Professor Sergi Pardos-Prado

Professor of Comparative Politics (Political & International Studies)

email: Sergi.Pardos-Prado@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Sergi Pardos-Prado is Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is also Impact Champion for Politics and International Relations, and member of the College Assessment Panel at the College of Social Sciences.

He was previously Associate Professor in Politics at Merton College, University of Oxford, and Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. He received is PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence.

Check his personal webpage here: https://sergipardos.wixsite.com/sergipardos

Research interests

Sergi Pardos-Prado research's interests lie at the intersection between comparative politics, political behaviour, comparative political economy, migration studies, and quantitative research methods.

More specifically, he has two main lines of research. First, he is working on a number of comparative politics projects studying outcomes like voting behaviour, redistribution preferences, economic perceptions, and political participation among others. He is particularly interested in understanding how different macro-level configurations of party systems, ideological dimensions, labour market structures, and tax systems affect individual preferences and rational behaviour.

Second, he analyses the determinants of attitudes towards immigration across space and time, and the impact of immigration on redistribution preferences and the sustainability of the welfare state. His current work in this area focuses on variations in labour-market demand (rather than supply) shaping anti-immigrant attitudes, and on levels of tax progressivity moderating the impact of income on preferences. He also analyses the impact of immigration policy on foreigners' long-term economic and political integration, and the determinants of anti-immigrant populist voting as a function of redistribution and demographic pressures.

Pardos-Prado's work aims for high levels of both external and internal validity, observing cross-national patterns and identifying more local causal effects with experimental and quasi-experimental methodologies.

Research groups

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2006

Number of items: 31.

2026

Facchini, Giovanni, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Testa, Cecilia (2026) Regional deprivation, individual prospects, and political resentment. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Bayer, Patrick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1731-1270, Ozturk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617 and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2026) Climate migration or climate immobility? Evidence from micro-level causal analysis of migration intentions in Nigeria. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2026.2707755) (Early Online Publication)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Xena, Carla (2026) Immigration, tax progressivity, and support for redistribution. Journal of European Public Policy, (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2026.2685818) (Early Online Publication)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2026) The watermelon effect: how immigration policies affect migrant political support. European Journal of Political Research, (doi: 10.1017/S1475676526101340) (Early Online Publication)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2026) Historical memory and radical right voting: VOX and the legacy of Francoism. Journal of Politics, 88(1), pp. 419-425. (doi: 10.1086/734282)

2025

Cohen, Denis and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2025) Regional labor markets, residential mobility, and anti-immigration sentiment. British Journal of Political Science, 55, e157. (doi: 10.1017/S0007123425101038)

2023

Helbling, Marc, Meierrieks, Daniel and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2023) Terrorism and immigration policy preferences. Defence and Peace Economics, 34(5), pp. 646-659. (doi: 10.1080/10242694.2022.2061837)

2022

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2022) The impact of Covid-19 on Trump’s electoral demise: the role of economic and democratic accountability. Perspectives on Politics, 20(1), pp. 170-186. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592721001961)

2021

Kuhn, Theresa and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2021) Corruption and support for decentralisation. European Journal of Political Research, 60(3), pp. 625-647. (doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12420)

2020

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2020) Labour market dualism and immigration policy preferences. Journal of European Public Policy, 27(2), pp. 188-207. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2019.1701536)

2019

Muñoz, Jordi and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2019) Immigration and support for social policy: an experimental comparison of universal and means-tested programs. Political Science Research and Methods, 7(04), pp. 717-735. (doi: 10.1017/psrm.2017.18)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Sagarzazu, Iñaki (2019) Economic responsiveness and the political conditioning of the electoral cycle. Journal of Politics, 81(2), pp. 441-455. (doi: 10.1086/701495)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Xena, Carla (2019) Skill specificity and attitudes toward immigration. American Journal of Political Science, 63(2), pp. 286-304. (doi: 10.1111/ajps.12406)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Sagarzazu, Iñaki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8350-0454 (2019) Economic performance and center-periphery conflicts in party competition. Party Politics, 25(1), pp. 50-62. (doi: 10.1177/1354068818816978)

2016

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Sagarzazu, Inaki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8350-0454 (2016) The political conditioning of subjective economic evaluations: the role of party discourse. British Journal of Political Science, 46(4), pp. 799-823. (doi: 10.1017/S0007123414000428)

2015

Morales, Laura, Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Ros, Virginia (2015) Issue emergence and the dynamics of electoral competition around immigration in Spain. Acta Politica, 50(4), pp. 461-485. (doi: 10.1057/ap.2014.33)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2015) How can mainstream parties prevent niche party success? Center-right parties and the immigration issue. Journal of Politics, 77(2), pp. 352-367. (doi: 10.1086/680040)

2014

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X, Lancee, Bram and Sagarzazu, Inaki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8350-0454 (2014) Immigration and electoral change in mainstream political space. Political Behavior, 36(4), pp. 847-875. (doi: 10.1007/s11109-013-9248-y)

Fraile, Marta and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2014) Correspondence between the objective and subjective economies: the role of personal economic circumstances. Political Studies, 62(4), pp. 895-912. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.12055)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X, Galais, Carolina and Muñoz, Jordi (2014) The dark side of proportionality: conditional effects of proportional features on turnout. Electoral Studies, 35, pp. 253-264. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2014.01.005)

2013

Gallego, Aina and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2013) The Big Five personality traits and attitudes towards immigrants. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(1), pp. 79-99. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.826131)

Lancee, Bram and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2013) Group conflict theory in a longitudinal perspective: analyzing the dynamic side of ethnic competition. International Migration Review, 47(1), pp. 106-131. (doi: 10.1111/imre.12015)

2012

Dinas, Elias and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2012) A hidden giant? : Exploring the centrifugal dynamics of attitudes towards the European unification. Acta Politica, 47(4), pp. 378-399. (doi: 10.1057/ap.2012.13)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2012) Valence beyond consensus : party competence and policy dispersion from a comparative perspective. Electoral Studies, 31(2), pp. 342-352. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2012.01.004)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2012) The electoral effect of immigration preferences and the centre–periphery cleavage in Spain. South European Society and Politics, 17(3), pp. 503-518. (doi: 10.1080/13608746.2012.701903)

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Cano, Francesc (2012) Education and media exposure across systemic levels of conflict. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 24(2), pp. 121-140. (doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edr005)

2011

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2011) Framing attitudes towards immigrants in Europe : when competition does not matter. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37(7), pp. 999-1015. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2011.572421)

2010

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Dinas, Elias (2010) Systemic polarisation and spatial voting. European Journal of Political Research, 49(6), pp. 759-786. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2010.01918.x)

2009

Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Molins, Joaquim M. (2009) The emergence of right-wing radicalism at the local level in Spain : the Catalan case. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 22(3), pp. 201-218. (doi: 10.1386/ijis.22.3.201/1)

2008

Liñeira, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4823-946X and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2008) Actors collectius: associacions, partits i mitjans de comunicació. In: Anduiza, Eva (ed.) Informe sobre la qualitat de la democràcia a Catalunya. Fundació Jaume Bofill: Barcelona, pp. 245-320.

2006

Molins, Joaquim M. and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2006) Il voto di "castigo" anti-immigrazione nelle elezioni comunali in Catalogna. Quaderni dell’Osservatorio Elettorale, 56, pp. 39-67.

This list was generated on Sat Sep 5 21:47:21 2026 BST.

Jump to: Articles | Book Sections

Number of items: 31.

Articles

Book Sections

This list was generated on Sat Sep 5 21:47:21 2026 BST.

Grants

2020- Co-Investigator in the ’Economic Roots of Populism’ project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation International Studies (€980,500).

2020- Co-Investigator in the ’Transnational Terrorism, Government Support and Restrictive Immigration Policies’, Seed Money WZB Berlin Social Science Center (€11,660).

2015- UK Principal Investigator in the ’Individual-Level Attitudes towards Immigrants over Time and across Contexts’, project funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (CHF 299,459).

2011- Co-Investigator in the ’Framing Attitudes towards Migration and Asylum. Effects of Immigration Politics and Policies in 15 EU Countries (FraMig)’ project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CSO2008-04135) (€82,280).

2010- Co-Investigator in the ’Stability and change in political attitudes’ project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CSO2010-18534) and by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas (€104,000).

2008- Coordinator of the Spanish team at the EU Profiler Project (voting advice application for the 2009 European Elections).

2007- Co-Investigator in a project on Indicators of Quality of Democracy in Catalonia funded by the Jaume Bofill Foundation in Barcelona.

Supervision

Professor Pardos-Prado is interested in supervising undergraduate or postgraduate theses in the following areas:

Political/voting Behaviour
Comparative Politics
Comparative Political Economy
Public Opinion
Migration Politics
Populism and radical right voting
Centre-periphery conflicts
Quantitative methods
Experiments
Survey research

Souza Lima, Thales
National identities and attitudes towards migration: a comparative and longitudinal analysis

Teaching

Comparative Public Opinion: 3rd and 4th year undergraduate.
West European Politics: 3rd and 4th year undergraduate.
Introduction to Politics- Politics 1A: pre-Honours undergraduate.

We use cookies

Necessary cookies

Analytics cookies

Clarity

School of Social & Political Sciences