Dr Ignacio Jurado
European Studies Centre Visiting Fellow
Ignacio Jurado is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he leads the research project CONSENT, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. His current work focuses on the motivations of losers to consent being ruled by the winners, and the causes and consequences of the breakdown in losers’ consent in democracies. He is also working on attitudes towards immigration.
He received his DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) in July 2012. His thesis was awarded the Arthur McDougall Fund Prize from the PSA for the best British thesis in 2012 on Elections, Electoral Systems, and Representation. He has published in journals such as International Organization, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, and European Journal of Political Research, among others.