Peer-reviewed articles:
- Barbet, Berta, 2020 "Nobody seems to be fully representing me: Differential inter-attitudinal cohesion systems and their effects on satisfaction with the political system", Electoral Studies
- Reinermann, Holger & Barbet, Berta ,2019. "Party system dimensionality and perceived quality of representation", Party Politics.
- Barbet, Berta, 2019 "Changing the issues of the electoral arena: do parties and voters move together?", Comparative European Politics.
Books and book chapters:
- Barbet, Berta , 2017 "La crisis de legitimidad del poder legislativo: alcance y causas de la crisis del sistema de representación parlamentaria" en González, Felipe, Damiani, Gerson & Ferández-Albertos, José (eds) ¿Quién manda aquí? La crisis global de la democracia representativa Debate: Barcelona pp 131-166.
- Barbet, Berta , 2015"Towards a comprehensive theory of party competition and electoral change: From party identification to Rikers' theory of heresthetics and rhetoric" in Paxton, Maria & Kolpinskaya, Ekaterina & Jonášová, Jana Politics in Crisis? Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne
Work in progress:
evidence that, although part of the adjustment is done through the alteration of positions, left-right self-perceptions are also adjusted, especially in cases when the relevance of the issue increases. The findings qualify some important assumptions of the study of party influence on public perceptions and open several lines of future research.
ABSTRACT: Neighbourhood socio-economic composition has been found to impact levels of participation -a dynamic that could have important implications for political equality-. However, little is known about the mechanisms that explain the mobilisation of less-well-off groups in certain contexts, neither the exact way in which neighbourhood composition matters. Using data from the city of Barcelona, this article tests the extent to which individuals with low levels of education participate in political protests when they live in neighbourhoods with higher proportions of individuals with low levels of education. It also tests the extent to which such effect is mainly driven through differences in individual perceptions, embeddedness in the neighbourhood or mobilization
- Barbet, Berta "Do parties shape the issues of the political space?: The links between voters and parties on left–right perceptions" (Under review)
evidence that, although part of the adjustment is done through the alteration of positions, left-right self-perceptions are also adjusted, especially in cases when the relevance of the issue increases. The findings qualify some important assumptions of the study of party influence on public perceptions and open several lines of future research.
- Barbet, Berta & Camilo Cristancho "The contextual and individual effects of education levels on political participation"
ABSTRACT: Neighbourhood socio-economic composition has been found to impact levels of participation -a dynamic that could have important implications for political equality-. However, little is known about the mechanisms that explain the mobilisation of less-well-off groups in certain contexts, neither the exact way in which neighbourhood composition matters. Using data from the city of Barcelona, this article tests the extent to which individuals with low levels of education participate in political protests when they live in neighbourhoods with higher proportions of individuals with low levels of education. It also tests the extent to which such effect is mainly driven through differences in individual perceptions, embeddedness in the neighbourhood or mobilization
- Barbet, Berta & Vidal, Guillem & de Moragas, Antoni-Italo "Emotion beats reason: An experiment on the political persuasiveness of arguments"