Welcome! I am a Professor of Political Science in the Global Studies Department at Bentley University in Massachusetts. I am also co-Editor of the journal South European Society and Politics. 

My research centers on political parties and political institutions in transitional and institutionalized democracies in Europe and Latin America. I have a particular interest in contemporary Spanish politics. I have investigated minority governments, territorial politics, interparty relations in parliament, party organization, processes of candidate selection and political appointments, the behavior of distinct types of political parties, and regime democratization. 

I am the author of Why Minority Governments Work: Multilevel Territorial Politics in Spain, and (co-) editor of Minority Governments in Comparative Perspective, Politics and Society in Contemporary Spain, Spain’s “Second Transition”?, and Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective. I have also published several journal articles, book chapters and public-facing essays. 

At Bentley, I teach courses on comparative politics, European politics, gender and politics, and democracy, democratization and democratic backsliding. 

I have a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. I am a local affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. I have been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, a visiting researcher at the Universities of Barcelona and Oslo, a postdoctoral Faculty Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, Visiting Fellow at UCI's Center for the Study of Democracy, and Fulbright Senior Researcher in Spain.