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The parliamentary election in Ireland, February 2011
(Elsevier, 2012)The three-party coalition government formed in 2007 between Fianna Fail, the Green Party and the Progressive Democrats appeared to have a bulletproof majority, and there was every reason to expect that, like its two immediate ... -
Party groups and policy positions in the European Parliament
(Sage, 2007)As the legislative body of the European Union (EU), the European Parliament (EP) comprises 732 elected representatives from over 150 national political parties from 25 member states. At the EP level, these members ... -
Party nationalization and the provision of public goods in democracies : a theoretical and empirical investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2015)The project investigates the extent to which political parties' organizational coverage and electoral geography - the degree to which they are successful at gaining electoral support throughout all regions within a country ... -
Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament
(2010)While much attention has been paid to party politics in the European Parliament (EP), systematic empirical research has yet explained the basis on which national parties affiliate with the EP political groups. Our paper ... -
Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies
(2021)Norm enforcement may be important for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation. However, little is known about how preferred responses to norm violations vary across cultures and across domains. In a preregistered ... -
Political parties in new and established democracies : explaining party pluralism, party unity and party death
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This dissertation is comprised of three distinct but related research papers which seek to contribute to our understanding of institutional development of legislative parties and party systems in new and established ... -
Politics as usual or exceptional elections? : a comparative study of sub-Saharan Africa's multiparty systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)This thesis studies multiparty systems in sub-Saharan Africa in the period 1989-2008. The characteristic of sub-Saharan Africa's party systems that shall be examined is the manner in which electoral support and legislative ... -
Post-conflict governments 1975-2004 : designing effective assistance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)Understanding the causes and consequences of internal conflict has become a priority for researchers in economics, international relations and political science over the past two decades. Conflict patterns have changed ... -
Presidential institutions and democracy : the political economy of succession and term limits
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2007)This thesis focuses on the logic of succession and term limits in all presidential regimes (1975-2005). The aim is to describe presidential tenure institutions and succession strategies and outcomes, to explain these ... -
Presidents, Parties And Policy Competition
(2009)Presidential systems present a unique possibility for spatial competition between elected political agents, since presidents may represent different policy positions than the parties to which they belong. Previous ... -
Promoting peace or inciting violence? Explaining how decentralisation systematically affects the propensity of regional ethnic conflict
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)This thesis investigates the varying effects of decentralisation on ethnic conflict. It seeks to offer a unified theory explaining why the outcomes of decentralisation reforms differ. More specifically it studies how these ... -
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation
(2022)Scholars of international conflicts have long emphasized the role of private information in the onset of interstate wars. Yet, the literature lacks direct and systematic evidence of its effect. This is largely due to ... -
Public opinion and Irish neutrality : a theoretical and empirical test of the 'rational public' hypothesis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2007)Opinion polls have consistently shown that public opinion in Ireland is strongly in favour of neutrality. There is a significant discourse in the media and in academic texts which argues that Irish neutrality is a ‘myth’ ... -
Reality bytes : cyberterrorism and terrorist use of the Internet
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2006)The analysis contained herein treats the relationship between terrorism and the internet. Instead of treating cyberterrorism as the most important conjunction of terrorism and the Internet (as has been the tendency to ... -
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 ... -
Religion and Political Protest: A Cross-Country Analysis
(2019)Religion’s effect on individual tendency to engage in political protest is influenced both by the resources available to citizens at the individual level and opportunities provided to religious groups and organizations at ... -
Representing Europe's citizens : an analysis of political representation in the European Union
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This project investigates how well the EU functions as an instrument of political representation. It addresses five separate but intrinsically linked research questions: are citizens' perceptions of representation important ... -
The role of environmental issues in European elections. Assessing whether European elections establish an electoral connection based on these issues
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)This thesis investigates whether European elections establish an electoral connection based on the environment, a relevant EU-policy issue, at three different stages: the electoral campaign, election day, MEPs' vote in the ...