Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials: Recent submissions
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Trusting people in times of crisis: panel and experimental evidence on the political foundations and consequences of social trust
This work is set around three empirical papers concerned with the political foundations and consequences of trust among people. The first one addresses the question of how trust evolves and whether this is shaped by ...
Individualization of muslim religious practices: contextual creativity of second-generation Moroccans in Spain
Given the limitations posed on some religious practices in secular contexts, a trend of individualization, or a self-fashioned approach to religious practices, has surfaced in an emerging debate in literature dealing ...
Republicanism and secession: a normative analysis
This dissertation, structured as a collection of three articles, aims to answer the following question: which kind of right to secede from a modern democratic state, if any, can be acknowledged from a democratic republican ...
Understanding the fertility gap: new modelling approaches to reproductive decision-making
The three chapters included in this dissertation aim to improve our understanding of the distance between people's desires regarding the timing and the number of children they want to have and what they finally achieve. ...
Overeducation: incidence, persistence and institutional differences across countries: the influence of field of study and social origin on graduates' overeducation risk
This dissertation studies overeducation incidence and persistence among graduates from different fields of study and social origin from a social stratification standpoint. Empirical research has shown that overeducation ...
Measurement equivalence in multilingual comparative survey research
The present dissertation explores language effects in a comparative survey i.e. to what extent linguistic diversity affects equivalence in a comparative survey. This is done by studying three different dimensions on the ...
What holds a multinational state together?: the political stability of the Spanish "state of autonomies"
In this PHD thesis I answer the question: “What holds a multinational state together?” by analyzing the political developments in the Spanish “State of Autonomies”. The results show that among the individual factors a dual ...
Why language(s) matter to people: a theoretical and comparative approach to linguistic justice in western democracies : the case of mixed societies
This dissertation examines two ideological clashes underlying contemporary political theories of linguistic justice (instrumentalism/constitutivism; monism/pluralism) with the aim to elucidate (a) why languages matter to ...
Life as a couple in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: how do men's and women's socioeconomic resources influence union stability?
This thesis evaluates whether the increasing socioeconomic resources of women and men and the distribution of work within the couple have an effect on union instability. On the one hand, it assesses each spouse’s satisfaction ...
Changing gendered expectations and diverging divorce trends : three papers on gender norms and partnership Dynamics
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 ...
Brain training - brain draining : skilled migration, student mobility, and transnational higher education
The cross-border mobility of educational services, commonly known as transnational higher education (TNHE), represents an important dimension of the internationalisation of higher education. Its relationship with the ...
Women in executive office in advanced industrial democracies : presence, portfolios and post-ministerial occupation
This thesis is focused on women in executive office. Whereas the literature on women's political representation in national parliaments is now well established, analyses of women in cabinets are rather limited. The ...
The social roots of Sub-Saharan African migration to Europe: networks, resources and context
This dissertation explores the social determinants of international migration between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe from approximately 1970-2008. The study begins by focusing on Senegalese migration to Europe (France, ...
Buying peace: amnesty as a tool in ending civil wars
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 ...
The European politics on language for immigrant integration: a multilevel comparative perspective
This PhD thesis analyzes the conceptual frames underpinning discourses on language for immigrant integration to understand their rationale, evolution and structuring effects. Analyzed from a multilevel perspective – state ...
The relationship between political participation and life satisfaction: causal and contextual analysis
Is there a relationship between political participation and individual life satisfaction? The idea that political participation makes people more satisfied with their lives has long been debated. However, the existing ...
Examining investment in natural gas infrastructure: governability, policy and regulatory analysis in qualitative perspective
This thesis consists of three articles that study qualitatively investment in natural gas infrastructure with emphasis on regulatory governance, regulatory and energy policies and governability using different research ...
Les actituds lingüístiques dels joves universitaris de Barcelona i Palma
En aquesta tesi ens centrarem en les actituds i les ideologies lingüístiques, dos dels factors que influeixen en la tria lingüística. La disciplina que s’ha encarregat d’estudiar quins motius fan que un parlant esculli una ...
Political parties and immigrant associations: alliances in the presence of politicized immigration conflicts at the local level: a comparative study
La presente tesis doctoral investiga la formación de alianzas entre partidos políticos y asociaciones de inmigrantes en presencia de conflictos politizados sobre inmigración a nivel local. Esta investigación incorpora la ...
Minority nations, political parties and immigration
The thesis is a compilation of three articles that explore the relationship between immigration and minority nations. It focuses on Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties (SNRP) through the lens of the centre periphery ...
