Jarocinska, Elena (Date of defense: 2006-10-27)
Esta tesis investiga la economía política de las transferencias intergubernamentales. Se centra en los factores políticos que determinan la asignación de fondos bajo control de gobiernos centrales a las ...
Goulart, Kimberly (Date of defense: 2023-05-23)
The objective of this thesis is to explore what makes up a job–the tasks, skills, personality traits, and rewards–and determine how a job impacts our daily lives. Much of the literature quantifies and ...
Jiménez Iglesias, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-12-13)
This doctoral thesis studies class-based social movements as a response to the collapse of the Spanish mode of capital accumulation, based on the financialization of housing and the extraction of rents. ...
Cimentada, Jorge (Date of defense: 2019-09-25)
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 ...
Gilliland, Anthony C. (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)
This thesis addresses the creation of new states within federal arrangements – particularly federations - and their justification in liberal democratic contexts. It is presented as a set of three ...
Rueda Pozo, Silvia (Date of defense: 2011-04-07)
Aquesta tesi analitza les desigualtats en salut entre les persones grans a través d’un marc d’anàlisi on es combinen la posició socioeconòmica, el gènere, el desenvolupament socioeconòmic regional i ...
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 ...
Giangregorio, Luca (Date of defense: 2022-12-19)
The following thesis aims to provide a general picture of to what extent different important sources – at the macro and the micro level – affect income inequality over time. Indeed, given the natural ...
Repke, Lydia (Date of defense: 2017-12-22)
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 ...
Passetti, Francesco (Date of defense: 2018-06-05)
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 ...