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 ... -
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 ... -
Three Arguments for Lotteries
(2010)Philosophers and social scientists have offered a variety of arguments for making certain types of decisions by lot. This paper examines three such arguments. These arguments identify indeterminacy, fairness and incentive ... -
Voting behaviour in referendums
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Voting for government coalitions in Ireland under Single Transferable Vote
(2010)This paper addresses the issue of whether voters indicate a preference for a government rather than, or in addition to a preference for a party, when they cast a ballot under the system of the Single Transferable Vote ...
