Marciel Pariente, Rubén (Date of defense: 2021-10-21)
El derecho ciudadano a la información es el derecho de la ciudadanía a disfrutar de un acceso fácil a la información que necesita para actualizar su conocimiento político y poder así tomar decisiones ...
Schena, Jucinara (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
Aware of the well-studied non-neutrality of media and the challenge that represents to have mechanisms to objectively identify the ideological bias, this thesis provides a methodological proposal to ...
Huang, Xiang (Date of defense: 2023-02-06)
Obesity is a pressing health issue and a popular topic in Chinese media. This PhD thesis investigates the metaphors used to talk about obesity in Chinese media. Specifically, this thesis compares the ...
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 ...
Polymeneas, Georgios-Alexandros (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
This study presents a multidisciplinary framework for the analysis of evidential meaning in the Greek political discourse during the period of the current European debt crisis, and moving beyond a mere ...
Aragón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations focused on characterizing online participation in civic technologies, a type of platform increasingly popular on the Internet that allows citizens ...
Serani, Danilo (Date of defense: 2020-03-04)
This thesis revolves around the relationship between distrust in the main actors of political representation (political parties and politicians) and voting for anti-establishment parties (AEP). While ...
Recalde, Lorena (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és desenvolupar nous i diversos mètodes per modelar les preferències dels usuaris a les Xarxes Socials Online. Els mètodes proposats tenen com a finalitat ser aplicats en àrees ...
Tesei, Andrea (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)
This thesis investigates different social and political aspects of modern economies. The first chapter contributes to the natural resource curse debate, by showing that the impact of resource windfalls ...
Stoerk, Thomas (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)
This thesis consists of three chapters that investigate environmental policy questions from an empirical point of view. Chapter 1 examines the trustworthiness of official air pollution data sources for ...