The proposal for the Study of Doctorate (SD) in Public Policies and Social Transformation emerged in 2008 to cover a need for professional specialization evident in our institutional and social environment, both in the public and private sphere.

Beginning in 2014-2015, the SD in Public Policies and Social Transformation joins the SD in Political Science and International Relations to give rise to an SD in Politics, Policies and International Relations. Within the same two specific lines of research are maintained that connect directly with the IGOP and its doctorate: 1 / Analysis, management and evaluation of public policies and 2 / Social and urban policies.

To obtain more information and request admission, you must contact directly through the coordination of the doctorate in Politics, Policies and International Relations (website http://ppir.uab.cat)

You can also contact us by email at: doctorat.ppir@uab.cat

Planned seminars: PhD Seminars PPIR

Doctoral theses presented: IGOP 2009-2015

Lines of Research

01 Analysis, management and evaluation of public policies

Potencial Phd Supervisors: Xavier Ballart Hernández, Raquel Gallego Calderón
Themes:

  • Public policy analysis
  • Public policy evaluation
  • Public policy and public management
  • Innovation in the public sector
  • Decentralization and sub-national governments

 

02 Social and urban policies

Potencial Phd supervisors:  Ismael Blanco,  Margarita León, Marc Parés, Joan Subirats, Ricard Gomà and Mayo Fuster
Themes:

  • Networks of urban governance
  • Urban policies
  • Comparative Social policy
  • Politics of welfare reform
  • Democratic innovation
  • Internet and politics 2.0
  • Territoriality, collective identities and society
03 Democracy, elites, political parties and citizenship

Directors of thesis: Eva Anduiza Perea, Joan Botella Corral, Eva Ostergaard-Nielsen, Guillem Rico, Dani Marinova, Marc Guinjoan, Agustí Bosch
Themes:

  • Stability and change in political attitudes,
  • Political behaviour, protests, digital media,
  • Political parties, party and governmental elites
  • Political communication
  • National identity
  • Migration and transnational politics