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Sociedad internacional híbrida: gobernanza, solidarismo y soberanismo
(Fundación Carolina, 2024) Barbé, Esther
State institutions in north Taiwan versus south Taiwan
(University of Michigan Press, 2024) Wu, Chun-Ying; Liu, Amy H.
While the previous chapter emphasized how state exclusion resulted in separation, in this chapter, we see how political representation yielded an outcome that is less extreme. During the authoritarian period, the Kuomintang (KMT) imposed a repressive Mandarin-only policy. Yet as the country democratized in the early 1990s, the homogeneity of South Taiwan pulled the KMT to make linguistic concessions to its own Hokkien-speaking locals (benshengren). But this is only half the story. In North Taiwan, where the population has always been more heterogeneous, demographic shifts over several decades pushed the KMT away from repressive monolingualism.
'An ever closer union': una UE más allá de la integración económica
(UMinho Editora, 2022) González Pascual, María Isabel
Functional inequality in Latin America: news from the twentieth century
(SpringerNature, 2017) Astorga Junquera, Pablo
This chapter presents a new consistent yearly estimate of gross income (between-group) inequality Ginis for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela over the period 1900–2011, using a newly assembled wage dataset for three occupational categories. The approach used differentiates labour by skill level and allows for changing allocation of the labour force over time. Property income is calculated as a residual. Our regional Gini shows a changing secular process with a reclined “S” shape with an inflection point around 1940 and a peak in the 1990s. There are mixed country trends in the early and middle decades, but in most cases inequality was on the rise in the 1960s. There was also a tendency for narrowing wage inequality in the middle decades of the last century but whose impact was more than offset by a rising share of the top income group. Inequality in the twentieth century is a story of increased polarisation—particularly post-1970—amid significant social mobility.
Lexicographic detection and representation of Spanish neologisms in the COVID-19 pandemic
(De Gruyter, 2022) Bueno, Pedro J.; Freixa, Judit
El funcionamiento interno de las administraciones públicas
(Marcial Pons, 2023) Velasco Rico, Clara Isabel
The governance ecosystem of radioactiva waste management in France: governing of and with mistrus
(SpringerNature, 2023) Lehtonen, Markku
France is one of the forerunners in advancing towards implementation of a high-level radioactive waste (HLW) repository. The state agency responsible for radioactive management, Andra, plans to start the construction of the “Cigéo” deep geological disposal facility in 2022, a pilot testing phase in 2025, and operation in 2040–2050. Although supported by most parliamentarians and key stakeholders in the region, the project continues to generate controversy and recurrent clashes between opponents and the police. The French nuclear sector has been among the pioneers in developing and institutionalising “counter-expertise”, the relations between civil society and project promoters have been tense, and the media have played a vigilant watchdog role, especially since the Chernobyl accident in 1986. In consequence, the authorities and industry have designed a range of response mechanisms, including the requirement for the project to remain reversible, the establishment of permanent and ad hoc multi-stakeholder bodies, and experiments at “co-creation of knowledge” by experts and citizens holding distinct types of expertise. The long and conflict-ridden history of the project provides numerous useful lessons on the multiple functions of mistrust as both a driver and a mechanism of articulation across domains of governance, the role of reversibility as a key notion helping to manage mistrust and cross-domain interaction, and the impact of the nuclear-sector legacies and path dependencies in shaping high-level radioactive waste governance.
Transnational policy networks and regional public goods in Latin America
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017) Jordana, Jacint
This chapter argues that a particular and distinctive driver for regionalism has been emerging in Latin America. It develops a conceptual framework for the analysis of transnational regulatory networks in regional environments. The myriad nonhierarchical policy network-based mode of regional integration has been firmly on the rise over the last three decades, and has become capable of providing some level of regional public goods (RPGs), while also contributing to many successful processes of policy diffusion in the region. The chapter focuses on the governance of regulation at the regional level by means of networks, as an example of public good provision, to exemplify and develop the arguments. It explores some of the reasons behind the weakness of regulatory networks in providing RPGs, while recognizing their contributions to a basic level of provision. The chapter examines regional policy networks in banking in Latin America as an example of a regulatory context in which there are multiple global governance shortcomings.
Una yincana en la biblioteca del campus como evaluación eficaz de competencia digital en primer curso del grado
(Ediciones OCTAEDRO, 2023) Díaz Rodríguez, Lourdes, 1964-; Casas Vilarmau, Isabel; Olmo Ibáñez, María Teresa del
In this paper we present the results of an innovative teaching experience carried out in the first year of Applied Language degree at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Within the methodological framework of problem-solving methodology and gamification, a team-teaching experience that involved a faculty teacher and a librarian was put into practice aiming to improve the use of ITC for bibliographical searching, as well as the familiarity with the library premises, staff, and library procedures. The format of the experience reported was a gymkhana, and the funding action was a competitive Placlik annual call 2021-22. Together with the gymkhana (which acted as treatment device), a multiple-choice pretest (before the gymkhana), and a posttest (given four weeks later), both on library procedures and bibliographical searching, were administered to the same group of students of Spanish Language (N=37). A pilot study was conducted previously to test the adequacy of items to FTCL first year students’ profile (N=29). Quantitative results obtained from the comparison of pretest and post-test show a significant improvement after the gymkhana. Qualitative results obtained from a peer-podcast task which was part of the evaluation procedures of the course also revealed a positive assessment of the experience by students.
The fenced off cities of Ceuta and Melilla: Mediterranean nodes of migrant (im)mobility
(Springer Nature, 2024) Ferrer Gallardo, Xavier; Gabrielli, Lorenzo
This contribution examines the evolution of the border regime of Ceuta and Melilla since the cities joined the EU in 1986, and became crucial Mediterranean nodes of migrant (im)mobility towards the Schengen Area. The logic of border externalization has paved the way for a wide range of controversial migration control practices around the North African cities. These practices have been scrutinized from academic, journalistic and activist perspectives and their analysis has shed light, on the one hand, on the logic of exceptionality that governs the EU border regime in these cities, and on the other, on how both migrants and activists have challenged, denounced and resisted this regime, thus contributing to its constant reconfiguration. The text concludes by analyzing the consequences of two interrelated factors that have acted as vectors of change: firstly, the diplomatic-border ¿crisis¿ of May 2021, and secondly, the two years of border closure after the Covid-19 pandemic. Both factors have led to a new reconfiguration of cross-border mobility management in the region and, as the deadly events at the Melilla fence in June 2022 illustrate, to the consolidation of Spanish-Moroccan operational cooperation which entails the recrudescence of migratory obstruction practices at the EU external borders.
Climate obstruction in Spain: from boycotting the expansion of renewable energy to blocking compassion toward animals
(Oxford University Press, 2024) Moreno, Jose A.; Almiron, Núria, 1967-
The negative female educational gradient of union dissolution: towards an explanation in six European countries
(Springer, 2020) van Damme, Maike
How can we explain that, nowadays, lower educated women are more likely to separate than higher educated women are? I formulate hypotheses to explain this based on Levinger’s (J Marriage Family 27(1):19–28, 1965; J Soc Issues 32(1):21–47, 1976; Handbook of interpersonal commitment and relationship stability. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 1999) social exchange theory on ‘attractions’ and ‘barriers’ and assess whether there are mediating effects of affectional rewards, economic rewards, symbolic rewards, affectional barriers, material barriers, and symbolic costs. I analyse the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) [2004–2013] for two waves for Bulgaria, Russia, Georgia, France, Austria, and Czech Republic. With this selection of countries, I have a good context variation according to social and economic costs of union dissolution. Using the khb-approach – which is a mediation analysis for binary dependent variables – I examine the probability that women broke up between two consecutive waves and explain the influence of education on union dissolution. Instead of being mainly explained by ‘attractions’, ‘barriers’ were more important explanatory variables of the negative educational gradient of union dissolution in the six countries I studied (lower educated women had less to lose symbolically and economically). Next to relationship satisfaction as the only explanatory ‘attraction’, I found suppressor effects of ‘attractions’.
Transnational migrant entrepreneurship policies in the Maghreb countries: Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
(Springer, 2024) Djelti, Samir; Zapata Barrero, Ricard
This chapter explores how the economic context shapes the Transnational Migrant Entrepreneurship's (TME) Policies in three different migratory regimes: Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. First, the theoretical background, linking the traditional migration and development debate with a more recent discussion linking migration, transnationalism, and entrepreneurship is reviewed. Second, the influence of the economic context on governments' to adopt TME's policies is analyzed. Findings have shown that Tunisia has adopted a step-by-step entrepreneurship migration policy building, Algeria has taken a two-in-one entrepreneurship policy for nationals and bi-nationals, and Morocco has chosen to trigger two parallel entrepreneurship policies for both nationals and their migrants living abroad. The discussion of these outcomes has concluded that the interrelation between the economic context and the political realm drive new patterns of TME's policies in the three Maghreb countries. These findings open a theoretical debate on how the traditional migration/development discussion draws new understandings on the Global South and Global North relations.
Concluding remarks: applying med-thinking proviso to set a research agenda on Mediterranean migrations
(Springer Nature, 2024) Zapata Barrero, Ricard
Quickly reviewing images on "Mediterranean migrations" in Google Analytics (November 2022) and even going through Google Scholar Analytics, we can infer several premises. First, negative aspects by far dominate the public representation and research narrative over the positive ones, ruled by the same rhetoric most governments have constructed: crisis and instability, Mediterranean "dis-ordered" migration. This may invite us to reflect on the extent to which a research agenda, which is too often conflict-driven, may fuel mainstream policies and hegemonic reactive governance narratives. This concurrency between the political, the media and the social negative agenda is denounced by most of the contributions, and there is a general claim for a more encouraging or at least independent Mediterranean migrations agenda from scholars, highly contaminated by political decisions. The contributions in this co-edited volume provide a range of insights that can help shape this alternative narrative in Google. Ultimately, what this volume shows is that any research on Mediterranean migrations necessarily becomes critical, (quasi)activist, because any researcher is engaged against the dominant narrative wall.
Same-sex couples and their legalization in Europe: laws and numbers
(Springer, 2020) Cortina Trilla, Clara; Festy, Patrick
We analyse same-sex partnership and family formation in Europe. We explore how the frequency of same-sex marriage or registered partnership can be associated to macro and micro factors and how parenting appears as a key determinant at both levels. We use the LawsAndFamilies Database, which includes both data on legal developments in family laws and statistical data on the legal recognition of same-sex couples, marriage and registered partnership for a large set of countries. We also use the French census and the Spanish household survey for specific purposes. We first determine crude rates of legal recognition for gay, lesbian and different-sex couples for nine European countries in the period 1980-2017. We second consider macro factors by measuring the impact of legal consequences attached to couples' recognition on the frequency of same-sex marriage or registered partnering. We expect that the opening of parenting to same-sex couples will affect lesbian more than gay couples and result in more positive trends in women¿s nuptiality. We finally explore micro factors related to the family structure expecting that the presence of children will work as an incentive to marry.
The socioeconomic gradient of shared physical custody in two welfare states: comparison between Spain and Sweden
(Springer, 2021) Garriga Alsina, Anna; Turunen, Jani; Bernardi, Laura
This study contributes to the emerging literature on the diffusion of SPC across social strata, by comparing two national contexts, Sweden and Spain, with different prevalence rates of SPC and with diverging social and gender policies in the early XXI century. We draw on the 2006 and 2014 comparative cross-sectional data from the Spanish and Swedish Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC), to test two competitive hypotheses (diffusion and diverging destinies hypotheses) on the association of parental socioeconomic status, children¿s living arrangements in separated families and their relative prevalence in a populaiton. We also examine whether such association is modified by the great increase in SPC in both countries between 2006 and 2014. We present empirical evidence that, independently from the context, SPC arrangements are more frequent among parents with higher socioeconomic status and sole-custody arrangements among other parents; however, social inequality in post-separation arrangements differ in the two countries over time. In Spain, we find evidence in favour of the diffusion hypothesis with increases in the prevalence of SPC going hand in hand with the diffusion of SPC across social strata. By contrast, the Swedish data support the diverging destinies hypothesis with increases in SPC producing no variation in its social stratification over time.
Distance and credibility in sixteenth-century travel writing: discovery, text, and truth in Varthema, Vespucci, and Pigafetta
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2023) Rubiés, Joan-Pau
Sets of fractional operators and some of their applications
(IntechOpen, 2023) Torres Hernandez, Anthony; Brambila Paz, Fernando; Ramírez, Rafael, 1966-
This chapter presents one way to define Abelian groups of fractional operators isomorphic to the group of integers under addition through a family of sets of fractional operators and a modified Hadamard product, as well as one way to define finite Abelian groups of fractional operators through sets of positive residual classes less than a prime number. Furthermore, it is presented one way to define sets of fractional operators which allow generalizing the Taylor series expansion of a vector-valued function in multi-index notation, as well as one way to define a family of fractional fixed-point methods and determine their order of convergence analytically through sets.
An exploration of life experiences during study abroad: a case study of bilingual students and their process of intercultural adaptation
(Language Science Press, 2017) Pogorelova, Iryna; Trenchs i Parera, Mireia
This qualitative case study investigates intercultural adaptation during a studyabroad (SA) of undergraduate bilingual Catalan/Spanish students, focusing specifi-cally on life experiences which resulted in inflection points in that process of adap-tation. Data were collected through a pre-departure questionnaire, individual in-terviews conducted before and after SA, and narrative diaries collected during thesojourn. The results point to the complexity and the nuances of the adaptation pro-cess, the diversity of life experiences that may affect adaptation (Bennett 1993) andthe need to expand existing explanatory theoretical models.
Agenda dynamics in Spain
(Oxford University Press, 2019) Chaqués Bonafont, Laura; Palau, Anna M.; Muñoz Márquez, Luz
The main goal of the Policy Agendas Project in Spain is to promote a comprehensive theoretical and empirical understanding of agenda dynamics across time, issues, and levels of governance. The project establishes a link between policy dynamics research and other areas of concern within political science, mainly media studies, political representation, and the quality of democracy in multilevel systems of governance. It also provides a new tool for the development of quantitative measurements of policy dynamics. Over the last few years comprehensive and far-reaching datasets about Spanish political and media agendas (following the methodology of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP)) have been created, which are free and accessible to download from the webpage: www.q-dem.com.

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