The Institute of Governance has welcomed three new visiting research fellows from Spain and Canada working in the field of territorial politics.
Braulio Gomez Fortes is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies of the Spanish National Research Council (IESA-CSIC) and Director of the Quality of Democracy Barometer in Spain (CIS-IESA-CSIC). His main research focus is on decentralization, electoral behaviour and quality of democracy. He is leading a project analysing party manifestos for regional elections.
IvÁn Medina is PhD Candidate in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research focuses on the adaptation of business interest associations (Employers associations, SMEs associations, and Chambers of Commerce) to regionalism in both Spain and the UK as a way to understand the economic dynamics of devolution.
Adam Chalmers is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His research examines the influence that different types of interest groups have on the European Union legislative process.
This page was published on 22 September 2010