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 writings. 

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.

I serve on the steering committee for the Standing Group on Southern European Politics within the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and for the Iberian Politics Related Group within the American Political Science Association (APSA).