From 2018 to 2023, I led a project on the structural and institutional factors that shape democratic deliberation in contemporary democracies. This project seeks to (1) map the institutions that regulate public debate and shape processes of preference formation in contemporary democracies; (2) explain institutional variation across countries; and (3) examine the effects of these institutional differences on the quality of democracy and political attitudes. The project was funded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Future publications related to these topics will also be posted here.
Publications
Goenaga, Agustín and Michael A. Hansen. (2025) “Are Competent Citizens Critical Democrats? Political Resources, Motivated Reasoning and Evaluations of Democratic Institutions,” Social Science Journal, Online first.
Hassing-Nielsen Julie and Agustín Goenaga. (2025). “Back to Business? Business-Owners and Their Response to COVID-19 Policies in a Comparative Perspective,” Scandinavian Political Studies, 48:e12297.
Michael Hansen and Agustín Goenaga. (2024). “Gender, Political Resources, and Expressions of Democratic Evaluations,” Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, Vol. 45 (2), pp. 230-243.
Goenaga, Agustín and Michael Hansen. (2022). “Guy-Guessing Democracy: Gender and Item Non-Response Bias in Evaluations of Democratic Institutions,” Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, 43 (4), pp. 499-513.
Goenaga, Agustín. (2022). “Who Cares about the Public Sphere”, European Journal of Political Research, 61(1), pp. 230-254.
Hansen, Michael and Agustín Goenaga. (2021). “Gender and Democratic Attitudes: Do Women and Men Prioritize Different Democratic Institutions?”, Politics & Gender, 17(1), pp. 23-52.
Working papers
- “The Communicative Origins of Social Democracy”
- “Democratic Satisfaction and the Public Sphere”
- “The Public Sphere and Institutional Trust”
- “The Public Sphere and Opinion Autonomy”, with Michael A. Hansen
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