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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 ... -
Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European Political Swings: An Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time
(Elsevier, 2011)After seven waves of European Parliament elections and European Union enlargement to 27 states, the time is ripe to analyse the temporal robustness of the second-order model. We pool all the elections in a single evaluation ... -
A shape-based approach to conflict forecasting
(2021)Do conflict processes exhibit repeating patterns over time? And if so, can we exploit the recurring shapes and structures of the time series to forecast the evolution of conflict? Theory has long focused on the sequence ... -
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 ... -
Start Spreading the (fake) News: The Role of Fear and Anger in the Formation and Dissemination of Conspiratorial Beliefs
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2022)Why do some people believe in political conspiracy theories and others do not? Why, for instance, do 60 percent of Americans believe that the CIA killed President John F. Kennedy while 25 percent believe that Barack Obama ... -
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 ... -
State-business relations and the politics of state aid in the European Union: a multi-method approach to explaining aid allocations among member states
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)This thesis investigates state aid allocations in the European Union (EU) member states to answer two key research questions about the political management of a market economy. Today, government officials cannot be indifferent ... -
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 adaption of United Nations peacekeeping in the post-Cold War international system
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2001)This study examines United Nations peacekeeping as practised between 1956 and 1999. In particular, it considers how the ending of the Cold War affected the conduct and performance of operations. Having traced the development ... -
The available voter
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2015)Contemporary research on electoral volatility often focuses on those who switch party preferences, but the switching itself does not inform us about who is available for electoral competition among the parties. Making use ... -
The democratization of information : freedom of information and the Irish political system
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2008)Grounded in democratic theory, the thesis presents an argument for the design and reform of political institutions in order to maximise public access to policy-relevant information and to strengthen Irish democracy. The ...