Luppi, Francesca (Date of defense: 2015-03-27)
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 ...
Mariani, Giulia (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
This dissertation employs a multi-method research design to analyze the political and discursive opportunities for gradual institutional change in the case of marriage equality in the American states. ...
Ciganda, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-01-31)
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 ...
Lapuerta, Irene (Date of defense: 2012-04-03)
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 ...
Portugal Celaya, Bolívar Gerardo (Date of defense: 2020-12-03)
This thesis investigates the Mexican regulatory reforms focusing on the evolution of the institutional arrangements of the regulatory state across policy regimes. It is based on a qualitative research ...
Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
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 ...
Bianculli, Andrea C. (Date of defense: 2010-12-21)
The trade agenda has undergone significant transformations during the last 25 years. Negotiations have moved from the reciprocal reduction of tariff barriers to include the construction and harmonization ...
Welp, Yanina (Date of defense: 2007-10-31)
El principal objetivo de esta investigación es examinar cómo la introducción de nuevas tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones está cambiando la estructura, funcionamiento y eficiencia de la ...
Branchadell Gallo, Albert (Date of defense: 2003-06-04)
El objetivo de esta tesis es contribuir a la formulación de una teoría normativa de la política lingüística, entendiendo que una teoría de este tipo tiene por objeto esclarecer qué formas de política ...
Franco-Guillén, Núria (Date of defense: 2015-11-26)
The thesis is a compilation of three articles that explore the relationship between immigration and minority nations. It focuses on Stateless Nationalist and Regionalist Parties (SNRP) through the lens ...