3Q: Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Considered to be one of the most renowned researchers in the emerging field of political ecology.
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"Scientists must change their mentality if they want to protect nature"
Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of the world's leading experts in political ecology. He visited the UAB as a guest speaker at the ENTITLE programme...
Double Standards in Tolerance towards Corruption
Not only politicians, but also citizens have double standards when judging the severity of corruption: an experiment shows that individuals are more tolerant when corruption affects politicians from the party they sympathise with. Data shows that this perceptual partisan bias...
Online Consumer Mediation in Catalonia
A doctoral thesis at the UAB aims at considering whether mediation is an efficient mechanism of redress in the consumer domain, as well as to determine whether the B2C domain supports the introduction of ITCs and particularly, online mediation procedures. Moreover, the research aims at...
The incestuous relationship between media and politicians
In democratic societies, mass media have been defined as the "fourth power" because of their social influence and their function as a counterbalance to possible abuses by the other powers. In this sense, the media are seen as a tool for invigorating the...
Theoretical and political evolution of the thoughts of Enrique Tierno Galván
This dissertation presented at the Institute of Political and Social Sciences proposes a new look into the work of Enrique Tierno Galván. We are before a dissertation of intellectual history that also informs about a time and...
