Browsing Political Science (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin"
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Agenda building : a time-series analysis of the challenging issue priorities of parties and media during the 1997 General Election campaign in the UK
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2002)This is a study of agenda building during an election campaign, which is a dynamic process and hence calls for the application of time-series analysis. The data, from the 1997 General Election campaign in the UK., consist ... -
An attitude diffusion model of the international clustering of political regimes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)On the basis of the relatively new and growing literature on the presence of spatial clustering and temporal waves of the spread of democracy in the world, this thesis sets out to make an inventory of the various theoretical ... -
An exploration of the relationship between consociationalism and stability in plural societies throughout the world
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2007)This project includes the most carefully constructed, large scale statistical analysis of the influence of the components of consociational government on stability. The variables and cases used in this analysis conform as ... -
Chieftains delivering : political determinants of capital spending in Ireland 2001-07
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This is a study about the allocation of resources in Ireland. It asks to what extent capital expenditure is allocated according to geopolitical or to policy considerations. In other words, to what extent do electoral ... -
Comparative military interventions : the question of legitimacy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2004)This thesis examines theoretical explanations for why military interventions have taken place in the 'long-decade' following the end of the Cold War. International relations paradigms are evaluated in terms of whether their ... -
Cosmopolitanism and Irish foreign policy : a case study analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2000)This thesis sets out to explore cosmopolitanism as a position within International Relations theory in the context of the activism of Irish Non-governmental Organisations (NGO) in Irish foreign policy. NGOs are posited as ... -
De Valera and the Ulster question 1917-1973
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Do parties make a difference? The relationship between government intention and government output in the public policy sphere: the case of governments in Ireland 1977-1997
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2004)Students of representative democracy are not in agreement as to the degree of influence that parties exert over public policy. One possible route by which partisan influence may be investigated is through a case study of ... -
Donors, dollars, and diseases : state-institution interactions in global public health
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This study explores the dynamics of state interactions with institutions for global public health. It investigates three separate, but intrinsically linked questions: why donor states contribute resources to certain ... -
European merger control policy : private interests, policy communities and entrepreneurship
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)The intent of this thesis was to reconcile the divergent strands in the existing literature on European competition and merger policy by providing a systematic analysis of the development and implementation of the European ... -
Europeanisation and Polish competition policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)In this thesis I analyse the impact of the European Union (EU) on domestic policies in Poland when it was a candidate country for EU membership. The impact of the European Union on domestic policies is called Europeanisation. ... -
Explaining party splits and mergers in Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis investigates the following research question: what explains party splits and mergers? The thesis argues that splits and mergers necessitate a trade-off between political elites' office and policy or ideological ... -
Explaining the collapse of communism in Poland : how the strategic misperception of Round Table negotiators produced an unanticipated outcome
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2002)This dissertation set out to discover why the Polish communist party (PUWP) lost power in Poland over the summer of 1989. Given the fact that neither the PUWP nor Solidarity expected the fall of communism at the outset of ... -
Give them awkward choices : a theoretical and empirical investigation into the operation of prime ministerial influence on policy in 22 countries
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)Prime ministers are among the most high profile, and we might assume, important actors in the policy-making systems of modern parliamentary democracies. While much has been written about the individuals who have held the ... -
'How can they justify it to themselves?' Theories of justification and political violence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2007)This research is a systematic and rigorous analysis of the types of normative justifications used by various groups that employ, threaten, or advocate the use of terrorism or political violence. It examines the internal ... -
Inside single party government : the UK Conservative Party 1975-1990
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2001)This thesis tells the story of the UK change of prime minister in 1990 using a policy-based multi-dimensional model of intra-party competition. Specifically, it focuses on Margaret Thatcher's fall in 1990 from the position ... -
Intellectual and 'real world' feminism : mainstreaming international gender norms in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)This thesis sets out to examine ‘gender mainstreaming’ as a scheme for the promotion of gender interests in mainstream policy-making. The thesis identifies gender mainstreaming as a development for feminist theory and ... -
Interest group access to key policymakers a comparative analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2015)This thesis uses both quantitative and qualitative data to offer the most comprehensive and systematic investigation into Irish interest group behaviour heretofore conducted. At the same time it is also makes a significant ... -
Measurement issues in the comparative manifesto project data set and effectiveness of representative democracy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)In this dissertation I focus on the very widely used Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) as the source of measurements of the policy positions of political parties. The CMP data confuse the separable notions of party's ...