Laia Balcells

Professor


Curriculum vitae


Department of Government

Georgetown University



Publications


Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right


Laia Balcells, Sergi Martínez, Ethan vanderWilden

Political Science Research and Methods, 2025


Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”


Laia Balcells, S. Kalyvas

American Political Science Review, 2025


Revolution in Civil War: The 'Marxist Paradox'


Laia Balcells, S. Kalyvas

American Political Science Review, 2025


Internal drivers of self-rule referendums


Harriet Goers, K. Cunningham, Laia Balcells

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2024


Remembering the Violent Past in Ethnically Divided Societies


Laia Balcells, Olwen Purdue, Elsa Voytas

Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, 2024


Social costs and policy preferences: Evidence from territorial strategies in Catalonia


Laia Balcells, Alexander Kuo

Nations and Nationalism, 2024


Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot Soldiers?


Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, Michael Weintraub, L. Fergusson, J. G. Duque, Laia Balcells

Social Science Research Network, 2023


Territorial disputes and affective polarization


Laia Balcells, L. Daniels, Alexander Kuo

European Journal of Political Research, 2023


The Wars of Others: The Effect of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Spanish Nationalism


Laia Balcells, J. F. Tellez, Francisco Villamil

Journal of Politics, 2023


The “Weight” of Territorial Issues: Evidence from Catalonia, Scotland, and Northern Ireland


Laia Balcells, L. Daniels, Alexander Kuo

Comparative politics, 2023


Violent victors: why bloodstained parties win postwar elections


Laia Balcells

International Affairs, 2023


Secessionist conflict and affective polarization: Evidence from Catalonia


Laia Balcells, Alexander Kuo

Journal of Peace Research, 2022


Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain


Francisco Villamil, Laia Balcells

Research & Politics, 2021


Preferences in Between: Moderates in the Catalan Secessionist Conflict


Laia Balcells, Alexander Kuo

Politics and Governance, 2021


Secession and social polarization: Evidence from Catalonia


Laia Balcells, José Fernández-Albertos, Alexander Kuo

2021


Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances


Laia Balcells, Chong Chen, Costantino Pischedda

Social Science Research Network, 2020


Do Transitional Justice Museums Persuade Visitors? Evidence from a Field Experiment


Laia Balcells, Valeria Palanza, Elsa Voytas

Journal of Politics, 2020


Repression and Dissent in Contemporary Catalonia


Laia Balcells, Spencer Dorsey, J. Tellez

British Journal of Political Science, 2020


The Double Logic of Internal Purges: New Evidence from Francoist Spain


Laia Balcells, Francisco Villamil

Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, 2020


New findings from conflict archives


Laia Balcells, Christopher M. Sullivan

2018


Using a natural experiment to estimate the electoral consequences of terrorist attacks


Laia Balcells, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018


Preferences for Inter-Regional Redistribution


Laia Balcells, José Fernández-Albertos, Alexander Kuo

2015


La identitat catalana, entre França i Espanya


Laia Balcells i Ventura

2009



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