Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials: Recent submissions
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The Politics of EU-China economic relations: Normative and regulatory disputes in the reconfiguration of global economic governance
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Precarious employment and social reproduction: the impact on health and well-being
This dissertation aims to make a theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on precarious employment, social reproduction and the impact on health and well-being. In recent years, numerous studies have examined ...
What's in a job? An exploration of what we do and how it affects labor and family outcomes
The objective of this thesis is to explore what makes up a job–the tasks, skills, personality traits, and rewards–and determine how a job impacts our daily lives. Much of the literature quantifies and describes jobs by ...
The Goods that children need: love, virtues, and freedom
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 have a flourishing ...
Sexual identity and adverse health-related outcomes: a study on risk behaviour, suicide, and substance use
This PhD dissertation addresses how stress regarding one’s sexual identity relates to health-related adverse outcomes. It is composed of four articles. The first one examines how internalized homonegativity (IH) is ...
Key sources of income (and wage) inequalities: from the State to the individuals
The following thesis aims to provide a general picture of to what extent different important sources – at the macro and the micro level – affect income inequality over time. Indeed, given the natural interdependence between ...
Culturally diversifying experiences: new methodologies, diverse samples, integrated perspectives
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 ...
Regulatory arrangements and electricity governance : India in a comparative perspective
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 functioning after ...
Contamination effects in mixed-member electoral systems: a dissemination of measurement techniques
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 ...
The Process of political professionalisation in small scale democracies: a comparative study of European micro-states
This thesis is focused on studying the causes and consequences of political professionalisation, by analyzing empirically the cross-country differences. Despite the literature claiming that political professionalisation ...
