• Reimagining truth and morality: from Jürgen Habermas to Jacques Derrida 

  Tskhadaia, Giorgi (Date of defense: 13-02-2020)

  In this thesis, I argue that Jürgen Haberma’s neo-katian liberalim fails to provide universalistic foundations for truth and morality as it cannot be applied invariably across different context. However, this failure does ...
• Understanding the political integration outcomes of enfranchised and high socioeconomic status immigrants in host societies 

  Nguyen, My Land Do (Date of defense: 31-01-2020)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically investigate the theoretical perspective that political power derives from socioeconomic power—a fundamental tenet of both sociological theories of assimilation and ...
• Changing paradigms of women's labor market participation: cases of Denmark and the USA 

  Ratniece, Luïze (Date of defense: 16-12-2019)

  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 the profile of ...
• Managing compliance in a multi-level polity: the case of the European Union 

  Clinton, Peter (Date of defense: 17-12-2019)

  This thesis tackles the issue of non-compliance in the European Union (EU). This is an important issue because without Member State (MS) compliance with EU policy outputs, collective policy goals may not be achieved. ...
• 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: 09-12-2019)

  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 ...

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