Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials: Recent submissions
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Integration and discrimination of Chinese ethnic minority in Spain
This thesis uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore the integration of Chinese minorities living in Spain – especially, of the second generation born or educated in the country – and the problems of discrimination. ...
More than a regulatory state: divergent trajectories in the Mexican polymorphous state
This thesis investigates the Mexican regulatory reforms focusing on the evolution of the institutional arrangements of the regulatory state across policy regimes. It is based on a qualitative research design and the results ...
Las Barreras invisibles para la igualdad: tres estudios sobre las desigualdades étnicas y de género en el mercado de trabajo durante la Gran Recesión
This thesis analyzes ethnics and gender inequalities in access to the labor market during the Great Recession in Spain. The first article illustrates the probabilities of unemployed people to get a job depending on gender, ...
Media performance during the "Catalan process": trends in mainstream media audiences and news framing in the course of the independence debate in Catalonia
This thesis analyses the processes undergone by mainstream media during the independence debate in Catalonia, focusing on the relationship among media, their audiences and governments through different empirical perspectives. ...
Fertility and family ties in times of demographic changes
This thesis investigates how big economic and demographic changes over the past century influence fertility dynamics with a particular focus on family ties. The first chapter investigates the role of type of partnership ...
Political distrust and support for anti-establishment parties in hard times: panel and longitudinal evidence of the association between political distrust and voting for anti-establishment parties
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 the research does not ...
Intercultural relations and family-school trust: immigrant and native families in schools of Barcelona
The main aim of the thesis is to explain intercultural relations between immigrant and native families in the school context and how these reflect in their trust in local schools. For this purpose, I analyze the relationship ...
Reimagining truth and morality: from Jürgen Habermas to Jacques Derrida
In this thesis, I argue that Jürgen Haberma’s neo-katian liberalim fails to provide universalistic foundations for truth and morality as it cannot be applied invariably across different context. However, this failure does ...
Understanding the political integration outcomes of enfranchised and high socioeconomic status immigrants in host societies
The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically investigate the theoretical perspective that political power derives from socioeconomic power—a fundamental tenet of both sociological theories of assimilation and ...
Changing paradigms of women's labor market participation: cases of Denmark and the USA
This thesis contributes to knowledge about gender differences in labor market attachment by using a longitudinal, life-course approach, and consists of three empirical articles. The first one establishes the profile of ...
Managing compliance in a multi-level polity: the case of the European Union
This thesis tackles the issue of non-compliance in the European Union (EU). This is an important issue because without Member State (MS) compliance with EU policy outputs, collective policy goals may not be achieved. ...
Searching for autonomy and prefiguration: resisting the crisis of social reproduction through housing and health care struggles in Spain and the UK
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 reproduction and ...
The Interrelationship between migration and family behaviours: internal migration within China and international migration from China to the U.S.
The dissertation investigates the interrelationship between migration and family behaviours, marriage and fertility, in the Chinese context. I apply event history techniques using data from an ethno-survey, several ...
Political and discursive opportunities for institutional change: the case of marriage equality in the United States
This dissertation employs a multi-method research design to analyze the political and discursive opportunities for gradual institutional change in the case of marriage equality in the American states. It comprises three ...
Educational institutions and their effect on inequality: three papers on educational systems and inequality of achievement and opportunity
By placing particular attention to the socio-economic dimension, this thesis explores the role of three pillars of an educational system: decentralization, early education and curricular tracking. The first article focuses ...
Negotiating religious exemptions: a public reason perspective
In this thesis I elaborate on three reasons why religious exemptions from generally applicable laws are not publicly justifiable in a liberal democratic society. First, mere claims of the form “God says so and my conscience ...
Time, love and parenting: the role of fathers in the intergenerational transmission of advantage
Over the last decades, fathers are getting involved in their children’s lives. The “New Fathers” are not expected to act as breadwinners but also to engage in their family life and take a similar responsibility than their ...
Political parties' position and public opinion on immigration
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 (bottom-up connection) ...
Striking the balance of powers: the Spanish Constitutional Court and the battle for public support
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 debate and the ...
Nation building in contested states
This thesis provides an overview of current nation building processes in contested states. With a specific focus on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Kosovo, original data is ...
