RSS 1.0Political Science (Theses and Dissertations)
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Costly Concessions: The Effect of Fragmentation of Self-Determination Movements on State Repression
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)There is a great variation in the way governments respond to dissent. Governments responses to internal challengers vary from peaceful accommodation to various forms of repression. This variation has important implications ... -
State-business relations and the politics of state aid in the European Union: a multi-method approach to explaining aid allocations among member states
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)This thesis investigates state aid allocations in the European Union (EU) member states to answer two key research questions about the political management of a market economy. Today, government officials cannot be indifferent ... -
The Impact of Anocracy on Terrorism: A Mixed-Method Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)In this dissertation, the impact of anocracy on terrorism is examined. Intuitively, anocratic states or states with mixed regime features have been associated with greater terrorism, indicating that regime type has an ... -
Authoritarian diffusion at a distance? China's impact on levels of and on citizens' support for liberal-democracy in Sub-Saharan African states
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)The recent emergence of authoritarian countries, such as China, as leading economic powers, increasingly engaged in the developing world, has coincided with a 'democratic recession' in certain developing countries. Are ... -
Electoral Incentives to Cultivate a Personal Vote and Political Particularism: a Text Analysis Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)In this dissertation, I examine the impact of electoral rules on political particularism. I study the legislative behaviour of Italian members of parliament (MPs) as a case study of how this causal mechanism works. To ...
