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 ...
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 ...
Bea i Seguí, Enric (Date of defense: 2018-10-05)
arguments for political liberalism. The next two chapters contain the theoretical chore of the thesis. Chapter three is devoted to the presentation of two common views liberal theorists have put forward ...
Holesch, Adam (Date of defense: 2016-11-31)
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 ...
Uležić, Sanjin (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)
La tesi es centra en l'actual interació de la lluita armada republicana a Irlanda del Nord, activa des de l'època del procés de pau a finals dels anys noranta. Tot i caracteritzar-se per una intensitat ...
Magaña Fernández, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)
This thesis provides a systematic analysis and a defense of the claim that at least some nonhuman animals (i.e. mammals) ought to be granted political standing, understood here as a (pro tanto) duty of ...
Riera Gil, Elvira (Date of defense: 2016-10-03)
This dissertation examines two ideological clashes underlying contemporary political theories of linguistic justice (instrumentalism/constitutivism; monism/pluralism) with the aim to elucidate (a) why ...
Martini, Sergio (Date of defense: 2017-02-06)
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 ...
Gil-Porquet, Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
By examining the framing that political actors made of the upcoming landmark LOAPA, Rumasa and abortion decisions issued by the Spanish Constitutional Court between 1980 and 1983, its influence on public ...
Vrânceanu, Alina (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
This PhD dissertation is interested in the mass-elite linkages in the context of the immigration issue. It examines, on the one hand, factors likely to influence party responsiveness to public opinion ...