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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bravo Laguna, Carlos D. (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)
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 ...
Lopera Marmol, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-12-12)
Las representaciones de los trastornos mentales en las series de televisión han sido a menudo inexactas. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la representación y la recepción de los trastornos ...
Mestre Nogué, Josep Vicenç (Date of defense: 2022-05-18)
els paràmetres del l’època–, representen el corrent majoritari del catalanisme polític. En conseqüència, estudiem les paraules i altres textos doctrinals de Enric Prat de la Riba, Josep Puig i Cadafalch ...
Prasličková, Aurélia (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Animal welfare has emerged as a pervasive concern in modern international law. Although the question of animal welfare is one of the greatest social justice issues of our times, there is a surprising ...
Montes Franceschini, Macarena (Date of defense: 2022-10-05)
The thesis defends the plausibility of nonhuman animal personhood from a legal and moral perspective. It offers an ecumenical defense as it argues that animals can be considered persons from very ...
Abuin Lorenzo, Lorena (Date of defense: 2022-04-01)
El presente estudio parte de una premisa relacionada tanto con intereses investigadores como con una voluntad de aplicación práctica. Tras la identificación de un vacío en la literatura científica ...