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 ...
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’ ...
Kraus, Elisabeth Katharina (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
This dissertation tries to shed new light on the relationship between migration and fertility by concentrating on two migration contexts and applying different quantitative methods and taking various ...
Kumar, Shashwat (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
This doctoral dissertation examines the role of Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) in the macro institutional setup with an objective to understand what factors affected or continue to affect their ...
Recuenco, Luis (Date of defense: 2013-07-15)
This research analyses from a theoretical, empirical and comparative perspective couples’ decision-making and retirement ages within seven European Union-15 countries belonging to three Welfare State ...
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 ...
Ratniece, Luïze (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
This thesis contributes to knowledge about gender differences in labor market attachment by using a longitudinal, life-course approach, and consists of three empirical articles. The first one establishes ...
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 ...
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, ...
Di Nallo, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2019-02-21)
This thesis explores the increasing complexity in the life course in the United Kingdom. The first article illustrates the association between parents’ socio-economic position and children’s transition ...