Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This PhD dissertation adds to the literature that studies affective polarisation in comparative perspective. Citizens of democracies around the globe express substantive levels of hostility towards opposing parties, their ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
This dissertation is about ‘contamination’, or the interaction between the two built-in arenas found in mixed-member electoral systems: the single-seat district (SSD) and proportional representation (PR) arenas. Contamination ...
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 ...
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 ...
This dissertation explores the structure and impacts of culturally diversifying experiences, on a series of intra- and interpersonal outcomes. It extends prior research by using diverse conceptualizations (experimentally ...
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 ...
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 to first union and ...
By placing particular attention to the socio-economic dimension, this thesis explores the role of three pillars of an educational system: decentralization, early education and curricular tracking. The first article focuses ...
Se trata de una exposición acerca de la ubicación de los estudios de investigación sobre Comportamiento y Resultados electorales en el ámbito de la Ciencia Política. En dicha exposición se profundiza sobre diversos aspectos ...
