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    Satisfaction with democracy as the evaluation of institutional structure, democratic process and economic performance: a comparative panel study on the sources of political support 

    Christmann, Pablo (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)

    This thesis analyses the sources of public evaluations of democratic regimes from a comparative perspective, a longitudinal perspective and with a case study of Spain. The main argument of the dissertation is that people’s ...

    Searching for autonomy and prefiguration: resisting the crisis of social reproduction through housing and health care struggles in Spain and the UK 

    Ribera-Almandoz, Olatz (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

    This doctoral thesis studies the ways in which resistance and self-organisation have emerged in the sphere of social reproduction in the post-2008 global financial crisis context. It argues that social reproduction and ...

    Set on competing : contamination effects and parties' entry decisions in mass elections 

    Guinjoan Cesena, Marc (Date of defense: 2012-10-26)

    According to the Duvergerian theories, only viable parties would be expected to stand for elections alone in the long run, whereas nonviable parties would be thought to join a pre-electoral coalition with another party ...

    Sexual identity and adverse health-related outcomes: a study on risk behaviour, suicide, and substance use 

    Sönmez, İbrahim (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)

    This PhD dissertation addresses how stress regarding one’s sexual identity relates to health-related adverse outcomes. It is composed of four articles. The first one examines how internalized homonegativity (IH) is ...

    Social Inequalities in health among the elderly 

    Rueda Pozo, Silvia (Date of defense: 2011-04-07)

    Aquesta tesi analitza les desigualtats en salut entre les persones grans a través d’un marc d’anàlisi on es combinen la posició socioeconòmica, el gènere, el desenvolupament socioeconòmic regional i el suport social. ...

    Socio-economic resources, relationship processes, and separation 

    Boertien, Diederik (Date of defense: 2013-07-10)

    This thesis consists of three empirical papers that all study relationship processes and their effects on divorce. Of particular interest is the role that socio-economic resources play in this story. In the first empirical ...

    Strategic planning proliferation and city aspiration-crafting: investigating city strategic plans through publications, contents and triggers 

    De Freitas, João (Date of defense: 2021-05-10)

    This thesis explores a peculiar phenomenon of urban governance: namely, the recent rise of strategic city planning. Over the last decades, a growing number of cities adopted strategic plans that—following a strikingly ...

    Striking the balance of powers: the Spanish Constitutional Court and the battle for public support 

    Gil-Porquet, Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)

    By examining the framing that political actors made of the upcoming landmark LOAPA, Rumasa and abortion decisions issued by the Spanish Constitutional Court between 1980 and 1983, its influence on public debate and the ...

    Studies in support for democracy 

    Moncagatta, Paolo (Date of defense: 2015-06-02)

    Citizen support for democratic rule is considered by many scholars as a necessary condition for the consolidation and stability of democratic systems. This dissertation studies support for democracy from three different ...

    A Study on public-private collaboration: motivations and consequences, measuring success with key dimensions, comparing leadership 

    Alsina Burgués, Victòria (Date of defense: 2017-12-21)

    Public-private collaboration (PPC) is a phenomenon that has grown spectacularly since the early 1980s. Currently, policy-making processes usually develop in complex networks of public and private institutions, and public ...

    The effects of marital transitions and spousal characteristic on economic outcomes 

    Ozcan, Berkay (Date of defense: 2008-10-31)

    My dissertation aims to improve our understanding of why and how couple dynamics and marital transitions affect four critical economic outcomes: household savings, labour supply, transition to self-employment and income ...

    The European politics on language for immigrant integration: a multilevel comparative perspective 

    Climent, Vicent (Climent Ferrando) (Date of defense: 2016-03-15)

    This PhD thesis analyzes the conceptual frames underpinning discourses on language for immigrant integration to understand their rationale, evolution and structuring effects. Analyzed from a multilevel perspective – state ...

    The Gender & Gendered parental impacts in leisure time: Assessing inequality in a European comparative perspective 

    Martinez Mendiola, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-12-18)

    Major socio-economic and demographic changes have occurred in Europe during the last decades which have challenged the gender specialization of tasks and time. Nonetheless, inequalities in the distribution of paid and ...

    The Goods that children need: love, virtues, and freedom 

    García Jaén, Óscar (Date of defense: 2023-05-18)

    In this thesis, I contribute to answering the questions of what children need and what parents owe to them. To make this contribution, I discuss three fundamental goods that children arguably need to have a flourishing ...

    The impact of political sophistication on the use cognitive shortcuts: evidence from experiments and secondary data 

    Brusattin, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)

    This research project assesses the role played by political sophistication in terms of itsimpact on the voters’ resort to cognitive shortcuts, with reference both to the consciousand non-conscious components of voting ...

    The political transnationalism of immigrant associations in Barcelona 

    Vancea, Mihaela (Date of defense: 2009-05-26)

    Aquesta tesi vol respondre a dos preguntes fonamentals en l'àrea de recerca de la migració transnacional: s'impliquen els immigrants en el transnacionalisme polític? I, quins són els factors determinants del seu activisme ...

    The Process of political professionalisation in small scale democracies: a comparative study of European micro-states 

    Paneque Martin, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-11-04)

    This thesis is focused on studying the causes and consequences of political professionalisation, by analyzing empirically the cross-country differences. Despite the literature claiming that political professionalisation ...

    The relationship between political participation and life satisfaction: causal and contextual analysis 

    Pirralha, André (Date of defense: 2016-03-11)

    Is there a relationship between political participation and individual life satisfaction? The idea that political participation makes people more satisfied with their lives has long been debated. However, the existing ...

    The social mechanisms of political intermediation: three essays on the causes and consequences of political discussion 

    Maldonado Hernández, Gerardo de Jesús (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)

    The general purpose of this thesis is to analyse in which ways the social context—particularly, the intermediation of political information through interpersonal discussion networks—conditions citizens’ attitudes and ...

    The social roots of Sub-Saharan African migration to Europe: networks, resources and context 

    Liu, Mao-Mei (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)

    This dissertation explores the social determinants of international migration between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe from approximately 1970-2008. The study begins by focusing on Senegalese migration to Europe (France, ...