Browsing Political Science (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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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 ... -
The paradox of compliance: infringements and delays in transposing EU directives
(2007)What impact does the negotiation stage prior to the adoption of international agreements have on the subsequent implementation stage? We address this question by examining the linkages between decision making on European ... -
The parliamentary election in Ireland, February 2011
(Elsevier, 2012)The three-party coalition government formed in 2007 between Fianna Fail, the Green Party and the Progressive Democrats appeared to have a bulletproof majority, and there was every reason to expect that, like its two immediate ... -
Party groups and policy positions in the European Parliament
(Sage, 2007)As the legislative body of the European Union (EU), the European Parliament (EP) comprises 732 elected representatives from over 150 national political parties from 25 member states. At the EP level, these members ... -
Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament
(2010)While much attention has been paid to party politics in the European Parliament (EP), systematic empirical research has yet explained the basis on which national parties affiliate with the EP political groups. Our paper ... -
Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies
(2021)Norm enforcement may be important for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation. However, little is known about how preferred responses to norm violations vary across cultures and across domains. In a preregistered ... -
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation
(2022)Scholars of international conflicts have long emphasized the role of private information in the onset of interstate wars. Yet, the literature lacks direct and systematic evidence of its effect. This is largely due to ... -
A Relative Impact Ranking of Political Studies in Ireland
(Economic and Social Studies, 2009)Against a background of the Irish government?s concerns with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the British government?s wishes for a more quantitative Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), our study conducts a relative ... -
Religion and Political Protest: A Cross-Country Analysis
(2019)Religion’s effect on individual tendency to engage in political protest is influenced both by the resources available to citizens at the individual level and opportunities provided to religious groups and organizations at ... -
Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European Political Swings: An Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time
(Elsevier, 2011)After seven waves of European Parliament elections and European Union enlargement to 27 states, the time is ripe to analyse the temporal robustness of the second-order model. We pool all the elections in a single evaluation ...