Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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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 ...
En aquesta tesi ens centrarem en les actituds i les ideologies lingüístiques, dos dels factors que influeixen en la tria lingüística. La disciplina que s’ha encarregat d’estudiar quins motius fan que un parlant esculli una ...
This doctoral dissertation analyses the differences between young people with an immigrant background and natives (without an immigrant background) in educational expectations and the educational pathways chosen when ...
This thesis aims to study the relationship between fertility and subjective wellbeing in a sample of Australian couples (source: HILDA 2001-2009), followed from the year of the pregnancy with the first child. In particular, ...
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. ...
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 ...
This thesis examines the use of amnesty as a tool for ending civil wars. The thesis is innovative in its focus on amnesties during civil wars and their impact on conflict termination. I examine the conditions under which ...
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 ...
En esta tesis se analizan las relaciones entre los programas sociales, la Participación Ciudadana y el Capital Social, como orientaciones de las políticas sociales del gobierno federal mexicano en el período 2000-2006, a ...
In this thesis, I analyze the contribution of the economic context to the fertility and mortality crises that took place across the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe during the transition from communism. ...
This PhD dissertation adds to the literature that studies affective polarisation in comparative perspective. Citizens of democracies around the globe express substantive levels of hostility towards opposing parties, their ...
Esta tesis aborda el tema de los experimentos naturales o políticos que afectan el curso de la vida de padres e hijos y de las limitaciones de inferencia en tales experimentos. El primer trabajo "A non-linear Assessment ...
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 ...
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 ...
This dissertation investigates the responses of European cities to irregular migrants. The first chapter uses a localist approach to understand variations in local policies and practices. A typology of urban solidarity is ...
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 ...
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, ...
The aim of this dissertation is to expand the European literature on the effects of parental divorce and family structure on children's well-being, paying special attention to micro and macro-level explanations. In chapter ...
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 (PR) arenas. Contamination ...
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 ...
