), Central European University (2009), Universidad de Salamanca (2009).
