Browsing Political Science (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Food Security and Elite-Ruler Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the impact of democracy on public goods provision
(2012)How does democracy impact on public goods provision? This question has provoked a wealth of empirical and theoretical investigation, but few answers that satisfactorily explain emerging patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most ... -
From idea to institution: the European Commission at fifty
(European University Institute, 2008)This article examines the highs and lows of the European Commission from 1958-2008 -
How Political Careers affect Prime-Ministerial Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
(2021)Even though Prime Ministers (PMs) are the central actors in parliamentary democracies, little comparative research explores what makes them perform successfully in office. This article investigates how the political careers ... -
The Impact of Gender Quotas on Voting Behaviour in 2016
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Interest group access to policymaking in Ireland
(2023)There are more than 2,000 interest groups in Ireland that play a key role in policy development. This paper explores which of these groups have access to Irish policymaking across various political arenas. It does so by ... -
International political economy and future of multilateralism: a platform for cooperation for G20 sovereign wealth funds
(2020)This policy brief proposes the creation of a platform for cooperation among the Group of Twenty (G20) states' sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). The platform should allow for multiple practices that include long-term ... -
Introduction to A Citizen Legislature by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Philips
(Imprint Academic, 2008)In 1997, I was a graduate student in the Political Science Department at the University of Rochester. Like most graduate students, I was always on the lookout for ways to earn a little extra money. For this reason, I became ... -
Ireland - End of Term Report, Independent Reporting Mechanism, Open Government Partnership
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Ireland - Mid-Term Progress Report, 2014-15, Independent Research Mechanism, Open Government Partnership
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Ireland: Something for almost everyone
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The Irish Dail Election 2007
(Irish Political Studies, 2007)The Irish Republic Dail election held on 24 May 2007 was considered to be the most exciting in a generation or more. The early part of the campaign was dominated by questions relating to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern?s personal ... -
Lobbying the European Commission: Open or secret?
(2011)Little transparency in the EU black?box of policy making means that there is limited citizen knowledge of which interest groups are operating in Brussels, what they seek to influence, how much resources they put into ... -
Lotteries and Probability Theory
(Imprint Academic, 2010)A variety of decisions seem to require resort to a coin toss, die roll, or the drawing of straws?in other words, a fair lottery. This raises the question of what features distinguish fair lotteries from alternative procedures. ... -
Making the World Safe for Methods
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Microcosms of Democracy? A Study of the Internal Governance of International NGOs in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)An assumption prevails within the international development community that direct exposure to democracy within civil society is a necessary condition for democratic political culture and hence democratic consolidation. ... -
National Integrity System Country Study Ireland
(Transparency International, 2009)The purpose of the National Integrity Study on Ireland is to assess the National Integrity System, in theory (laws and institutions) and practice (how well they work). It provides a benchmark for measuring further developments ... -
On Fair Lotteries
(2008)When James Watson and Francis Crick submitted to Nature their groundbreaking paper relating DNA structure to protein synthesis, they faced a choice. In what order were their names to be listed? Would it be ?Watson and ... -
On Linking Cognitive Mechanisms to Game Play
(2003)Tomonori Morikawa, James E. Hanley, and John Orbell have argued that natural selection leads populations who play Hawk-Dove, a game-theoretic stylization of confrontation, to develop the capacity for various `orders of ...