Dr Ferran Martinez i Coma is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations. An applied political scientist with consulting, public policy, research and teaching experience, his current research specialises in elections, electoral integrity, comparative politics, political parties and electoral behaviour. Before Griffith, Ferran worked at the University of Sydney within the Electoral Integrity Project and at the Centro de Investigaciones y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. Ferran has also been a policy practitioner at the national – as a Senior Adviser in the Policy Unit of Spain’s Prime Minister’s office and as a Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Internal Affairs- and local level (as a Technical Adviser in the Department of Studies and Evaluation at Barcelona City Hall). He has written several policy reports for international organizations such as the Organisation of American States (OAS), International IDEA, and think tanks such as the Centre for American Progress (USA), Hanns Seidel Foundation (Germany, Namibia and Kenya) and Fundación Alternativas (Spain). Ferran has published in top-leading journals in political science, sociology and economics. He regularly contributes for SBS in both domestic and international matters. He also periodically writes in the blog Piedras de Papel in eldiario.es.
Dr Diego Leiva is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, and a member of the Griffith Asia Institute, at Griffith University. His current research focuses on the politics of expertise during COVID-19, from a comparative perspective (Australia, the US, the UK and Sweden), as part of an Australia Research Council grant. His research also includes Latin American presidentialism and foreign policy, Chinese investment in Latin America, and Sino–Latin American relations. Before Griffith, Diego worked at the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an analysist for the Sub-Directorate of International Migration.
Global Dataset on Turnout 