Browsing School of Social Sciences and Philosophy by Title
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Messengers of the people? : An analysis of representation and role orientations in the Irish Parliament
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2002)The objective behind this dissertation is to increase academic understanding of the operation of Irish representative democracy, since there has been no similar systematic and contemporary study of Dail Eireann or its ... -
Metaphysical Necessity Dualism
(2018)A popular response to the Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that mental events depend on their physical bases in such a way that the causation of a physical effect by a mental event and its physical base needn’t ... -
Metaphysics in Analytic Philosophy
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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. ... -
Microcosms of democracy? Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their impact on political attitudes and behaviour in Kenya
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2008)This study contributes to the general question of whether the democratic functioning of civil society organisations is a necessary condition for building a democratic political culture. Specifically, it empirically tests ... -
Migrant women's diasporic networks: Alternative narratives of globalisation
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Migrant-led activism and integration from below in recession Ireland
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Migration, mothering and schooling: a case study of Baltic mothers in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)This thesis explores the parental involvement of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian mothers within and outside of formal schooling in Ireland. The number of Baltic families has significantly increased in Ireland in the last ... -
The mirror stage of movement intellectuals? Jewish criticism of Israel and its relationship to a developing social movement
(2009)This article explores the strengths and limitations of movement intellectuals? theorisation of their movement and its terrain of activism. It looks at four published collections of Jewish writers critical of Israel and ... -
Mobilising social network support: the case of Polish migrant mothers in Dublin
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2021)As international mobility has increased over the last decades, so has research on transnational families and transnational care, gaining a more prominent place in family and migration research. Following the expansion of ... -
Modelling the Dublin housing market : A time series analysis
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Modified Ramsey Discounting for Climate Change
(ESRI, 2011)The Ramsey rule for the consumption rate of discount assumes a transfer of money of a (representative) agent at one point in time to the same agent at another point in time. Climate policy (implicitly) transfers money not ... -
Money demand, network effects and self-selection : essays in development economicss
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)This thesis is comprised of three essays. The first one examines money demand and aid shocks in Zimbabwe, using a new dataset. Zimbabwe has recently experienced record hyperinflation of 80 billion percent a month. This ... -
Moralised Definitions of Freedom, Autonomy, and the Personal Value of Opportunities to Perform Morally Impermissible Actions
(2021)Are the opportunities to perform morally impermissible actions valuable? And, if so, has their value any role to play in normative arguments? In this essay I examine the personal value of opportunities to perform morally ... -
Moving across countries, labour markets and the life cycle : Polish and Central / Eastern European migration to Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis investigates East to West migration specifically looking at new patterns and forms of ‘middle-class’ migration and more general labour market outcomes within which the former may be positioned. The study is ... -
Multiculturalism after the Good Friday Agreement
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'Muslims in Germany: from guest workers to citizens?'
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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 ...