Clara Riba

Clara Riba
Pompeu Fabra University | UPF · Department of Political and Social Sciences

Degree in Mathematics; PhD in Political Science; Master in Management

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September 1996 - August 2016
Pompeu Fabra University
Position
  • Professor (Associate). Currently retired
September 1996 - August 2016
Pompeu Fabra University
Position
  • Professor (Associate). Currently retired
June 2007 - May 2016
Pompeu Fabra University
Position
  • Head of Department

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Publications (48)
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El artículo pasa revista a las investigaciones sobre la relación que existe entre la evolución dela intención de voto a los gobiernos y la coyuntura económica. Se constata que los ciudadanos suelen premiar con su voto a los gobiernos que mandan durante épocas de prosperidad, y viceversa. El artículo desmenuza la modelización que han adquirido estas...
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En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de un estudio empírico sobre los motivos del cambiosistemático de resultados electorales que se da en Cataluña según el ámbito de la convocatoriaelectoral de que se trate. La hipótesis, contrastada positivamente con datos del período 1982-1993, es que la victoria del partido nacionalista de centro-derecha...
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Resumen A modo de contribución al debate académico sobre el uso de la externalización como fórmula de provisión de los servicios públicos locales, el artículo plantea focalizar la atención en los factores político-institucionales. A partir de la revisión de los principales argumentos presentes en la literatura se plantea su contraste empírico a tra...
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Contextualized measures of public service motivation:The case of Spain Since the initial ‘public service motivation’ concept and measures were developed, various studies have raised concerns with regard to cultural differences. According to previous research trying to supplement the four original dimensions of the original construct with a fifth di...
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This article presents the concept of public service motivation (PSM) in the Spanish context and its utility as a public management instrument to evaluate whether providers of public services are motivated by public values. The analysis checks the relation between PSM and two of the main attitudes, organizational commitment and job satisfaction, tha...
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This article contributes to the debate on the use of alternative formulas for public service provision with arguments related to epistemic communities’ influence. Drawing on the literature on models of local public service delivery, the role of internal epistemic communities is discussed and tested through the consideration of two different communi...
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Since the initial ‘public service motivation’ concept and measures were developed, various studies have raised concerns with regard to cultural differences. According to previous research trying to supplement the four original dimensions of the original construct with a fifth dimension, this study follows this same strategy, taking into account thr...
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The decreasing importance of manufacturing in many OECD countries, the parallel consolidation of services as the leading generator of employment and wealth, the successive economic crises that these economies have gone through since the 1970s, the competition in increasingly globalised product markets and the rise of atypical employment are some of...
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This article discusses whether activation policies have had a positive effect on beneficiaries of minimum income protection in Catalonia (Spain). The article first confirms that social assistance benefi ciaries with higher employability levels have greater chances of finding a job. Second, the article identifies different profiles of beneficiaries...
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This article discusses whether activation policies have had a positive effect on beneficiaries of minimum income protection in Catalonia (Spain). The article first confirms that social assistance beneficiaries with higher employability levels have greater chances of finding a job. Second, the article identifies different profiles of beneficiaries a...
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Full Professor of Political and Administrative Sciences in Autonomous University of Barcelona. Main research interests: policy evaluation, comparative public management, Spanish and European public administration reform and civil service. Academic activities are public sector evaluation and comparative politics. Associate professor at the Universit...
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The longitudinal analysis of the contact form data of the third round of the European Social Survey in Spain allows us to identify the most successful strategies in order to increase response rates in social and political surveys in Spain. The analysis of these data provides us with very useful information to estimate what are the likely gains in r...
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La Encuesta Social Europea (ESE), creada con el doble objetivo de estudiar el cambio social y de aportar mejoras en la creación y diseño de instrumentos de medida de esa realidad, ha finalizado ya su tercera ola. La presente nota metodológica reflexiona acerca de la utilidad de analizar los datos de las olas precedentes en el proceso de mejora cont...
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Created with the dual purpose of monitoring social change and bringing improvements into the creation and design of instruments for measuring that reality, the European Social Survey (ESS) has now completed its third round. This methodology paper expresses thoughts on the usefulness of analysing the accumulated data from the first two rounds in the...
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With the two aims of monitoring social change and improving social measurement, the European Social Survey is now closing its third round. This paper shows how the accumulated experience of the two first rounds has been used to validate the questionnaire, better adapt the sampling design to the country characteristics and efficiently commit fieldwo...
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The paper deals with the comparative study of European citizens’ satisfaction with the state of education in their respective countries. Individual and contextual effects are tested applying multilevel analysis. The results show that educational public policies (level of decentralization, degree of comprehensiveness and public spending) as well as...
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En este trabajo se analiza el comportamiento electoral de los españoles en las elecciones generales en función de sus características socioeconómicas: edad, género, nivel de estudios, clase social y religión. Después de una descripción bivariada sistemática de la relación de estas variables con el voto se realiza en un análisis multivariado de los...
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Political science is one of the last disciplines to have begun using mathematics on a widespread basis. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the use of mathematical tools and methods in present day political science. We will first briefly review how the use of mathematics has evolved, relating this evolution to the different methodological ap...
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Resumen El artículo presenta un modelo de popularidad para el Gobierno español entre 1985 y 1996. El modelo se ha elaborado con datos trimestrales procedentes de encuestas del CIS y de la UE y datos económicos procedentes de la OCDE y del INE. Los resultados enfa-tizan la gran influencia que tuvieron algunas variables de la coyuntura macroeconómica...
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El principal objetivo del estudio es ofrecer una fotografía de la exclusión social en España, situando esta realidad dentro de un contexto europeo. La investigación se centra, básicamente, en analizar los principales factores generadores de exclusión; en identificar los colectivos que la padecen con mayor intensidad; y en evaluar las respuestas pol...
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From a scientific point of view, surveys are undoubtedly a valuable tool for the knowledge of the social and political reality. They are widely used in the social sciences research. However, the researcher's task is often disturbed by a series of deficiencies related to some technical aspects that make difficult both the inference and the compariso...
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This work presents an application of the multilevel analysis techniques to the study of the abstention in the 2000 Spanish general election. The interest of the study is both, substantive and methodological. From the substantive point of view the article intends to explain the causes of abstention and analyze the impact of associationism on it. Fro...
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Surveys are a valuable instrument to find out about the social and political reality of our context. However, the work of researchers is often limited by a number of handicaps that are mainly two. On one hand, the samples are usually low technical quality ones and the fieldwork is not carried out in the finest conditions. On the other hand, many su...
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La Encuesta Social Europea, financiada por la Europe Science Foundation y por la Comisión Europea, nace con el objetivo explícito de establecer unos requisitos de calidad en el diseño muestral y en la ejecución del trabajo de campo que garanticen la calidad de los datos y la comparabilidad entre países. El artículo reflexiona sobre las bases metodo...
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Surveys are a valuable instrument to find out about the social and political reality of our context. However, the work of researchers is often limited by a number of handicaps that are mainly two. On one hand, the samples are usually low technical quality ones and the fieldwork is not carried out in the finest conditions. On the other hand, many su...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between government measures, volunteer participation, climate variables and forest fires. A number of studies have related forest fires to causes of ignition, to fire history in one area, to the type of vegetation and weather characteristics. Other studies have attempted to model the behavior of...
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The aim of this essay is to deal with economic voting in contexts of multilevel governance and to be a contribution to the debate on attribution of responsibilities in popularity functions literature. We use aggregate and individual data from Catalonia in order to analyze the relation between the state of the economy and the support for a sub state...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between government measures, volunteer participation, climate variables and forest fires. A number of studies have related forest fires to causes of ignition, to fire history in one area, to the type of vegetation and weather characteristics or to community institutions, but there is little resea...
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En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de un estudio emp�rico sobre los motivos del cambio sistem�tico de resultados electorales que se da en Catalu�a seg�n el �mbito de la convocatoria electoral de que se trate. La hip�tesis, contrastada positivamente con datos del per�odo 1982-1993, es que la victoria del partido nacionalista de centro derec...
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This article presents the results of an empirical study about the reasons of the systematic change in the electoral results in Catalonia according to the type of elections. The hypothesis, positively tested with data from the period 1982-1993, is that the victory of the nationalist centre-right party in the autonomous elections in a region where al...
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Este informe de investigación examina los factores sociales y políticos que han determinado el nivel y variabilidad de la abstención electoral en las elecciones generales españolas. Extendiendo los modelos de carácter psicológico y sociológico que se han empleado (con éxito relativo) para explicar la abstención española, este estudio muestra que el...
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The aim of this essay is to deal with economic voting in contexts of multilevel governance and to be a contribution to the debate on attribution of responsibilities in popularity functions literature. We use aggregate and individual data from Catalonia in order to analyse the relation between the state of the economy and the support for a sub-state...
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Este informe de investigaci�n examina los factores sociales y pol�ticos que han determinado el nivel y variabilidad de la abstenci�n electoral en las elecciones generales espa�olas. Extendiendo los modelos de car�cter psicol�gico y sociol�gico que se han empleado (con �xito relativo) para explicar la abstenci�n espa�ola, este estudio muestra que el...
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El artículo pasa revista a las investigaciones sobre la relación que existe entre la evolución de la intención de voto a los gobiernos y la coyuntura económica. Se constata que los ciudadanos suelen premiar con su voto a los gobiernos que mandan durante épocas de prosperidad, y viceversa. El artículo desmenuza la modelización que han adquirido esta...
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In 1992, a package of measures was adopted by the city of Barcelona to obligate riders of motorcycles with a power capacity inferior to 125 cc to use helmets, until then only compulsory for larger motorcycles. Interrupted time series analyses with the use of a control group is used to investigate the effect of these measures on the number of seriou...
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El objetivo del artículo es evaluar los efectos de la reforma de la ley de tráfico española en 1992, específicamente, la obligación de llevar casco que establecía para los conductores de motocicletas.
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RESUMEN Este trabajo es una aplicación de las técnicas de análisis multinivel al estudio de la abstención en España con datos de las elec ciones generales del 2000. Se consideran dos fuentes de información, la individual y la contextual. La metodología multinivel pretende evitar los sesgos derivados de la utilización conjunta de datos individuales...

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