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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 ... -
Naturalism, Functionalism and Chance: Not a Best Fit for the Humean
(Oxford University Press, 2023)How should we give accounts of scientific modal relations, such as laws and chances? According the Humean, we should do so by reducing these relations to parts of non-modal actuality: typically, patterns in actual events, ... -
Network structure, institutional frameworks, and social change : the case of nonprofits that support asylum seekers in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2017)The steep rise in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland since the late 1990s has presented a novel set of challenges to the Republic’s nonprofit sector. Legal instruments and statutory policy that have developed ... -
A New Electoral system for Ireland?
(Trinity College Dublin, 1998)A New Electoral system for Ireland? looks at the possibility of doing away with the current Single Transferable Vote electoral system in Ireland. It explores the impact of replacing STV with an alternative widely favoured ... -
New Irish Families: A Profile of Second Generation Children and their Families
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New model army. The end of militarism in the Federal Republic of Germany
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2008)The thorough transformation of post-war Germany has led to a dramatic reassessment of its foreign and security policy, characterised by a strong emphasis on international cooperation and an extremely limited role of military ... -
New patterns of migration and higher education in Ireland: What are the implications?
(Springer, 2020)This chapter discusses the changing demographic situation in recent decades as Ireland moved from being a country with a long tradition of emigration to one of net immigration. The pace of social change in Ireland is ... -
Nigerian Taxi Drivers in Dublin: The Preferred Narrative Versus the Lived Experience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)The liberalisation of the Irish taxi industry in 2000 coincided with the Irish State becoming a place of net immigration for the first time in its history (Ruhs, 2005). Over the following decade, Dublin's taxi fleet increased ... -
No Way Back? The Dynamics of Early School Leaving
(The Liffey Press in association with The ESRI, NCCA & Department of Education & Science, 2010)Education is a key determinant of adult life chances across Western societies and is especially so in Ireland. Young people with higher levels of educational qualifications are more likely to access high quality employment ... -
Non-Progression among Higher Education New Entrants: a Multivariate Analysis
(Higher Education Authority, 2010)Internationally attention is increasingly focused on how students fare after entry to college?on student experiences in relation to retention, completion and withdrawal.48 However while research is increasingly focused ... -
Nudging in the workplace: increasing participation in employee EDI wellness events
(2022)Organisations are investing significant resources in promoting the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of their employees. In hybrid working environments, virtual worker wellness events are increasingly being ... -
Obituary of B. Sharon Byrd
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Okay Boomer... Excess Money Growth, Inflation, and Population Aging
(2022)What determines the strength of the relationship between money growth and inflation? A large literature suggests that it has weakened since the 1980s, without a definitive explanation of the cause. I explore how population ... -
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 International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change
(ESRI, 2011)Climate change is a moral problem. The main reason to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a concern for faraway lands (Schelling 2000), distant futures (Nordhaus 1982), and remote probabilities (Weitzman 2009). The people ... -
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 ... -
On the cutting edge? : Marking gender, embodiment and knowledge
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2006)In this thesis I use creative methodologies - a “new writing” (Denzin, 2003: 118) strategy - to explore body marking practices (‘self-injury’ and body modification) in the context of gendered embodiment. The overarching ...