Marco Pastor Mayo

Biography

Marco Pastor Mayo is a postdoctoral research fellow at Free University of Berlin, where he is a member of the International and Comparative Political Economy Center. His research interests include public opinion, political economy, elections and party systems in post-industrial societies. His doctoral dissertation focuses on economic inequality, preferences for redistribution and party politics. Previously, Pastor Mayo worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Barcelona, conducting research on technocratic attitudes in Spain during the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Pastor Mayo will conduct research on realignments in the political cleavages of European party systems to assess whether they are driven by structural factors, like rising education and aging demographics, or behavioral factors, like class dealignment and a ‘cultural backlash’.

Pastor Mayo received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oxford and his M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago.

This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Free University of Berlin
• Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University