Browsing Political Science (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
A shape-based approach to conflict forecasting
(2021)Do conflict processes exhibit repeating patterns over time? And if so, can we exploit the recurring shapes and structures of the time series to forecast the evolution of conflict? Theory has long focused on the sequence ... -
State Aids in the Airline Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Iberia and Aer Lingus
(The Policy Institute, 2004)The inevitable privatization of Aer Lingus poses many questions. Should state aids be given toward the company before its sale? To whom should the company be sold? How transparent, efficient and accountable should the ... -
Taxation, Democracy and State-Building: how does sequencing matter?
(Quality of Government Institute, 2012)What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of `reverse? sequencing? Existing theories about taxation and democracy have presumed this relationship to be positive, but they have largely been ... -
The unfaithful Irish voter
(2019)Local and European elections have been held simultaneously since 1999. These offer an interesting context to look at the importance of party, both across each pair of elections and across these elections and future voting ... -
Voter Expectations of Government Formation: The Importance of the Information Context in Coalition Systems:
(2021)Can voters in multi-party systems predict which coalition will form the government with any degree of accuracy? To date, studies which explore voter expectations of coalition formation have emphasized individual-level ... -
Voter preferences and party loyalty under cumulative voting: political behaviour after electoral reform in Bremen and Hamburg
(2018)Many electoral systems constrain voters to one or two votes at election time. Reformers often see this as a failing because voters' preferences are both broader and more varied than the number of choices allowed. New ... -
Who wants women to run? an investigation of gender differences in patterns of support among Irish local election candidates
(2022)Interventions aimed at increasing women’s numeric representation in politics tend to solve the problem by tackling a lack of demand among gatekeepers. However, even where there is an increase in demand, it is still important ...