This research group focuses its activity on the analysis of political reality, specifically of political parties, new social movements and interest groups, political elites, ministers, regional ministers, MPs, electoral systems, elections and electoral behaviour, political institutions, democracy and the quality of democracy. The group carries out different types of activities: from the organisation of research conferences and seminars, through the development of different types of training programmes, to the holding of debates (physical or virtual through social media), workshops, implementation of papers and working documents, development of research projects, and relations with other research groups and networks.
- Development of research in the Observatory’s own substantive fields.
- Dissemination of research results in the Observatory’s own substantive fields.
- Development of training programmes related to the Observatory’s own substantive fields.
- Political institutions and systems
Political and institutional systems: governments, parliaments, autonomous communities, judiciary, constitutional court.
- Democracy, elections and electoral systems
Democracy and quality of democracy; elections and political and electoral behaviour, political party systems, electoral systems.
- Political actors and elites: political parties, ministers, MPs, interest groups and social movements
Study of political actors and elites in their organisational, socio-demographic dimensions, experiences, political careers and relations with the political systems.
Tarongers Campus
Edificio Departamental Occidental. Av. dels Tarongers, s/n
46022 València (Valencia)
