Paneque Martin, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-11-04)
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 ...
Huidobro Torres, Alba (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
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 ...
Costa, Josep (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
of nationalism (and if so, which) are more defensible than others according to current normative understandings of nationalism, and what are the implications of that for the political organization of ...
Zhou, Feng (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation consists of three papers examining the implications of non-market strategies in corporations and mutual funds. The first chapter quantifies the importance of political connections ...
Gómez Díaz, Abelardo (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)
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 ...
Jiang, Meijie (Date of defense: 2023-01-09)
Since China’s presence in Latin America, there have been ongoing debates on what drives Chinese commercial activities in the region. Yet, there is little consensus on the institutional impact on Chinese ...
Slidders, Charles Winton (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)
Localization and Participation: Democracy from Below analyses the emerging normative value of local governance and participatory democracy. Democratic legitimacy has, historically, been of little relevance ...
Schmid, Dominique (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)
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 ...
Galceran-Vercher, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
The doctoral thesis City Networks in Global Governance: Practices, Discourses and Roles analyses the implications of the revamping international activism of cities for global governance. The central ...
Özdemir, Gülce Şafak (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)
QCA) is used to analyze 13 European cities, identifying necessary and sufficient conditions for municipal activism. Local alliances between the local government and local civil society organizations and ...