Bonet Porqueras, Eduard (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)
This thesis is a contribution to the empirical research on national identities, nationalism, and political participation, from an individual level perspective of analysis and using survey data. First, ...
Martínez Amat, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-09-01)
articles. The first examines the evolution of media audiences in Catalonia based on an unpublished compilation of data and evaluates changes in their consumption patterns coinciding with periods of ...
Bianculli, Andrea C. (Date of defense: 2010-12-21)
institutional setting, our study argues that these different trade agendas generate diverse policy dynamics. <br/>Findings show that the variation in the scope of the agenda, the uncertainty of political ...
Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
This thesis is focused on studying centrist abstention, by analysing crosscountry differences and also, centrist individuals’ propensity to turn out. Despite the literature claiming that abstention ...
Anouti, Hani (Date of defense: 2018-04-16)
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 ...
Jiménez Iglesias, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-12-13)
of exploitation and resistance to the dominant classes, together with the experience of those forms of organization are the key to processes of class subjectivation and the articulation of emancipatory ...
Comellas Bonsfills, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)
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 ...
Ribera-Almandoz, Olatz (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
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 ...
Clinton, Peter (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)
undermine the stability of a political system in which over half a billion citizens reside. While an EU compliance literature has made important strides in understanding why MS non-compliance occurs, ...
Faustini Torres, Luisa (Date of defense: 2021-06-15)
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 ...