The deadline for applications is October 28, 2018

The Institut de Govern I Politiques Públiques and the Department of Political Science and Public Law of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) invite applications for a four- year fully funded PhD position to develop a doctoral dissertation in Political Science, with a focus on the analysis of political attitudes and behavior. The PhD position is embedded in the research project CSO2017-83086-R “Political Change in Spain: Populism, Feminism and New Conflicts / Cambio Politico en España: Populismo, Feminismo y Nuevos Ejes de Conflicto” (POLCHAN), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. The key goal of the POLCHAN project is to unravel from an individual and longitudinal perspective he dynamics underlying the transformation and change of the political attitudes and behavior of Spanish citizens between 2010 and 2020, with a special focus on the appearance of new dimensions of political competition. The project is particularly interested in the causes and consequences of populist and feminist attitudes. The project takes a quantitative methodological approach based in the analysis of longitudinal survey data with the support of survey experiments and data obtained from social media.

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