Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Adopting a bottom-up approach, and taking the EU‒Turkey deal as a case study, this Ph.D. thesis provides empirical evidence about the impact of externalisation policies on refugees’ daily lives and on their onward migration ...
This doctoral dissertation examines the role of Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) in the macro institutional setup with an objective to understand what factors affected or continue to affect their functioning after ...
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 ...
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 ...
This thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of higher education in refugees’ integration by focusing on urban refugees’ experiences who settled in a neighboring ...
This Ph.D. dissertation examines the extent to which the personal characteristics of political leaders affect their political ambition and government formation processes. While the literature shows that government ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This PhD dissertation addresses how stress regarding one’s sexual identity relates to health-related adverse outcomes. It is composed of four articles. The first one examines how internalized homonegativity (IH) is ...
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 el suport social. ...
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 ...
This thesis explores a peculiar phenomenon of urban governance: namely, the recent rise of strategic city planning. Over the last decades, a growing number of cities adopted strategic plans that—following a strikingly ...
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 ...
Citizen support for democratic rule is considered by many scholars as a necessary condition for the consolidation and stability of democratic systems. This dissertation studies support for democracy from three different ...
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 ...
My dissertation aims to improve our understanding of why and how couple dynamics and marital transitions affect four critical economic outcomes: household savings, labour supply, transition to self-employment and income ...
This PhD thesis analyzes the conceptual frames underpinning discourses on language for immigrant integration to understand their rationale, evolution and structuring effects. Analyzed from a multilevel perspective – state ...
Major socio-economic and demographic changes have occurred in Europe during the last decades which have challenged the gender specialization of tasks and time. Nonetheless, inequalities in the distribution of paid and ...
In this thesis, I contribute to answering the questions of what children need and what parents owe to them. To make this contribution, I discuss three fundamental goods that children arguably need to have a flourishing ...
