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Economic voting in a crisis: the Irish election of 2011
(2012)The paper explores a question raised by the 2011 Irish election, which saw an almost unprecedented decline in support for a major governing party after an economic collapse that necessitated an ECB/IMF ?bailout?. This seems ... -
The effect of observable party cohesion on voter choice in liberal democracies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2018)The goal of this thesis is to assess the electoral impact of party infighting. It addresses the key research question of what is the impact of party infighting on the electoral fortunes of that party. In answering this ... -
Electing the President of the European Commission
(Trinity College Dublin, 1995)This paper is concerned with the legitimacy and accountability of decision-making in the European Union (EU). In the first half of the paper we argue that a straightforward and effective way to improve the legitimacy and ... -
Electing Women to the Dáil: Gender Cues and the Irish Voter.
(2011)At no time in history has the number of women elected to Dail ireann surpassed 14 per cent of the total membership. In spite of significant social changes, the use of a proportional electoral system and no obvious bias ... -
Electoral Incentives to Cultivate a Personal Vote and Political Particularism: a Text Analysis Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)In this dissertation, I examine the impact of electoral rules on political particularism. I study the legislative behaviour of Italian members of parliament (MPs) as a case study of how this causal mechanism works. To ... -
Estimating Intra-Party Preferences: Comparing Speeches to Votes
(2017)Well-established methods exist for measuring party positions, but reliable means for es- timating intra-party preferences remain underdeveloped. While most efforts focus on es- timating the ideal points of individual ... -
European merger control policy : private interests, policy communities and entrepreneurship
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)The intent of this thesis was to reconcile the divergent strands in the existing literature on European competition and merger policy by providing a systematic analysis of the development and implementation of the European ... -
Europeanisation and Polish competition policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)In this thesis I analyse the impact of the European Union (EU) on domestic policies in Poland when it was a candidate country for EU membership. The impact of the European Union on domestic policies is called Europeanisation. ... -
Exceptional wars : how were the US military interventions in the 'War on Terror' possible?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)How were the US military interventions in the 'War on Terror' possible? This thesis argues that intervention in the 'War on Terror' was rendered possible through the strategic use of language that located intervention as ... -
Explaining party splits and mergers in Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis investigates the following research question: what explains party splits and mergers? The thesis argues that splits and mergers necessitate a trade-off between political elites' office and policy or ideological ... -
Explaining state participation in environmental treaties
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This project aims to advance the literature on the dynamics of state participation in environmental treaties. The overarching question is, how do we explain the variance in state signature and ratification of environmental ... -
Explaining the collapse of communism in Poland : how the strategic misperception of Round Table negotiators produced an unanticipated outcome
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2002)This dissertation set out to discover why the Polish communist party (PUWP) lost power in Poland over the summer of 1989. Given the fact that neither the PUWP nor Solidarity expected the fall of communism at the outset of ... -
Explaining the new regionalism : the political economy of trade agreements
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)The overarching research question defining this project is the following one: How do domestic politics affect the formation of trade blocs in the current wave of regionalism? This general question is divided into two more ... -
Explaining the persistence of factionalism in parties
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis examines the causes of the persistence of factions in parties. It undertakes this analysis using both qualitative and quantitative methods by performing statistical analysis at the level of the country and the ... -
Food Security and Elite-Ruler Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the impact of democracy on public goods provision
(2012)How does democracy impact on public goods provision? This question has provoked a wealth of empirical and theoretical investigation, but few answers that satisfactorily explain emerging patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most ... -
From idea to institution: the European Commission at fifty
(European University Institute, 2008)This article examines the highs and lows of the European Commission from 1958-2008 -
Give them awkward choices : a theoretical and empirical investigation into the operation of prime ministerial influence on policy in 22 countries
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)Prime ministers are among the most high profile, and we might assume, important actors in the policy-making systems of modern parliamentary democracies. While much has been written about the individuals who have held the ... -
Habitual voting : origins and consequences
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)The thesis studies the phenomenon and the concept of habitual voting. It focuses on the phenomenon of habitual turnout, the tendency for a stable propensity to vote (or abstain) to form during the period of a few initial ...
