Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials: Recent submissions
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The Diversity of union and fertility trajectories in the UK
This thesis explores the increasing complexity in the life course in the United Kingdom. The first article illustrates the association between parents’ socio-economic position and children’s transition to first union and ...
Keeping policy and politics apart: integration policies in Europe and the politics of citizenship in Spain and Italy
This thesis investigates immigrant integration policies paying special attention to the Spanish and Italian citizenship regimes. It hinges upon a multi-method design and its results take the shape of a three-article ...
Multiple cultural identifications, personality, and social networks
This dissertation explores how multicultural individuals acculturate, and how their personality traits and cultural identifications relate to the content and the structure of their habitual personal social networks. I ...
The Politics of discrimination: a comparative study of the situation of Christian Arab minorities in Egypt and Syria
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 "re-Islamization" of politics ...
'Making the most of it': the emergence, maintenance, and legitimation of the contemporary Northern Irish republican armed struggle
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 menor que la del ...
A Study on public-private collaboration: motivations and consequences, measuring success with key dimensions, comparing leadership
Public-private collaboration (PPC) is a phenomenon that has grown spectacularly since the early 1980s. Currently, policy-making processes usually develop in complex networks of public and private institutions, and public ...
Family dynamics of international migrants and their descendants
This dissertation tries to shed new light on the relationship between migration and fertility by concentrating on two migration contexts and applying different quantitative methods and taking various perspectives. The ...
Satisfaction with democracy as the evaluation of institutional structure, democratic process and economic performance: a comparative panel study on the sources of political support
This thesis analyses the sources of public evaluations of democratic regimes from a comparative perspective, a longitudinal perspective and with a case study of Spain. The main argument of the dissertation is that people’s ...
Policy, social capital and health: the multiple implications of immigrant economic incorporation
For many the success of a migration decision depends on making a successful transition into the new labor market. The objective of this dissertation is to shine light on the link between the labor market outcomes of ...
Trusting people in times of crisis: panel and experimental evidence on the political foundations and consequences of social trust
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 is shaped by ...
Individualization of muslim religious practices: contextual creativity of second-generation Moroccans in Spain
Given the limitations posed on some religious practices in secular contexts, a trend of individualization, or a self-fashioned approach to religious practices, has surfaced in an emerging debate in literature dealing ...
Republicanism and secession: a normative analysis
This dissertation, structured as a collection of three articles, aims to answer the following question: which kind of right to secede from a modern democratic state, if any, can be acknowledged from a democratic republican ...
Understanding the fertility gap: new modelling approaches to reproductive decision-making
The three chapters included in this dissertation aim to improve our understanding of the distance between people's desires regarding the timing and the number of children they want to have and what they finally achieve. ...
Overeducation: incidence, persistence and institutional differences across countries: the influence of field of study and social origin on graduates' overeducation risk
This dissertation studies overeducation incidence and persistence among graduates from different fields of study and social origin from a social stratification standpoint. Empirical research has shown that overeducation ...
Measurement equivalence in multilingual comparative survey research
The present dissertation explores language effects in a comparative survey i.e. to what extent linguistic diversity affects equivalence in a comparative survey. This is done by studying three different dimensions on the ...
What holds a multinational state together?: the political stability of the Spanish "state of autonomies"
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 individual factors a dual ...
Why language(s) matter to people: a theoretical and comparative approach to linguistic justice in western democracies : the case of mixed societies
This dissertation examines two ideological clashes underlying contemporary political theories of linguistic justice (instrumentalism/constitutivism; monism/pluralism) with the aim to elucidate (a) why languages matter to ...
Life as a couple in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: how do men's and women's socioeconomic resources influence union stability?
This thesis evaluates whether the increasing socioeconomic resources of women and men and the distribution of work within the couple have an effect on union instability. On the one hand, it assesses each spouse’s satisfaction ...
Changing gendered expectations and diverging divorce trends : three papers on gender norms and partnership Dynamics
The dissertation addresses how changes in gender norms influence demographic behaviors. It is composed of three articles. The first focuses on the macro-micro association between regional gender norms and couples' divorce ...
Brain training - brain draining : skilled migration, student mobility, and transnational higher education
The cross-border mobility of educational services, commonly known as transnational higher education (TNHE), represents an important dimension of the internationalisation of higher education. Its relationship with the ...
