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Accountability for public policies the case of health policy in Spain

Pérez Durán, Ixchel (Date of defense: 20-12-2013)

This research is a contribution to the analysis, measurement and explanation of accountability for public policies. Firstly, I develop a proposal to analyze and measure accountability for public policies. This proposal is ...

Les actituds lingüístiques dels joves universitaris de Barcelona i Palma

Tudela Isanta, Anna (Date of defense: 20-11-2015)

En aquesta tesi ens centrarem en les actituds i les ideologies lingüístiques, dos dels factors que influeixen en la tria lingüística. La disciplina que s’ha encarregat d’estudiar quins motius fan que un parlant esculli una ...

Analysing gender power relations through intermarriage in Spain

Safranoff Yankillevich, Ana (Date of defense: 16-12-2014)

Esta tesis analiza la interacción entre las desigualdades de género y la inmigración mediante el estudio de las diferencias de género en los matrimonios mixtos en España. La pregunta de investigación principal de la tesis ...

Are you ready now for another child?: life satisfaction, work-family trajectories and the progression to the second child

Luppi, Francesca (Date of defense: 27-03-2015)

This thesis aims to study the relationship between fertility and subjective wellbeing in a sample of Australian couples (source: HILDA 2001-2009), followed from the year of the pregnancy with the first child. In particular, ...

Behind Left and Right. The meaning of left-right orientation in Europe

Weber, Wiebke (Date of defense: 21-01-2013)

The left-right concept is considered to facilitate communication and orientation in the political world. It has a long tradition in European politics due to its capacity to absorb different associations over time. ...

Brain training - brain draining : skilled migration, student mobility, and transnational higher education

Levatino, Antonina (Date of defense: 22-04-2016)

The cross-border mobility of educational services, commonly known as transnational higher education (TNHE), represents an important dimension of the internationalisation of higher education. Its relationship with the ...

Buying peace: amnesty as a tool in ending civil wars

Daniels, Lesley-Ann (Date of defense: 12-02-2016)

This thesis examines the use of amnesty as a tool for ending civil wars. The thesis is innovative in its focus on amnesties during civil wars and their impact on conflict termination. I examine the conditions under which ...

El cambio institucional en un Estado Compuesto y su relación con los cambios en la distribución de poder al interior de los partidos políticos

Betanzo de la Rosa, Alejandra (Date of defense: 31-10-2011)

La actividad de investigación de este estudio doctoral se condensa en los tres artículos que aquí se presentan. Cada texto, desde una lógica de análisis distinta, hace una exploración tanto teórica como empírica de la ...

Capital Social y participación ciudadana en Políticas Sociales: el caso de México 2000-2006

de la Rosa Rodríguez, José Javier

En esta tesis se analizan las relaciones entre los programas sociales, la Participación Ciudadana y el Capital Social, como orientaciones de las políticas sociales del gobierno federal mexicano en el período 2000-2006, a ...

Casualties of turbulent economic transition: premature mortality and foregone fertility in the post-communist countries

Billingsley, Sunnee (Date of defense: 23-09-2009)

In this thesis, I analyze the contribution of the economic context to the fertility and mortality crises that took place across the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe during the transition from communism. ...

Cautious inference : random life course events of parents and children in context

Wagner, Sander (Date of defense: 01-08-2014)

Esta tesis aborda el tema de los experimentos naturales o políticos que afectan el curso de la vida de padres e hijos y de las limitaciones de inferencia en tales experimentos. El primer trabajo "A non-linear Assessment ...

Changing gendered expectations and diverging divorce trends : three papers on gender norms and partnership Dynamics

Pessin, Léa (Date of defense: 07-07-2016)

The dissertation addresses how changes in gender norms influence demographic behaviors. It is composed of three articles. The first focuses on the macro-micro association between regional gender norms and couples' divorce ...

Coalition Governance: Causes and consequences

Falcó Gimeno, Albert (Date of defense: 28-07-2011)

Els governs de coalició poden, per una banda, dividir-se les tasques i funcionar de forma compartimentalitzada, on cada soci decideixi sol les polítiques sota les seves jurisdiccions ministerials. Per contra, també poden ...

Competing for the centre ground the ideological bias on turnout

Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni (Date of defense: 29-11-2013)

This thesis is focused on studying centrist abstention, by analysing crosscountry differences and also, centrist individuals’ propensity to turn out. Despite the literature claiming that abstention is higher on the left, ...

Consequences of parental divorce and family structure on children's outcomes in European societies: individual, cohort and country explanations

Garriga Alsina, Anna

The aim of this dissertation is to expand the European literature on the effects of parental divorce and family structure on children's well-being, paying special attention to micro and macro-level explanations. In chapter ...

Couples’ Decisions and Retirement Age in Europe. A comparative study of three traditions of the Welfare State

Recuenco, Luis (Date of defense: 15-07-2013)

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 traditions: Social ...

Cultural and structural explanations of fertility : the Spanish case at the beginning of the 21sr century

Delclós Gómez-Morán, Carlos Eric (Date of defense: 22-09-2014)

Esta tesis analiza la natalidad en España a principios del S.XXI. Incluye tres capítulos empíricos sobre el impacto de los factores culturales sobre la natalidad, el impacto de los factores estructurales y culturales ...

La difusión de Programas de Transferencia Condicionada en América Latina 1990-2010

Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia (Date of defense: 29-01-2015)

Los Programas de Transferencias Condicionadas (PTC) tienen como objetivo la superación de la pobreza proveyendo efectivo a los hogares de bajos ingresos, a condición de que las familias utilicen determinados servicios de ...

Diverging parenting behavior: education, gender, class and institutions

Gracia, Pablo (Date of defense: 10-07-2012)

Esta tesis doctoral investiga cómo el cuidado parental varía por educación, género, clase social y países. Se usan datos de uso del tiempo para Gran Bretaña, Dinamarca, Flandes y España. Éstos son los resultados principales: ...

Diversity in uniform. An exploration of diversity and a comprehensive analysis of the regional police forces in Catalonia and Utrecht

Ewijk, Anne R. van (Date of defense: 08-07-2011)

This dissertation consists of three papers on diversity and diversity policy within organizations in general and within police forces in Europe in particular. The first paper provides an analytical framework that identifies ...

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