Juan J. Fernández

I am Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and member of the Juan Linz Institute. I currently hold two administrative positions at UC3M: Vice-Dean of the B.A. in International Studies and Coordinator of the B.A. in Philosophy, Political Science and Economics.

My research addresses the relationship between social inequalities, structural conditions, public attitudes, and public policies in comparative perspective. In particular, I examine the socio-political foundations of public attitudes and of formal state institutions such as public policies. State institutions and public policies lie at the heart of my scholarship because they constitute well-known norms teeming with symbolic meaning and distributive consequences, the formulation of which generates intense group struggles. Moreover, public attitudes reveal people's cognitive processing of their social environment and determine their actualbehavior. In combination, comparative analyses of public policies and public attitudes shed light on the sources of social stability and change in modern societies. My current main areas of interest are European integration, gender & politics, and social policy.

I am the Principal Investigator of the project 'SHOCKS&EUAtt' concerning the influence of external shocks on pro-European attitudes, which is funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (PID2025-173679OB-C22).

Latest publication:Jaime-Castillo, Antonio and Juan J. Fernández. 2026. 'Conceptualizations of Socioeconomic Status and Preferences for Redistribution', Acta Politica - click here.

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