POLITICAL SCIENCE

Author: OJEDA GARCÍA ROBERTO.
Year: 2004.
University: LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA [www.ulpgc.es].
Place of defense: FAC. CIENCIAS ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA Y DEPORTE.
Place of preparation: FAC. CIENCIAS ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA Y DEPORTE.

Summary: This thesis is based on the theme of rural area and sociological study of the functioning of public services. In this case, research has focused on understanding the actions of Sports Services of Concejalías of these areas in the rural municipalities of Gran Canaria at the moment, and then concludes with a vision in mind, with a proposition base model of organization bringing together characteristics common to the majority of municipalities, based on the results of the investigation. To obtain the results closer to the reality of course, focused efforts in obtaining data through agents that determine the functionality of these services as are Aldermen Area, sports and Technical Users of the activities promoted considering as variables to analyze:  The organization Service Sports and programming activities.  The municipal athletic facilities.  The Human Resources. The problem investigated on the assumption that determine the characteristics of rural municipalities of Gran Canaria, trying to specify what level have the same influence on the dynamics of these Services Sports. Las conclusiones exponen que: § Nos encontramos en un período de notable crecimiento de las variables analizadas, no siendo paralelo el desarrollo de alternativas eficaces y eficientes en la gestión de esos recursos.  § There are characteristics modifiers in sport management of these municipalities, possessing turn common lines of action in the organization and scheduling of activities, sports facilities and human resources, posing what are applicable to all situations and ending with an organizational model common bifurcado in two ranges, extended and adapted to all locations surveyed.

Author: MacClanahan Aharon Yair.
Year: 2004.
University: POMPEU FABRA [www.upf.edu].
Place of defense: Departamento Ciencias Políticas y Sociales.
Place of preparation: Departamento Ciencias Políticas y Sociales.

Summary: This paper explores the causes of the different levels of transfer of sovereignty among different areas integrated. It posits that traditional theories are able to explain the origins of the European Union, but being different from the same factors "conducive to integration" in other unions, do not explain the rather limited progress in the rest of the associations. It is proposed that there is a range of obstacles that counteracts the effects of the engines behind the integration, defined through seven variables. Three of them are in the field 'national': the popular will, political considerations and confidence interstate / legality extra-estatal; and four to 'individual': the average length of a life policy, the existence of dynasties, corruption, and the federalist ideology (anti). After a thorough analysis of above-mentioned variables, concludes that the "clutter" on the road to integration were minor in Europe compared with the rest of the unions

Author: Blanco Fillola Ismael Iván.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: Departamento de Ciencia Política y Derecho Público.
Place of preparation: Departamento de Ciencia Política y Derecho Público.

Summary: Over the past few decades is projected onto a series of towns social transformations that subject to local government pressure for change. From a substantive point of view, the local public policy agendas tend towards broadening and deepening. From an operational point of view, emerging new forms of governance in network or relational character. As has warned the theory of urban governance, therefore, structural processes of social change are pushing to change the policy and local public policies. However, this perspective may be questioned from two findings: first: trends change policy in urban areas coexist with strong lines of continuity, and second, these trends of political change can take, in fact, different directions. Based on these assumptions, the thesis argues that the structural factors are insufficient to interpret the processes of political change urban, although such factors influence the processes of political change urban, the intensity and direction of these processes of change respond, in fact, the agency of actors starring local political life. At sectoral level of the new socio-political inclusion can be seen these tensions between change and continuity on the one hand and between the various alternatives for change on the other. Certain structural trends of social change seemed to be pushing towards the incorporation of the phenomenon of districts excluded in the public agenda, as well as to innovate in the ways of governing processes of inclusion of these urban areas. The decentralization, public-private partnership and public participation are emerging as key for this innovation. However, inclusion policies of this type of urban areas in difficulty can be very different, both by the intensity of innovation for the operational characteristics and substantive eventually taking. In an empirical level, this thesis aims to demonstrate the existence of two major models including socio in Barcelona. The policies of urban regeneration in the district of Raval, in the historic center of the city, and the Plan of the Community Trinitat Nova, on the urban periphery, are seen as expressive of the two major models. Despite contain some common elements, as his vocation innovation respect to traditional forms of government, highlighting major differences operational and substantive policies that in each case have been developed. The aim is to demonstrate that these differences correspond to the fact that the network of actors who have starred in either case is significantly different. Despite not being able to speak in any event policies unilaterally controlled by a single actor, the process of transformation of Raval has been solidly led by the urban area of Barcelona City Council, with the participation of other levels of government and private companies and with the complicity of a small part of the neighborhood movement. The network of players in the Community Plan of Trinitat Nova, by contrast, has been led by the associative fabric of the neighborhood and has benefited from the active participation of professionals and technicians of the utilities operating in the territory, as well as the support of experts, many of them linked to the university level. While both cases reflect the emergence of new forms of urban governance, the various configurations of the network of players in urban regeneration policies del Raval and Plan of the Community Trinitat Nova have resulted eventually in taking substantive models Operating and inclusion socio significantly different.

Author: LEMUS DE LA IGLESIA UXÍA.
Year: 2004.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA [www.usc.es].
Place of defense: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS E SOCIAIS.
Place of preparation: FACULTADE DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS E SOCIAIS.

Summary: From the discipline of political science, and using approaches own foreign pollcy analysis, the main scenario that guide this investigation is the relationship between the sequences came to power in Spain's socialist party obreroespañol in October 1982y change foreign policy toward Morocco, a policy equilibriosa a comprehensive policy. The expression of political balance or compensation successive refers to the action initiated by the foreign minister, Jose Maria castiella and dominant until the early governments of the union of democratic center. Policy tradeoffs then appeared as a series of alternative events of two types: First, in times of good relations with Morocco, was offset by every action that led to another country with similar characteristics to Algeria second part of the policy would be in joints crisis with Morocco, which seek rapprochement momentary to Algeria, to push one state with improving the reala coinés with its regional rival. This policy had not yielded the desired results and since 1982, since the new government and, more specifically, from the ministry of foreign affairs (mae), goes into being what was called a comprehensive policy. Referring to the global scope and geographical themes, namely, a new policy that would apply to all relations between Spain and each of the Maghreb countries. This new policy was clearly improvement but also to adapt to the new position of Spain in international society, following its entry into the Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1982y in northern European communities in 1986. Assuming initial already mentioned, we face another issue of importance: the tempo of change in foreign policy. The methodological tools used, among which the content analysis, allowed for a chronology of change in the foreign policy of Spain to Morocco. On the one hand, there was a gradual adjustment of the overall policy, both in theoretical and practical, to changes in the international context. But it is of particular interest to analyze how the overall policy was shaped according to the reactions of Morocco to such action. In our scheme there are several theoretical stages in the process of foreign policy, integrating them into various elements of existing models. First, we find the primary agents of change, because of the variables change, we can classified into three categories. The objective conditions are referential international context and the position in the international system of states involved. Stabilizers are those factors that retard or prevent a change of foreign policy. Finally the institutional environment is the set of structures and institutions in which such action falls outside. The primary agents of change affect the decision-making of foreign policy, and changing perceptions of policy-makers should be the result of observation and interpretation of the experience, or experiential learning. These perceptions lead to the election of a particular choice of foreign policy, ie a decision. Therefore, the second step of the process shows the influence of the primary agents of change in the configuration of the decision on foreign policy, a third time, transformed into practice in an action of foreign policy. Not all foreign policy decisions are translated into practice with the same success, and this is due, most delas times, the reactions of both the state subject to such action as other international players may not be the wait 8 as or des 4c8 eadas by decision-in his initial configuration of foreign policy. The responses to the action of influencing foreign policy, through a process of feedback or reatroalimentación both on the primary agents of change, which did not suffer changes in its initial configuration, and on the experiential learning of the decision-making process. Decision makers, through this learning, the reality interpreted on the basis of past experience, according to the degree of acceptance and success in foreign policy executed. Therefore, this thesis examines all stages of development and implementation of the foreign policy of Spain to Morocco during the era of socialist governments, understanding this policy as a process where the stages overlap and complement each other.

Author: BODOQUE ARRIBAS ANSELM.
Year: 2005.
University: VALENCIA [www.uv.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE DERECHO DE VALENCIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE DERECHO.

Author: TORRES ROMAY EMMA.
Year: 2005.
University: VIGO [www.uvigo.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.

Summary: The thesis examines the activity carried out by the media during the historical process known as the 'war of halibut', in addition to trying to assess the dynamics of social mobilization that occurred during the same. This' war 'was a major diplomatic confrontation between Spain and Canada by the exploitation of the fishery resources of Newfoundland, in particular the black halibut fishery. The conflict was most acute episode of the seizure of the freezer vessel Estai by Canadian patrol when he was dressing in international waters even been opened fire on the fishing. The investigation took as an object of study local newspapers, regional, national and international levels, as well as other media, and the compilation of the elements of communication employed by public institutions involved. The survey period runs from 1995, the year in which the seizure took place, and 2001 when the first official view of a Spanish president to Canada after the conflict. However, most of the field work focuses on the year 1995 in which there were the most important events. From the perspective dual Spanish and Canadian data were provided on communication strategies deployed for the governments of both countries and the European Union, who accounted for coordinating the negotiation process. Also included is an analysis of the activity of the Galician regional government and the City of Vigo, who were positioned in the fisheries sector galician defense, and even the Spanish embassy in Canada that included information on the conflict in a website becoming in a delegation pioneer in the use of new technologies. To this is added an analysis of the contents of the press, the two countries, with particular reference to the means Galicians and the specialized press, citing in addition to television and radio. What we are trying to demonstrate that there was some sort of organized propaganda campaign that had conditioned the social response to the conflict. On this social response, it performs a thorough analysis of demonstrations and acts of protests organized in Galicia and in Canada were trying to identify the elements that led to them. Finally, a study was conducted of the main propaganda tools used by the media and institutions, stressing especially in the language and in the creation of 'myths' personal as the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Brián Tobin or the European Commissioner for Fisheries, Emma Bonino. Among the basic conclusions of the thesis stresses the possibility that Canada develop a propaganda campaign organized sought benefits of image and even economic and revolved around disparage the Galician fleet trasladándola of stock.

Author: PÉREZ PENA MARCOS SEBASTIÁN.
Year: 2005.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA [www.usc.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.

Summary: During the Transition Policy (1975-81) os newspapers Galicians, except sometime La Voz de Galicia and Ideal Galician, were behind the changes, by sheer inertia adapting to the realities and facts. However, during the Transition presence of Galicia as an actor representative of all citizens, as a homogenous space of action, claim or illness rose from mean minimum in the first few months to get recognition much more important at the end of the process . Galicia was set on the basis of processes of identification, overcoming the strong and highly protected localisms, and differentiation of otherness, affirming the specified objective and mindful of the people of Galicia and galician. The press Galician thus contributed to the process of construcicón identity of Galicia, mainly through the assumption of Galicia as a unit, as a community of interests, above differences and interests localisms. The enmarcamiento gathered momentum in these parameters helped the Galician identity was assumed by the company and this process was completed and subsequently amplified once constituted the Galician regional government in 1981. Negotiations to draft the Statute of Autonomy, over 1979, revealed many of these attitudes, multiplying its intensity: newspapers Galicians exerted spokespersons and ombudsmen galician, reaffirming their identity, claiming a problem spot ( ' aldraxe ') and structural (exclusion) and some antagonists (centralism, and symbolically,' Madrid '). And claiming a solution (self-governance).

Author: BARBERÁ ARESTÉ ÓSCAR.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: D.CIENCIA POLÍTICA Y DCHO PÚBL.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: THESIS THE ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS TO ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE LIVES OF CATALUNYA UNIÓ DEMOCRÀTICA SINCE ITS COVENANT WITH CONVERGÈNCIA DEMOCRÀTICA DE CATALUNYA (1978) UNTIL THE TIME IN WHICH ARE BOTH PARTIES ARE AT A FEDERATION OF MATCHES (2001). SCENARIOS FOR THE MAIN ITEM SOSTIENE THE INFLUENCE OF THE ALLIANCE IS DETERMINANTE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION ALTERNATIVE FOR ORGANIZATIONAL UDC. REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN THE POLITICAL PARTIES ALLOWED TO DEVELOP A FRAMEWORK ANALYTICAL BASED ON THE MODEL PANEBIANCO (MODELS OF THE PARTY, ALLIANCE ED. 1990). THIS UNDER DIFFERENT ROUTES CAPACES OF PROPOSED EXPLAINED THE PHENOMENON THAT FOCUSES ATTENTION OF THE INVESTIGATION: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE (undersigned IN TERMS OF RELATIONS OF POWER) IN THE POLITICAL PARTIES INMERSOS IN POLITICAL ALLIANCES. THE CONTRASTACIÓN OF THE SCENARIO IS MAKES TECHNIQUES FROM PROCESS TRACING. RESULTS ALLOW FALSAR SEVERAL POSTULADOS EXCESSIVELY DETERMINISTAS ON THE WORK OF PANEBIANCO And TO ITS TIME, SUGERIR FOR FUTURE RESEARCH THE VALIDITY OF THE ROUTES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE PROPOSED.

Author: DURÁN DE PORRAS ELÍAS.
Year: 2006.
University: CARDENAL HERRERA CEU [www.uch.ceu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y JURÍDICAS.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD CEU CARDENAL HERRERA.

Summary: The two May and the arrival of the first boards to London led to a huge interest in the British public to read news about Spain. The headwaters British launched a feverish competition to gain information last minute and some rotating sent agents to Spain. This thesis explores the published reports, the sources used, the editorial line, the successes and mistakes, and the work of the various envoys from newspapers to the Peninsula with a focus on Henry Crabb Robinson, a journalist with The Times, and the sole agent that can be seen as a correspondent.

Author: MONSERRAT REVILLO Susana María.
Year: 2006.
University: LLEIDA [www.udl.es].
Place of defense: Inst.Nacional d'Educació Física.
Place of preparation: Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Lleida.

Summary: In the seventies witnessed in the majority of European countries to a growth in public sector as a result of development of the welfare state. In the eighties are beginning to question the size and activity of the public sector, which stems from a need to accommodate the deep trasnformaciones of society. Elló led to redefine the delivery of all public services, including physical activity and sport. The Spanish sports system has evolved greatly in recent years. Since the beginning of the democratic transition Spanish sport became heeded by the authorities. After an initial phase, based on a strong display of public sports facilities, was reached late nineties to a concern over the effectiveness and efficiency of managing organizations. It began the process of modernization in the Spanish Public Administration. The transformation of sport in a consumer product, the diversification of sports, changing tastes and changing demand of physical activity have played a major role in the expansion of one of the ways of privatizing the public sector: the indirect management of sports services. In this paper we compare the offer (prices and programs) of the municipal indoor pools in Catalonia, as are managed directly or indirectly, as well as the regulation of access to sports practice when management is outsourced. They have used instruments collection and analysis of quantitative data (analysis of advertising and questionnaire statistical treatment in a sample of 75 pools) and qualitative (content analysis of 26 specifications). The results show that the pits management indirect offer prices significantly more expensive and geared to offering a type of public concrete. Making those modes of access that generate higher revenues, including the figure of the subscriber, gymnastics activities and ancillary services targeted to health. The supply of municipal indoor pools reproduced inequality in terms of age and social class, and management indirect accentuated these differences. Even so, we note that there is a wide dispersion and variability in the group managed pools indirectly. It is also noted that the municipalities vaguely defined conditions that the contractor must follow in providing the services. It prioritizes the regulation of economic efficiency and service rather than the requirement for a bid to address the diversity of the population. The findings can help municipalities to reflect on the role to develop in the promotion of sport is when a third party that manages the public service, the municipal responsibility goes beyond the ownership of the service.

Author: HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ HERIBERTO.
Year: 2006.
University: VALENCIA [www.uv.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE DERECHO DE VALENCIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE DERECHO DE VALENCIA.

Summary: The doctoral thesis research problem is to combine in a single study with a global approach, the realities and perceptions in the United States on Cuba, in the period from 1986 to 1996. We go into the field of perceptions, with the aim of defining who the new players and factors that made up the new political landscape of the historic confrontation between the two countries.

Author: CARVAJAL MENA LIGIA.
Year: 2006.
University: LA LAGUNA [www.ull.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACION.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACION.

Summary: ANALYSIS IS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL HISTORY

Author: DURAN ESTEVA JOAN CARLES.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: INSTITUT DE CIENCIES POLÍTIQUES I SOCIALS.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENT DE CIENCIA POLITICA I DRET PUBLIC.

Summary: The analysis and study of parallelism between theory and practice in policy Enrique Tierno Galvan is at the heart of the thesis. At first, the context is political opposition, and finally transition to liberal democracy. The evolution of reality requires the closest thinker, if you want the proposals made are fertile, to evolve and adapt its live wire and its pockets of interest. Above all, when one considers that the case of Tierno Galvan is that of an intellectual who wants to build a political alternative-oriented government. The driving force behind the evolution theory and policy thinking Enrique Tierno Galvan is the return of Spain to Europe. The interest of the "old professor" is none other than turn the page of the past. Returning to Spain Europe. In Tierno Galvan, however, as important as what is the how, the way things are done, one aspect that will lead incompresniones and hinder the work of the investigator.