Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials: Recent submissions
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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 ...
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 ...
