Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials: Recent submissions
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Changing paradigms of women's labor market participation: cases of Denmark and the USA
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 ...
Managing compliance in a multi-level polity: the case of the European Union
This thesis tackles the issue of non-compliance in the European Union (EU). This is an important issue because without Member State (MS) compliance with EU policy outputs, collective policy goals may not be achieved. ...
Searching for autonomy and prefiguration: resisting the crisis of social reproduction through housing and health care struggles in Spain and the UK
This doctoral thesis studies the ways in which resistance and self-organisation have emerged in the sphere of social reproduction in the post-2008 global financial crisis context. It argues that social reproduction and ...
The Interrelationship between migration and family behaviours: internal migration within China and international migration from China to the U.S.
The dissertation investigates the interrelationship between migration and family behaviours, marriage and fertility, in the Chinese context. I apply event history techniques using data from an ethno-survey, several ...
Political and discursive opportunities for institutional change: the case of marriage equality in the United States
This dissertation employs a multi-method research design to analyze the political and discursive opportunities for gradual institutional change in the case of marriage equality in the American states. It comprises three ...
Educational institutions and their effect on inequality: three papers on educational systems and inequality of achievement and opportunity
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 ...
Negotiating religious exemptions: a public reason perspective
In this thesis I elaborate on three reasons why religious exemptions from generally applicable laws are not publicly justifiable in a liberal democratic society. First, mere claims of the form “God says so and my conscience ...
Time, love and parenting: the role of fathers in the intergenerational transmission of advantage
Over the last decades, fathers are getting involved in their children’s lives. The “New Fathers” are not expected to act as breadwinners but also to engage in their family life and take a similar responsibility than their ...
Political parties' position and public opinion on immigration
This PhD dissertation is interested in the mass-elite linkages in the context of the immigration issue. It examines, on the one hand, factors likely to influence party responsiveness to public opinion (bottom-up connection) ...
Striking the balance of powers: the Spanish Constitutional Court and the battle for public support
By examining the framing that political actors made of the upcoming landmark LOAPA, Rumasa and abortion decisions issued by the Spanish Constitutional Court between 1980 and 1983, its influence on public debate and the ...
Nation building in contested states
This thesis provides an overview of current nation building processes in contested states. With a specific focus on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Kosovo, original data is ...
The Diversity of union and fertility trajectories in the UK
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 ...
Keeping policy and politics apart: integration policies in Europe and the politics of citizenship in Spain and Italy
This thesis investigates immigrant integration policies paying special attention to the Spanish and Italian citizenship regimes. It hinges upon a multi-method design and its results take the shape of a three-article ...
Multiple cultural identifications, personality, and social networks
This dissertation explores how multicultural individuals acculturate, and how their personality traits and cultural identifications relate to the content and the structure of their habitual personal social networks. I ...
The Politics of discrimination: a comparative study of the situation of Christian Arab minorities in Egypt and Syria
This thesis investigates the puzzle of why the level of discrimination against religious minorities was higher in Egypt than in Syria, and therefore why the transition from "Arab" nationalism to "re-Islamization" of politics ...
'Making the most of it': the emergence, maintenance, and legitimation of the contemporary Northern Irish republican armed struggle
La tesi es centra en l'actual interació de la lluita armada republicana a Irlanda del Nord, activa des de l'època del procés de pau a finals dels anys noranta. Tot i caracteritzar-se per una intensitat menor que la del ...
A Study on public-private collaboration: motivations and consequences, measuring success with key dimensions, comparing leadership
Public-private collaboration (PPC) is a phenomenon that has grown spectacularly since the early 1980s. Currently, policy-making processes usually develop in complex networks of public and private institutions, and public ...
Family dynamics of international migrants and their descendants
This dissertation tries to shed new light on the relationship between migration and fertility by concentrating on two migration contexts and applying different quantitative methods and taking various perspectives. The ...
Satisfaction with democracy as the evaluation of institutional structure, democratic process and economic performance: a comparative panel study on the sources of political support
This thesis analyses the sources of public evaluations of democratic regimes from a comparative perspective, a longitudinal perspective and with a case study of Spain. The main argument of the dissertation is that people’s ...
Policy, social capital and health: the multiple implications of immigrant economic incorporation
For many the success of a migration decision depends on making a successful transition into the new labor market. The objective of this dissertation is to shine light on the link between the labor market outcomes of ...
