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Campaign Spending and Electoral Integrity: Assessing the Plausibility of the Challenger Spending Efficacy Advantage in Irish & British Elections
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)Do incumbents lose ground to challengers even when their spending is evenly matched? Much of the literature points to a spending efficacy advantage for challengers (i.e. non-incumbents glean more from spending than ... -
Chieftains delivering : political determinants of capital spending in Ireland 2001-07
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This is a study about the allocation of resources in Ireland. It asks to what extent capital expenditure is allocated according to geopolitical or to policy considerations. In other words, to what extent do electoral ... -
Choose Your Target Wisely: How the EU Shapes Nationalism in Contemporary Europe
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2022)Nationalism has experienced a resurgence across Europe since 1980, and one common explanation for this resurgence is that the backlash to European integration aids radical right parties, which prioritise nativism in the ... -
Citizens Assembly
(2011)We the Citizens set out with optimism, and indeed hope, to test the value to our democracy of including citizens more directly in decision-making. That hope has been truly vindicated. We now have unequivocal proof that ... -
Committees and Party Cohesion in the European Parliament
(2008)How do political parties enforce party discipline and promote cohesiveness in newly emerging legislatures? Political parties in established parliamentary democracies typically exhibit such high levels of unity that the ... -
Comparative military interventions : the question of legitimacy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2004)This thesis examines theoretical explanations for why military interventions have taken place in the 'long-decade' following the end of the Cold War. International relations paradigms are evaluated in terms of whether their ... -
The Concept of Picking
(2011)Human behavior, like everything else, has causes. Most of the time, those causes can be described as reasons. Human beings perform actions because they have reasons for performing them. They are capable of surveying the ... -
Conceptualizing Lotteries
(2007)A number of philosophers and social scientists have investigated the use of lotteries to make various kinds of decisions. These investigations have not, however, produced a rigorous definition of a lottery. This paper ... -
A Conservative revolution:: the electoral response to economic crisis in Ireland
(2014)The 2011 election in Ireland was one of the most dramatic elections in European postwar history in terms of net electoral volatility. In some respects the election overturned the traditional party system. Yet it was a ... -
Cosmopolitanism and Irish foreign policy : a case study analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2000)This thesis sets out to explore cosmopolitanism as a position within International Relations theory in the context of the activism of Irish Non-governmental Organisations (NGO) in Irish foreign policy. NGOs are posited as ... -
Costly Concessions: The Effect of Fragmentation of Self-Determination Movements on State Repression
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)There is a great variation in the way governments respond to dissent. Governments responses to internal challengers vary from peaceful accommodation to various forms of repression. This variation has important implications ... -
Credible Enforcement before Credible Commitment: Exploring the Importance of Sequencing
(2013)States that are both strong and democratic are the most capable of delivering human development. Existing rational choice accounts of collective action and credible commitment have provided us with the answer as to why ... -
Cyber-space oddity? : an analysis of political parties' websites and online campaigning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This dissertation is an empirical investigation of how the internet is used by political parties and their candidates. This project seeks to make an original contribution to the literature on political parties, electoral ... -
De Valera and the Ulster question 1917-1973
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Decision making in the Council of Ministers of the European Union
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)This thesis examines legislative decision making in the European Union with a specific focus upon decision making in the Council of Ministers. It examines the manner in which member states seek to influence the legislative ... -
Deliberative democracy, deliberative polls and citizens' juries
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)This thesis contains a critical analysis of deliberative democracy. I present the normative arguments for the theory in the context of a discussion of how to explicate democracy more generally, and I assess these ... -
"Democracy from the Outside in"? : the effectiveness of normative pressure and conditionality
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This thesis presents an analysis of the effectiveness of democracy promotion strategies on post-communist democratising states of Eastern Europe. Specifically, it examines the impact on development of civil and political ... -
Dignity and Duty: A Dignity Based Account of Human Rights and their Associated Duties
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The Dimensionality Of Political Space: Epistemological And Methodological Considerations
(2012)Spatial characterizations of agents’ preferences lie at the heart of many theories of political competition. These give rise to explicitly dimensional interpretations. Parties define and differentiate themselves in terms ...