Programa de Doctorat en Ciències Polítiques i Socials: Envíos recientes
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Accountability for public policies the case of health policy in Spain
This research is a contribution to the analysis, measurement and explanation of accountability for public policies. Firstly, I develop a proposal to analyze and measure accountability for public policies. This proposal is ...
Competing for the centre ground the ideological bias on turnout
This thesis is focused on studying centrist abstention, by analysing crosscountry differences and also, centrist individuals’ propensity to turn out. Despite the literature claiming that abstention is higher on the left, ...
El anarquismo en el espejo judío
En esta investigación abordaremos la confrontación del anarquismo y la politización de la identidad judía. Lo haremos analizando la participación judía en el interior del movimiento y el pensamiento anarquista, los ...
Ethnicity and education in England: ethnic diferentials in academic progress, expectations and choices
This dissertation focuses on the ethnic inequalities in education in the English context. It is structured in three main thematic sections, each of which aims at answering different though highly connected research questions. ...
Couples’ Decisions and Retirement Age in Europe. A comparative study of three traditions of the Welfare State
This research analyses from a theoretical, empirical and comparative perspective couples’ decision-making and retirement ages within seven European Union-15 countries belonging to three Welfare State traditions: Social ...
Socio-economic resources, relationship processes, and separation
This thesis consists of three empirical papers that all study relationship processes and their effects on divorce. Of particular interest is the role that socio-economic resources play in this story. In the first empirical ...
Model territorial, autonomia i votants : els reptes organitzatius del PSOE (2003-2011)
Aquesta tesi doctoral està centrada en el funcionament dels partits d'àmbit estatal (PAES) en estats compostos a través de tres perspectives desenvolupades en quatre capítols: la dimensió orgànica, la institucional i ...
Behind Left and Right. The meaning of left-right orientation in Europe
The left-right concept is considered to facilitate communication and orientation in the political world. It has a long tradition in European politics due to its capacity to absorb different associations over time. ...
Set on competing : contamination effects and parties' entry decisions in mass elections
According to the Duvergerian theories, only viable parties would be expected to stand for elections alone in the long run, whereas nonviable parties would be thought to join a pre-electoral coalition with another party ...
Going beyond individuals : understanding the influence of the political context on informational shorcuts
This thesis addresses the omission in the literature of how political context influences the performance of informational shortcuts. In line with this research gap, the first article suggests that parliamentarian and ...
Impact of the mode of data collection on the quality of survey questions in social sciences
This dissertation studies the impact of the mode of data collection on the quality of answers to survey questions, defined as the product of reliability and validity. Using data from the Netherlands about different topics ...
Justicia y responsabilidad : un análisis del liberalismo igualitario
Según una interpretación común, el liberalismo igualitario agrupa un conjunto amplio de concepciones de la justicia que comparten la intuición de que solo son justas las distribuciones que son sensibles a la responsabilidad ...
Dynamics of well being among immigrants
The broad objective of this thesis is to study the patterns of objective and subjective well-being among the immigrants in Europe. The main part of the thesis consists of three single-authored empirical chapters. The first ...
The impact of political sophistication on the use cognitive shortcuts: evidence from experiments and secondary data
This research project assesses the role played by political sophistication in terms of itsimpact on the voters’ resort to cognitive shortcuts, with reference both to the consciousand non-conscious components of voting ...
Diverging parenting behavior: education, gender, class and institutions
Esta tesis doctoral investiga cómo el cuidado parental varía por educación, género, clase social y países. Se usan datos de uso del tiempo para Gran Bretaña, Dinamarca, Flandes y España. Éstos son los resultados principales: ...
Employment, motherhood and parental leaves in Spain
Esta tesis doctoral analiza la eficacia del sistema de licencias parentales en España para facilitar la conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar y promover la igualdad de género. Para ello, el primer artículo explora ...
Understanding the nationalization of party
This thesis is focused on the nationalization of party systems in Western Europe and combines four different approaches. Despite the literature claiming that political decentralization reduces party system nationalization, ...
El cambio institucional en un Estado Compuesto y su relación con los cambios en la distribución de poder al interior de los partidos políticos
La actividad de investigación de este estudio doctoral se condensa en los tres artículos que aquí se presentan. Cada texto, desde una lógica de análisis distinta, hace una exploración tanto teórica como empírica de la ...
Diversity in uniform. An exploration of diversity and a comprehensive analysis of the regional police forces in Catalonia and Utrecht
This dissertation consists of three papers on diversity and diversity policy within organizations in general and within police forces in Europe in particular. The first paper provides an analytical framework that identifies ...
Coalition Governance: Causes and consequences
Els governs de coalició poden, per una banda, dividir-se les tasques i funcionar de forma compartimentalitzada, on cada soci decideixi sol les polítiques sota les seves jurisdiccions ministerials. Per contra, també poden ...
