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Habitual voting : origins and consequences
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)The thesis studies the phenomenon and the concept of habitual voting. It focuses on the phenomenon of habitual turnout, the tendency for a stable propensity to vote (or abstain) to form during the period of a few initial ... -
Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Theory of Political Judgment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)This project develops a new reading of Hannah Arendt’s interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic reflective judgment. The aim of this project is to justify Arendt’s claim that she brings Kant’s unwritten political ... -
The Hard Problem Isn't Getting Any Easier: Thoughts on Chalmers' "Meta-problem"
(2020)Chalmers’ meta-problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining “problem reports”; i.e. reports to the effect that phenomenal consciousness has the various features that give rise to the hard problem. Chalmers (2018, ... -
Heterogeneity in Irish indigenous manufacturing export behaviour : a new conceptual framework
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis explores firm heterogeneity; in particular it focuses on exporter heterogeneity using a new conceptual framework which classifies firms on the basis of their exporting experience over the life of the firm or ... -
High Stakes Testing and Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in the Republic of Ireland
(2012)There is now a well developed literature on the impact of high stakes testing on teaching approaches and student outcomes. However, the student perspective has been neglected in much research. This article draws on a mixed ... -
Household Formation and Tenure Choice
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Housing and Austerity: A Two-Way Street
(Royal Irish Academy, 2017)Simon Wren-Lewis’s chapter in this volume outlines a general theory of austerity. Underpinning it is a desire for policymakers – as well as the social sciences – to learn from the experience of austerity over the last ... -
'How can they justify it to themselves?' Theories of justification and political violence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2007)This research is a systematic and rigorous analysis of the types of normative justifications used by various groups that employ, threaten, or advocate the use of terrorism or political violence. It examines the internal ... -
How Impact Fees and Local Planning Regulation Can Influence Deployment of Telecoms Infrastructure
(ESRI, 26/08/2011)This paper examines how local government planning regulations and charges affect the deployment of telecommunications infrastructure. We explore the economic rationale for local government regulation of such infrastructure, ... -
How Might the EU's Common Agricultural Policy Affect Trade and Development After 2013?
(International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010)The Commission?s Communication on the CAP post 2013 published in November 2010 sets out three options for the future shape of Europe?s Common Agricultural Policy. This paper explains the background and rationale for ... -
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 ... -
How to Do Things with Things: Brentano s Reism and its Limits.
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How to Explain the Direction of Time
(2022)Reichenbach explains temporally asymmetric phenomena by appeal to entropy and ‘branch structure’. He explains why the entropic gradients of isolated subsystems are oriented towards the future and not the past, and why we ... -
Human Capital and Growth of Information and Communication Technology-intensive Industries: Empirical Evidence from Open Economies
(2013)This paper examines the effect of human capital on the growth of ICT-intensive industries using data from a sample of open economies over the period 1980-1999. Our econometric analysis suggest that value added and employment ... -
Human Mobility In Developing Countries: Evidence From Mobile Phone Data
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis examines human mobility patterns in developing countries. It leverages different types of mobile phone data enabling the observation of individuals' movements and locations at spatio-temporal scales which are ... -
"Human Nature and the Right to Coerce in Kant's Doctrine of Right".
(2014)This paper explores the alleged role of a conception of human nature for Kant’s justification of the duty to leave the state of nature and the related right to coerce others to enter the civil condition ... -
A human right to health?
(Edinburgh University Press, 2012) -
I know what it is but how bad does it get? Insights into the lived experience and service needs of people with early-stage dementia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2009)In Ireland, age-related illnesses such as dementia are becoming a greater policy concern in line with population ageing. Despite this, dementia-specific policies and practices are still largely under-developed and the ...