Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials: Recent submissions
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The Role of leaders' characteristics on governments formation
This Ph.D. dissertation examines the extent to which the personal characteristics of political leaders affect their political ambition and government formation processes. While the literature shows that government ...
Managing crises beyond the EU borders: a network-based analysis
This thesis discusses the role and weight of the European Union institutions and Member States in the responses to three crises whose epicenters are located beyond the EU borders. To do so, it examines the responses to the ...
Causes and consequences of affective polarisation in comparative perspective
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 ...
Organized class struggle against the financialization of housing in Spain: the case of the PAHC Sabadell
This doctoral thesis studies class-based social movements as a response to the collapse of the Spanish mode of capital accumulation, based on the financialization of housing and the extraction of rents. It argues that the ...
Strategic planning proliferation and city aspiration-crafting: investigating city strategic plans through publications, contents and triggers
This thesis explores a peculiar phenomenon of urban governance: namely, the recent rise of strategic city planning. Over the last decades, a growing number of cities adopted strategic plans that—following a strikingly ...
The Role of higher education in refugee integration: the case of Syrians in Turkey
This thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of higher education in refugees’ integration by focusing on urban refugees’ experiences who settled in a neighboring ...
Refugees' onward migration decisions and the EU-Turkey deal
Adopting a bottom-up approach, and taking the EU‒Turkey deal as a case study, this Ph.D. thesis provides empirical evidence about the impact of externalisation policies on refugees’ daily lives and on their onward migration ...
Who manages the money at home?: household financial organization and gender inequalities
This PhD dissertation addresses how couples manage their money in intimate relationships. It is composed of 4 articles. The first one focuses on the individual and couple level dynamics behind money management systems in ...
Why do negotiation processes matter?: informal capabilities as determinants of EU member states bargaining success in the Council of the EU
How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at the EU level? Based on new datasets collected via 145 semi-structured interviews with national negotiators and EU officials ...
Understanding the dynamics of cultural stratification: the case of Spain
Advanced societies have witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and technological changes in the last 50 years. The growth of the service sector has transformed the class structure, and social mobility has increased for ...
The Nexus between EU external migration policies and the democratization of Southern Mediterranean countries: a multi-layered analysis with Morocco as a case study
What is the nexus between EU external migration policies and the democratization of Southern Mediterranean countries (SMCs)? Although being two essential components of EU external action and central elements within ...
Integration and discrimination of Chinese ethnic minority in Spain
This thesis uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore the integration of Chinese minorities living in Spain – especially, of the second generation born or educated in the country – and the problems of discrimination. ...
More than a regulatory state: divergent trajectories in the Mexican polymorphous state
This thesis investigates the Mexican regulatory reforms focusing on the evolution of the institutional arrangements of the regulatory state across policy regimes. It is based on a qualitative research design and the results ...
Las Barreras invisibles para la igualdad: tres estudios sobre las desigualdades étnicas y de género en el mercado de trabajo durante la Gran Recesión
This thesis analyzes ethnics and gender inequalities in access to the labor market during the Great Recession in Spain. The first article illustrates the probabilities of unemployed people to get a job depending on gender, ...
Media performance during the "Catalan process": trends in mainstream media audiences and news framing in the course of the independence debate in Catalonia
This thesis analyses the processes undergone by mainstream media during the independence debate in Catalonia, focusing on the relationship among media, their audiences and governments through different empirical perspectives. ...
Fertility and family ties in times of demographic changes
This thesis investigates how big economic and demographic changes over the past century influence fertility dynamics with a particular focus on family ties. The first chapter investigates the role of type of partnership ...
Political distrust and support for anti-establishment parties in hard times: panel and longitudinal evidence of the association between political distrust and voting for anti-establishment parties
This thesis revolves around the relationship between distrust in the main actors of political representation (political parties and politicians) and voting for anti-establishment parties (AEP). While the research does not ...
Intercultural relations and family-school trust: immigrant and native families in schools of Barcelona
The main aim of the thesis is to explain intercultural relations between immigrant and native families in the school context and how these reflect in their trust in local schools. For this purpose, I analyze the relationship ...
Reimagining truth and morality: from Jürgen Habermas to Jacques Derrida
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
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 ...
