Research

Published or forthcoming

Cozza, Joseph Francesco, Gonzalo Di Landro, Andrea Aldrich, and Zeynep Somer-Topcu. "A Rainbow Ceiling? Sexual Orientation and Party Leader Evaluations." British Journal of Political Science. 2025

Di Landro, Gonzalo. "Party Behaviour and the Gender Voting Gap." British Journal of Political Science. 2025

Winner of the 2026 GESIS Klingemann Prize for Best CSES Scholarship (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences )
Winner of the William P. Hobby Award for Best Political Science Paper Presented at a Professional Conference (Rice University's Department of Political Science)
Featured in: La Diaria
Covered by: El País

Acquarone, Iris E. and Gonzalo Di Landro. “Historically Marginalized Groups and Ideological Representation in Legislatures." Legislative Studies Quarterly. 2025

Featured in: Búsqueda, and Razones y Personas

Selected work in progress

Male-Dominated Chambers, Political Careers, and the Adoption of Legislative Gender Quotas (with Agustín Vallejo)

Gender quota laws are designed to increase women’s representation, yet they are typically adopted by legislatures dominated by men whose careers may be affected. Why do male-dominated chambers adopt quotas, and why do some countries adopt them earlier? We build on the literature on internal and external pressures driving quota adoption to offer an explanation centered on career incentives: in legislatures where careers tend to be short, resistance is lower because quotas pose less threat to incumbents’ expectations. We test this argument with original data on all members of seventeen Latin American lower chambers (1989-2022) using Event History Analysis. We find that chambers with shorter career expectations, measured by reelection rates, adopt quotas earlier; however, this effect attenuates over time. These chambers also move sooner to strengthen quotas after adoption. Our findings highlight how political careers shape quota timing and the obstacles men’s career expectations can pose to women’s representation.

Divided by Partisanship: Uncovering Young Men’s and Young Women’s Attachments to the Radical Right (with Ryan Block and Randolph T. Stevenson)

Radical right-wing parties are often portrayed as having rising appeal among youth, particularly young men. But do young voters hold deeper connections to these parties, in the form of identity-based attachments? And if so, do young men and women differ in this regard? Using original surveys from Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, we leverage a multi-item battery of partisan identity questions and IRT models to construct a measure capturing positive and negative attachments to parties. Our findings reveal a previously unknown youth gender gap in identification with the radical right. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, this divide is anchored less in young men’s positive attachments to these parties than in young women’s negative attachments to them. This gap is generally absent among older cohorts, highlighting a generational gender divide with important implications for political representation.