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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 ... -
Social background and intra-party attitudes in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2014)This thesis examines the extent to which the distribution of politicians’ social background characteristics is associated with attitude variation within political parties. It addresses the research question with quantitative ... -
Split-ticket voting in mixed-member electoral systems : a theoretical and methodological investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)Mixed-member electoral systems give people the opportunity of voting for the same representative body by casting two votes: one for a national party under proportional rules and one for a local candidate under majoritarian ... -
Stability and change in the choice available to voters : the set of potential leaders of government: an aggregate level study of eleven European countries, 1950-1999
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)Choice is an integral aspect of the democratic system. This thesis is about stability and change in choices available to voters. In particular, it is about the choice of potential leaders of government available to voters. ... -
Stakeholder influence in the European Commission's stakeholder consultations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This thesis investigates lobbying by stakeholders, i.e. firms, NGOs and industry organisations as well as other private and public bodies from the international to local level, in the context of the European Commission's ... -
State Aids in the Airline Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Iberia and Aer Lingus
(The Policy Institute, 2004)The inevitable privatization of Aer Lingus poses many questions. Should state aids be given toward the company before its sale? To whom should the company be sold? How transparent, efficient and accountable should the ... -
Strategic incentives of political parties : policy-making, ideological positioning, & election campaigning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2014)This three-paper thesis explores three instruments of party strategy: the party’s policy implementations, the party’s ideological positioning, and the targeting of their political campaigns. In each case we explore how ... -
Taxation, Democracy and State-Building: how does sequencing matter?
(Quality of Government Institute, 2012)What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of `reverse? sequencing? Existing theories about taxation and democracy have presumed this relationship to be positive, but they have largely been ... -
The effectiveness of foreign aid : the role of political institutions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis investigates the effect of political institutions on the effectiveness of aid. More specifically, the thesis examines the use of aid under different political institutional frameworks. This thesis aims to fill ... -
The mirror and the lamp : public opinion in the Republic of Ireland since 1970
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2006)This Ph.D. thesis examines what public opinion polls undertaken in the Republic of Ireland tell us about public opinion. The main source of data used in this research is media commissioned opinion polls that have been ... -
The Responsible Party Model and European integration in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2001)The history of European integration is undeniably elitist. This study nevertheless holds that the body of research that has documented the failure of political elites (e.g., parties) and citizens are out of tune with each ... -
The secret life of political parties. A comparative study of candidate selection in African democracies
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)Every political party has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life. Publicly, parties campaign for office and, if elected, form governments. Privately, parties attract funding, formulate policy positions ... -
The violence of democracy : electoral violence in sub-Saharan Africa, 1997 to 2012
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2015)This study is concerned to address the following (question: Why are some elections in Sub-Saharan Africa marked by violence while other elections are not? Some 20% of elections in this region have experienced violence to ... -
Voter preferences and party loyalty under cumulative voting: political behaviour after electoral reform in Bremen and Hamburg
(2018)Many electoral systems constrain voters to one or two votes at election time. Reformers often see this as a failing because voters' preferences are both broader and more varied than the number of choices allowed. New ... -
Who wants women to run? an investigation of gender differences in patterns of support among Irish local election candidates
(2022)Interventions aimed at increasing women’s numeric representation in politics tend to solve the problem by tackling a lack of demand among gatekeepers. However, even where there is an increase in demand, it is still important ... -
Women's descriptive representation in national parliaments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This dissertation studies the descriptive (i.e. numeric) representation of women in national parliaments in three related but independent papers. The empirical analysis presented in the papers is based on two original data ...