Design and evaluation of local, regional, national and international cultural policies. Cultural planning and creative cities.
The regulation of digitisation processes in politics
The different ideological conceptions linked to digitisation policies in the various public administrations and their political impact.
The impact of digitisation on the elaboration and evaluation of public policies.
Digitalisation and transformations in the functioning of political systems (representation, transparency, integrity, accountability).
Impact of digitalisation on political groups: digital transformation of the organisation (digital platforms, financing, decision-making, programme development, integration of members); changes in the forms of communication and representation; adaptation of the forms of digital participation of members, changes in the forms of representation based on digital tools.
Quantitative analysis of factors determinative of elite and citizen votes in the national elections of their corresponding countries.
Study of the current situation of women's rights from a gender perspective: formal and material equality in the exercise of rights; integration of equality with difference; analysis of the co-responsibility model; debates around gender identity.
Analysis and assessment of the European security and defence policies, such as military and civil operations, geopolitics, the Global Strategy in security and defence of the European Union, regional strategies for the Mediterranean, Sahel missions, counter terrorist struggle of the EU in Sahel.
Concept of gender violence, legal perspective: study of the impact of the Law on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence, public policies against gender violence Psychological perspective of gender violence. Feminicide.
Women and the labour market. Socio-economic situation of women. Equality policies. Labour insertion and unpaid work. Wage gap, labour segregation and glass ceiling. Co-responsibility. Budgets with a gender perspective. Gender, social sustainability and ICTs.
Policies for gender equality, against poverty and promotion of social participation at local, national and international levels. Gender and international cooperation, humanitarian action, awareness raising and education for development. Exclusion and marginalisation from a gender perspective.
Analysis and evolution of the level of citizen and elite trust towards State institutions particularly in economic crisis situations.
Cooperation for the improvement of human development rates and social cohesion. Methodologies for carrying out participative citizen diagnoses, their systematisation and the elaboration of public policies from the citizen's proposal. Analysis of Social Security Systems.Cooperación para la mejora de los índices de desarrollo humano y la cohesión social. Metodologías para la realización de diagnósticos ciudadanos participativos, su sistematización y la elaboración de políticas públicas desde la propuesta ciudadana. Análisis de los Sistemas de Seguridad Social.
Analysis and assessment of security policies, such as military and civil operations, geopolitics, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, economic sanctions.
Analysis of the major challenges facing IR: failed states, new wars, asymmetrical wars, serious and systematic violations of human rights, refugee crises; and the positive concept of peace, which is not merely the absence of war, but includes justice and respect for human rights.
This line of research will focus primarily on contemporary challenges to the liberal democratic model, analysing essential values such as justice, freedom, human rights and addressing issues such as political participation, contemporary theories of justice.
The democratisation of scientific knowledge is a central instrument in processes aimed at ensuring sustainability. Universities and publicly owned research institutes are prime instruments in this regard.
Analysis of economic policies, their objectives, budgetary, institutional and legal instruments, of a socio-labour nature and aimed at cooperatives and other social entities. Analysis of social dialogue and political governance. Evaluation of public policies.
Electoral regulations, parity, political parties. Study on the behaviour of political parties in the design of electoral lists. Positions held by women in politics, parties and institutions.
