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Beyond the Member State: Subnational Infringements of European Environmental Directives 

Wilhelm, Marie-Thérèse (Date of defense: 2024-11-28)

This dissertation examines the extent to which subnational authorities comply with European environmental directives. Problematic implementation of EU environmental legislation is well-known, but continued noncompliance ...

Worlds apart: The impact of (in)congruence on electoral behaviour: When voters and parties do not align 

Ioannidis, Nikandros (Date of defense: 2024-11-15)

This thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of ideological incongruence between voters and political parties on electoral behaviour in European democracies. It introduces a novel approach to measuring the ...

Beyond Boundaries: Leveraging Visual Data for Advancements in Social Science Research 

Iglesias Muñoz, Patricia Andrea (Date of defense: 2024-11-22)

This thesis focuses on visual data collected in the frame of online surveys, examining the main challenges and implications of collecting and analyzing these new data types. Given the relatively unexplored implementation ...

Access of Migrant Women to Labor Market in Germany: Exploring the Barriers, Opportunities, and Experiences 

Yurdakul, Aslihan (Date of defense: 2025-11-17)

This dissertation is a mixed-method research project divided into three articles, each of which focuses on a different aspect of labor market integration for migrant women. The first chapter analyzes the experiences ...

Newborn's Well-Being within War Context in Colombia 

Mera León, Harold (Date of defense: 2024-07-01)

Prior to the 2016 Havana Peace Agreement, Colombia grappled with 70 years of violence stemming from an armed conflict involving military forces, guerrillas, and paramilitaries, profoundly impacting civilians, including ...

The Political Dynamics of Technological Change: Building States with Technology 

Amatller Dómine, Guillem (Date of defense: 2024-07-11)

In this thesis I analyze the political dynamics of technological change. Firstly, by studying the political causes of the advent of telecommunications, and secondly, by exploring the consequences of different technologies. ...

Global AI policy in the making: actors, framings, and approaches 

Schmitt, Lewin (Date of defense: 2024-07-12)

The rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have sparked regulatory and political activities in jurisdictions around the world. This dissertation outlines and investigates the nascent domain of global ...

Building Trust Among Actors Within Regulatory Regimes: The Role of Specialized Agencies 

Gómez Díaz, Jana (Date of defense: 2024-07-18)

Regulatory regimes have become increasingly complex due to a shift towards specialized agencies, particularly notable in multi-level contexts like the European Union where decision-making authority is dispersed across ...

Inside the Black Box of Innovations: Understanding Impacts on Occupations and Task Content in Germany and Spain 

Melo Nogueira, Patricia (Date of defense: 2024-06-28)

This thesis investigates the determinants of innovation and its impact on occupational change and work tasks within the institutional contexts of Germany and Spain. The first chapter reveals that product and process ...

The Politics of EU-China economic relations: Normative and regulatory disputes in the reconfiguration of global economic governance 

Comerma, Laia (Date of defense: 2024-06-11)

China and the European Union have a longstanding relationship even if a complex one that is of major importance for the state and evolution of the regime of global economic governance. This thesis aims to fill the gap ...

Regulatory Governance of Higher Education quality in Paraguay: Exploring ANEAES and its Instruments for enhancing higher education quality in Paraguay 

Gomez Valdez, Shirley (Date of defense: 2024-06-17)

This thesis analyses the regulatory governance of higher education in the field of external quality assessment and accreditation. To do this, I developed a case study focussing on Paraguay and studying the National Agency ...

The Fight for Intersectional Claims: An Analysis of Women in Movement 

Muñoz-Puig, Marina (Date of defense: 2024-05-17)

This dissertation examines women's political representation and participation from an intersectional perspective in Catalonia. It encompasses three different, yet interconnected research articles. The first paper analyses ...

Intercultural cities, convivencia and public spaces: Perspectives of policymakers, policy implementers and target groups of Barcelona interculturality plan 

Karaoğlu, Iren Eylül (Date of defense: 2024-03-06)

This Ph.D. thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the intercultural policies by focusing on the perspectives of different actors about urban encounters and public ...

An analysis of the mediators and moderators of migrant-native gaps in educational expectations and educational transitions 

Palomo Lario, Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

This doctoral dissertation analyses the differences between young people with an immigrant background and natives (without an immigrant background) in educational expectations and the educational pathways chosen when ...

Urban Fabric Designed for Diversity: How the Structure of Great European Cities Influences Attitudes and Behavior 

Kent, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2023-11-27)

Urban design influences how we go about our lives and even how we feel about our neighbors. Using data from the Copernicus Urban Atlas, I find that residents of cities across Europe that have more continuous urban fabric ...

For Whose Benefit?: A critical analysis of forest carbon offsetting projects and conflict 

Schmid, Dominique (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)

Worldwide, the number of forest carbon offsetting projects has been increasing rapidly over the past decade. Advocates of these projects frame them as a triple-win by allowing continued economic growth for those that ...

On the legitimacy of Nationalism: minorities, majorities, and the multinational state 

Costa, Josep (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

This thesis develops normative arguments about nationalism in multinational contexts. It draws consequences from the arguments used by advocates of nationalism, and analyzes their implications for a theory of the multinational ...

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 ...

Cities in action: comparing local responses to irregular migrants in Europe 

Özdemir, Gülce Şafak (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)

This dissertation investigates the responses of European cities to irregular migrants. The first chapter uses a localist approach to understand variations in local policies and practices. A typology of urban solidarity is ...

Towards stylised facts on international migration research: Immigrants' labor market integration, dynamics of remittance behaviour, and underlying mechanisms of migration rates 

Carrasco Armijo, José Ignacio (Date of defense: 2023-09-04)

This thesis touches upon three subjects within international migration, namely: immigrants’ labour market incorporation, dynamics of remittances behaviour, and the role of migrant networks as an underlying mechanism of ...

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