Marta Fraile
Jean Monnet Fellow
Research Fellow at IPP, CSIC (Madrid), on leaveCSIS, Madrid
Research Project: Mass Media, Political Knowledge and Electoral Behaviour: Testing the Media Effects
Office: Convento, SD042
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 961
Email: marta.fraile@eui.eu
Period: 01/04/2010 - 31/03/2012
Biographical note
She is Research Fellow at Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC, Madrid (on leave from 4/2010). She has previously been Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma, Madrid (2004-2007) and at Pompeu-Fabra University (2000-2004).
Her research interest include Public Opinion, Political Behaviour (electoral and non electoral), Comparative Politics, and Methodology of the Social Sciences. She is currently working on the determinants of the Political Knowledge of European Citizens.
Current Funded Research Projects
2008-2011 Causes and consequences of Citizens’ Political Knowledge: Spain in comparative perspective. Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Reference: CSO2008-03819/SOCI. Director of the project.
2008-2010 EuroPolis: A Deliberative Polity-making project. Call Identifier FP7-SSH-2007-1 (Collaborative Project). Project number: GA2255314, CSIC. Coordinator: Pierangelo Isernia (Università de Siena). Responsible of the Spanish partnership.
Research Project: Mass Media, Political Knowledge and Electoral Behaviour: Testing the Media Effects
Summary: The project seeks to investigate the factors explaining the unequal distribution of political knowledge among citizens in Western Europe. Whereas there is an uncontested agreement about the influence of three classic factors (abilities, motivation, and opportunities) on political knowledge in the existing literature, the debate is more open about the potential effects of the mass media on what citizens know about politics. Do mass media contribute to an increase of the knowledge gap? Is there any difference between audio-visual, printed and online media? And finally, what are the consequences of media consumption and political knowledge on political behaviour?
Selected Publications
2010. “Economic voting in Spain: A 2000 panel test”. Electoral Studies, doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.01.003 (with Mikel Lewis-Beck)
2007: “Political Knowledge and the Logic of Voting: A Comparative Study” In: José María Maravall & Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca (eds.) Voters, Institutions and Accountability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 131-156)
2007. (Co-authors: Mariona Ferrer & Irene Martín). Jóvenes, Conocimiento Político y Participación. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. (ISBN: 978-84-7476-445-1)
2005. Cuando la economía entra en las urnas: el voto económico en España (1979-1996) Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. (ISBN: 84-7476-381-9)