Department: Law and Political Science Department

Unit: Management and governance

Research group: GADE eGovernance: electronic administration and democracy

Email: mbarreda@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universidad de Deusto with the thesis Legitimidad democrática y legitimación política Las estrategias de legitimación en el discurso de las elecciones generales de 1996 en Cataluña 2001. Supervised by Dr. Ferran Requejo.

Doctor by the Universidad de Deusto with the thesis Legitimidad democrática y legitimación política. Las estrategias de legitimación en el discurso de las elecciones generales de 1996 en Cataluña 2021. Supervised by Dr. Ferran Requejo.

Doctorate in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Deusto (Bilbao). Associate professor of Political Science at the UOC's Faculty of Law and Political Science. Director of the UOC's Bachelor's Degree in International Relations. Before joining the UOC, I taught and carried out research at two other universities (University of Deusto and Pompeu Fabra University), and I was a senior consultant at a think tank specializing in development cooperation and institutional strengthening (International Governance Institute of Catalonia (IIGC)). My research activity focuses on studying political institutions in modern democracies, both from a comparative perspective and from a case study perspective. In particular, my main current lines of research focus on democratic quality, accountability, party systems, think tanks and political representation processes, paying particular attention to Latin American. At present, I am a researcher on the R&D project "Beyond the organization chart: centres of power in Latin American parties" (PID 2019-104787RB-I00). I am member of the UOC's e-Governance: electronic administration and democracy (GADE) research group. I also perform quality assessment activities for university qualifications, in particular as a member of the Social Sciences II Commission of the Madridmasd Foundation.